Except young people (or all people) need to go vote in primaries for those they want.

You can’t just wait for your perfect person to show up magically. Ie. Policies reflect people who vote, not the other way around.

Self fulfilling prophecy.

We could only be so lucky.

So you pulled shit out of your ass?

Maybe lead with that next time.

Trump lies all the time. He could easily be lying here. I don’t believe anything til it actually happens.

I fully expect people to fall asleep and skip voting like they always do once dems (if) get power again. Either because they’re lazy or upset they didn’t get everything they want after one election, etc.

I’m jaded but it’s like clockwork.

Yes that’s true.

But there are 90 million people who didn’t care if these people were in power either. I wouldn’t say those people have a moral compass either or we wouldn’t be here now.

It is. Im tired of people making excuses for the idiots in this country. Idgaf if you thought the Democrats were terrible- theyre clearly far better than these fascists. But enough people decided it wasn’t worth their time anyhow.

Fuck them and fuck all of us because this is who we are.

Let me key you in- everyone thinks you’re a shithead. No one gives a fuck how sanctimonious you feel for “voting your conscience” when it’s clear you and people like you allowed the worst possible option to assume power.

Because your “purity” is doing fuck all for the people that are going to go to camps, have their healthcare fucked with, their entire lives upended.

Sincerely, eat shit.

And far more didn’t vote at all.

Let’s stop acting like we’re so surprised. Millions were told repeatedly what would happen and they did. Not. Care.

This is America. In all its ugliness. We truly need to own it because enough people here did not care.

It’s terrible. Surrounded by idiocy.

Why would he? This is what America wants. People either voted for trump or were too fucking lazy to vote at all.

Yeah…and they’d keep dying even if you did what they were still doing only it’d be worse for so much longer.

I usually like your takes but you’re just saying “children dying=bad.”

Everyone knows that. But you also have to accept that there will be short term pain for a longer term gain. If you disagree then I’d like to hear solutions that you have to fix it without this. I mean- with these fixes an IMF loan is back on the table that could help alleviate some poverty potentially, etc. Economists are not the end all be all but again, the data is trending in the right direction despite the pain it takes to get back to good. There is no magic fix for decades of neglect here.

And who said he is good? I don’t personally like the guy for a bunch of his takes. But if this particular bit of policy is righting the ship then it should be lauded despite his personality or other flaws. And even then that is quite a…not sure how to phrase this politely, “lame” take that every libertarian ever doesn’t care about people’s suffering. I’ve read personal writings of his and it seems he believes that people are better off when they can provide for themselves without the state doing it for them. Now, I personally think that is bollocks but given where Argentina is with their massive government and massive debt he has far more room to have that attitude and push his ideas before they go too far. But again- if it’s just his personal beliefs it doesn’t mean that “does not give a shit about people suffering”- it’s that he believes they won’t once the state gets out of their way.

Seriously man- there is room for nuance here.

53% is not “around 60”. Moreover,

today Milei has a stable approval rating of 50 percent.

Apparently even some of those in poverty agree with his reforms.

I think people who only started paying attention to Argentina since he got elected should review the past few decades of history.

Im also not saying he’s great but he is at least making some needed reform. We’ll see if it continues. He definitely has an attitude and zeal that could push it too far but at this point it has helped.

Except if the dems had solid majorities for years they could be pushed left easily. Look at California. Not as left as Lemmy wants obviously but so much further left than the majority of the country.

No, blah blah blah, not prefect candidate, blah blah.

Can’t blame them for being lazy shitheads. Of course it’s someone else’s fault.

Bullshit. The DNC said nothing. Biden wiped the floor with every other candidate in that primary fair and square. Maybe blame the voters or rather the people who couldn’t be assed to come out.

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No I agree with you wholeheartedly. Im tired of people only blaming dems. Plenty to go around.

Ahh, still blaming everyone but dumbasses who voted trump or didn’t vote eh?