Comments by "Steven" (@Steven-vo4ee) on "Argentina election: Who is the far-right candidate Javier Milei?" video.

  1. If by good, you mean zero, then I agree…
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  2.  @ruffuzx4058 Don’t count on it…
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  3. Get a grip
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  4.  @marblesrichard Change the record.
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  5. Extremes who’ll only make their lives even worse, compounding their disillusionment and increasing their grievances.
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  6. It’s the last thing the world needs.
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  7. Then everyone has to live with the consequences, regardless of how they voted….
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  8. ⁠ @Thetruthwillsetyoufreee People like me are broadly centrist pragmatists, who can see through the guff of populist chancers like Milei.
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  9. Argentina has never recovered from the 1970s right wing junta.
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  10.  @youtubeenjoyer1743 Ignoring the fact that Argentina’s economic malaise began with the right-wing military Junta in the 70s, from which it has never recovered, and has had conservative administrations as recently as 2019 whom also failed to resolve the country’s woes.
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  11. The two are not mutually exclusive, I hope you know that…
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  12. Why what have they done?
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  13. Difference is Argentina is a developing country whereas the UK is the 5th largest developed economy. One is more excusable than the other.
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  14. As do all populists
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  15. Look how something completely different worked for Argentina last time… it’s never recovered….
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  16.  @a.a.7416 Your knowledge history is greatly lacking, or you’re deliberately omitting the years of the Junta, where the current economic malaise set-in, and subsequent conservative administrations most recently led by Mauricio Macri between 2015-19.
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  17.  @shay5839 Another-one with a saviour complex…
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  18. He’ll lead Argentina back to the IMF cap in hand… yet again…
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  19. Results haven’t been announced and no doubt if Milei does win, Argentinians will soon after be praying for deliverance.
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  20. Ending hyperinflation is not the controversy, it’s all the other guff and fantastical offerings of the populist chancer.
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  21. The two are not mutually exclusive
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  22. What Argentina desperately needs is adults in-charge, leading a boring technocratic administration, who’ll calmly, rationally and strategically work through the underlying issues of the country’s problems, creating a pragmatic roadmap to gradually overcome them. The last thing it needs are the grandiose oversimplified populist ‘solutions’ from a bombastic showman, who’ll only compound the country’s woes, fuel greater grievances, finally pointing fingers and scapegoat as the country goes back to the IMF cap-in-hand…yet again.
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  23. You do realise he hasn’t won? He came second in the first round.
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  24. “I want that one”… (a few moments later) “I don’t like it”…
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  25.  @michaelrch Their lot are doing a fine job of making the US a failed state.
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  26. And what fate will that be?
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  27. The answers populists like Milei offer are grand, sweeping and vastly oversimplified. When they solve nothing, the populists don’t accept any responsibility, rather they point their fingers at the next scapegoat. The cycle of grievance continues and the problems of the countries they’ve afflicted are greatly compounded.
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  28.  @faithingod5533  State broadcasters are under direct government control, public broadcasters are not. Also funding is the primary point of this thread….
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  29.  @faithingod5533 ’Public Broadcast’ you said it yourself….
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  30. ⁠ @faithingod5533 Your case is meritless and such has been dismissed…
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  31.  @youtubeenjoyer1743 Thanks for the info…….
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  32.  @imperatorvespasian3125 Spotted the RU / VP apologist.
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  33.  @Thetruthwillsetyoufreee Ok non sequitur writer. 👍🏻
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  34.  @Thetruthwillsetyoufreee That’s delightful, especially enjoyed the SHOUTED attribution… 👍🏻
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  35. You self evidently have zero knowledge or understanding of Ch4’s funding model…
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  36. That old chestnut…
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  37.  @dattatrayalimaye2756 The 1970s right wing Junta and every government since from the left and the right. However populism is not the answer, it will only compound Argentina’s woes.
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  38. It’s a surgical mask and you’re presuming his reasoning without any evidence. Could be a multitude of things behind placing it on there, first thing that comes to my mind is it acting as a makeshift pop-guard and/or mesh, making do with something so low cost and ubiquitous is obviously far cheaper than replacing or properly repairing a damaged microphone.
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  39. No he’d be called a left winger, radical leftist, left wing populist, and/or a Marxist depending on the outlet. The EU is and always has been a profoundly capitalistic organisation, certainly to the right of centre, with its primary economic pillar the Single Market being largely a product of the Thatcher administration. Also the EU didn’t even technically exist until 1992, so what Corbyn may or may not have said 40 years ago would have been in regard to the EC rather than EU.
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  40.  @TheUberkunt A whole lot of guff.
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  41.  @TheUberkunt  The methods of ending hyperinflation are tried and tested, multi faceted and unfortunately painful, “chainsaws to government” is not one of them. To put it very basically, the following are initially used: * Shoring-up the national currency via increased reserves of foreign reserve currencies, holdings of gold. * Redenomination. * Not taking any further foreign currency loans, only accepting those in the denominated in the national currency. * Placing protectionist tariffs on imported goods to reduce demand and to reduce trade deficit. * Aiding exporters and placing currency controls upon them. * International bailouts and foreign debt restructuring (if available). By the time hyperinflation has set it, simple monetary and fiscal reforms such a reduction of government spending, interest rate rises and tax reform solve nothing. The underlying issues must be dealt with. Populism isn’t what’s popular with the electorate, it’s big promises with simple solutions, it’s divisive, grievance and scapegoating politics. Usually claiming the reasons people’s lives are not as they desire is because of group / institution / issue x, milk and honey are just over the horizon, x is the sole / primary impediment. It’s a nonsense, reality is complex and difficult, there are no easy answers or solutions, sustainable change is slow. Pretending otherwise only leads to further grievance. No candidate standing will solve Argentina’s problems, however only one will make the situation far worse. Milei is by far the greatest of the three evils on offer.
