• Flying SquidM
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    114 hours ago

    I guess I will have to counter OP’s simping for Miliei once again.

    The austerity has also caused deep economic pain in Argentina, with nearly 60% of Argentines now living in poverty, up from 44% in December 2023, according to the Catholic University. Milei has balanced the budget by slashing financial transfers to provinces, removing energy and transport subsidies and holding wages and pensions steady despite inflation.

    https://apnews.com/article/argentina-milei-budget-congress-economy-inflation-c83178217097093d476fab94429768a4

    • @[email protected]
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      -63 hours ago

      The people who create the problems are celebrated. The people who deal with the consequences of those problems, like Milei is doing, are reviled.

      This is why we cannot have nice things.

      • Flying SquidM
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        He’s dealing with the problem by massively increasing suffering. Why is that a good thing?

        Other than for the upper class, I mean…

        • @[email protected]
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          If somebody sets a house on fire and then the firefighters come to spray water on it, should we blame them for causing water damage? Although I guess in your thinking Milei is putting out the fire by bulldozing the house with the people inside.

          Whichever it ends up being, I think it’s still generally true that in the political world, people who increase fixed costs, causing future financial problems, are never among those who are most blamed for the problems. It’s always the fixers who are blamed.

          • Flying SquidM
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            43 hours ago

            You didn’t answer my question. Why is massively increasing suffering a good way of dealing with the problem?

              • Flying SquidM
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                43 hours ago

                Please provide evidence to back up that claim. Or is that just a guess?

                  • Flying SquidM
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                    And yet that’s exactly how the burden of proof works. You made a claim: that it is the only way to deal with the problem. That is a purported statement of fact. The onus is on you to back that up.