Most Economist articles on Milei have been on the positive side. This one much less so. (Limited giftlink)
Yup.
We’ll see what happens, I’m done trying to prognosticate anything.
It looks like the beggining of the usual austerity death spiral, where austerity provokes recession which causes tax revenue to drop which necessitates more austerity and so on.
But I don’t know anything anymore.
At this point most of us in the rational side of the divide are just eating popcorn and seeing that bastard, Adorni, the one who mocked the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo as presidential spokeman and was rewarded with a post as Chief of Staff (or something like that, “Jefe de Gabinete”) sweat as more and more acts of corruption are discovered, at ever accelerating rates (first it was one undeclared house or taxpayer paid vacation for his wife a week, now is about 2 scandals per day).
Milei just called into a news program to angrily complain about the stories that keep appearing about his beloved Adorni.
Any rational government would already given him the boot, but he’s still there for some reason.
My wife and me were just an hour about debating if it’s just idiocy or if it’s a kind of “If I go down I’ll take all of you with me” situation.
I think it’s both.
You think you lost your country, but somebody found it (link in German). Such a pity that the finder does not seem willing to give it back:
Peter Thiel moves to Buenos Aires. President Milei is proud of himself. Thiel has also bough a nice bunker in Montevideo, across the Río de la Plata. Just in case civilisation collapses, he calls it a plan B.
I also found a source in English that seems to welcome Thiel:
Interesting that they always seem to use pictured from the same vent. An event that took place several years ago.
I mean:
pictures from the same event.
I hate it when typos make sense.
We lost it not in the sense of misplacing it and being unable to find it again but in the sense of it being stolen by oligarchs it seems.
off-topic
I am in this country only because I am too old and too poor, and my loved ones are too old and too poor, to leave this country. If I had the means I would leave immediately, because the only solutions seem to be magically replacing the people in power with people that actually give a flying fuck about someone other than themselves.
Moving to another country is useless, the problem is global.
Moderating: Please don’t take this thread off to the USA. We have plenty of threads for that.
off-topic enough
Some places are better than others.
Isn’t it interesting how rabid nationalistic anti-globalists have turned out themselves to be a global problem? I think it is weird how well they work together despite hating each other so much.
Today in eldiario(dot)es:
I remember how the fascists in Spain used to look down on the Portuguese when I was a kid. They were not really white back then. Now they are, it seems. Some of them, at least.
And about stealing your country, dear Frodo: stealing fair and square, buying under price, occupying native territories, leasing forever for a song… soon there will be no limits to how much the rich can aquire take from Argentina as long as the government and the governors get a cut:
Last time the right was in power (and in danger, later concreted, of losing it) there were unfounded fears of the left coming back and taking “revenge” against them. The left mostly made jokes about instituting a “Ministry of Revenge” upon coming back to power.
This time I think we’ll really need something like that.