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heh, yeah... I have a co-worker from Paraguay and she says IPAs like "e-pause"

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 12 April 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

JUST IN: Argentina's Senate has approved a bill to legalize abortion https://t.co/CZ8Lmzj7mv

— CNN (@CNN) December 30, 2020



From the Washington Post article:

The legislation would allow elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. It’s the ninth bill in the past 15 years to address the country’s abortion laws; it was seen as having the best chance to legalize the procedure.

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The bill was approved in the Senate with 38 votes in favor and 29 against after an intense debate that lasted around 12 hours. Some lawmakers discussed why they had changed their views since 2018. “I learned a lot in these two years. I am the same senator, who at this time decided to continue listening and analyzing different situations,” said Silvina García Larraburu, who voted against the bill in 2018, but supported it this time. “Mine is a deconstructed vote.”

scampish inquisition (gyac), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 10:01 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

Someone almost assassinated Kirchner at point blank range. Apparently there was a misfire?
More: https://brazilian.report/latin-america/2022/09/01/man-gun-cristina-kirchner/

La imagen del intento de atentado contra Cristina Kirchner. pic.twitter.com/P08PhWXLWy

— Sergio Villone (@sergioVillone) September 2, 2022

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 September 2022 02:12 (one year ago) link

Fernández said the firearm had five bullets “and didn’t fire even though the trigger was pulled”

if an armed nutter comes at you point-blank range that's the kind of luck you need.

calzino, Friday, 2 September 2022 09:30 (one year ago) link

I'm sure she feels immortal. I know I would!

xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 September 2022 09:32 (one year ago) link

not sure if the gun was faulty or it just clicked on an empty chamber. The closest I've been to that situation was when some crack fiend shot the ceiling above my head during a bookie robbery. I'm shuddering just thinking about it 20 odd years later.

calzino, Friday, 2 September 2022 09:44 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

Michael Roberts:
“Peronism has failed to deliver on economic expansion, a stable currency and low inflation. But it has also failed to deliver on ending poverty and reducing inequality.”https://t.co/XKcbKSDX6R pic.twitter.com/puIITOEOnX

— post-rave wellness pack (@Prada_Meinhof) October 23, 2023

xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 October 2023 09:37 (six months ago) link

this guy who is likely to win sounds like a fucking loon. of course my cousins (by marriage) in argentina support him, to our dismay. he has a huge following among the youth which is bewildering. argentina as a country is in continual fucking crisis.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 23 October 2023 13:43 (six months ago) link

It's terrible what has been happening to Argentina for well over two decades now. Must be such a struggle for the people.

xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 October 2023 14:59 (six months ago) link

three weeks pass...

I see.

nashwan, Sunday, 19 November 2023 23:52 (five months ago) link

🗳️ 🤯

Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 November 2023 23:58 (five months ago) link

Mr. Milei overcame criticism and questions about a variety of unusual behaviors during the campaign, including his harsh attacks against the pope, his clashes with Taylor Swift fans, his claims of being a tantric-sex guru, his dressing up as a libertarian superhero and his close relationship with his Mastiff dogs that are named for conservative economists — and are also all clones.

Zelda Zonk, Monday, 20 November 2023 00:51 (five months ago) link

Guy looked at Trump and was like, hold my beer.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 November 2023 01:20 (five months ago) link

"Milei is the owner of five English Mastiffs, with the progenitor being Conan, who died in 2017 after suffering from spinal cancer. He considers Conan his son and has named four of Conan's six clones, including one named after the original and another named Angelito,[280] Milton (in honor of Milton Friedman), Murray (in honor of Murray Rothbard), Robert, and Lucas (both named after Robert Lucas)...

"Milei stated that he communicates with the dogs through a mystic.[12] For example, he commented that the new Conan provides ideas on general strategy, Robert is the one who makes him 'see the future and learn from mistakes,' Milton is in charge of political analysis, and Murray of the economy. When asked about this by El País journalist Martín Sivak and Nicolás Lucca of Radio Rivadavia, Milei did not deny it, and said: 'What I do with my spiritual life and in my house is my business. If Conan advises me on politics, it means that he is the best consultant of humanity.'

"Milei said he had dialogues with the likes of Rothbard and Ayn Rand. In 2015, he cited Conan as a source of inspiration for his writing. About Conan's death in 2017, Milei said that Conan had not really died (he described it as 'his physical disappearance' and continued to refer to Conan in the present tense) but had gone to sit next to God to protect him, and that it was thanks to this that he had begun to have talks with God himself. According to González, Milei wrote to a friend in a chat: 'I saw the resurrection of Christ three times, but I can't talk about it. They would say I'm crazy.' According to various sources consulted by La Nación, Milei maintains that he and Conan have a mission that was assigned to them by God and has a mystical story with Conan. He said that he met Conan, who was a lion, as a gladiator in the Roman Colosseum about 2,000 years earlier."

Way to go, Argentina.

birdistheword, Monday, 20 November 2023 01:33 (five months ago) link

I know the other guy was the boring choice, but I mean, who wouldn't have been?

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 November 2023 01:36 (five months ago) link

Thinking outside the box

Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 01:37 (five months ago) link

I saw someone write, well, it's not like things could get any worse in Argentina. And the immediate reply was: 'yes it can, we already had a hyper inflation of 4000% in 1989 and 2000% in 1991 and a complete economic and social collapse with 5 presidents in a month in 2001 and 25% unemployment for the next 3 years and 60% poverty and every state issuing their own worthless currency because they didn't have money to pay for anything."

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 November 2023 01:55 (five months ago) link

Yep

Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 01:57 (five months ago) link

Really not surprised that donating organs to survive is going to be an option

xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 November 2023 09:06 (five months ago) link

From a locked account:

"I was genuinely convinced that Massa was going to win before the first runoff. But then I saw the interview where Millei was having a mental breakdown on TV and I knew he had already won"

xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 November 2023 09:23 (five months ago) link

Feel like I know in quite granular detail this guys position on just about everything without having to check, except for the Russia-Ukraine war

The narrative of arthur gordon pimp of nantucket (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 20 November 2023 18:11 (five months ago) link

Probably thinks the Jews did it.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 November 2023 18:37 (five months ago) link

https://x.com/lbc/status/1726640860803043771?s=46

exciting!

https://i.imgur.com/QR81lOP.jpg

Fizzles, Monday, 20 November 2023 20:09 (five months ago) link

Is he taking them back or giving them away?

Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 November 2023 20:54 (five months ago) link

This guy’s First Lady is his sister

mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Monday, 20 November 2023 21:17 (five months ago) link


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