Originally published at: Weird facts about far-right Argentinian presidential candidate Javier Milei | Boing Boing
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You think there is runaway inflation now just wait to see what happens if he gets into power. Fortunately it seems there are probably 2 elections in the process before that could happen.
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As a Libertarian, he’ll get around to proposing the reduction of the age of consent any day soon.
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As is often the case, Argentina’s basket-case banking system is driving this lunacy. This fascist in Libertarian clothing is proposing that the “solution” is to abolish Argentina’s central bank and use the USD instead.
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He has started with reducing the age of penal responsibility, for the time being
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This guy. . . if he wins, and gets his way, eventually the “law of the jungle” will get out of hand and you can bet he’ll be on the first plane out of the country.
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You forget that he wants to privatize everything but the army and police.
Including public education, which must be dismantled and replaced by vouchers for private schools. Where will enough private schools come from to take care of every child? It doesn’t matter, education will be made not mandatory at any level anyways.
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That’s actually quite simple, you sell the schools to private owners.
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Wait, WHAT???
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He can be unbeatable if he makes a deal with the other right wing candidate.
In a surprise result that has upended Argentina’s political universe, the libertarian candidate Javier Milei took 30% of the vote on Sunday with his Liberty Advances party, outpacing the hard-right candidate Patricia Bullrich of United for Change, who came second with 28%.
The Peronist candidate Sergio Massa, hand-picked by the current vice-president and former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, came a disappointing third on 27% despite middle-of-the-road, business and International Monetary Fund-friendly credentials.
It seems unlikely that Massa could win the October election in the first round, suggesting he might face an unbeatable formal or informal alliance of Bullrich and Milei in a second-round poll.
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I doubt that there are enough potential private owners who care to pay for and manage the needed amount of teachers.
Maybe you could get a startup that Uberizes teaching at a loss until you can replace all teachers with ChatGPT bots
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He can be unbeatable if he makes a deal with the other right wing candidate.
Unlikely, he has already professed personal hate for her and claimed persecution from the mainstream media that supports her.
She is the establishment candidate and he is posing as anti-establisment, so any official deal would be off the table.
He is probably banking on being first in the runoffs, and attracting the votes of the segment that hates his eventual rival, whether it is Bullrich or Massa (and there is a significant segment that does). His rival on the other hand will have to run as the bad-but-better-than-fascism candidate like Macron did in France against LePen.
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With school vouchers the state would still be paying, albeit indirectly, so it would be a low-risk investment, not much different to running schools under government contract. The set-up would be similar to academy schools in the UK, but for profit.
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“He is a proponent of free love and has claimed to be a “neotantra instructor” and boasted of being “capable of remaining three months without ejaculating.””
So he’s an incel too?
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No, no, you sell the children to private owners.
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Libertarian and “nutcase” are practically synonymous, as are Libertarian and “asshole.”
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There is nothing weird about these “weird facts”. They’re exactly what you’d expect.
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With the added benefit of paying off cronies and eliminating any kind of standards for schools dealing with poor/working-class kids.
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