• S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Not from US but the World Bank. He is struggling with corruption accusations while trying to make his reforms stick and attract foreign investment. He would probably go for a line from US for dolarization but that’s probably the hughest loan.

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      Is Milei accusing outside forces of crashing their economy on purpose? Another chance for socialists to find common ground with libertarians, who I am told were originally socialists themselves before being co-opted by the far right.

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        Libertarians are the complete opposite of socialists, at least on economics.

        If anything, he blames the left for everything wrong with his failing regime.

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          Originally though, libertarians were on the left, the movement changed sometime in the mid 1900s to focus on property rights.

          Although libertarianism originated as a form of anarchist or left-wing politics,[29] since the development in the mid-20th century of modern libertarianism in the United States caused it to be commonly associated with right-wing politics

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

          Edit: I first heard this from the debate between Vaush and Charlie Kirk that Tim Pool moderated, which was pretty interesting and didn’t make Kirk look particularly skilled at debating when he isn’t debating teens in front of a jeering audience. Worth a listen if you have 2.5 hours of chores to do it something:

          https://www.youtube.com/live/YL995iGCGEU

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            Libertarianism didn’t change into it’s current form, the term was simply co-opted by the right. It used to mean anarchism.

            Which is another term these people tried to claim by calling themselves “anarcho-capitalists” as if such a thing made any sense.

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              Wrong, but it doesn’t really matter, what matters is dorks like Milei have abandoned everything that makes actual libertarianism libertarian in favor of sucking off billionaires and cryptofascists and they’re not coming back from it.

              Vaguely aware “libertarians” that don’t actually know anything and think socialism is when the government does stuff can be allies, Argentina’s government can not.

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      It’s important to note this was true before Milei’s election and Milei has surprisingly improved the economy a lot from where it was.

      He dialed back a lot of his insane libertarian talk and started listening to his advisors quite a bit more post election.

      Unfortunately the people of Argentina are still going to be struggling as the previous administrations have dug them into a very deep pit and the only way out is hardship by the poor while the rich who ran the country into the ground are fine.

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        Like every other privatization fetishist he’s “improved the economy” in the sense that sometimes people sell their tools to a pawn shop to make rent.