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Situation going clearly out of hands here. Guys, I know, the situation is very bad and sad, but do not forget this is mainly a Sport (Olympics themed) Forum.

 

 

Will frozen some last pages posts to evaluate them later.

 

Thread closed provisionally for now.

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Damn, there's disagreeing about stuff (even strongly and so on)....and then there's posting language that could actually get one into some legal problems.

 

Edit: huh, Slovak buddy closed the thread apparently while I was typing my post, and in that case apparently I could still post mine despite it being closed (which I hadn't seen yet) :lol: 

 

Forum bug :p 

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1 hour ago, konig said:

This is my "happyest political day" of my life, Argentina has a libertarian president after 100 years.

Lets see what happens.  People forget that a century ago Argentina was richer than Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece etc...I don't think using the US $ as currency is enough though - I'd go back to gold coins.  :old:  Roman ones. 

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22 hours ago, NMQ said:

Polls say slightly difference in favour of Milei. It's a closed call, many voters in the middle with no clear preference. I think the last few weeks were good for Milei because the crazy part of his side and proposals were a bit tuned down, and he got the support from Macri which gave him structure and a sense of "control" as in a kind of coalition. Still most people dislike him, but Massa as well.

We'll see what prevails, if the desire of change or the fear of what that change could be. I lean to Milei 55-45.

 

I won't vote neither, though :p

I was right about the difference, should have bet on it :p

 

The swing voters who voted Peronism/kirchnerism 4 years ago and Macri 8 years ago and Kirchner before that now opted for change over fear. Hope this guy can turn the economy up, the political and social side will be a mess no matter what.

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2 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Lets see what happens.  People forget that a century ago Argentina was richer than Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece etc...I don't think using the US $ as currency is enough though - I'd go back to gold coins.  :old:  Roman ones. 

Sadly is like you say, in 1930 started our decadence with the first military coups from the conservatives and after that came Peron with fascism and....here we are.

I dont agree with the dollarization, in fact its VERY dificult he can make it.

 

Argentina turns in a TOO LEFTIST country, now we are "back to basics" little by little.

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