Argentina's new president, Javier Miley, is truly having a good run. After announcing the dismissal of a further 50,000 (superfluous) civil servants, the next step follows: the closure of the Ministry of Diversity and Gender! For us libertarians, it is important to achieve and celebrate small successes in a time that is increasingly turning towards cultural Marxism and socialist control. If you recognize bullshit, it must be addressed openly and preferably eliminated. Keep up the good work, Javier!
117 sats \ 15 replies \ @didiplaywell 9 Jun
(To keep wording hygiene, lets replace "civil servants" by "civil parasites". Not an insult in the slightest, it's a strict description of what, by all and every single means, they are and have always been, to pornographic levels)
Thank you for your support, believe it or not the organic world wide recognition from the common people helps him a lot and we deeply appreciate it.
I'm always looking an insisting for ways to turn that positive attitude into any form of active and reciprocal collaboration. It's one of the reasons I'm lurking this site so, count on me!
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20 sats \ 14 replies \ @TomK OP 9 Jun
Thank You!! We need to fight back urgently and hard
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42 sats \ 13 replies \ @didiplaywell 9 Jun
We already did here, and successfully :)
I try to insist everywhere: take our experience. I know it might sound petulant but, we did it, it's right here, it's happening, and it's working. If you want to know in detail what my actual level of involvement was for me to claim "experience" on the matter, please visit this AMA I made here in SN to answer in detail all about it.
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20 sats \ 4 replies \ @TomK OP 9 Jun
I'll read it later, thanks
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @didiplaywell 9 Jun
To you for your interest on this matters :)
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @TomK OP 9 Jun
I was fighting this fight since I opened my eyes. Always a pleasure to know that You're not alone on this
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @didiplaywell 9 Jun
it's an entire nation with you now :)
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 9 Jun
Hopefully I'll see them winning. Biggly, like DT would say
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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @siggy47 9 Jun
Are the people accepting these changes, or are the government "workers" fomenting anger?
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54 sats \ 6 replies \ @didiplaywell 9 Jun
Not only people is more than pleased with all the parasite-scorching spree, but Milei has augmented his positive image from new supporters that initially doubted him capable of doing so.
About the severed civil parasites, they are trying to foment anger, but they are so disconnected from reality and so used to having power that they try to put people against Milei by means of threats and violence. It results as you would expect.
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20 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 9 Jun
This is such good news. I was afraid the short term thinkers would derail his vision before it had the chance to show results.
What about the peso? Is he giving up on dollarization? Of course bitcoin would be better.
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54 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 9 Jun
Ohh that's Milei's secret! He was able to turn the balance on short term thinkers. Please read this previous comment I made on the matter, and you will see it was a VERY close call. They're still a menace as always, just outnumbered for first time in history thanks to the youth.
About the peso, Bitcoin and dollar: he will first proceed by deprecating the peso in favor of the dollar, to solidify the economy base. But later he will proceed by allowing free competition if currencies, which by default includes Bitcoin.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 9 Jun
Hope You're right with btc
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54 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 9 Jun
No, dollarization will continue. Argentina will initially be used as another dumping ground for the Fed.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 9 Jun
Indeed. Yet the peso is such a menace that the dollar is a sacred saviour-currency today. Plus it will allow for a much needed step towards free competition: the elimination of our Central Banking system. In that sense, the dollar is a sort of a "heap currency" towards independence from the Fed and any other central institution.
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88 sats \ 6 replies \ @erict875 9 Jun
Ministry of diversity and gender? Seriously, wtf?
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52 sats \ 4 replies \ @Hamstr 9 Jun
I didn't know what that was, but as @didiplaywell says, “civil parasites.”
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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @didiplaywell 9 Jun
No joke, calling things by their name is a very important first step to get things straight. For instance, one of Milei's first resolutions was to ban the use of the word "free" from any official gov announcement and documentation, for it's one of the tools socialists use to mislead people into not realizing what's really going on with "welfare".
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @Hamstr 9 Jun
Nice! I was only aware he cut off a bunch of useless gov't department, didn't realize he 2x down. And went for official gov announcements. You gotta think, ...How much of that BS been floating around then and for how many years. All he has to do, is not use the dollar and make it a mining hub for bitcoin.
