• Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago
    1. Vote. No, really. If people actually fucking voted, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

    You would think that, but the reality is probably that out if everyone who didn’t vote you would get an even spread so they really don’t make that big of a difference. Take other countries where voting is compulsory like Brazil and Argentina and they also elected extreme right clowns.

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      out if everyone who didn’t vote you would get an even spread

      I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I suspect that the median non-voter is less wealthy than that of the voters.

      Take other countries where voting is compulsory

      We have compulsory voting in Australia. Presently we have a progressive (left of centre) government. It’s possible or likely that we will elect a right of centre government this year, but not extreme right clowns.

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      23 hours ago

      Millei is necessary for Argentina. Would be a bad president in America but that country desperately needed austerity

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        That’s like saying gasoline is necessary for a house on fire because that house desperately needs liquids. There were other candidates in the election that had much better plans, while I agree that electing the same dipshits that set the house on fire to begin with was out of the question, we had options but the majority choose a clown who will make things worse. It’s almost the definition of cutting the nose to spite the face.

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          18 hours ago

          Argentina’s core problem is their previous Peronist government’s unsustainable spending and command over the economy. They have spent themselves into a crisis several times due to their high Debt:GDP ratio

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            Sure I hate Peronists as much as the next guy, however you can’t possibly be arguing in favour of austerity when rampant poverty is killing off your populace. Milei is a piece of shit that perpetuates impoverishment by also taking debt with IMF while cutting national industry via privatisation (none of it is bought by Argentine interests, all of them foreign).