Javier Milei: "My contempt for the state is infinite" • Hacker News Board

Re: Javier Milei: "My contempt for the state is infinite"

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Post by philodeon » Mon, Dec 02, 2024, 1:08 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #80

tptacek wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not what you said, and I'm not interested in having a debate about what was playing inside your head when you wrote it; as you well know, we're responsible for the impact our comments have on the threads , and this was obviously a provocation. I'm not the boss of this place; you can just mail hn@ycombinator.com if you'd like to propose a new guideline about "discussion of immigration".

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Re: Javier Milei: "My contempt for the state is infinite"

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Post by philodeon » Mon, Dec 02, 2024, 1:12 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #79

rayiner wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My comment was relevant to the article and the post to which I was responding. If you want to interpret the rules to preclude any generalizations about people from different cultures when talking about those people as a group , then you should ban any discussion of immigration. Because any discussion of immigration that requires pretending groups of people are culturally fungible is simply misinformation--ignorant pe…

That's not what you said, and I'm not interested in having a debate about what was playing inside your head when you wrote it; as you well know, we're responsible for the impact our comments have on the threads , and this was obviously a provocation. I'm not the boss of this place; you can just mail hn@ycombinator.com if you'd like to propose a new guideline about "discussion of immigration".

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Re: Javier Milei: "My contempt for the state is infinite"

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Post by kerkeslager » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 2:03 AM UTC

vpribish wrote: post #26

kerkeslager wrote: post #19

> "Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better" The subtext here seems to be that if the Trumpian right understood Milei, they would not idolize him. On the contrary, I believe that the Trumpian right understands Milei just fine: they're on board with his ideologies.

I agree with what you say, but it's funny that I can't tell if we have the same reasoning :) Their supporters don't know or care much about economics but sure like a brash-sounding contrarian strongman leader who appeals to their insecurities. They don't mind a touch of the 'ascism since the leopard surly won't be coming for their sort of face.

That's about my reasoning, yeah.