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You didn't provide any analysis into why things are different now, and offered up a truism. A country is "allowed" to do anything it can get away with. Like declaring war on all of its neighbors. I don't feel like I need to be protected from foreigners. Why do you?


Americans are fine voting against their interests as long as someone else is hurt worse by it. These policies will hurt most Americans, but as long as trans folks and racial minorities get hurt worse it's fine. Nothing new about the southern strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy?wprov=sfti1


This is how I found out I had both ADHD and bipolar.


Type one or two? That's how I was misdiagnosed as bipolar-II. I have unipolar depression, but the high dosage of amphetamines I was on had me tweaking apparently. Once my dosage was drastically reduced, I had no issues other than normal depression ever again.

You would think taking me off the medication/reducing the dosage would have been the first step in diagnosing such a condition, but we're talking about the two most pseudoscientific fields of science/medicine, so perhaps I was wrong to trust them.


what do you mean by that


Argentine here — the US helped the military coup that overthrew democracy in Argentina and waged a "Dirty War" that saw people drugged and thrown out of helicopters. People born in the 70s grew up while that was happening. It's still living memory.

The US (and other western countries) dictate the price of raw material exports, and drain countries like Argentina of the best talent. They dictate freight rates. To the extent western capital is willing to invest in the country, it is to build roads/rails that take raw materials from the countryside to the ports in Buenos Aires so that a small class of bourgeois vendidos can sell out the nation's national wealth like a fire sale.

Macri is beloved by western media because he's willing to let the IMF and Federal Reserve dictate social policy in Argentina. Slash pensions, crush labor power, etc. My family voted for him and now my grandma needs us to send more dollars over so she can afford to live. Lot of parallels IMO to people on public assistance voting for Trump in the US. There were other solutions possible besides austerity.


> There were other solutions possible besides austerity.

What solutions? How does one fix a hyperinflated country without painful reforms?

Millei made it clear that pre-election that his tenure was going to bring painful reforms. He was realistic, unlike the incumbent Peronists who had no plan.


It’s been 50 years almost since the dictatorship, it’s time to get over it, most people alive today didn’t live through it.

The us doesn’t drain Argentina of their best talent, Argentina kicks them out with their shitty economy and policies, I know that’s why I left.

Yes, western capital is super evil for investing in infrastructure to move resources. It’s better for the country resources to be laying within the ground making no one money.

There was no other way out since the K printed all the money to finance their madness.

Keep resisting with aguante though, that will work out.


Argentina spends too much money; that is the core problem. Their debt/gdp ratio is extremely high. There is literally no other solution than austerity. Austerity is the entire point

> Macri is beloved by western media because he's willing to let the IMF and Federal Reserve dictate social policy in Argentina

If you think western news outlets have any affinity for austerity or the IMF, then you're watching fox news or something because most American news media is inclined to support a left wing strong man


Per the article, less than 5% of the global population take a flight in a given year. You're already incredibly wealthy in that light. We could at least eliminate short haul flights and private airplanes, but the reality is going to be a lot more ascetic if we expect to hit net zero by 2050.


I don’t think 5% take a flight because that’s all who can afford it. I stock groceries for $13/hr part time. According to a quick google, a salary in excess of 100k/yr puts one in the top 10% of global earners, so why are half of those people making in excess of five times my salary not flying? It’s surely not their wealth, although the “earners” qualifier probably isn’t equivalent to population.


Besides a crippling nicotine addiction?


That's average surface-level temperature increase. 70% of the Earth's surface is ocean, which can absorb more thermal energy. It's worse than 3-6 degrees in the areas where people live. It's not scaremongering. People talk about Miami and Dubai as if those cities will be populated in a century. Look up "wet-bulb temperature", and then look at a global population density map.


And when the law demands you turn in runaway slaves? Legality is not a yardstick for morality.


Well it's a great thing those punishments reduce recidivism rates, right? Right??

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743246/


You linked a database of Tau proteins naturally expressed by different species of animals. The mice in this study are a breed of mutants that express the human version of the Tau protein.


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