‘El Loco’ wins landslide victory in Argentina that experts say shows scale of frustration with Peronist status quo
  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    243·
    1 year ago

    Both Trump and Bolsonaro are facing active criminal investigations and charges in the countries where they were elected before both were voted out.

    I’m hoping Milei sees what the endgame of fascism looks like and chooses a different path.

    • DieguiTux8623
      32·
      1 year ago

      Someone in this community explained to me yesterday that he can not even be labelled as fascist. So we’re safe.

      • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        He honestly seems genuinely stupid. But only time will tell. For good or bad most the rest the government is staffed with the opposition party. So I don’t think he’s going to be able to do too much damage. At least of the kind they wouldn’t do themselves. But again only time will tell.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah fascists are stupid. You’d have to be stupid to believe one person can solve the problems of entire nations, or that there is any such thing as pure blood.

          Here’s a good quote on the idea of pure blood from Clarence Darrow in the successful closing argument for Ossian Sweet…

          You have seen people in this courtroom, you have seen them at this trial, you have met them in your life, have every reason to respect them, to love them, to appreciate them, except that maybe one of their ancestors going back and back and back to where perhaps they had ten thousand ancestors, and one of them was black or partly black, and he has to be a hewer of wood and drawer of water and all of his generation, to the end of time to be cursed that way by those who think their blood is pure.

          Of course, the marvel of it is that there is not any such thing as pure blood.

          How far can you go back in yours, how far can I go back in mine? I knew who my father was and who my mother was, and I know who all four of my grandparents were, but when I get back of that I am lost in obscurity and night.

          Even if you know your two parents and four grandparents. Do you know your eight great grandparents? Your sixteen great great grandparents? Your thirty two great great great grandparents? Your sixty four great great great great grandparents? Nobody does. So you see, these are seriously stupid people.