By Octavio Bermudez
Javier Milei, economist and president of Argentina, is a complicated character whose background and views have deserved heated discussion.
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63 sats \ 45 replies \ @didiplaywell 30 Jul
It's interesting that he sees him as "complicated". One of the key reasons he is able to appeal to the masses is that, academic presentations aside, he has been the first politician/economist to present his stances in such a simple and consistent manner that he got a hard-core socialist indoctrinated country to applaud his explicit and vehement libertarian statements. He has been a success for being simple and consistent, not complicated.
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21 sats \ 44 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 30 Jul
He comes off as a complicated character, because he's so foreign to what Americans have grown accustomed to.
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63 sats \ 31 replies \ @didiplaywell 30 Jul
I would like to hear your take on that! I can not extract one from the article.
Is it possible for you to reach whoever wrote the article? The final paragraph is simply wrong, Milei has always been repetitive and explicit on what the progression of the reform plan was, and it can be deemed to be advancing faster than initially expected, even by himself. There is no "he knows but doesn't want to" whatsoever.
I always risk being looked at as a fanatic when I defend him, but I guess that stems from observers and opinologists showing off their ignorance and lack of pragmatism, making corrections such a routine that seems vicious rather than rational.
To counter that I always offer a list of my own observations on things he has done wrong and I myself don't forgive, not because he made them but because he insists in the error.
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41 sats \ 30 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 30 Jul
I have no more ability to contact the author than anyone else does. I'm happy to try though, if you like.
My point was just that we sometimes use "complicated character" as a phrase to describe someone who differs from our expectations. It doesn't have to mean they complicate things. It's just that if you were to describe them, there's no convenient reference point.
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42 sats \ 29 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Jul
No worries! No rush on contacting him, I came to associate you with that site :P , that's why I asked. Thank you :)
That's even more interesting to me: is there absolutely no reference point? No person you could associate with his image? I'm always attentive because I think the USA needs one. The closest to his histrionic character (within politics) might be Mr. Beast, who has announced his intentions to run for president in the future
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41 sats \ 28 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 31 Jul
There probably are reference points, but they would be considered odd-ball characters who strike people as incongruous with leadership positions.
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41 sats \ 3 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Jul
Odd ball characters are a feature not a bug when trying to upend or destroy the status quo
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Jul
Absolutely, but I see what's @Undisciplined point: the ones who see the odd-ball are indeed not guided by such an obvious pragmatism as you point out, but by the traditional forms they're used to. The exact same thing happened here: NO boomer voted for Milei until there wasn't any other choice. Before that, they voted for another socialist, citing that he was "groomed", while Milei was "just crazy". Younger generations came to understand why 80 years of uninterrupted socialist decline where possible by seeing such an idiotic stance.
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21 sats \ 23 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Jul
I see. It always boils down to the same: the USA will have to wait for the newer young generations to have enough weight to allow for such a paradigm change, just like it happened here. The challenge is to ensure that new generation hasn't been brainwashed by socialist propaganda by then. The cultural battle must be relentless
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20 sats \ 22 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Jul
Ronald Reagan said the same thing, not exact words but the gist.
The fight for liberty and freedom is never ending.
Only takes one generation for socialists to defeat capitalism and freedom.
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20 sats \ 11 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Jul
A politician who has read Hayek and Friedman and also the enemy such as Gramsci.
Milei knows his commies. He knows who are the good guy and policies and who are the enemies.
Americans have not experienced 1000 percent inflation
Even Devon who knows a lot about Argentina doesn't like Milei but understood the status quo could not continue. If only we could have low inflation socialism, if only
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21 sats \ 8 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Jul
An initially low-inflation socialism is the most dangerous and efficient trap mankind has ever been able to conceive.
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41 sats \ 7 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Jul
Completely, it gives a false sense of security that socialism is 'working'.
There are obvious socialists in the SN community as well.
One naive user said we need to socialize medicine and health care. That's what they said in Venezuela and Argentina. EU ignorance.
https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/javer-milei-elected-president-of-argentina/4014
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42 sats \ 6 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Jul
Thankfully those users are a minority. Wherever social networks tend to be slightly sophisticated, leftards numbers drop dramatically. It's too much for them. Obviously.
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41 sats \ 5 replies \ @Bell_curve 31 Jul
Too many SN users hate guns and therefore support gun control. Clearly they have never lived in Latin America.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @didiplaywell 31 Jul
I'm buying a gun and going to the range the second Milei passes the new laws on portation. We are at the absolute mercy of bandits, who are granted full impunity to steal and kill at whim. If you dare to denounce a criminal, you will be promptly charged for harassment. If you dare to defend yourself, you will be immediately imprisoned and obliged to pay "compensations" to the criminal. It has come to the point where criminals themselves deem a person "uneducated" if the person do not immediately subjugates when assaulted. Milei is set to raze all of that madness.
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41 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 31 Jul
I haven't noticed this, but we do have many international stackers. Gun ownership is much less appreciated outside of America.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 31 Jul
Devon Zuegel
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 31 Jul
Oh I remember now! I wrote to her via X, but will try to email her
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 31 Jul
"Thus, the only possible monopoly is the one mandated by the state."
This is so true in so many aspects.
You can see it plainly here in the USA!
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