Protests erupt in Argentina against President Javier Milei’s economic shock decree

then immediately turn around and mock communists for saying something similar.

But what will Lemmy communists say when you point out USSR and China?

He just didn't libertarian hard enough.

Nah it’s not that it’s libertarianism failing it’s just that idiots version of it failing

That's what Communists always say, the only one they worship is Lenin cuz he didn't have time to do anything anyway.

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True libertarianism has never been tried bro

It's been a while since I even bothered arguing with libertarians, but wouldn't they just point to Hong Kong and South Korea?

This makes a lot of sense if you pretend he didn't say or promise anything during the campaign.

The calculation shouldn't be "chance of things getting worse", but "expected value of how much worse it'll get".

I don't actually know anything. But casually to me it looked like a choice between 160% chance of it getting worse and a 300% chance of getting worse. And it's not very surprising at all in these circumstances many go for the latter for all sorts of reasons (and delusions). But I don't actually know anything.

1. More of the same by the guy who oversaw inflation reaching 160% (100% chance of things getting worse)
2. A total wild card (99.9% chance of things getting much worse)

FTFY

Mate one dude was hearing voices and talks with his deceased dogs...how can you say "wild card" with a straight face?

That's bad math. Yes, if you put the same people in office. There's nearly 100% chance that they will continue doing what they have been doing. Good or bad. But if you put a lunatic with a grudge against reality in office. Who is aligned, or would align himself with the people who caused the problem before. You have 150% chance that things will get worse.

Oof, yeah that's not a good choice.

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Argentina could've just gone for a new currency again

This is a good one: https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

The book is called, "A Libertarian Walks into a Bear."

Look up Kansas Ave Oklahoma. It got so bad for them they had to cut school to 4 days per week and that was before the pandemic.

It's the key ideological problem with the book. Rand was right that people do not inherently owe anyone else the fruits of their labor, but wrong about who was holding the world on their shoulders. It wasn't the handful of elite, but the masses without whom the elite would be living in caves and running from bears.

Who is John Galt? We the people are.

And yes, throughout history pretty much every authoritarian regime ultimately collapses or sends their country back decades in progress by not knowing that lesson.

Yet it never seems to actually be learned.

Actually everything that's wrong with Argentina is because of British colonialism. You haven't read enough Foucault, clearly.

That's what I thought about the US and Trump, yet here we are...

Kirchner and croneys did soooooo much damage and noone spoke up except milei

Even if he is a moronic religious extremist, he's still RIGHT about many things.

And the people just wanna get rid of NARCO DICTADORS OF THE LEFT KIND.

All in all, extremism isn't good. It leads to dictators collaboration with drug lords and ruzzia/china