Spike 5,105 Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Brian is just pragmatic critical support while @Dr. Gonzowe are being idealists. I do stand by my earlier statement of fuck Milei and people like him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Gonzo 8,192 Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 1 hour ago, Spike said: Brian is just pragmatic critical support while @Dr. Gonzowe are being idealists. I do stand by my earlier statement of fuck Milei and people like him. I agree with the second statement. I don't think we're being idealists, I get that Argentina's voters were given a pick of 2 bad options - but that's sort of a failing of their own political system. Don't get me wrong, it's something that plagues most democracies (if not all of them), and I'm sure it's particularly hard for relatively new democracies. Look at the US or UK - they're also struggling with the same issue of having no good choices. But at the end of the day, people with autocratic tendencies and with a lack of respect to human rights are always dangerous to any democracy. Human rights and political freedoms are hard to gain and easy to lose. Democratically elected extremists with autocratic streaks and sympathies are very dangerous to any democracy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goku de la Boca 121 Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share Posted December 26, 2023 1 hour ago, Dr. Gonzo said: I agree with the second statement. I don't think we're being idealists, I get that Argentina's voters were given a pick of 2 bad options - but that's sort of a failing of their own political system. Don't get me wrong, it's something that plagues most democracies (if not all of them), and I'm sure it's particularly hard for relatively new democracies. Look at the US or UK - they're also struggling with the same issue of having no good choices. But at the end of the day, people with autocratic tendencies and with a lack of respect to human rights are always dangerous to any democracy. Human rights and political freedoms are hard to gain and easy to lose. Democratically elected extremists with autocratic streaks and sympathies are very dangerous to any democracy. To be fair Milei didn't even have the most votes. He just won the run off. In the first round (or whatever the fuck they call it), Massa had taken the most votes overall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Gonzo 8,192 Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Milei's pulling Argentina out of plans to join BRICS. I think the guy generally has terrible politics - but I think this is a pretty smart move on his part. BRICS is basically a meme - like if you ordered the IMF off Wish.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike 5,105 Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 3 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said: Milei's pulling Argentina out of plans to join BRICS. I think the guy generally has terrible politics - but I think this is a pretty smart move on his part. BRICS is basically a meme - like if you ordered the IMF off Wish.com. Brics build houses dickhead, not thoughts and prayers. Facts don’t care about your feelings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goku de la Boca 121 Posted December 30, 2023 Author Share Posted December 30, 2023 Now foreigners cannot study in Argentina free. Brilliant decision. Milei is kicking out the laziness in the country. Will take time and pain but I can see it paying off. Honestly I can see very eerie similarities to Margaret Thatcher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rucksackfranzose 4,383 Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, Goku de la Boca said: Now foreigners cannot study in Argentina free. Brilliant decision. Milei is kicking out the laziness in the country. Will take time and pain but I can see it paying off. Honestly I can see very eerie similarities to Margaret Thatcher. That would be a catastrophe for Argentina. Her decision to shit on producing industries and favour the financial business enterprises harmed the UK in some instances and only let to the big wealth gap between the English south and north in the end. Edited December 31, 2023 by Rucksackfranzose 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Gonzo 8,192 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 On 30/12/2023 at 05:43, Goku de la Boca said: Now foreigners cannot study in Argentina free. Brilliant decision. Milei is kicking out the laziness in the country. Will take time and pain but I can see it paying off. Honestly I can see very eerie similarities to Margaret Thatcher. Haha if he’s anything like Margaret Thatcher he’ll be an abject failure that makes life miserable for most of the country, other than the ultra wealthy, and people living in the capital city. Outside of Londoners and the wealthy nobody benefitted from Thatcher, and the UK never recovered from her leadership and likely never will. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike 5,105 Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 On 30/12/2023 at 07:43, Goku de la Boca said: Now foreigners cannot study in Argentina free. Brilliant decision. Milei is kicking out the laziness in the country. Will take time and pain but I can see it paying off. Honestly I can see very eerie similarities to Margaret Thatcher. How in any capacity is anything you wrote a positive for anyone? Very fascist tendencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goku de la Boca 121 Posted December 31, 2023 Author Share Posted December 31, 2023 2 hours ago, Spike said: How in any capacity is anything you wrote a positive for anyone? Very fascist tendencies. I'll form an opinion on the universities later as I'm sleepy right now, but the Thatcher comparison was nothing more than just similarities I see between them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goku de la Boca 121 Posted January 6 Author Share Posted January 6 Peru's homicide rate has increased a bit but I blame that on Trujillo which has been in a shocking state lately as a city. Ecuador went from 5 last year to 40. Violence has increased tenfold there. Bolivia and Argentina hold their spot as the least violent countries in South America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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