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Argentina, "The homeland is not for sale" - Thousands protest bills that privatize public services and remove rent control, labor and strike protection, price gouging protection, pension increase (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20231227-thousands-in-argentina-protest-milei-s-proposed-economic-reforms-deregulation

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Whoops! Guess that wasn't mentioned on the campaign trail...

[–] Zehzin 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it better or worse if I tell you it was?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I would still not be surprised.

[–] angrymouse 5 points 10 months ago

It is not how it works, I dont think all US citizen is a supremacist scum, Trump was still elected tho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It’s literally what he campaigned on. He was elected for this.

[–] tigerjerusalem 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Leopard, meet face.

Also it's nice to know that Argentina is in the top 10 producers of Lithium, so there's that.

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wonder if any of the protesters voted for Milei 🤔

[–] Dpowell 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At least 25% of them

[–] Viking_Hippie 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How did you arrive at that highly improbable estimate?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a Face-Eating Leopard meme for a reason.

[–] Viking_Hippie 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that the ones who care enough about public policy and are against massive privatization enough to take to the streets in protest skew heavily towards NOT voting for a clown who puts on a crappy superhero costume and calls himself Captain Ancap..

[–] Dpowell 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From a sample set of 18 Argentinian friends who voted for Milei

[–] Viking_Hippie 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So you have friends who are colossal idiots. Doesn't change the fact that it's highly unlikely that people who are against unchecked privatization would vote for a clown who calls himself Captain Ancap..

[–] Dpowell 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yep, better to call them soccer acquaintances

[–] Viking_Hippie 1 points 10 months ago

Fair. The Beautiful Game DOES cause us to associate with some people we'd never be around otherwise, which can both be great and awful 😁

Which club(s) do you support? I'm a huge Liverpool fan myself

[–] Shardikprime 0 points 10 months ago

It's very nice rent controls were removed because for the las 4 years we haven't had the chance to rent any place at all with the controls, and the places that were renting did so by air BNB in usd. Now more and more units are opening up for rent, it's a matter of time before prices start shifting to normal values! Good one!