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[–] rf_@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] xerazal@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 months 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.ca 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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."

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Good arguments, but you failed to consider

Supply side Jesus

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 11 months ago

Woah, this all sounds hating the rich. This is ~~America~~ Argentina, we love the rich! /s

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

We are so fucked.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 months 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.

[–] HowMany@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bye bye Argentina... you've just elected your first 'trump'.

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Argentina's been gone for years

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

We can always ruin our country even more, it's like shooting a Zombie anywhere but the head.

[–] HowMany@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

No wonder such a low rate mobster could take over as mob boss. Figures.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 11 months 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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[–] sonori@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Becuse it worked so well for Russia.

[–] FreshProduceAndShit@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Do it for the dollas

[–] davel@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is good for Bitcoin 📈

[–] Void_Sloth@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ahahah. No. Cryptocurrency is for rubes to get rubed, and tying a State’s sovereign fiat money to a commodity belongs in the dustbin of history.