• MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      If you ever even visited Buenos Aires for a few days, you’d know these protests are astroturfed. Opposition will fill busses from the villas miserias (equivalent to favelas) and flood the streets and gridlock the capital for hours. It happens so often that its become a regular nuisance. A lot of these people don’t work and are on social plans. They are essentially used as a foot army by the peronistas to manipulate political power.

      I’m not saying this to justify whats going on, but giving people context.

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        11 months ago

        Uhhh… Milei’s been in office for what, a week? Are you saying the “Peronistas” were driving people in to protest their own government?

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          11 months ago

          Bruh. Yes. Remember there were protests against Trump before he was even president?

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              11 months ago

              Sure, but that’s not my point. The comment I was replying tried to dismiss what I said because apparently it’s impossible for people to protest someone who hasn’t taken office yet.

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                No, my comment was questioning whether a political party would bus protestors in to protest their own party, not claiming that there weren’t any protests at all.

                EDIT: I was assuming these protests were happening for months. That said, I can see that they could be protesting the election results, so the time between the election and the swearing in.

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        11 months ago

        it’s also not a right wing government without people insisting that all the noise is just poor people who should be ignored

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    11 months ago

    I thought that guy was supposed to be “Anarcho”?

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      Anyone who claims to be anarcho ”against large entrenched far reaching systems of governance”. But then in the same breath admits that they are capitalist ”a system requiring large far-reaching structures to protect the wealth of the privileged, and oppress those who aren’t”. Is never the former, rarely the latter, but always a liar. Wasn’t one of this chuckle fucks first moves to condense a bunch of different parts of their government into one much larger, much less efficient one. Something about human capital?

      Anyone else member learning about human capital in the United States? I member. There was some big war about it a little over 150 years ago. I don’t think it worked out so well. I think that’s just one of those lessons though that greed won’t allow a person to learn.

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    “The guarantor protocol of Nilda Garré is repealed,” stated Bullrich at the end of her press conference, in reference to the rules governing police actions in the face of protests that was installed in 2011 during the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Garré, who was Minister of Security at the time, established some basic rules of engagement during demonstrations, such as police intervention being deployed in a “progressive” manner, starting with dialogue with the organizers of the protest. The Garré protocol also established the prohibition of officers who might come into direct contact with the demonstrators from carrying firearms, that rubber bullets could only be used “for defensive purposes,” that all officers and their vehicles should be visibly identified, and that the police should guarantee free news coverage of protests without preventing journalists from taking testimonies and photographs. What the repeal of this protocol would entail remains unclear.

    Emphasis mine. It’s pretty clear the consequences will be crackdowns on protesters.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I guess we might not end up seeing the inevitable catastrophic economic results from Milei’s “platform.” Maybe we’ll see him chased off via mass protests before his dream is fully realized?