Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoArgentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as presidentwww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.ml
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkArgentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as presidentwww.reuters.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square26linkfedilinkcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.ml
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·2 years agoI predict that Argentinians are going to like this even less in the long run than the stuff the Peronists have gotten up to
minus-squareABCDE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoI can get the annoyance with how the economy has been… but jeez, what is the real solution here? I can’t see much of anything positive coming out of this.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 years agoI think the only silver lining will (hopefully) be a whiplash reaction once the authoritarian populists fuck things up enough.
minus-squareABCDE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoIt’s been a slow one in the UK, at least the US had a four-year load of nonsense to deal with before finding reality again.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoFor real - our electoral systems are utterly fucked, but sometimes yours makes ours look like a damn tea party
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoI assume that, just like with trump, they won’t admit that they were bamboozled and will just double down with the crazy.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 years agoMost likely. That seems to be the pattern.
I predict that Argentinians are going to like this even less in the long run than the stuff the Peronists have gotten up to
I can get the annoyance with how the economy has been… but jeez, what is the real solution here? I can’t see much of anything positive coming out of this.
I think the only silver lining will (hopefully) be a whiplash reaction once the authoritarian populists fuck things up enough.
It’s been a slow one in the UK, at least the US had a four-year load of nonsense to deal with before finding reality again.
For real - our electoral systems are utterly fucked, but sometimes yours makes ours look like a damn tea party
I assume that, just like with trump, they won’t admit that they were bamboozled and will just double down with the crazy.
Most likely. That seems to be the pattern.