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HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

Punkin Spunkin posted:

I never thought my high school anime club would spread so much suffering around the world


Lol

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mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
drat whos this guy

https://twitter.com/upholdreality/status/1751968945983078736

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!
The gentleman from Argentina makes some good points imo

ArfJason
Sep 5, 2011
lol thats the same guy who celebrated the queen's death with champagne.

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep
edit: ^^^yeah it is

Inst that the same guy who celebrated the queen's death on his TV show?

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

dudes rock

antipattern
Nov 8, 2019


basado

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



ArfJason posted:

lol thats the same guy who celebrated the queen's death with champagne.

drat that guy is based

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

trucutru posted:

There is a shitload of factors, that's one, but the fact is that is that fentanyl just makes economic sense. Completely synthetic, cheap, powerful, relatively easy to make. What's not to like?

Supposedly it is less fun

The REAL Goobusters
Apr 25, 2008
lol Xóchitl is in nyc doing some us tour or some poo poo and people have already protested and booed her out of the city 😭

Pomeroy
Apr 20, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 9 days!
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1753618660550406413

swimsuit
Jan 22, 2009

yeah
anyone got any information on Cuba's finance minister being fired?

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Things are pretty bleak in argentina right now


https://twitter.com/taseenb/status/1754749654468632682

quote:

Argentina 50% of Argentines are now living in poverty. Thanks to Milei and economy minister Caputo's massive devaluation of the peso (54%) and the reckless deregulation of prices, 2.5 million people fell under the poverty line in less than two months.

The IMF increased the projected loss in GDP for 2024: -2.8

Argentina is in a stagflation: a recession with high inflation, a perfect opportunity for the neoliberal shock and pillage that is being executed.

This was caused by the price shock but also by the cancellation of all infrastructure works ordered by Milei in the first days: all contracts for future projects are cancelled. Many companies have already fired their workers in the construction sector. Many more will go bankrupt or shut down in the coming months.

At the same time the dystopian Human Capital Ministry cancelled most payments to food banks that were managed by social organisations that the government says "make business with poverty".

Yesterday it was also revealed that the same ministry gave some of that money ($170,000) to an evangelical foundation that funded Milei's campaign. It is considering to provide subsidies for families whose children go to private schools to compensate for the rising fees.

According to consumer data published last week, sales in pharmacies lost 46% in January. Most people cannot afford the medicines and food that they could afford only two months ago.

The massive transfer of wealth from the state to the private sector and from the bottom to the top is destined to cause many deaths.

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012

quote:

2.5 million people fell under the poverty line in less than two months.

Jesus christ

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

i was expecting a speedrun but god drat

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

thats grim

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep

Jose posted:

Things are pretty bleak in argentina right now


https://twitter.com/taseenb/status/1754749654468632682

surprised pikachu wearing an Argentina national team shirt.jpg

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Elias_Maluco posted:

surprised pikachu wearing an Argentina national team shirt.jpg

He won 55% with a 76% turnout.

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Are they also doing the incredibly stupid thing of cutting their military and police forces pay too?

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005
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NeonPunk posted:

Are they also doing the incredibly stupid thing of cutting their military and police forces pay too?

betting they're the only organizations getting pay raises

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

Oglethorpe posted:

betting they're the only organizations getting pay raises

But is the pay raise beating the inflation? Like it's not a pay raise if you're getting 15% raise but prices rise by 30% everywhere else

Tony Sorete
Jun 19, 2011

Manager de rock

Oglethorpe posted:

betting they're the only organizations getting pay raises

The military can't intervene in homeland security matters, at least until they modify certain laws.

And no, they just suspended an allocated partial raise (not all of it but a "salary rebuilding fund") the previous government destined to the armed forces.

NeonPunk posted:

But is the pay raise beating the inflation? Like it's not a pay raise if you're getting 15% raise but prices rise by 30% everywhere else

This is happening to almost everyone including security forces and the military.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

always best to check who is the minister of the interior in situations like this

Guillermo Francos was Executive Director for Argentina and Haiti at the IDB (Inter-American Development Bank)

oh no

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Yeah but the argentine stock market is up 35% YTD so who can say whether this is good or bad

Kal-L
Jan 18, 2005

Heh... Spider-man... Web searches... That's funny. I should've trademarked that one. Could've made a mint.

Tony Sorete posted:

The military can't intervene in homeland security matters, at least until they modify certain laws.

And no, they just suspended an allocated partial raise (not all of it but a "salary rebuilding fund") the previous government destined to the armed forces.

This is happening to almost everyone including security forces and the military.

Well, certainly the Argentinian armed forces will abide by the rule of law even when their families are starving and can't afford their meds.

A great example of neoliberal brain-rot: "What are they going to do? Turn their guns against their bosses? The law says they can't!"

Funny how Xochitl and her FAM haven't mentioned Milei since that tweet/X about how his victory signaled a victory against socialist tendencies in latin-america.

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

Proves what we already knew - neoliberalism works

Eminent DNS
May 28, 2007

Tony Sorete posted:

The military can't intervene in homeland security matters, at least until they modify certain laws.

Surely they would never stoop that low

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001


Pinera dead?

https://twitter.com/LANACION/status/1754945289058697279

ironic way to go for a Pinochet fan

Flavahbeast has issued a correction as of 20:32 on Feb 6, 2024

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

Flavahbeast posted:

Pinera dead?

https://twitter.com/LANACION/status/1754945289058697279

ironic way to go for a Pinochet fan

God smiting helicopter riders for pissing in their face FTW.

Tony Sorete
Jun 19, 2011

Manager de rock

Eminent DNS posted:

Surely they would never stoop that low

There's still a fair memory of how deeply they can gently caress everything up, plus there's no push from the other actual powers who always used the military for their ends. So no, extremely unlikely that they will. Not everything is that linear.

Tony Sorete
Jun 19, 2011

Manager de rock
Also Piñera was dead politically speaking already so the only piece of news here is that we're getting a new urinal in a graveyard in Chile.

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


C'mon. A ghoul that ordered purposeful blinding fire in protests getting owned is a good piece of news

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Flavahbeast posted:

Pinera dead?

https://twitter.com/LANACION/status/1754945289058697279

ironic way to go for a Pinochet fan

Elden Lord Godfrey
Mar 4, 2022
also what the gently caress is up with el salvador i see a ton of lovely neoliberal youtube channels boosting them for somehow "winning" the war on ms-13

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

Elden Lord Godfrey posted:

also what the gently caress is up with el salvador i see a ton of lovely neoliberal youtube channels boosting them for somehow "winning" the war on ms-13

yeah there's also been a lot of articles about it in mainstream publications, very strange

Okuteru
Nov 10, 2007

Choose this life you're on your own
Isn't it rumored that he paid them off?

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
Bukele sponsoring youtubers to say how great he is on camera sounds like exactly the kind of thing he would do

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Elden Lord Godfrey posted:

also what the gently caress is up with el salvador i see a ton of lovely neoliberal youtube channels boosting them for somehow "winning" the war on ms-13

he just won again with like 83% of the vote

he won the war because he threw everyone wearing khakis and a wifebeater in prison forver

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

El Salvador is free from the bandit class.

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

I had a run-in with some cartel guys in Acajutla a decade ago and it's weird to think they're probably all dead or in prison now

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