Lambert here: Another link-heavy piece, worth reading in full.
The president of Argentina, Javiar Milei, was elected in 2023. His presidency has been cheered and promoted by the top brass of tech fascists, including Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, and Elon Musk. In 2024, he did an official tour of Silicon Valley, meeting many of these parties.
Milei has made massive cuts to the government and its services and organs since his election, resulting in widespread poverty, unrest, and attacks on the schooling system, students and retirees. His gutting of the government has been a key inspiration for DOGE.
ClimateWire reported that in June 2024, “Elon Musk attended a free-market confab via Zoom to toast Argentina’s regulation-slashing president, Javier Milei. Musk used the opportunity to laud Milei’s progress in ‘deleting entire departments’ of the Argentine bureaucracy — and to extol the virtues of deregulation. ‘There has to be some garbage collection process for removing rules and regulations in order for society to function and not to get hardening of the arteries just to the point where you can’t do anything,’ Musk said.”
Lambert here: Oddly, or not, Musk does not propose a garbage collection process for oligarchs.
Milei ran, and now bases his administration on, the political platform of tech fascism in key respects, presenting at Davos 2025, referring to Elon Musk as “my dear friend”, and identifying new partners in a “new way of doing politics”:
Lambert here: No publication date on the page, so I am using the date the piece was archived at archive.is.
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