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The "block first, ask questions later" nature of this website is annoying sometimes. Makes you never want to have a good-faith discussion with strangers.

I mainly wanted to end the conversation, not “block first”. I would not have initiated the conversation if I intended to “block first”. I felt it was no longer productive.

But I do think you should seriously ask why “he’s almost certainly got a ton of trans people raped, acutely destroyed families, permanently wrecked international relations, but speculatively his economic impact could be okay” might be an ill-considered, frivolous, even offensive position.

For the record, I’m always happy to let things lie when asked. As for Milei, I never expressed any admiration for the man or his administration. I’ve seen the ill effects up close. What was I was initially responding to was the tendency for people on the left to carry water for the Peronists.

I am Argentine-American and definitely not doing that (I am not a peronist), but there's simply no way that "Massa would have been worse" is something that doesn't strike me as cruel tbh.

I think Massa would’ve meant 100+% inflation with no end in sight. Is that worse than Milei? I honestly don’t know. I do know that poverty soared under Fernandez, and that has to be taken into account.

poverty also soared while GDP shrank under Macri :)

some things in Argentina have no clear political cause or way out short of international collaboration, which is not necessarily bending to the IMF at every step. Some of the current conditions are like this *because* of international intervention.

I don't know why you say I'm not providing any evidence. GDP per capita in terms of PPP clearly trending upward: www.imf.org/external/dat...

once again this is not the metric I cited

Which metric are you interested in?

Again, that graphic comes from an article from 2024. I don't see how it's particularly germane here.

you make specific claims about the economy under 'peronists', it's relevant and you're not pointing to any other graphs that dispute it because you have the wrong metric. the IMF page you're linking actually supports continued _decline_ on similar metrics (% of world GDP is an interesting one)

because again, the intervention I am making here is that there are far longer-running economic trends here that explain the acute performance you're attributing to Milei in a laudatory fashion. I think that's maybe the point of misunderstanding here.