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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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[–] [email protected] 110 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Corkyskog 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

This is happening world wide; not everywhere but many places, and I wonder if the old style jubilee will be demanded.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'm not Argentinian

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Desperate people resort to desperate measures when normal approaches fail.

Oh great, that NEVER backfired massively.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'm not saying it's wise or right, just a natural consequence

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

And being anti-disestablisment has never caused or enabled very serious real world problems.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

But it's not even a desperate measure. It's like, if you had terminal cancer, you wouldn't drink bleach because you're willing to try anything.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

No shit, after leaving the country 4 years in the dump, I wonder why gee