Javier Milei is:

• Against abortion (except when mother's life is in danger)

• Against sex-ed and wants to eliminate it (says it deforms people's minds)

• Denies climate change (says it's an invention of socialism)

• Anti-vax (But got vaxxed in Nov 2021 because otherwise he would not be able to work in other countries)

• Wants to fuse the departments of Social Development, Health and Education into a single department of Human Capital.

• In favor of Austrian school of economics - Wants to remove the central bank

• Adopt the US dollar

• Homosexuality is a personal choice and compares it to zoophilia

• In favor of drug legalization and to opening up immigration as long as it doesn't cost the State.

• In favor of people paying for sex

• In favor of gun ownership without governmental limitations

• Wants to freeze relationships with China, Russia, Brazil because they're communists.

• Wants to align with the US, particularly Trump's party.

• Against the Pope because he represents evil on Earth, and because it promotes communism which goes against the holy scriptures.

• In favor of animal cloning

• In favor of organ selling

Good luck Argentina

I see Argentina decided they weren't fucked enough.

Desperate people make poor but desperate choices. 150% inflation? Goddamn, people here are freaking out about 5%...

There was a thread a couple days ago about how do you see the world ending. It's stuff like this, situation will het worse and worse so people will turn to crazier and crazier solutions.

We're all in for an interesting next few decades.

Can someone explain me this? In Argentina, the majority of the workers are employed by government (crazy rate of employment by a government, I don't think they actually need all those people), but then the majority of the voters elect someone that plans to cut spending a lot, meaning most of those workers that voted him will be laid off.

I predict that Argentinians are going to like this even less in the long run than the stuff the Peronists have gotten up to

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Ugh. The way that generally centre-right economic policy wonks are celebrating Milei's election is grotesque.

I get that dollarization would probably be good for Argentina.

Even as a leftist, I'm open to the possibility that an anti-Peronist economic policy could save the country - I doubt they could survive another Peronist.

But Milei is the worst kind of MAGA wingnut. He's a talk-radio shock jock. It's like if they elected Tucker Carlson or Don Cherry into the casa rosada.

His one possibly-good policy idea doesn't overshadow that.

It'll be a miracle if in the next year alone he doesn't completely obliterate what's left of Argentina's economy.

Look I understand, I really do.

When I was a kid, I was told to beware of clothes irons because they are hot.

But one day, curiosity got the better of me, and I touched the damn thing to see if it was hot. Hurt like hell, still have the scar to this day. But I don't touch hot surfaces anymore.

Go on Argentina, touch the iron :)

He's a self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist

They will end up eating pebbles and screws.

Time to bankrupt a country to pay off venture capital debts!

Worked out great for the last guy to acquiesce to American interests...

Maybe this time it will be different. (Inset some weird emoji that denotes is won’t with a mix of sadness, regret, and ennui)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Official results showed Milei with near 56% versus 44% for his rival, Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa, who conceded in a speech.

His plans include shutting the central bank, ditching the peso, and slashing spending, potentially painful reforms that resonated with voters angry at the economic malaise.

"Milei is the new thing, he's a bit of an unknown and it is a little scary, but it's time to turn over a new page," said 31-year-old restaurant worker Cristian as he voted on Sunday.

He will have to deal with the empty coffers of the government and central bank, a creaking $44 billion debt program with the International Monetary Fund, inflation nearing 150% and a dizzying array of capital controls.

"The election marks a profound rupture in the system of political representation in Argentina," said Julio Burdman, director of the consultancy Observatorio Electoral, ahead of the vote.

Supporters of Massa, 51, an experienced political wheeler-dealer, had sought to appeal to voter fears about Milei's volatile character and "chainsaw" plan to cut back the size of the state.

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