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Bulletins and News Discussion from November 20th to November 26th, 2023 - Let Sleeping Dogs Milei - COTW: Argentina

Image: the last sight of many a commie.


Please pronounce his name wrong to make the title pun work better.

Anyway - Javier Milei, a caricature of a libertarian invented deep in the Hexbear Bit Factory, has won the Argentinian general election; and with a 12 point lead over Massa, it wasn't even particularly close. There are several analogies for this situation - Trump beating Hillary, Bolsonaro winning in 2018, or the alternate universe where Le Pen beat Macron. Massa is not a great guy. The last couple years have been difficult for Argentina, facing massive inflation and the same general economic downturns that are happening everywhere.

Milei is an... interesting person. To name just a couple things going on in his deeply bizarre life, he has a very special relationship with his sister, and an even more special relationship with his mastiff, Conan. When Conan died in 2017, he was so utterly distraught that he had him cloned into four new dogs, named Murray, Milton, Robert, and Lucas, for his economist idols. And he uses mediums to speak to his dead dog. This is probably the closest we're ever going to get to having a dog be president of a country.

Milei wants to essentially collapse the economy even harder. Playing off the general public sentiment of "dollar = good, peso = bad", he has vowed to make the national currency of Argentina the US dollar, thus eagerly giving a massive amount of control over the Argentinian economy directly to America. He wants to take a chainsaw to the status quo, cut off trade with communist countries like China, and demolish the Central Bank. Will Argentinian capitalists and the Senate let him do this? Probably not. What happens with their membership in BRICS+? Who knows. Where does Peronism go from here? Who can say.

But he still won, and will now be president. I suppose that every dog has its day.


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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.


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  • I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

    “Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

    “What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

    “Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

    The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

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    “Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”

    I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

    “Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.

    “Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.

    “Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”

    It didn’t seem like they did.

    “Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”

    Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.

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    Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.

    “Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.

    I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”

    He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

    “All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”

    “Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.

    “Because I was afraid.”

    “Afraid?”

    “Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”

    I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.

    “Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”

    He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.

  • The Hamas killcams have me convinced that George Lucas was right. Fascists cannot aim for shit and rebels are guided by the Force/Allah/Juche/etc.

  • The media still refuses to call this a "prisoner swap", it's just "Hamas liberates hostages" which clearly paints "Israel" as the winner. Cool, we're not calling it a Genocide, we're calling it a "war between Israel and Hamas", we're not reporting on the thousands of dead Palestinians, many of whom are children, we're not reporting on "Israel" continuously raiding the West Bank for random arrests and land grabs, we're not reporting on "Israel" taking fat Ls in Gaza, we're not reporting on Gaza being under complete blockade even after Oct. 7th, we're not reporting on the absolutely insane comments coming from "Israeli" officials like "Let's do a second Nakba".

    This is the absolute state of the West, the Knights of Freedom and Democracy. May the West burn, may the West die. Freedom to Palestine, death to the colonial project of "Israel".

  • NYC’s public libraries are now being forced to close on Sundays due to budget cuts while the NYPD spends 95% of the Library system’s total budget ($390 million dollars) to get new encrypted radios that prevent people from knowing when the cops kill people

  • It's kinda funny thinking about how racist whites in the mid 00s would mock black people's names and since then those same whites are naming their kids shit like Brontley and Mykeighlla

  • Destiny: Which part of Cuba did we came from?

    Destiny's mom: My grandfather's sugar plantation

    I always thought the "my grandfather slaves" thing was just a meme but no, it is not like at all. They were literally slave owners lol. Look, I gotta be fully honest here: I can't blame this piece of shit weak ass liberal man called "Destiny" for the sins of his long-dead family members, he has no control over it. However, he never truly embraced the way of liberation, he never chooses the side of the exploited and the oppressed. He, instead, became a rabid anti-communist, he is a weak man, like all liberals.

    "You would've enjoyed it", that's so true though, he would have enjoyed being a slave owner.

    https://nitter.1d4.us/Acid_Communist/status/1727182708663840785#m

    I bet this decadent spineless man can't find Cuba on the map anyways, just like he couldn't find "Israel" (to be honest I can't either, because it's all Palestine) or thought Erdogan was the president of this so-called "Israel" thing.

  • I keep trying to convince my wife to practice with the semen extraction tools I ordered for us, but she's so hung up on the fact that we don't want kids. Babe, when I die you are going to yearn for my genetic code to be carried on but it will be too late if you don't practice with the damn tools!

  • voting in america is like the dialog options in a bioware game where one choice makes your character gleefully bomb an orphanage (with orphans in it ofc) and the other makes your character solemnly bow their head and apologize while dropping the bombs

  • 17 more hostages rescued from Hamas control

    How TV news just described the hostages being exchanged by Hamas

    This conflict has been a treasure trove for examples for people teaching media literacy.

  • This whole Hamas hostages situation reminds me of when Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian F1 Legend, was kidnapped in Cuba in 1958 before the Grand Prix that he was to participate in. He was taken hostage by two members of the 26th of July Movement while he was in an Habana hotel, Batista saw this as massive embarrassment and sent the police after the three men, while at the same time ordered the race to begin without Fangio. The race lasted for a few laps as a big accident claimed the lives of 6 people and wounded about 40. In captivity, Fangio was allowed to listen to the race through radio and was also told by his captors in one of the hideouts that the purpose of his kidnapping was "to let the world know about our struggle" and that they never meant to cause any harm to him. After 28 hours or so in captivity, he was released unharmed. He then declared on the press that "I was treated very well" and also "felt among friends", saying "if their actions are for a good cause, then I support them". He returned to Cuba in 1981 after he accepted an invitation by Fidel and even got to speak with his former captors in a friendly manner, claiming that he holds no hostility towards them.

    I guess when you seek freedom and decolonization, you don't go around murdering hostages...

  • I can't get this tweet out of my head.

    It seems inevitable that Elon Musk and the ADL will come to an understanding in which Twitter users CAN engage in virulent anti-semitism but CANNOT criticize the Israeli government, thus giving both sides what they care about most

    Nitter

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