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And LATAM probably soon to follow, specially Argentina with Milei and now Chile with their new right wing president
by nico 7mo ago
And LATAM probably soon to follow, specially Argentina with Milei and now Chile with their new right wing president
- sophrosyne42 7mo agoMilei is a libertarian, and would be very opposed to such a thing.
- a_victorp 7mo agoI wouldn't bet on it
- whattheheckheck 7mo agoMilei will do trumps bidding
- macintux 7mo agoRunning as a libertarian, and governing as a libertarian, are two entirely different things.
- sophrosyne42 7mo agoHe has been doing pretty well so far.
- kevin_thibedeau 7mo agoTrump owns him now. He has to pay the piper.
- sph 7mo agoWords don't mean anything any more. Libertarianism used to be a fringe of anarchism, yet it has devolved into a chimera of its own, especially when looking at American-style libertarianism that is very much pro-State.
- Telemakhos 7mo agoI don't think this is a left- or right-wing issue: Australia was one of the first to ban kids from social media, and Australia is not right-wing by any measure. Canada is hardly right-wing, but age verification is bill S-210 in their parliament. What you're seeing is a coordinated push by transnational interests; Meta's name has come up in discussions of the funding behind this push. At the very lest, verifying age also verifies that a person is real and not a bot, so advertising firms like Meta will benefit from verification. That's not right-wing or left-wing but rather the influence of business over the political, and neither wing of the spectrum is immune to corruption.
- argsnd 7mo agoSeparate from this policy debate I think you’ll find Australia is a country where the right frequently wins actual majorities of the vote.
- skissane 7mo ago> Separate from this policy debate I think you’ll find Australia is a country where the right frequently wins actual majorities of the vote. Isn't that basically every democratic country? We can't judge how "right" or "left" the political culture of a country is by how frequently the right or left win office, because in the long-run they tend to win office roughly equally often just about everywhere. A better way of judging this question, is how the policies of their main left/right parties compare to those of their counterparts in comparable countries
- coldtea 7mo ago>I don't think this is a left- or right-wing issue: Australia was one of the first to ban kids from social media, and Australia is not right-wing by any measure. Canada is hardly right-wing, but age verification is bill S-210 in their parliament. I'd classify both as very corporate friendly, far centrist, which is just as good as "right wing". Nothing about actually empowering the masses, and even less so the working class, only elite pseudo prograssive talking points.
- buu700 7mo ago
- phyzix5761 7mo agoThere's 2 axes on the political spectrum. Economic and Social axes. Liberal and Conservative is one dimension (Economic) and Authoritarian and Libertarian is another dimension (Social). In the US both the Democratic Party (Liberal) and Republican Party (Conservatives) are considered Authoritarian on this 2 dimensional graph. Milei claims to be a Conservative Libertarian so, in theory, he should be opposed to this. We'll see what he actually does.
- coldtea 7mo ago>Milei claims to be a Conservative Libertarian so, in theory, he should be opposed to this. We'll see what he actually does. That's just for the gullible. In practice he's about power and self-serving interests, just like any "libertarian" in office.
- pocksuppet 7mo agoThere are almost infinite axes. We can do a principal component analysis to find the most important 2.
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