milei won, we're dead

I don't know anything about the background.

"Zionist Milei wins the Argentinian presidency pledging to dollarize the economy and break all relations with Argentina's main trading partners.".

What made people vote for this guy?

same as every fascist to date, a deep capitalist crisis and the inefficiency of liberal democracy to keep it's word.
in short, argetina took some big ass loans to imf during their military dictatorship, so they are in a permanent crises since that.
- in short, argetina took some big ass loans to imf during their military dictatorship, so they are in a permanent crises since that.
  Funny enough, Nestor Kirchner did pay most of the loans. And that made the right and the Argentine elite really angry since their entire thing was not doing anything good and when people complained they would say that "Oh, it's because of the loans we took. We can't do anything besides neoliberal reforms".
  Then Macri decided to take more loans, and Alberto decided to actually attempting to pay the loans when they should have told the IMF to go fuck themselfs.
Even in a financial sense isn't that just terrible for 90% of the people there.
- yes..yes it is
Latin america is still very anti-communist, so if you run a campaign blaming everything on the leftists, you are going to be popular. It really do be as simple as that, milei just screams stupid incoherent shit and blames the left thats his whole thing.
There were mass murders of leftists throughtout all latin america and its a wound that it is still bleeding.
- Plus Macri, the ex president owns a lot of the media literaly so it is quite easy for him to push for an agenda
Selling out your country to the american empire to own the libs.
the other option was the economic minister and they are in 140% yearly inflation and 40% poverty.

Pouring one out for you argentinian comrades

Living in Brazil and seeing this is so sad, my argentinean friends, we already experimented with the far right candidate here and you could see how fucked up everything was here and now you want a taste of the same?

At least I'm doing well now and I'm going to ask my friends if they want to come here they can crash on my house while they find something.

you won't find anything like that over here, sadly the right is taking a hold of the working class

rip, stay safe. you never know with these fascists

owari da

In all seriousness, I'm not Argentinian, but I've been told that Congress and the Judiciary are not aligned with Milei. Hopefully this means only a term of stagnation and no policy instead of actually deterioration in Argentina.

from what I've seen, this is just to save face right now that people are tense, after day one they will align and start to say that he is not that bad, we can dialogue and reach a middle ground and etc...
- True. The main thing they care about is talking without actual actions, and they would rather fascism take over instead of excepting that the centrist systems of liberalism's version of democracy has failed. They fail to see that sometimes there isn't a "next time" to rely on for them or their parties to exist let alone run again.

I had a coworker that escaped Argentina and he told me he hopes Milei wins to fix the economy, wtf was going on in his head idk, he just blamed the left for Argentina's economy. I asked him why did Argentina's economy change so drastically from the 1900, he just said bad financial decisions from the left, not a mention of the UK, USA, or IMF.

Or you know, the mass murders perpetrated by the right wing military dictators.
- I feel like he is a fan of the military junta, considering he also supports Israel.
It's incredibly easy to pin down all the negatives in a society on the left - especially if they've never been in power.

dudes an ancap💀

What are the chances, if any, of an Argentine

As great as we wishcasters make it. Keep manifesting..
- who hid the lathe, we need it
inshallah
Agent empanada, you have your mission.
a poisoned mate will be more effective, or give him some "pitusas"
- nah just lace his coke with fentanyl

horrible news, please stay safe. hoping he won't last long.

I'm sorry comrade. That's rough.

That sucks, stay strong

Now we will get to see to happens when a PCM redditor becomes the leader of a country, unfortunately.

What are the chances we see this guy run his country into the ground. Like that libertarian town in New Hampshire that got overrun with bears but on a national scale? This sounds like a nightmare to live through for any Argentine comrades.

Some people compared him with that, lol. I really dont know how much he will be able to do, but he will fuck up as much as he can.
He seems geared to be as subservient to Israeli and US interests as humanly possible. If there is one thing the US is good at, it is expediating states that want to prostate themselves like that.
The only possible obstacle I have heard is that their parlimentary body is pretty opposed to him and could be a roadblock to things like adopting the USD as the national currency.
Country is already in the ground.
He is definitely going to attract a lot of private investment so we will see a short term gain in growth but a massive decrease in living standards and material condition for the majority. I really hope this sparks some working class consciousness.
- he isnt going to attract investment because he needs to make deals with the right wing on parliament.
Chances are 100%.
He wants to privatize all public services. And undergo dedollarization.
There is no silver living.
- dedollarization
  dollarisation. dedollarisation is the exact opposite of what he wants to do
  the only silver lining I can think of is the sheer staggering incompetance on display might indicate he is too stupid to succeed at the things he wants to do

Massive defundings and privatizations in sight...

