Milei is pledging economic shock therapy, including shutting the central bank, ditching the peso and slashing spending. His challenges will be enormous: Empty coffers, a $44 billion debt program with the IMF, 150% inflation and more.
  • @rf_@lemmy.world
    44•1 year ago

    Javier Milei is:

    • Against abortion (except when mother’s life is in danger)

    • Against sex-ed and wants to eliminate it (says it deforms people’s minds)

    • Denies climate change (says it’s an invention of socialism)

    • Anti-vax (But got vaxxed in Nov 2021 because otherwise he would not be able to work in other countries)

    • Wants to fuse the departments of Social Development, Health and Education into a single department of Human Capital.

    • In favor of Austrian school of economics - Wants to remove the central bank

    • Adopt the US dollar

    • Homosexuality is a personal choice and compares it to zoophilia

    • In favor of drug legalization and to opening up immigration as long as it doesn’t cost the State.

    • In favor of people paying for sex

    • In favor of gun ownership without governmental limitations

    • Wants to freeze relationships with China, Russia, Brazil because they’re communists.

    • Wants to align with the US, particularly Trump’s party.

    • Against the Pope because he represents evil on Earth, and because it promotes communism which goes against the holy scriptures.

    • In favor of animal cloning

    • In favor of organ selling

    Good luck Argentina

    • xerazalEnglish
      7•1 year ago
      • In favor of gun ownership without governmental limitations

      Yea, because it’s done so well for us in the US having lax gun laws, right?

      • Wants to freeze relationships with China, Russia, Brazil because they’re communists.

      Umm, someone has no idea what communism is…

      • Against the Pope because he represents evil on Earth, and because it promotes communism which goes against the holy scriptures.

      Fucking WHAT 🤣 ok this jackass obviously hasn’t read the new testament either. Because Jesus and what he preached was the antithesis of what he stands for.

    • @Jack@lemmy.caEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      The former media ‘shock jock’ commentator has made a series of attacks on the pope, calling him an “imbecile who defends social justice”, a “son of a bitch preaching communism” https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentine-priests-defend-pope-francis-over-shameful-milei-attacks-2023-09-05/

      According to Luke 16:13 Jesus is supposed to have said “You cannot serve both God and money.”

      Luke 6:29-30 “If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.”

      Mark 10:21 “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

    • @elbowdrop@lemmy.world
      -32•1 year ago

      Wow thats a lot of propaganda you are spreading. Massa had 16 years and only made the country worse. The people need a change. Mille may be a mistake but Massa plain does not care. He stole as much money and is leaving. Massa just quit being president even though Mille is not taking over until mid december. Massa is leaving the country tomorrow.

      • @cuibono@lemmy.world
        21•1 year ago

        I agree with you on Massa, and on needing a change. But I also think Milei is likely gonna continue to drag the country down plus whatever brand of crazy he wants to stick to once he gets into office.

        The truth is you were gonna be screwed (economically) either way. Massa did not give a shit about the country and his greed plus his incompetence (if not his disregard for the good of the people) led to the 140% inflation Argentina is currently experiencing. Milei on the other hand is legitimately crazy (I’m not talking about the conservatism) and also economically incompetent. I understand why he won, and I agree that Massa led the country to the disaster it is in now.

        The options you could have voted for were both essentially promising to drag the country down. The only difference was that Milei hasn’t had a chance to prove it yet, and that makes him seem more promising than Massa who has proven to be who he is. Short of a miracle or a revolution, you were always gonna get the short end of the stick, economically speaking (which is what most voters obviously care about). I wish you the best and still hope it might turn out better than it seems right now.

        • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
          3•1 year ago

          Short of a miracle or a revolution

          And thats why Milei probably looks attractive. Accelerationists probably think he is the perfect person to put in power to lead the state to an eventual revolution.

        • @tillimarleen@feddit.de
          1•1 year ago

          And that‘s what‘s happening world wide. There are no answers to the huge challenges in front of us. The only choices offered are the establishment that brought us here or a crazy caricature of essentially the same thing.

      • @randomname01@feddit.nl
        13•1 year ago

        That’s the thing though, right? Something needing a change doesn’t imply any and all changes being good.

  • queermunist she/her
    21•1 year ago

    Whelp, get ready for literally everything to get sold off to pay the IMF. They’ll be stripping the wiring from the walls soon.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Official results showed Milei with near 56% versus 44% for his rival, Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa, who conceded in a speech.

    His plans include shutting the central bank, ditching the peso, and slashing spending, potentially painful reforms that resonated with voters angry at the economic malaise.

    “Milei is the new thing, he’s a bit of an unknown and it is a little scary, but it’s time to turn over a new page,” said 31-year-old restaurant worker Cristian as he voted on Sunday.

    He will have to deal with the empty coffers of the government and central bank, a creaking $44 billion debt program with the International Monetary Fund, inflation nearing 150% and a dizzying array of capital controls.

    “The election marks a profound rupture in the system of political representation in Argentina,” said Julio Burdman, director of the consultancy Observatorio Electoral, ahead of the vote.

    Supporters of Massa, 51, an experienced political wheeler-dealer, had sought to appeal to voter fears about Milei’s volatile character and “chainsaw” plan to cut back the size of the state.

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    • @Void_Sloth@lemmy.world
      -5•1 year ago

      Bitcoin does present a possible solution to the monetary woes of Argentina.

      Mileis election signals a growing awareness that central bankers are just scammers and getting off the gold standard was one of the biggest mistakes humanity ever made.