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Mr Milei's rival, economy minister Sergio Massa, called him to concede.

Former US President Donald Trump congratulated Mr Milei on his victory, saying he would "Make Argentina Great Again!".

The election comes at a difficult time for Argentina with rising inflation and an economy in crisis on peoples' minds.

Mr Milei's proposals, which included detonating the central bank, won support with voters desperate for change...

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[–] Vant@lemm.ee 105 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Fake populist with no real policy and only empty slogans and memes promises to fix the economy. We've never seen this before.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hey! That’s not fair!!

He wants to make selling human organs legal. That’s…a policy.

On social issues, he wants to loosen gun laws, abolish abortion - which was legalised in Argentina in 2020 - and allow the sale and purchase of human organs.

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

Wow the ~~black~~ white market for organs is going to be crazy.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 10 months ago

An anarchocapitalist against access to abortion? I hate this century so fucking much.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

It'll go like shit, the way it always does when people vote right-wing.

But for a bit of fun, be sure to ask any right-wing reactionaries what conservative leader actually made their country a better place -- they all have an answer they want to give, but they know they can't say it out loud.

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[–] PorradaVFR@lemmy.world 93 points 10 months ago (3 children)

After years of tripping over their own feet Argentina opts to shoot itself in the dick because change.

Ok.

It's a great country and Buenos Aires is a wonderful city but hoo boy this is … not likely to go well.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 27 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Desperate people resort to desperate measures when normal approaches fail. The ruling class forcing our countries to their bidding, against the interests of common people, are the cause for this.

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And now they're going to steal everything you have left with this clown's help.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

There are a small subset of the population that are voting for these clowns for exactly that reason... They are accelerationists. They want the 1% to steal the remaining piece of the pie from the 90% because people won't fight for change unless they are literally starving.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

I'm not Argentinian

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[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

The good news is that if you like Buenos Aires you'll be able to buy it for yourself soon

[–] palal@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Really not sure why this runoff went so poorly for Massa tbh

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[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 85 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Former US President Donald Trump congratulated Mr Milei on his victory, saying he would “Make Argentina Great Again!”.

I'd love to see where Trump thinks Argentina is on a map.

[–] _xDEADBEEF@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know when Argentina was "great"?

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Between 1860 and 1930:

Between 1860 and 1930, exploitation of the rich land of the pampas strongly pushed economic growth.[3] During the first three decades of the 20th century, Argentina outgrew Canada and Australia in population, total income, and per capita income.[3] By 1913, Argentina was among the world's 10th wealthiest states per capita.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Argentina

[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And then of course beginning in 1945 the ratlines assured the freedom of many nazi war criminals in Argentina. There are plenty of reasons for Trump to like Argentina during the first half of the 20th century.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Juan Peron loves him some Nazi war criminals.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Humanity is so goddamn stupid

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm astounded that people still aren't aware that "right wing populist" means "your life will get harder".

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[–] LightDelaBlue@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

lets see what that guy do outside change name of coruption to lobby.

[–] amenotef@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I just hope that in the long term the country can finally liberate the people who are currently economically dependent on the state. So they can find their own economic path no matter who is ruling.

Everybody gives you money in Argentina. For exchange of a future vote, of course. But nobody really cares about giving you a way out where you are in charge and capable of finding and getting your own work and opportunities.

And the inflation, as always, eats the lowest class first, the one that has less opportunities to find a new job. Remember that.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

if he's like every other right wing populist, the poor will have it even harder. All for the rich, baby! Oh, and his own pockets will be filled.

[–] racsol@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Fuentes: Miami me lo confirmó.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I hope I'm wrong and that he's the first far right populist in history that cares about their citizens and not the money.

This guy looks like reports of decadent parties and wasting argentinas money on himself is right around the corner though.

[–] racsol@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

wasting argentinas money on himself

you mean like Cristina Fernández de Kirchner?

In case you need context (because most people commenting doesn't seem to know anything about Argentina): Cristina Fernández de Kirchner served as Argentina's president between 2007 and 2015. Then, she was vice president in 2019 with Alberto Fernández as president.

The other candidate Sergio Massa has been Minister of Economy since 3 August 2022.

[–] racsol@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Amen.

For people who are not from Argentina, you should at least make the effort to understand the current problems argentinian society is facing.

If you don't care to do that, why even share any opinion at all and just hate Milei.

There's a lot of good reasons to hate the other candidates too. Even more than Milei if you ask me. The thing is, this guy does not come from the elite ruling class.

Disclaimer: I am not Argentinian, but I have family and friends over there.

[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Good bye Malvinas

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Just once I wish Argentina chose to not be a cautionary tale.

But since we're here, Americans should watch this space very carefully during the next year or so.

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