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> Hacker News is, in general, badly described as even leftist. Centre-left, maybe, but with significant variance. Sure, but you very well know exactly which cr

> Hacker News is, in general, badly described as even leftist. Centre-left, maybe, but with significant variance. Sure, but you very well know exactly which crowd brigadiers. There's a reason why this thread has been disappeared. Above there is a comment "That is what decades of socialism does to a country." that initially was downvoted to hell. Try it yourself sometime, politely. Or peek at any thread vaguely related to Elon, 'etc, for the overt seething passive-aggressiveness nonsense. > Extreme doesn’t mean bad, it just means at an end of a distribution. To you and I. Sadly in the present day media space when any view is described as far-right or far-left it is typically as a sort of slur and target for wrong think. > Sure. That doesn’t change what he’s said. (And what he’s said doesn’t change the sensibility, in my opinion, of his policy positions.) > I also wouldn’t hold up Argentina’s voters as knowledgeable about economics. They got themselves into this mess in fair elections after all. That is a very unique story many decades in the making. And once they are in this mess it is difficult to get out. So their political discourse, out of context, does not translate correctly.

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> there is a comment "That is what decades of socialism does to a country." that initially was downvoted to hell Because it’s incoherent. The comment it responded to cited the cost of these reforms. It was a no free lunch statement. Responding with a thoughtless meme adds nothing to the discussion. > To you and I. Sadly in the present day media space We’re the ones discussing. Railing against a disembodied media is incredibly corrosive to one’s credibility. Especially when it’s incorrect: the term “extreme” is regularly used as praise.
- verticalscaler 3y ago
  No sir, because tankies don't like such remarks. > We’re the ones discussing. This thread was on the front page before being disappeared prior to any even remotely objectionable comments were made. To experience the phenomena yourself you are welcome to politely try a few times and say something lefty ideologues don't approve of in some other thread. > For what it’s worth, the international financial press has been cautiously supportive of most of Milei’s policies. And increasingly so since he’s taken office. But Milei’s policies depend, in large part, on international investors seeing Argentina as investable. If you’re saying he is inscrutable except by select internet commenters such as yourself, his policies will fail. I never said he is inscrutable. I said it requires some additional effort to understand. Step outside the international financial press that you find reasonable and observe in what terms he is discussed elsewhere and whether or not they are focusing on understanding the financial challenges of Argentina and its history or redirect the conversation elsewhere.

JumpCrisscross 3y ago

> there is a comment "That is what decades of socialism does to a country." that initially was downvoted to hell Because it’s incoherent. The comment it responded to cited the cost of these reforms. It was a no free lunch statement. Responding with a thoughtless meme adds nothing to the discussion. > To you and I. Sadly in the present day media space We’re the ones discussing. Railing against a disembodied media is incredibly corrosive to one’s credibility. Especially when it’s incorrect: the term “extreme” is regularly used as praise.

verticalscaler 3y ago
No sir, because tankies don't like such remarks. > We’re the ones discussing. This thread was on the front page before being disappeared prior to any even remotely objectionable comments were made. To experience the phenomena yourself you are welcome to politely try a few times and say something lefty ideologues don't approve of in some other thread. > For what it’s worth, the international financial press has been cautiously supportive of most of Milei’s policies. And increasingly so since he’s taken office. But Milei’s policies depend, in large part, on international investors seeing Argentina as investable. If you’re saying he is inscrutable except by select internet commenters such as yourself, his policies will fail. I never said he is inscrutable. I said it requires some additional effort to understand. Step outside the international financial press that you find reasonable and observe in what terms he is discussed elsewhere and whether or not they are focusing on understanding the financial challenges of Argentina and its history or redirect the conversation elsewhere.