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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] ZhaoYadang@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And so begins the parade of Argentinians having their faces eaten off by leopards after voting for the Leopards Eating Faces Party.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've been getting their faces eaten off, so they voted for the other party that will eat their face hoping it will change this up.

[–] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Politics. It's leopards all the way down.

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[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How to loudly announce you're part of the fasc in-group.

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[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They really watched Brazil get fucked by rightwing policies for 6 years and thought "I want that".

[–] tiita@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I just don't get it. Every time a right wing government people get fucked and more fucked. Arguably even with left governments, but brexit / trump / bosonaro level fucked it's is hard to achieve..

And people still vote for these train wrecks..

What am I missing? What do I need to do get it? Lower my iq seems to be a possible answer, but I'm really struggling to see it

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the people making up their voter base are quite literally brainwashed. I've seen it happen with my parents – years of subtle manipulation by the media eventually turned their brains to mush. They quite literally can't form their own opinions anymore and need guidance from the rightwing cult.

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My solution is to block all that content on routers and using a Raspberry Pi. I will even offer my services to hospitals and nursing homes.

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[–] ours@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Way easier to be "against X, Y and Z" than to actually build/fix something. They'll just find other bogeymen and the worse the things get, the more tempting being against these bogeymen will look like to the voters.

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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Make the public dumber, less healthy, less connected, and less informed about the world so they can't stage a revolution and kill you. Perfect plan really.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump's advisors are reading that list and salivating.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Javier Milei's closest advisors are salivating because they're clones of the president's former dog Conan who died in 2017. According to Milei the ghost of Conan, named after Conan the Barbarian, advised Milei to become president during a conversation facilitated by a spirit medium.

Good luck Argentina. May the rest of us live in less interesting times.

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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is there a Department of Women or is he just going to get rid of every woman in the country?

[–] Alto@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] famousringo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

As you can see, cootie infections have declined 63% under my administration.

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[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In properly set democracy this should not be possible. President should not have that kind of power to affect other branches of power.

In general president should not have too much power at all, because it is stupid to have just one person to be able to cause so much change in general. Looking at you US.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Presidential offices and ministries are both part of the executive branch of governments, though. Ministries are primarily there to organize the executive's work, so while removing ministries will affect that, it won't affect the separation of powers (like, say, the removal of responsibilities from a court or a chamber of parliament would).

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 37 points 1 year ago

Bolsonaro eliminated the Labor minister first day of his government and made the economy minister absorb its functions. It's had to re-establish it quietly at half of his government because the economy minister couldn't keep with the job, but meanwhile slave labor on Brazil skyrocketed.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Proposed remaining ministries:

Ministry of Men

Ministry of Strong

Ministry of Beer and

Ministry of RRRRAAAARRRGGGHHH

[–] LuckyBoy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ministry of the paranormal

Ministry of animal cloning

Ministry of human organs harvesting

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Going for the chupacabra vote, I see.

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[–] Cyo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know a few Argentinians and since I live in Chile I know a lot about what's going on there. They have a lot of useless ministers for almost everything, at this point the previous government could have easily added the 'ministry of non-important matters' Their state manages the education really bad, many Argentinians complain about that, all those things managed by the state work really bad and are fueled by taxes. I agree that Milei's ideas are crazy, but seeing the options in Argentina, he was the less bad option there.

Imagine a state sucking almost every currency from every citizen just to fuel useless state institutions. I hope Argentina will recover with this change.

[–] Avg@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I guess we are all about to find out how true that is.

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[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh, if you live in the United States, I've got some bad news for you in one year.

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[–] einlander@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Department of Transport, so not even the trains will run on time.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Bold of you to assume they were running on time

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[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

The only ministry they need is the ministry of stupidity. That'll be their national treasure.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He also wants to screw around with the Falklands again

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[–] ours@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Making the next generation of fools to keep people like him elected.

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[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's called dictatorship. Argentinian people are not new to it.

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[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imho. They are not voting based on those facts. They voted for him because he said the things they want to hear. Nothing to do with the truth; you’re not being kept down by billionaires, it is those (wink) people….

No one who thought about it ever thought trump would build that wall and Mexico would pay for it; but people scared of MS-13 being active in their podunk town rallied around him for saying that

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Argentinian here, they voted for him because they believe these ministries are overly burdened with corruption, meaning all the money gets embezzled and the ministries don't actually function. Massa, the opposing candidate, minister of economy had an 150% increase in inflation during his tenure. Lastly, they don't think it can get much worse so why not try something different

[–] catfish@programming.dev 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lmao can't get worse? They're in for a surprise

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The point is that it's already so bad that they don't care.

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Argentina only has two modes, Fascism or Peron, no in-between.

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[–] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wonder if he's redirecting it all to the army or some other sort of enforcer

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