{"id":88809,"date":"2024-11-29T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88809"},"modified":"2024-11-29T07:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T13:38:11","slug":"hear-me-out-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88809","title":{"rendered":"Hear Me Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the one hand, it&#8217;s amusing to see that suddenly &#8220;cultural appropriation&#8221; &#8211; in this case, a bunch of rhythmically-challenged Argentine leftist &#8220;Karens&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DefiantLs\/status\/1861750970637603056\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But I think this is a good thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hear me out.<\/p>\n<p>Until the mid 1940s, Argentina was a wealthy first-world country, with a per capita GDP competitive with the US.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then, the &#8220;Argentine leftists&#8221; sold Argentine voters on &#8220;Rizz&#8221; and &#8220;Brat Vibes&#8221; with the Perons and a series of socialists, which gutted the economy and led to a series of coups and counter-coups, which also gutted the economy, which led to a war to restore pride that led to humiliating defeat that further gutted not only the economy but national pride, which led to further see-sawing back and forth, finally leading to a complete economic collapse 20 years ago, which has largely been met by further waves of center-to-far-left governments spending money they don&#8217;t have (or borrow from the IMF) to keep programs afloat at the expense of, well, everything.<\/p>\n<p>So now the growups, led by Milei, are in charge, and they are showing the world the actual potential of the Argentine economy and people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So perhaps after his past 70-80 years, it&#8217;s best that Argentine leftists stick with club-footed cultural appropriation and dancing with all the rhythmic authority of Swedish disco dancers.\u00a0 They cause less damage (artistic damage notwithstanding).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, it&#8217;s amusing to see that suddenly &#8220;cultural appropriation&#8221; &#8211; in this case, a bunch of rhythmically-challenged Argentine leftist &#8220;Karens&#8221; But I think this is a good thing.\u00a0 Hear me out. Until the mid 1940s, Argentina was a wealthy first-world country, with a per capita GDP competitive with the US.\u00a0 Then, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68,16,30,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-conservatism","category-liberty","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88810,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88809\/revisions\/88810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}