✅ Roaring 20s ✅ Pandemic ✅ Fascism on the rise around the world ✅ Multiple regional conflicts
Oh boy Ive seen this one before!
Only this time, the countries falling to fascism generally have nukes, so now there's ultimately no way to stop them.
And people don't want to listen and reject them en masse.
So evil is winning.
Yeah, people forget this anytime someone says "put them on trial for warcrimes!"
Like, if they were ever in a situation where they could be tried for warcrimes, boom goes the dynamite.
I don't like where this is going...
Relax, we still haven’t seen a ton of assassinations yet
Russia has been assassinating several a year for years, the Israelis and Saudis both have been killing journalists, and India is currently in trouble with NA for assasinating a Canadian and plotting assassination of an American.
Assassinations are very much happening
We were supposed to have a other summer of love 🤷🏽
Well, you guys voted for fascism. Now you’ve got it.
Exactly. Argentina has had an issue with right wing, backwards ass idiots for a long time. They're getting what they wanted
"but he claimed to be Anarcho and anti-government"...
Turns out he was only opposed to good government!
Average self-proclaimed libertarian
What a surprise, put a foolish overconfident man with dictatorial ambitions in charge of the state and now he wants to expand the state's power.
I feel like Argentina is in for a rough ride. Meili is a buffoon, and dangerously ignorant.
Can confirm. It's our own Trump / Bolsonaro.
Remember when that emu bit Bolsonaro? Good times.
I remember when he got stabbed... A shame he didn't die.
They voted for this. There's a lot of idiots in Argentina and they're about to get what they asked for
Only about half of them did, the other half shouldn't have to suffer because they're in the same country as the idiots.
Except that's how democracy works
Yes, it's how it works. But that doesn't mean everyone in a country deserves what's going to happen to them if a slim majority of them makes the 'wrong' choice in an election.
Also note that the political class didn't help themselves by having the finance minister be the guy that ran against him. Voting for the same guy that was in charge during the hyperinflation period was probably not a very attractive prospect for many.
And here I thought libertarians hailed themselves as freedom absolutists.
they do. right now they're upset because prison or bullet violates their freedom to choose how they punish other people for using freedom incorrectly. the moderates are outside waving gadsden flags and chanting "prison or bullet OR FIRE OR FLAYING OR DROWNING". Because freedom.
I'm so tired
Fascists gonna fascist..
“The state is not going to pay for the use of the security forces; organizations that have legal status will have to pay or individuals will have to bear the cost,” Bullrich said.
Can they pay in Pesos? 'cause they can probably do that instead of burning it in their hearth.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Human rights activists in Argentina have expressed consternation over new security guidelines to crack down on an anticipated wave of protests after the incoming government of libertarian president Javier Milei devalued the country’s currency by more than 50%.
The aim of the new rules is to prevent a traditional form of protest known as piquete, in which demonstrators blockade city roads and highways for hours, days – and sometimes even weeks at a time.
“Under the promise of order [the government] seeks to suppress public protest against the effects of official measures,” said the Centre of Legal Studies (CELS) in a statement.
“The measures attack the right to protest and criminalize those who demonstrate and persecute social and political organizations.”Leftist legislator and former presidential candidate Myriam Bregman said on X (formerly Twitter): “What Bullrich announced is absolutely unconstitutional … The right to protest is the first of all rights.” José Luis Espert, a legislator with Milei’s party, Liberty Advances, replied with a three-word phrase: “Prison or bullet.”The new protocol empowers police at train and bus stations to seize face masks, sticks or other elements they consider could be used in a demonstration.
In this way, it criminalizes mothers and fathers who demand better conditions for their families and excludes those in charge of their care,” said the CELS in its statement.Television newscaster Mario Massaccesi of the TN news channel recalled that Bullrich herself blockaded downtown streets in Buenos Aires when protesting against Covid lockdowns.
“What authority does she have now to tell others they can’t protest?” asked the newscaster.Protests are expected in response to the massive wage cuts and transport and tariff hikes announced as part of Milei’s “chainsaw” economic programme.
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