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[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Yeah this fucking sucks but I can't say I'm surprised.

A couple of months ago he went on an interview and just completely lost his shit, hearing voices and talking absolute nonsense... there was a lot of talk on twitter about how he had just lost the election right there and then, surely it would not be possible to recover from such a disastrous public appearance...

I remember laughing in Brazilian back then, doing my best impression of the "first time?" meme, wondering if people have not been paying attention at all for the past five years. The same "silver bullet" kind of moment happened over and over and over again with Bolsonaro (and Trump for that matter), and guess what? Nothing fucking happens. These right wing lunatics can shit themselves live on TV however much they want, nothing's going to dissuade their voters.

And I think there's a reason for that: nothing makes fucking sense anymore. People just want change, they just want to fix this "nameless" despair, this emptiness and lack of purpose and hope. People intuitively understand that neoliberalism has nothing to offer except for abject failure and slow but certain decay, unless you're rich. The thing is, they don't know what to call it. Half a century of propaganda as well as an education completely unconcerned with a critical, materialist assessment of history has made it all but impossible to even begin to understand what's going wrong with the world.

The left is under constant surveillance and is browbeaten back into hiding every time it grows strong or even tries to. The right has no such limitations, and has the freedom to come out and "explain" to the people their own twisted version of reality. An exploited, uninformed, desperate, frustrated and angry working class believes that explanation, after all they have nobody else to explain things.

I'm certainly oversimplifying things, but I think that's the reason why I very often see stuff like delivery guys riding motorcycles adorned with "God, Nation and Family"-style fash stickers. It's the only way I can see the most exploited sympathizing with the exploiter and voting for the people who openly say that the exploiter should exploit more.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is it 100%

These neoliberal weasels are DESPISED and people reach for the right because there’s no alternative. Think about how much the other guy would have to be loathed to lose to ancap man

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Guys I hate to admit it but I think I'm coming around on this guy. I can't remember the last time I read three straight paragraphs where every sentence manages to somehow up the ante, truly incredible stuff. People are comparing him to Trump, but Trump could never be this cool.

Milei is the owner of five English Mastiffs, with the progenitor being Conan, who died in 2017 after suffering from spinal cancer.[45][269][270] He considers Conan his son and has named four of Conan's six clones, including one named after the original and another named Angelito,[277] Milton (in honor of Milton Friedman), Murray (in honor of Murray Rothbard), Robert, and Lucas (both named after Robert Lucas).[278][279] Milei said that he cloned Conan because he understands cloning as "a way of approaching eternity".[270] To do this, he went to a clinic in the United States; the process cost him about $50,000.[270] He has described his dogs as four-legged children and thanked them after his 2023 primary win.[14]

Milei stated that he communicates with the dogs through a mystic.[10] For example, he commented that the new Conan provides ideas on general strategy, Robert is the one who makes him "see the future and learn from mistakes", Milton is in charge of political analysis, and Murray of the economy.[280] When asked about this by El País journalist Martín Sivak and Nicolás Lucca of Radio Rivadavia, Milei did not deny it, and said: "What I do with my spiritual life and in my house is my business. If Conan advises me on politics, it means that he is the best consultant of humanity."[269]

Milei said he had dialogues with the likes of Rothbard and Ayn Rand. In 2015, he cited Conan as a source of inspiration for his writing.[269] About Conan's death in 2017, Milei said that Conan had not really died (he described it as "his physical disappearance" and continued to refer to Conan in the present tense) but had gone to sit next to God to protect him, and that it was thanks to this that he had begun to have talks with God himself.[281] According to González, Milei wrote to a friend in a chat: "I saw the resurrection of Christ three times, but I can't talk about it. They would say I'm crazy."[45] According to various sources consulted by La Nación, Milei maintains that he and Conan have a mission that was assigned to them by God and has a mystical story with Conan. He said that he met Conan, who was a lion, as a gladiator in the Roman Colosseum about 2,000 years earlier.[282]

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Milei is the owner of five English Mastiffs, with the progenitor being Conan
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He considers Conan his son
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He has described his dogs as four-legged children and thanked them after his 2023 primary win

me but from the evil dimension

the rest

oh no

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If anyone ever asks why I make my dog a little fantasy world, I'm going to link them that and say shut up.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A couple of months ago he went on an interview and just completely lost his shit, hearing voices and talking absolute nonsense

Uhh you got a link to this? I gotta see it lol

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well Argentina is about to get even poorer lol.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not according to this guy, who's famously always correct

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon Musk is the China of billionaires

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More like the Chyna of billionaires in that his drug addled brain is too decomposed to be of any use to science

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If he has his way the country is going to be so fucked revolution is inevitable. The dollar initiative alone….

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

If they voted in this guy there may be some time before that education gap gets closed

Poor material conditions don't necessarily lead to a socialist revolution

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

HE GOT ELECTED?!?

jesus fucking wept

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

56-44 too. That's such a wide margin.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The other candidate was the current finance minister. After over a year of hyperinflation you'd have to have a lot of faith to go with the guy that hasn't been able to deal with the issue while in power.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but there are degrees of failure, and there is no way AnCap man will be a lesser or even equal degree of failure

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, he's going to make things so much worse. But if you're going to put a candidate forward in this environment, going with the guy who was literally in charge instead of a clear left alternative seems bad, strategically.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shenanigans, CIA involvement. He wants to dollar the economy, no way they didn’t put their feet on the scale

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

they'll of course declassify it when we're all 80-100 years old.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

Electoralism takes yet another L

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

noooooooooooo

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Common Argentina L hasan-ok-dude

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The thumbnail looks like an Archer screenshot

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He looks like he'd be at home in a napoleonic era cavalry uniform.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Well, that's how you get ants

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

why do they all look like that lately jfc

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don’t body shame, I’m sure at least one comrade here shares those features

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude looks like a 70s era British newscaster

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did he glue caterpillars to the sides of his face?

My hot take: Every country gets to have their own trump.

trump-feed

🌎

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Thought this was the fake news forum, fuck. sadness aubrey-cry-2

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay are about to get a lot of Argentine immigrants if the fallout of this presidency is anything like Bukele's.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Bring the hot argentinians then"

-My uncle

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

I can fix him gui-better

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

God, I'm too high to have someone staring at me like that

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Watching the footage of his supporters celebrating it looks like Argentina has been taken over by frat boys.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That guy looks like a villain from a bad 70s movie.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

It's breaking, because he's gonna break the country

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

That is going to hurt

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