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Nov 20, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Far-right extremist Javier Milei won Argentina's presidential election.

Milei wants to:
-legalize the sale of children and human organs
-abolish public healthcare, education, and transportation
-abandon monetary sovereignty and adopt the US dollar

He says his dead dog Conan speaks to him from the afterlife and advises him on economic policy.

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Argentina was invited to join BRICS, but far-right president-elect Javier Milei has pledged to withdraw.

The extremist boasted: "Our geopolitical alignment is with the U.S. and Israel. We are not going to align with communists" perfil.com/noticias/polit…
Argentina's extreme-right president-elect Javier Milei pledged to cut ties with China and Brazil (Argentina's two biggest trading partners, with 35% of trade)

Instead Milei wants Argentina to be totally subordinated to the USA, which he basically worships
ambito.com/economia/milei…
In his platform, Argentina's extremist "libertarian" fascist president-elect Javier Milei calls for a Pinochet-style regime:
-"militarization of the institutions during the transition"
-building for-profit "public-private" prisons
-making it easier to imprison people
-mandating forced labor for prisoners
-reducing the age of being considered a minor
-creating a nationwide surveillance network of cameras with facial recognition technology
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Despite his absurd "libertarian" rhetoric, Argentina's extreme-right president-elect Javier Milei has constantly whitewashed the fascist (US-backed) military dictatorship that ruled his country, denying its mass murder, torture and disappearing of leftists
europapress.es/internacional/…
In addition to promising to totally subordinate Argentina to the US and adopt the US dollar as its national currency, extreme-right president-elect Javier Milei loves Israel.

Milei recently waved an Israeli flag at a rally.

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Responding to far-right president-elect Javier Milei's plan to adopt the US dollar as Argentina's currency to fight inflation, renowned development economist Ha-Joon Chang said this is “insane”, warning dollarization would make Argentina a US “colony”
geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/25/arg…
Here is a video clip in which Argentina's extreme-right president-elect Javier Milei proposed creating "a free market of adoptions".

That's his euphemistic way of calling to make it legal to sell human children on the "free market".
Many Argentine news outlets reported on far-right president-elect Javier Milei proposing a "free market of babies".

He wants to illegalize abortion, and says selling kids is a solution.

Milei is a follower of extreme-right "anarcho-capitalist" Murray Rothbard, who proposed this


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Dec 15, 2025
This says everything about politics in 2025:

Far-right, pro-US candidate José Antonio Kast won Chile's presidential election.

Kast is a staunch defender of the Pinochet dictatorship, and the son of a German Nazi official.

He also is extremely pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian. Image
The Pinochet-supporting, pro-Trump, Israel-loving son of a German Nazi official who will serve as Chile's new president is, unsurprisingly, also extremely anti-China.

The US empire has another puppet in Latin America.
When I say Chile's new far-right President Kast is a defender of the Pinochet dictatorship, I'm not exaggerating.

Kast openly praised the CIA's 1973 coup, claiming "Chile chose freedom" by "impeding the Marxist revolution in our land".

He loves Pinochet.
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Aug 9, 2025
Samir Amin wrote in 2006: "I do want to see the construction of a multipolar world, and that obviously means the defeat of Washington’s hegemonist project for military control of the planet. In my eyes it is an overweening project, criminal by its very nature, which is drawing the world into wars without end and stifling all hope of social and democratic advance, not only in the countries of the South but also, to a seemingly lesser degree, in those of the North. In this connection, I wrote as long ago as 1991 of the emergence of an ‘empire of chaos’".

"... my idea of the multipolarity that is necessary today entails a radical revision of ‘North–South relations’, in all their dimensions. This revision must create a framework that makes it possible to reduce the power of forces within the system (the capitalist system, to call it by its name) that operate in such a way as to exacerbate the polarization of wealth and power. By calling into question the ‘imperialist’ tradition, or whatever one likes to call it, which governs core–periphery relations in the actually existing capitalist system (something quite different from the general market system dreamed up by mainstream economists), such a revision would automatically pose a challenge to the most fundamental aspects of capitalism".Image
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Samir Amin: "The analyses in [my] work are ‘geopolitical’, but I should stress that they are in no way inspired by the methods of conventional geopolitics. That discipline, which originated in the nationalist ruling-class thought of the imperialist countries, treats nation-states as homogeneous invariables, with ‘interests’ dictated by their geographical location and economic ambitions usually identified with those of the dominant sections of capital".
Samir Amin: The aim of the US ruling class "was not only to encircle the USSR (and China) but also to make Washington the worldwide master of last resort: in other words, to extend to the whole planet the Monroe doctrine that had already staked its claim to run the New World in accordance with its own ‘national interests’".Image
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As the US prepares to ban TikTok, many Americans are downloading RedNote / Xiaohongshu 小红书 and seeing the real China.

My experiences in China have been amazing. It's a beautiful country with very kind people. Everyone should try to visit

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To understand the genocide in Gaza, it's important to recognize Zionism's roots in European colonialism.

Israel was not created due to the Nazi Holocaust. The British empire endorsed creating Israel in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, when Europe was colonizing the Middle East🧵Image
It's not a coincidence that the Balfour Declaration came immediately after the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement, in which the British and French empires carved up the Ottoman empire's territory and established their own colonies in the Middle East (West Asia). Image
Zionism was directly modeled after 19th-century European colonialist movements.

Zionist "founding father" Theodor Herzl wrote a letter to Cecil Rhodes, the genocidal colonizer of Africa, asking for help to colonize Palestine.

Herzl boasted that Zionism was "something colonial". Image
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Aug 17, 2024
The neo-feudal corporate landlords at Apple are charging creators on Patreon a 30% fee for all new memberships registered using the iOS app.

It's the perfect symbol of the future of the economy -- neo-feudal rent extraction by corporate monopolies.

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It all started with Big Tech corporations first offering supposedly "free" services (which were paid for by selling users' information).

Those "free" platforms soon became monopolies, and were so deeply embedded into the economy that they are now (privatized) digital utilities.
A 20th-century economy needed utilities like an electrical grid, water plants, sewage system, highways, etc.

These natural monopolies should be publicly owned, provided as public goods to prevent rent-seeking by corporate landlords (although neoliberals want them privatized too)
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🚨The US allows its athletes to cheat, including at the Olympics.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says US agency USADA let athletes use steroids in exchange for spying on other violators.

This is the Rules-Based Order™ -- the US violates the rules whenever it's convenient.
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Also, Russia was banned this year due to the war in Ukraine, but the US invaded Iraq and faced no punishment
What the US government calls the "Rules-Based International Order" is a global imperialist dictatorship, in which the US makes up "rules", and violates them whenever it's in its interests.

But then the US invades or sanctions foreign countries it accuses of breaking the "rules".
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