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  42. The two are not mutually exclusive, also having a stance which favours banning abortion is hardly libertarian is it… quite the opposite…
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  43. Or more likely a total economic meltdown followed by a period of authoritarianism, distractions, turmoil and scapegoating, then ultimately going cap in hand to the IMF… yet again…
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  44. Get a grip
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  45. Libertarianism originated from the left, however today it is not the preserve of the left, branches of libertarianism exist throughout the political spectrum.
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  46. Populists are always big on promises and dreadful at delivery… then comes the scapegoating…. as some minority group needs to take the blame…
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  47.  @YO-qz2nb  Undiluted nonsense
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  48. “He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!” Joking aside, he really isn’t a saviour, inevitably as with all populist administrations, he will fail, blaming everything and everyone else, leading to yet more grievances and resentment.
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  49. Perhaps when his big promises inevitably remain undelivered, like all populists he’ll attempt the distraction technique… by turning the attention to the Falklands….
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  50. Perhaps he is of that lineage, the ratlines lead to Argentina…
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  51. A TLDR rant which is irrelevant to this video
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  52. Schoolboy sloganeering
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  53. That’s what they cried about Le Pen…
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  54. Ch4 is not funded through taxation… 🤦🏻‍♂️
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  55.  @faithingod5533 Incorrect. It’s publicly owned, not state owned, and it’s entirely commercially funded.
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  56.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx Antisemitism on a story about a radical populist politician…. what a surprise….
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  57. Stop screeching
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  58.  @UNIVERSAL-UR  Unreservedly support UA in its efforts to boot out the aggressor RU. However the four letter acronym staring with N you cite, ironically actually applies to the coward VP who hides in his place and those who follow him. As for the age of my acc, have you never changed and deleted an old google acc… 🤦🏻‍♂️
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  59.  @PinkLadie007  Consequences which would have occurred regardless of whom was elected in 2020. Trump couldn’t have magically dodged the external inflationary pressures, or the issues at the south of your county.
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  60. You clearly have absolutely no idea of what you’re on about, Ch4 is entirely commercially funded, it receives ZERO funding from the taxpayer.
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  61. The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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  62. Favouring a free market system and being an economist does not preclude someone from being far right, they’re not mutually exclusive.
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  63. Argentina hasn’t recovered from the right wing junta of the 1970s, it had a conservative government most recently until 2019 which failed to turn the economy around. Rather than resolving Argentina’s problems, this populist and his fantastical promises will only compound them, creating further grievances, scapegoating and leading the country back to the IMF cap in hand yet again.
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  64. Waving running chainsaws about is hardly ‘chill‘, also level of chillness is irrelevant to political leanings.
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  65. 35 years is a complete fantasy regardless, Milei could be given 35 billion years and the populist chancer would still lead Argentina further behind what he’d inherit should he become president after the second round.
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  66. Get a grip
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  67.  @DreamerVic It’s entirely commercially funded and is successful, so obviously most of their viewers are quite happy with their programming…
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  68.  @DreamerVic Thanks for that non sequitur…
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  69.  @DreamerVic Oh what delicious irony!
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  70. The populist Milei and his big promises will not resolve Argentina’s corruption or any other of its woes. He is an arsonist not a reformer, who’ll leave the country in a far worse state than he inherited..
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  71. A something different which will compound their problems and fuel even greater grievance.
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  72. Meloni is far right, from her MSI origins to Fratelli d'Italia today. What system do you propose we replace democracy with, assuming our apparent overlords allow it?… 🙄
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  73.  @TheDiamond872  Most recently Mauricio Macri led a capitalist Argentine administration, it failed to reverse the country’s fortunes, this populist will only compound them.
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  74. Much of today’s political woes are the product of populist fantasists like Milei.
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  75. A pudding which will turn into ashes in the mouths of those who bought it.
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  76.  @piet0004  Let’s hope so as it’ll be all they’ll get with the populist chancer Milei.
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  77.  @zaclang6472 No doubt it’ll follow the populist playbook and end in tears for who fell for the guff.
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  78. The end / the second coming has been imminent for two thousand years apparently… yet we are still here…
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  79. Keep dreaming
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  80. Third parties have won in two party systems innumerable times, including far more developed and important countries, global shockwaves there were not. Also the US already has a right wing bombastic populist chancer in the form of Trump, it certainly doesn’t need another.
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  81. No… he’s obviously just a chainsaw wielding moderate…
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  82. Argentina was run into the ground by the right wing military Junta in the 70s and has never really recovered.
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  83. Milei is already banging on the las Islas Malvinas (Falklands) drum, so your gold has already suffered the reverse Midas touch…
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  84.  @NaSaSh1087  You don’t appear to grasp what populism is, read an English dictionary definition.
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  85.  @NaSaSh1087 Yes… still not quite grasping it…
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  86.  @NaSaSh1087 I oppose populism regardless of its leanings.
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  87.  @NaSaSh1087  I oppose the reactionary divisive grievance politics of populism, that when its big promises fail to be delivered, the grievances are only compounded, leaving the countries and peoples afflicted by it even worse off than before.
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