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Luc Perkins
@lucperkins.dev

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.

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aly
@aly.codes

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.

aly
@aly.codes

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.

Luc Perkins
@lucperkins.dev

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.

aly
@aly.codes

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.

Luc Perkins
@lucperkins.dev

They are certainly 100x better on social issues but, as always in politics, there are scoundrels all around. They practice a particularly noxious form of deeply entrenched patronage politics that, along one axis, is worse than what Milei is doing imo. That doesn’t make me a “Nazi.”