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About 10% of Argentina's electricity comes from nuclear power plants. But libertarian President Javier Milei wants to privatize the state-owned nuclear energy company.

So Milei appointed a 23-year-old internet libertarian activist, Ezequiel Acuña, to run the state nuclear company.

Acuña has ZERO experience in nuclear energy. He graduated high school in 2020 and started studying political science in college, but dropped out of the program. He never formally studied science, or even management.

Acuña is also being paid a starting salary that is 10 times larger than the average salary in the private sector, which he and Milei worship, as libertarians.

Acuña has never worked in nuclear energy or anything related. His only "qualification" is that he tweets libertarian propaganda in support of Milei. And the Milei regime thinks that is enough.

This is actually existing libertarianism.

https://xcancel.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2047485764423106793

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[-] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 6 days ago

Argentina is what fascist and liberals from Latam projected onto Cuba and Venezuela.

Every westerner should check Argentina to see what's coming for them and see how dehumanization can happen through the mass Western media onto them.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 days ago

Honestly i am all for it. The best propaganda for communism is the extreme incompetency of capitalism.

[-] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 week ago

This is also why it's important to have actual competent people in your movement. For us communists too. Because if you do happen to gain control of a country you need actual competent people to run it and if your party is filled with online activists and whatnot instead of legal experts, economists and the likes you will not run anything lmao.

[-] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 6 days ago

We'll have to live alongside/with the liberals and socdems too either way, can't really kill off an entire country of people just for the 5000 Real Communists to remain governing over each other. The USSR had to reckon with it and so did China (with varying policies and degrees), but what matters is that once you win state power, you can enact law. You can protect the revolution and the DotP, and keep these people in suitable posts where they can't undermine the state. But first you have to win of course.

[-] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I think what you're touching on is basically the difference between expertise and loyalty. A prole revolution does need people who are loyal to the cause in the highest positions of power, but if you base power only on loyalty, you will have a bunch of people who are very loyal about not knowing what to do. You need a healthy intersection of loyalty and expertise, and the further out someone gets from the levers of power, the less strict you can be about loyalty, as long as they're providing expertise. But no matter how close someone is to power, if you only prioritize loyalty, you get nothing more than sycophants.

Pure loyalty focus is the stuff of cults; their main thing is fealty to the leader. "Will you do this thing I order you to do, no matter how ridiculous or horrible it is?" That's pure loyalty focus.

[-] Oskolki@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago

Okay don't laugh at me because I personally think I should be permanently barred from a decision maker position and I hope someone eliminates me immediately should I ever be in a position of power through some sort of mistake, but at the same time my curiosity is making me wonder who is this aimed at? Because I certainly will not learn about how to run a state, why would I need to know that when I know I won't be doing it?

This is perhaps the most paradoxical aspect of socialism I've personally encountered ever since I've been reading about it. Why do I need to know all this stuff, if at the of the day I'm just supposed to do as I'm told? At the very least I'm certain that not a single person has ever seriously considered anything I've said and I don't blame them because not everyone is fit to be an advisor and yet no organization wants me when I offer them to do the most rudimentary tasks like mopping the floor? There's plenty of advantages of having me as I require no compensation for my labor, but that's not good enough either it seems.

In a way this is very good tho' because it means there must be plenty of eager recruits. So things should be going well enough.

[-] Lenins_Dumbbell@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 6 days ago

On the one hand, it's very funny to call Argentina the first 4th world country

On the other, there are millions of people suffering because of these twats. Imagine living in this hell being fully aware of the fact that you'll never get another chance at life after you die. You just happened to be born in the times of struggle. Although that should also be the motivation, that the ones who come after get a better world than we did.

[-] deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well (CW: Natopedia), for a lack of a better source, uh

In Argentina and Uruguay, a ñoqui (English: gnocchi) is a person who is legally registered as a worker, usually for the government, and receives a monthly wage, but who performs little or no work.[1] Such individuals are called ñoquis because many Argentines and Uruguayans traditionally eat ñoquis on the 29th day of every month, around the time when people receive their monthly paychecks.[2]

ñoqui with l*bertarian characteristics

Apparently, even BadEmpanada was recording of this long time back.

[-] Stormy@thelemmy.club 15 points 1 week ago

Argentina is the place with trumps friend running it right?

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah the ultra-zionist libertarian nutjob. "Running" is not quite the correct word. Ruining would be more accurate.

They are currently $320 billion in debt, more than 50% of the population is in poverty, manufacturing and construction are collapsing amid rapid deindustrialization, social safety nets demolished, meanwhile their president is promoting crypto scams and going on trips to Washington and Tel Aviv to bow down and lick the boots of Trump and Zionist Hitler.

Javier Milei deepens Argentina’s IMF debt trap with ‘emergency’ $20 billion IMF loan

How libertarian Javier Milei is selling Argentina to Wall Street for $80 billion

Argentina’s Economic Activity Plunges to New Low Under Milei

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 days ago

He heard the saying; "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."

Then decided that would be the basis for national fiscal policy.

[-] tiramisu@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 days ago

Holy shit bro. How's BadEmpanada doing 😭

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 6 days ago
[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 days ago
[-] xokro@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 days ago

100% Misanthropic

[-] Stormy@thelemmy.club 1 points 5 days ago

That's crazy news.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I wouldn't say friends, they're just a bunch of ass kissers.

[-] thefreepenguinalt@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 days ago

Homer Simpson irl

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago
[-] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 days ago
[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

Unrequested fission surplus lmao

[-] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 days ago

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[-] idriss@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

I learned it in French first, so never had a problem pronouncing right, but I see a disturbing number of celebs and politicians pronuncing it "nucular" and I don't get it

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You know it's a strange feeling when you realize that you, someone not much older then the goober here, is more qualified to run a massive part if an entire country's energy industry.

I'm, without exaggerating, more qualified then this joker. I do not have anywhere near the level of experience to be in that kind of position.

Maybe I should apply...

[-] Everyn@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 days ago

First 7th world country

The US has Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber, negotiating with Iran, which, in part, includes a nuclear deal.

Julia Varvaro, the 29-yr-old Deputy Assistant Homeland Security Secretary for Counterterrorism, solicited funds from sugar daddies, though, in fairness, she does have a PhD and has worked in security in the private sector. She just couldn't secure her own social media activity.

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