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PenelopeWitherspoon

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On 10/23/2023 at 10:07 AM, Brisketexan said:

But he's also insane, and talks to dead dogs and shit.  Have you really not been paying attention to planet earth, the 21st century edition?  We're gonna make the Dark Ages look positively enlightened by the time all is said and done.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8BcHKXX/

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Brisketexan

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This 100% fits this timeline.

Humanity is bent on plunging headlong into self-destructive populism because this time, it HAS to work.

On the bright side, Argentina is such a clusterfuck, it’ll be hard to tell any difference.

Really sad for a country and people I love, though.

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58 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

This 100% fits this timeline.

Humanity is bent on plunging headlong into self-destructive populism because this time, it HAS to work.

On the bright side, Argentina is such a clusterfuck, it’ll be hard to tell any difference.

Really sad for a country and people I love, though.

its where we are man. Its the cycle of destruction, rebuild, growth, greed and then fear spiraling us back to destruction. 

The real problems commence when the managers of the managed economy can no longer manage. I am not trying to be purposefully vague here, just to the point actually. Right wingers will fill the void all over the place. That void is failure by the opposition (center, left and right) and a whole shitload of inevitability. 

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15 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

This is going to be hilarious for us, but bad for Argentina, as we watch him run the country into the ground.  Maybe he’ll start another war with Britain.

Maybe this time they don’t stop until they plant the Union Jack in Buenos Aires and take the World Cup trophy back with them as a souvenir.

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6 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

... bad for Argentina, as we watch him run the country into the ground.  ...

The reason he got elected is because the Peronists who have run the country for the last several decades have already done that.  The people there were so desperate for a change from the status quo that they elected an insane person.  

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12 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Argentina could have been a great power, LOL.  Now it’s a test bed for a Reddit philosophy. 
 

But get the schadenfreude in now because 2024 is too soon. 

Or maybe we don’t throw stones in our glass house.

Brexit foretold of a rightward populism that resulted in Trump being elected here.

God help us if this foretells Trumps reflection. 

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7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

This is going to be hilarious for us, but bad for Argentina, as we watch him run the country into the ground.  Maybe he’ll start another war with Britain.

If he truly follows through on the idiocy of libertarianism, and guts most of the government. It’s going to be fun watching all these people cry when the country devolves into a mess

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If he truly follows through on the idiocy of libertarianism, and guts most of the government. It’s going to be fun watching all these people cry when the country devolves into a mess

The “upside” for the argentines is that their country is such a shitshow, it will be hard to tell what “mess” is his creation vs what was already there.
The truth is, he’ll claim that only 100% inflation is a huge improvement…and he won’t be wrong. Sure, lots of other things will get worse, but truly, how will anyone be able to tell?
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8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

This is going to be hilarious for us, but bad for Argentina, as we watch him run the country into the ground.  Maybe he’ll start another war with Britain.

Without help, the UK's armed forces are in dismal shape, they may well be able to take the Falklands.  First thing I actually thought of once this became official.  

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18 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Without help, the UK's armed forces are in dismal shape, they may well be able to take the Falklands.  First thing I actually thought of once this became official.  

Eh, the Argentines have never even recovered from that war. They don’t even have operational submarines and their combat Air Force consists of retrofitted used A4s. A UK carrier strike group would be the end of anything the Argentines could put into the fight. 
 

 

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1 hour ago, Neonmoon said:

It’s going to be fun watching all these people cry when the country devolves into a mess

Once again Argentina has been FUCKED for the last 15 years or so.  And not that the several decades before that were nirvana. 

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2012/5/19/argentina-unleashes-dogs-to-sniff-for-dollars

Government uses canines to track down dwindling stock of US dollars now being smuggled to Uruguay.

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1 hour ago, Neonmoon said:

If he truly follows through on the idiocy of libertarianism, and guts most of the government. It’s going to be fun watching all these people cry when the country devolves into a mess

I'm not so sure watching the results are going to be very entertaining.

"On social issues, the president-elect wants to loosen gun laws, abolish abortion - which was legalised in Argentina in 2020 - and allow the sale and purchase of human organs."

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Eh, the Argentines have never even recovered from that war. They don’t even have operational submarines and their combat Air Force consists of retrofitted used A4s. A UK carrier strike group would be the end of anything the Argentines could put into the fight. 
 

 

That's a shame. Their air force fought quite well and bravely. They introduced us to the exocet missile. I think they flew French Mirage jets.

Prince Andrew was one of the helicopter pilots who would hover near the ships trying to draw off the missiles. I guess he dreamed of 15 year old girls in between flights.

Argentina sent an old battleship towards the British fleet. The General Belgrano was torpedoed far from any spot where it could have used its guns. WW2 technology versus Space Age technology.

What a show.

 

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