NPR

Sandstorm wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:00 pm

inactionman wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 3:14 pm Thar's a syrup, surely.

LenCohen wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 4:31 pm His points in that interview are fairly legitimate though

Oxbow wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:30 pm

Ymx wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 5:13 pm He sounds completely mad.

Hopefully, harmless mad.

TedMaul wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:17 pm A beautiful country; totally down the shitter.

Line6 HXFX wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 11:36 am People are rejecting Neo liberalism as expoused by Biden, Clinton, Blair where corporate profits, over human beings are the only thing that matters.

Seenn lots of interviews with Argentinians on the street this morning.


They are turning to something new in their one and only desperate, meaningless lives, and saying " fuck it, you seem mad passionate... have at it".


Anarcho Capitalism won't work, and the anarcho capitalists will end up blaming everyone else for its failures, obviously, but fuck all else is workihg either. May as well have fun on the way to our inevitable obliteration and extinction on this planet.

Slick wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:51 am

TedMaul wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:17 pm A beautiful country; totally down the shitter.

Amazing country, brilliant people, caught in an endless cycle of awful government. It’s very odd really

sockwithaticket wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:40 pm

Slick wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:51 am

TedMaul wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:17 pm A beautiful country; totally down the shitter.

Amazing country, brilliant people, caught in an endless cycle of awful government. It’s very odd really

Argentina, like many other South Amrican countries, is still suffering from the US backed regimes of the 60s and 70s. They were encouraged through the promise of financial aid in the form of loans to basically decimate their own economies in the pursuit of some mythical ultra free market utopia. What it mostly ended up achieving was selling off state companies to US companies, massive upticks in unemployment, depression of wages and huge wealth transfer to a handful of people in the oppressive regime. Once the regime was ousted the US, the IMF and World Bank still insisted on all the loans being repaid and refused to offer any further assistance unless continued policies of extreme privatisation and cutting of social programs continued. They've never managed to recover from the economic millstone placed around their neck.

Slick wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:59 pm

sockwithaticket wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:40 pm

Slick wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:51 am

Amazing country, brilliant people, caught in an endless cycle of awful government. It’s very odd really

Argentina, like many other South Amrican countries, is still suffering from the US backed regimes of the 60s and 70s. They were encouraged through the promise of financial aid in the form of loans to basically decimate their own economies in the pursuit of some mythical ultra free market utopia. What it mostly ended up achieving was selling off state companies to US companies, massive upticks in unemployment, depression of wages and huge wealth transfer to a handful of people in the oppressive regime. Once the regime was ousted the US, the IMF and World Bank still insisted on all the loans being repaid and refused to offer any further assistance unless continued policies of extreme privatisation and cutting of social programs continued. They've never managed to recover from the economic millstone placed around their neck.

They've had enough time to be significantly better, Naomi.

tabascoboy wrote: Wed Nov 22, 2023 5:35 pm

sockwithaticket wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:40 pm

Slick wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:51 am

TedMaul wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:17 pm A beautiful country; totally down the shitter.

Amazing country, brilliant people, caught in an endless cycle of awful government. It’s very odd really

Argentina, like many other South Amrican countries, is still suffering from the US backed regimes of the 60s and 70s. They were encouraged through the promise of financial aid in the form of loans to basically decimate their own economies in the pursuit of some mythical ultra free market utopia. What it mostly ended up achieving was selling off state companies to US companies, massive upticks in unemployment, depression of wages and huge wealth transfer to a handful of people in the oppressive regime. Once the regime was ousted the US, the IMF and World Bank still insisted on all the loans being repaid and refused to offer any further assistance unless continued policies of extreme privatisation and cutting of social programs continued. They've never managed to recover from the economic millstone placed around their neck.

Jim Lahey wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:46 pm I have Argentinian family and they are lovely people tbf. Except when it comes to futbol, when they quickly become The French of South America.

My sister in law says its practically impossible to buy property in the country however, due to the state of inflation/interest rates. Her and her husband were living in the Patagonia and even there it was madness to buy. They've recently moved to Buenos Aires and the rental market is carnage.

Slick wrote: Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:51 am

TedMaul wrote: Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:17 pm A beautiful country; totally down the shitter.

Amazing country, brilliant people, caught in an endless cycle of awful government. It’s very odd really

Insane_Homer wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2023 9:09 am So far going very well after 2 weeks...