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @didiplaywell 9 Jun
He is all about bitcoin, he always uses a note-book with a big Bitcoin logo in it. But will take that and every possibility into consideration by taking one single measure: free currency competition.
About bitcoin mining hub, some steps towards that already took place
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Hamstr 9 Jun
Thanks for linking the article
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 9 Jun
It's all a big commie shithole
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75 sats \ 5 replies \ @0xIlmari 9 Jun
When you have a ministry of fucking diversity and gender, you know you've let the commies/"progressives" grow too fat.
That's true also for corporations that establish diversity departments.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @TomK OP 9 Jun
Absolutely. Taxes are theft
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xIlmari 9 Jun
It's not even about taxes. I don't mind a government existing as long as it focuses on providing useful public services at a reasonable cost (especially those that benefit from some centralisation like roads or the justice system).
But "diversity and gender"? It's a waste of public money (be it from taxes or money debasement) whichever way you look at it, and not the government's business in the first place.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Hamstr 9 Jun
Why not just have private police? or fire fighter? It would be the same if you needed service from a plumber. You pay them to fix a problem. And probably cheaper and less corruptible.
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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xIlmari 9 Jun
The Police is only a small part of the wider justice system, and arguably the "easy" one.
BTW, make sure you don't confuse private police with private security.
Private security is employed by YOU, protects YOUR interests and scales in effectiveness with how much you pay them.
Police is employed by a community, protects the community's need to enforce law and order, and it very much shouldn't make a preference for those who pay it more (that would be corruption).
A police force may very well be private, in the sense that it's a privately owned enterprise, but it nevertheless acts out of a mandate of a community and is funded through taxes or a security subscription or whatever it's called.
The hard part is the system of laws and courts. I remain convinced that this benefits from centralisation mainly due to unification. I think laws should be lean but universal.
Imagine an AnCap society where a "community" (defined by a territory with some central governance and jurisdiction) is the size of a city, maybe a county. Imagine going on vacation by car and having to study a dozen law books to make sure you don't break any laws (this already is a problem e.g. in the US where states differ in legality of certain substances and firearms - imagine the laws fragmented even further). Running an international corporation would entail operating in possibly thousands of jurisdictions.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinosphere 9 Jun
I've been imagining & researching that AnCap society since 2009. There are literally hundreds of books by libertarian anarchists on how to smooth out those spots like jurisdictional law.
One very common theme is a system of Dispute Resolution companies called Assurance Agencies. Nothing like insurance, Assurance is a service that everyone who wants to participate in society subscribes to and it has your back during all justice-related situations. They'll read the law books for you. (But of course anarchist law books will never be even 0.01% as thick as today's statist law books...)
Fragmentation doesn't mean basic rights change, which should all be based upon the NAP in the first place.
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53 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 9 Jun
Yes, he is now doing some real work. This should serve as an example for every system. There are superfluous people with unnecessary work are taken in for the purpose of mking some people happy. I see this in governments cabinets and administrations everywhere. Even in my country, I see that in so many states there are unnecessary positions of vice Chief ministers, not one but sometimes 2 or three. This is a misuse and if Milei can understand this, he is definitely on path to redeem Aregentina prosperity once again.
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63 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 9 Jun
He goes way beyond that. He explicitly postulates that the state in itself is flawed and condemned to degenerate with time regardless of any well intentioned initial setup. He permanently dismisses with disdain the idea of an "efficient administration", which he denounces as a delusion used by statists to, indeed, degenerate into parasitic structures, always with the excuse of "improving the state administration performance" (sounds familiar?).
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 10 Jun
If only we could cut some of the fat out of americas system.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Athena 10 Jun
Miley is becoming my favourite leader in these times. He is doing some real work.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Hamstr 9 Jun
Damn, that Javier is really killing it! I wonder how the 50k civil servants are taking the kick to the boot?
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 9 Jun
We all expected the parasites to turn towards incendiary attitudes and they did from day zero, but that was long predicted, which is the reason Javier initiated his administration with an immediate revalorization of all branches of the armed forces to ensure the law is respected, effectively neutralizing many destabilization attempts from the parasites.
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