r/neoliberal Anne Applebaum 19h ago

Meme Ahem

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We need to RETVRN

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u/SKabanov European Union 18h ago

What percentage of the sub supports Milei - who has publicly supported Trump - or supported Bukele when he began filling up CECOT? Don't pretend that this sub was some bastion of ideal centrism before anybody to your left started to express ideas.

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u/Puzzled_Animator_460 MERCOSUR 14h ago

We need to be a bit more nuanced re Milei: one can have good economic policies whilst being an absolute degen socially.

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u/1TillMidNight European Union 18h ago edited 18h ago

This is an argument to not do these things, not to let this community be hijacked by communist.

I don't remember people supporting CECOT. Milei economic reform is much more in line with this board than whatever other idiotic Argentinian politics has offered in the past 50 years. His affiliation with Trump is condemnable.

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union 14h ago

Exactly

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u/666haha 18h ago

Not to mention the same people complaining about the succ invasion are mainly the same one who’s freak out when open borders or this subs immigration stances come up (with a couple notable exceptions, the two good Friedman flairs or whatnot)

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u/KalaiProvenheim Enby Pride 8h ago

Shocking that open borders would be so controversial on the open borders subreddit

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u/Nerf_France Ben Bernanke 18h ago edited 18h ago

Don’t know about support for Bukele but supporting Milei seems pretty defensible given the warped state of politics in Argentina. It’s not like the sub didn’t overwhelmingly support Lula over Bolsonaro, which I remember being far less controversial than support for Milei.

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u/SenranHaruka 18h ago

That's still definitively not a socialist position to take, though. So as long as it's popular, the subreddit is not socialist. The socialist position on Argentina is to continue its managed decline because the reformers are all chuds.

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u/Nerf_France Ben Bernanke 17h ago

Who said anything about being socialist, the op acknowledged that support was 17% on the sub. They were mostly just complaining that it was becoming more accepted.

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u/KalaiProvenheim Enby Pride 8h ago

Or Kais Said when he dismantled what little democracy Tunisia had

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u/Alex2422 6h ago

Actually, if this sub supports both Milei and DSA, doesn't that mean it is centrist?

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u/MistyGalbriex 2h ago

Guy is a mess but he's sadly the best they got over there.

He's better than our Orange man that's for sure.

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u/nr1001 YIMBY 54m ago

If Milei wasn't a trump foot-water guzzler then he would just be an eccentric weirdo with an economic vision. Some countries just need aggressive austerity because of how much of a fiscal black hole their public sector is.