International Politics

[oldie]

Nov 25, 2023 6:04:29 GMT gulfofaden said:

Javier Milei won in Argentina. He’s a libertarian, immediately dubbed “far right” by the Guardian, in custom hilarious fashion.
Just to clue those in, Libertarians believe in a limited state and greater personal freedoms being protected from state intrusion.
Which is bracketed by the Guardian into the same political camp as ethnic nationalists who want state led solutions and to remove the right of citizens for the collective benefit of an ethnic group.

Confused? Nowhere near as much as the Guardian are, or want you to be.

In Holland, Gert Wilders has won by a large margin. Also deemed “far right” although this time slightly more accurately. The main electoral point being a reduction in illegal migration.
The BBC have asserted it will be impossible for wilders to enact his policies due to EU laws.

It seems “our democracies” are under threat (to translate, this is what they say when the wrong guy wins!)

Will Milei succeed in slashing the state in Argentina?
Will Wilders bring about a Nexit?

I refer the learned gentleman to what happened in Chile in the 1970s

[oldie]

GoA said

" remove the right of citizens for the collective benefit of an ethnic group."

Tells you all you need to know.

[gulfofaden]

Nov 25, 2023 6:26:31 GMT oldie said:

GoA said

" remove the right of citizens for the collective benefit of an ethnic group."

Tells you all you need to know.

GOA said:

“Which is bracketed by the Guardian into the same political camp as ethnic nationalists who want state led solutions and to remove the right of citizens for the collective benefit of an ethnic group.“

You’ve deliberately quoted out of context.

Shame on you, you utter piece of shyt

[oldie]

Nov 25, 2023 6:39:06 GMT gulfofaden said:

Nov 25, 2023 6:26:31 GMT oldie said:

GoA said

" remove the right of citizens for the collective benefit of an ethnic group."

Tells you all you need to know.

GOA said:

“Which is bracketed by the Guardian into the same political camp as ethnic nationalists who want state led solutions and to remove the right of citizens for the collective benefit of an ethnic group.“

You’ve deliberately quoted out of context.

Shame on you, you utter piece of shyt

You are very welcome

"In the Latin American context, he is the heir to General Pinochet’s Chicago Boys, who liberalized the Chilean economy during the nineteen-seventies and eighties at the point of a gun, and to Domingo Cavallo, the neoliberal Argentinean minister of the economy who pegged the peso to the dollar in the nineties."

I already pointed Supergas towards
this book, you should try it and also

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek, from which the "Austrian" school of economics is derived.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691208626/the-chile-project.

It seems to me that a lot of lazy minded people are drawn to the Libertarian concept.