this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
27 points (86.5% liked)

World News

38979 readers
2229 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

The election victory of self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei is being celebrated by right-wing libertarians around the world. This neoliberal extremism is successful because other ways of tackling the worsening crisis have failed – not just in Argentina.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Wait until they find out their policies don’t work

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s just gonna be a testbed for the inevitable breakdown of democracy and regression into true neofeudalism.

The very few own all the things and the population will be reduced to modern age peasants, owning nothing and working for scraps in the economies owned by their rulers.

So basically as is now, just a bit more honest.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

The U.S. can relate!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Those Argentinians who are not dependent on „money from the state“ are now „very happy“, Poschardt’s acquaintances have told him from Argentina.

Poschardt is not the only one who is impressed. Elon Musk also enthusiastically sharef the speeches of the new president of Argentina on his short message service X...

They work for the people they're meant to work for.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It's just a matter of time before a lady starts feeding bears from her back porch and the towns are overrun. You could make a bundle trading bear spray for other items that you eventually barter for things that other people have that you want assuming your barter goods have value to them.

Sounds like a real utopia.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You see, the problem you're having with capitalism is that you didn't capitalism hard enough. Just one less regulation bro, that'll fix everything bro.

[–] cuchilloc@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m going to wait until you go and read what has been happening in Argentina up to now…

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have done in fact, but thanks for waiting anyways. It’s a nightmare, but I don’t believe ‘Anarcho-Capitalist libertarianism’ is the correct answer.

[–] cuchilloc@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The current presidents’ utopian ideology is not what is going to happen to the country though. It might become more similar to Chile or Uruguay or Paraguay, if his first mandate does not miserably fail. Whilst hopefully getting rid and enforcing rules for the future so that govt corruption and budget misuse can’t run as rampant as it currently can.

I hope you're right. But the ideas of ancaps are going to do the exact opposite of preventing corruption and budget misuse. In fact it's going to make it much easier. Since the amount of money that the government receives through taxation is not going to go down much, while many programs are being dismantled and privatised. Just textbook neoliberal stuff, the government is going to have to spend more money on privatised infrastructure while social programs, healthcare and education are squeezed. Or worse, privatised and only available when profitable.

Privatisation doesn't get rid of corruption or budget misuse. It does place it outside of democratic control. If its the rules that need to be changed, there is absolutely no need for ancap ideology. If the rules aren't helping now, dismantling the government isn't going to change anything. They either need to be changed or enforced.

Anyway, I think it's very predictable what policies he will steer towards and since there is an economical crisis, finding support for big austerity measures, isn't going to be difficult, I assume.