A former TV pundit and ultra-conservative economist has won Argentina’s presidential election. Now he faces the challenge of turning around a crippled economy with staggering inflation of over 140%

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    11 months ago

    Can we stop calling this guy a libertarian? He’s a Nazi, plain and simple. Let’s call a spade a spade.

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    11 months ago

    Argentina has had basically the same Peronist politics for years and it has consistently failed to deliver, but still people are shocked when the Argentinians have had enough and decide to vote for something different.

    He’s probably going to be complete shite too, but hopefully it leads to a more moderate figure in future that can actually provide prosperity for Argentina.

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    11 months ago

    Libertarian economist? So he’s going to try Free Market Capitalism, then. And surely, that won’t result in monopolies and robber barons, like it has throughout history.

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      11 months ago

      he also wants to legalize organ sales and disband ministry of health and ministry of education, and used divination to get guidance from his dead dog. everyone and everything is gonna be fucked

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    11 months ago

    This is that chainsaw psycho that uses his cloned dogs for advice…

    Argentina is properly fucked if they don’t revolt soon.