the term far right libertarian makes no sense…
It wasn’t always.
It was a left wing ideology until an American fascist co-opted the term for his own brand of rightwing nonsense.
I can’t really see Ayn Rand as anything other than far right, and that’s about as OG libertarian as you get. Free market, unfettered capitalism.
Being honest, compared to other far-right “leaders” Milei doesn’t seem that “crazy” (so far).
What i mean by this is that he hasn’t (again, as of now) come up with some crazy, impossible, or outright discriminating laws unlike his other far-right “peers”.
So far his plan is to re-activate Argentinian economy no matter what. Which, given Argentina’s current circumstances (half the country’s population being poor), is actually really reasonable and straight forward.
And yes, it’s really sad that he’s the only candidate that looks like can make an actual change. But if you’ve followed Argentinian politics in the last decades (high levels of corruption/incompetence), you’ll realize that Milei is what Argentina actually needs right now.
Because clearly Argentina is in the same situation as the US and as such all the same logic applies right???
Either the article is dead wrong about him being far-right, or he’s a menace to any country he might try to govern. There is no place for the far right outside of a graveyard.
We already had a “Milei” during the 90s, Carlos Menem, a figure libertarians like him and his followers love to defend, despite being one the most devastating presidents we’ve ever had. The only difference is that Menem actually supported government funded R&D programs, other than that, it’s the same but with promise of “it’s gonna work guys! For real this time!”
Oh he is. There was a US-backed dictatorship in the 70’s that killed 30.000 people, he’s actively downplaying it as just a “conflict between two sides”, using the exact same words as the military did in those days. Also what he’s saying isn’t new, it’s repeating things from the '90s that already had us in crippling debt, with no political institutions and lots of police brutality. He’s only doing so good because the main political parties are having a major internal leadership crisis. We managed to save ourselves in the early 2000’s, we may not get that lucky again.
Yo soy chileno 🇨🇱, así que entiendo bien el tema de la dictadura. 🙁
Pero si tuviese que elegir entre Javier Milei y José Antonio Kast (su actual equivalente chileno, el cuál literalmente es un Neo-Nazi), definitivamente elijo a Milei.
Son lo mismo. Cada uno usa discursos ligeramente distintos dependiendo de la zona (entiendo que en chile la opinión pública de la dictadura es muy distinta a la de acá), pero están bancados por la misma gente y traen el mismo plan económico de subordinación. Son los cóndores que volvieron.
My man’s out here about to close the Argentinian central bank and let people legally sell organs while sticking up for the dictatorship, and against abortion, and your response is “Milei is what Argentina actually needs right now.”?
The Kirchner people stole everything in Argentina that wasn’t nailed down , Milei is about to take the rest.
Jesus why is Lemmy so leftist when it’s literally an anti intervention platform. Most of you circle jerking about liberal = bad don’t understand what it’s like to have your first world country turned into another Venezuela in less than one lifetime because of populist leftists governments that just take public rights as an excuse to gain popularity contests and ransack the fucking country.
Milei is not a good option no, but the others options literally fucked us all the way into 50% poverty and 130% anual Inflation solely trough government spending and taking away all economical liberties trough taxes.
Just take a look at how many dollar exchange rates we have and how we pay 120% in taxes for anything not national (which is practically everything) despite the fact that people have salaries that are 10x lower than that of any developed country
You guys sit in your high horse in a first world country complaining how “everything has gone to shit” and think the same rules and logic apply to anywhere else but you’re sadly mistaken.
Edit: If the US applied all the policies Argentina currently has in place you’d think the fucking apocalypse happened and you’d be calling leftists fucking Nazis
Could you please explain further what does it mean to be an “anti-intervention platform” and why lemmy is one?
I ment in the sense of this platform existing to avoid outside intervention. Or am I mistaken in thinking the whole point of a federated system is to avoid corporate and political intervention allowing a “truly” flee platform?
Federated social medias were made in order to regive the power to the user away from the corporations more interested in making profit than keeping their userbase happy. This is quite leftist if you ask me. Indeed it also reduces the power that a government has on a platform, as centralization makes it easier to control, but this wasn’t the main goal. Just like linux, or FOSS in general
I think what they meant is that Lemmy doesn’t have that kind of pull where the users can bring about a change/reversal of political movements.
Also, the anti-intervention platform probably is about the increased skepticism about neo-liberalism policies here (at least since I’ve joined).
He’s a horrible, idiotic, person but at least there will be some interesting economic and political studies to follow.
Far-right conservatives and facists have found quite the successful tactic for getting into power and getting their ways on public referenda: it’s called lying and misrepresentation.
Not in Argentina’s case. There, the problem is decades of mismanagement by leftist governments that have, quite understandably, led to disillusionment among voters.
same with the far-left. they lied to their teeth to get into power and now look where they are. it’s very much expected that the pendulum swing all the way to the other side now. as sad as it is, it happens.
Didn’t you know? Biden doesn’t want to genocide trans people and that’s literally communism 1984 vuvuzela 100 billion dead!!1!
