it's like Bukele making BTC the national currency, just for lulz or what?
Daishiman · 5h ago
It seems mass media today like to have this role of sanewashing where characters with serious mental/cognitive challenges or a history of fraud are passed off as serious, reasonable people.
Milei is exactly one of those characters. Not only is his understanding of economics the equivalent of economic antivaxxing, his studies are from a questionable university, and he tries to pass of as a PhD when in reality his "PhD" is honoris causa, from a sham university. His latest book outright plagiarizes entire paragraphs ad verbatim from other researchers.
He has done exactly zero in any of these supposed efforts for AI and nuclear energy, taking science funding to the lowest value relative to GDP in 50 years and destroying the careers of tens of thousands of researchers and PhD candidates. Never in the history of the country has the scientific community been as openly opposed to a president's science policy as this one.
He's put stooges and charlatans like Reidel in charge of the nuclear program and shut down a perfectly viable nuclear development reactor like CAREM (the justifications for the closing are polar opposites to what the vast majority of researchers in the area say).
His understanding of AI is null. No one he's spoken to in Silicon Valley has put any money into these initiatives.
This entire initiative is just smoke and mirrors from a goverment that sees economics as a series of financial tricks. No industrial policy, no development policy, no science policy except for privatizing science and selling off working, effective public companies like Nucleoléctrica.
mmustapic · 4h ago
> This entire initiative is just smoke and mirrors from a goverment that sees economics as a series of financial tricks.
He promoted a meme coin as an "investment project" last February (that means, while being in office as the president). The coin obviously crashed, while he never explained why he promoted it or who told him about it.
zurdoshdp · 3h ago
He brought down inflation to zero, GDP growth to. 5% and exposed much of government spending as outright fraud. And he proved that the economy works best when the government steps back
that's nothing compared to what it was in 2023, and it will keep going down
because he is not an unhinged hypocritical thief like every single leftist person
mmustapic · 2h ago
Sure, it's lower, but still quite high, and definitely not zero.
the_af · 28m ago
> because he is not an unhinged hypocritical thief like every single leftist person
Milei believes his dogs are his "sons", he has cloned his dog Conan whom he believes adivses him from dog heaven, and nobody has seen his dogs alive and he becomes agitated when questioned about them.
I'd say "unhinged" suits him fine.
the_af · 30m ago
> zurdos HDP
Please keep this out of HN.
For anyone who doesn't know, "zurdos HDP" ("zurdos hijos de puta") is a slur and a slogan from Milei supporters which means "leftie sons of bitches". This is typical of Milei, he has said similar things live ("motherfucking lefties, we will go find you!"), and in his mind anyone who opposes him is a "leftie".
where's the demand?
it's like Bukele making BTC the national currency, just for lulz or what?
Milei is exactly one of those characters. Not only is his understanding of economics the equivalent of economic antivaxxing, his studies are from a questionable university, and he tries to pass of as a PhD when in reality his "PhD" is honoris causa, from a sham university. His latest book outright plagiarizes entire paragraphs ad verbatim from other researchers.
He has done exactly zero in any of these supposed efforts for AI and nuclear energy, taking science funding to the lowest value relative to GDP in 50 years and destroying the careers of tens of thousands of researchers and PhD candidates. Never in the history of the country has the scientific community been as openly opposed to a president's science policy as this one.
He's put stooges and charlatans like Reidel in charge of the nuclear program and shut down a perfectly viable nuclear development reactor like CAREM (the justifications for the closing are polar opposites to what the vast majority of researchers in the area say).
His understanding of AI is null. No one he's spoken to in Silicon Valley has put any money into these initiatives.
This entire initiative is just smoke and mirrors from a goverment that sees economics as a series of financial tricks. No industrial policy, no development policy, no science policy except for privatizing science and selling off working, effective public companies like Nucleoléctrica.
He promoted a meme coin as an "investment project" last February (that means, while being in office as the president). The coin obviously crashed, while he never explained why he promoted it or who told him about it.
zurdos HDP
For now, the anual inflation is 55.9% .
because he is not an unhinged hypocritical thief like every single leftist person
Milei believes his dogs are his "sons", he has cloned his dog Conan whom he believes adivses him from dog heaven, and nobody has seen his dogs alive and he becomes agitated when questioned about them.
I'd say "unhinged" suits him fine.
Please keep this out of HN.
For anyone who doesn't know, "zurdos HDP" ("zurdos hijos de puta") is a slur and a slogan from Milei supporters which means "leftie sons of bitches". This is typical of Milei, he has said similar things live ("motherfucking lefties, we will go find you!"), and in his mind anyone who opposes him is a "leftie".
Let's keep this crap out of here.