• jonne@infosec.pub
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        1 year ago

        The other candidate was the current finance minister. After over a year of hyperinflation you'd have to have a lot of faith to go with the guy that hasn't been able to deal with the issue while in power.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Yeah but there are degrees of failure, and there is no way AnCap man will be a lesser or even equal degree of failure

          • jonne@infosec.pub
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            1 year ago

            Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, he's going to make things so much worse. But if you're going to put a candidate forward in this environment, going with the guy who was literally in charge instead of a clear left alternative seems bad, strategically.

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          "These bandaids aren't stopping the bleeding, let's try bullets instead"

      • PlanetBrokeBeforeUs [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Shenanigans, CIA involvement. He wants to dollar the economy, no way they didn’t put their feet on the scale

            • Grimble [he/him,they/them]
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              1 year ago

              Another: This guy is so cartoonishly fucked up that he can't not break the country (/system), meaning someone else will have to fix it once he's good n' [REDACTED].

        • CTHlurker [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Does the US even want Argentina to do this? Argentina is such a black hole economically and with so many different creditors already, that trying to integrate Argentina any more into the American Orbit risks destabilizing the whole thing.

          • jonne@infosec.pub
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            1 year ago

            There's a huge movement in the direction of dedollarisation in the global South. The state department would definitely be happy to see a country go into the other direction. Plus there's a whole bunch of state assets that are probably going to go on a fire sale, so Argentina can look forward to being effectively owned by Blackrock for the next century or so.

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It wasn't even fuckingn close.

      Congratulations to England on your new company on the list of countries that I do not feel bad about what happens to anymore.