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I’ve long joked that Argentina badly needs an “inflation is bad and gays are okay” party. ¡Ojalá que algo así sea al horizonte algún día!

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My hope is that what we see out of this is a broad-based reorientation of Argentina’s political economy that transcends parties. But if had the power to vote the guy out of office, I would, because I do not think that the historical revisionism and the other regressive nonsense are worth it.

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And I’m glad that the current administration sees that as a problem that needs to be solved, and not just rhetorically or as a set of vague promises. That Milei is, to put it mildly to an absurd extent, an imperfect instrument is deeply lamentable.

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Of course, and I don’t see where I’ve painted it as non-complicated. What isn’t complicated, from my perspective, is that Argentina’s long-running approach of propping up demand by printing money has been, generally speaking, bad for the country.

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Arguably the most important muscle to develop working in software in the age of LLMs is the "naw, we probably shouldn't" muscle. And it's really hard to do when code is ~free.

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Never thought burrito tortillas could be too chewy but welp, Chipotle, here we are

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Peronists have been in power about 2/3 of the time since the restoration of democracy, so I don't think it's so unfair to paint with a wide brush. But yes, I do agree, there are structural problems that are not specific to Peronist admins.

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I never said that the Peronists are solely to blame for anything, nor did I have anything good to say about the Macrí admin

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Again, that graphic comes from an article from 2024. I don't see how it's particularly germane here.

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To be clear, I'm not arguing that any of this is somehow "worth" all the socially regressive elements of his admin. I'm not thinking in black and white the way you're imputing to me. But I am not misinformed and certainly not a "Nazi." Can we make that term continue to actually mean something?

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Which metric are you interested in?

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I don't know why you say I'm not providing any evidence. GDP per capita in terms of PPP clearly trending upward: www.imf.org/external/dat...

imf.org

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I am biased but I think it's very pretty 🥰

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I think Massa would’ve meant 100+% inflation with no end in sight. Is that worse than Milei? I honestly don’t know. I do know that poverty soared under Fernandez, and that has to be taken into account.

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They are certainly 100x better on social issues but, as always in politics, there are scoundrels all around. They practice a particularly noxious form of deeply entrenched patronage politics that, along one axis, is worse than what Milei is doing imo. That doesn’t make me a “Nazi.”

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For the record, I’m always happy to let things lie when asked. As for Milei, I never expressed any admiration for the man or his administration. I’ve seen the ill effects up close. What was I was initially responding to was the tendency for people on the left to carry water for the Peronists.

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The "block first, ask questions later" nature of this website is annoying sometimes. Makes you never want to have a good-faith discussion with strangers.

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What on Earth are you talking about? You clearly know nothing about me. I never said anything about "across the board." I said the Peronists are worse and that now there's at least a fighting chance to get out of hock with the IMF. The term Nazi actually means something. Let's keep it that way?

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That article is from December 2024

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That's a year and small change into his administration. You can't fix an economy built on money printing in a fortnight. Milei is a clown in a million ways but the Peronists are profoundly worse. Massa would've been a disaster.

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Well, seems a bit premature to declare that, eh? The figures stop in early 2025: www.imf.org/external/dat...

imf.org

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And you see the recovery, correct?

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