And :

And b.t.w., contrary to what is often said, the huge i.m.f. debt(, with an 8.07% interest rate, more than others,) is the responsability of the right, as usual :

more here

-reducing the age of being considered a minor
Mandatory libertarian point I see
- All pedophiles are nazis and all nazis are pedophiles.
- It's to allow youth to vote, right?
  anakin smirk
  It's to allow youth to vote, right?
I cannot understand how common Argentinia s would read this and think: yeah I will benefit massively from this platform. So then I wonder if they read it or not?
- It doesn't help that the opposition was a default career politician.
- No, no one reads anything it is just a hate, contrarian vote.

he's basically said he'll rip out 90% of the government without replacement. I wonder how realistic that is given the powers he now has. can he even do that legally and practically? aif not, I'm sure he'd happily become dictator for life.

Pretty sure he will end up as just yet another neoliberal comprador. And as such do great harm to the people of Argentina.
he cant.

Will the Milei government be able to cancel the BRICS membership before it takes effect?

Yes, and if he doesnt it will be like macri o bolsonaro and mercosur, they wont use it
- shit

Who?

Combine Trump's bullshit with the attitude and ideologies from your average libertarian teenager on the internet: Javier Milei (Argentina).
From Wikipedia in Spanish:
He is a follower of the postulates formulated by economists of the Austrian school, and calls himself "anarcho-capitalist in theory", "liberal libertarian" and "minarchist in real life", although several of his political positions have been described as conservative or ultra-conservative and as fascist or neo-fascist.
From Wikipedia in English:
He criticizes comprehensive sex education in schools as a form of brainwashing, expressed skepticism towards COVID-19 vaccines, supports civilian firearm ownership, proposes to legalize the sale of human organs, promotes the far-right Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, engages in climate change denial, and wants to restrict immigration of criminals.
Also:
Milei strongly opposes abortion, even in cases of rape, and has suggested a referendum to reconsider the 2020 law (Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill) that legalized it.
He also opposes euthanasia. Great libertarian, huh?
Basically, he was elected because he's promising fantastic changes for Argentina.
- Sounds like he wants the use of a rather powerful state for someone who claims not to like the state.
- wants to restrict immigration of criminals.
  How is called when a politician wants to do something that is already in place? I emigrated to Argentina in 2007 and had to show police papers from my country of origin showing that I had no funny business to resolve.
- From @rf_@lemmy.world:
  Javier Milei is:
  [...]
  In favor of Austrian school of economics - Wants to remove the central bank
  Adopt the US dollar
  Homosexuality is a personal choice and compares it to zoophilia
  Wants to freeze relationships with China, Russia, Brazil because they're communists.
  Wants to align with the US, particularly Trump's party.
  Against the Pope because he represents evil on Earth, and because it promotes communism which goes against the holy scriptures.
  In favor of animal cloning
  [...]
  Almost everything is here: https://www.larazon.es/internacional/america/asi-piensa-milei-aborto-papa-corrupcion-comunismo_20230820655b13fab276150001c04e6f.html
  The homosexuality one is trickier because he was explaining his libertarian views, and said: "What do I care what your sexual election is? If you want to be with an elephant—, well, if you have an elephant's consent, it is your and the elephant's problem". So... yes, he is comparing it to zoophilia, but not in the condemning tone I was imagining. It is, still, ridiculous.
- “anarcho-capitalist in theory”, “liberal libertarian” and “minarchist in real life”, although several of his political positions have been described as conservative or ultra-conservative and as fascist or neo-fascist.
  They wrote "fascist" 7 times in a row 😵
- He also opposes euthanasia
  I agree with him on that euthanasia has a terrible history including links to the holocaust.
- Ah. So he's the perfect Nazi puppet.

Hopefully it can accelerate revolutionary potential, at the very least

yeah, because that turned out so well last time /s
acceleration that outpaces leftist organising will equal catastrophe.
Accelerationism has never worked in our favor

"la casta" won...milei won't do shit besides attacking worker's rights and leftist's freeze peach as a classic rightoid with liberal economic ideals