Bayonets are the spiritual successor of the best weapon ever created, the Spear.

If your gun doesn't include a bayonet it's because you've fell victim to modern and cringe tacticool weapons.

(I have nothing funny to say about this. I think the article and milei do a fine job by themselves)

Milei: ‘I am today the most relevant politician on Earth’ – bar Trump

Javier Milei has declared himself to be one of the two most important politicians in the world today, naming the other as former US president Donald Trump.

Javier Milei has declared himself to be one of the two most important politicians in the world today, naming the other as former US president Donald Trump. Argentina’s head of state made the remarks in the television interview, during which he lashed out at his critics, describing them as “Lilliputians.”

“It hurts them that I am today one of the two most relevant politicians on planet Earth. One is Trump and the other is me,” Milei boasted in an interview with the LN+ television news channel on Sunday night.

Milei, 53, declared that is considered to be “maximum exponent and defender of the ideas of freedom in the world’, highlighting his meetings with top Silicon Valley minds like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

Slamming his critics as “inconsequential,” he argued that they were simply jealous of his success.

Milei mocked the “the Lilliputian agenda of inconsequential Argentine politicians, invisible rats, who will never be able to aspire” to his level of importance.

Painting himself a modern Gulliver freeing himself from the shackles of his adversaries, he asked of the opposition: ”What vision can a rat have of a giant? Nothing.”

Milei has repeatedly expressed his administration for Trump, who he met for the first at conservative summit in Washington back in February.

Visibly delighted at meeting the US Republican leader, the Argentine leader broke with diplomatic tradition to state that he hoped Trump is re-elected in November’s US election.

"President! How nice to meet you. It's a great pleasure to meet you, President. It is a great honour for me. Thank you for your words to me. I am very happy, it is very generous. Thank you very much, thank you very much, I mean it. You are a great president and I hope you win. I hope to see you again. Next time, as president,” said Milei as he shook Trump’s hand.

Trump, in turn, has praised Milei, not quite as vociferously. In August, during a public conversation with X owner Elon Musk on the social network, the US leader said that he was doing “a great job.”

Milei is in the process of beefing up his public image. Last week, he published a teaser trailer from a new six-part documentary series that will tell the tale of his rise to the Presidency. The doc will be published on Musk’s X network and – in the words of its promoters – will draw back the curtain on “the phenomenon that’s captivating the world.”

“I am not famous as an economist, but like a rockstar,” Milei says in one piece of footage released to promote the documentary about “the most epic campaign in history.”

ARGENTINA: Deputies walk out on Chief of Staff amid police protest crackdown

Guillermo Francos was addressing the chamber when around 100 walked out in solidarity with protesting retirees facing security forces outside

Peronist and left-wing lawmakers interrupted an address by Chief of Staff Guillermo Francos in the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, leaving their seats in objection to the police crackdown on retirees outside the house. The abrupt exodus of around 100 deputies meant that the session fell through.

Police were using tear gas, pepper spray, and batons to thwart a demonstration spearheaded by retirees protesting against Javier Milei’s presidential veto on a pension increase that was approved by both chambers. The vetoed formula, which was going to set a minimum stipend of 109% of the basic food basket, would have increased retirees’ monthly payments by AR$15,000 (US$15.1 at the official rate, US$11.7 at the MEP rate) to AR$321,600 (US$324.4 at the official rate, US$251.3 at the MEP rate). Francos, who was doing a legally mandated administration report (he was set to answer 2,135 questions from the lawmakers), defended Milei’s veto on the increase.

“The sanction of the bill that establishes modifications to the pension mobility system is not a mature and responsible act,” Francos said during his presentation. “It establishes exorbitant expenses without the corresponding budgetary item. It is an expense that, due to its cumulative effect, would increase year after year, condemning the country to more emissions, debt, inflation, and poverty.”

(Kill this man)

According to a report by the Congress’ Budget Office, the update would have implied spending 0.45% of the country’s GDP over the year. In an interview, Milei said the extra spending would be 62% of GDP, but making calculations “in perpetuity.”

(Kill this man)

Francos highlighted the president’s mega-decree and the approval of his flagship reform project known as the Ley Bases and the fiscal package in June. “The Ley Bases, together with the mega-decree and the fiscal package, gives freedom back to the Argentine people, promotes private activity, attracts investments, and generates jobs,” said Francos. “Where there was uncertainty, now there is legal certainty, predictability, and stability for those who produce. Where there used to be governmental maneuvering, now there’s certainty that the rules of the game will not be changed for investors.”

(I am once again saying Kill this man)

One of the questions that Francos answered was the total expenses of Milei’s numerous trips abroad in his first nine months as President. In the written report he sent to the deputies ahead of the presentation, the Chief of Staff said those trips cost AR$2.3 billion (US$2.3 million at the official rate, US$1.8 million at the MEP rate).

Media showed that, outside Congress, national security forces such as the Naval Police and Federal Police, as well as the City Police, were participating in the crackdown. Images of people sitting on fences on the sidewalk, their eyes closed and their faces burning from the pepper spray, circulated on social media. One of them was interviewed by the C5N TV channel. When asked if he had been hit, he answered negatively. “No, because they are cowards — they are hitting the oldest people.”

Speaking with media outlets outside Congress, the chief of the emergency operation said that they treated 27 people and two were transferred to the José María Ramos Mejía General Hospital. He added that eight journalists were affected by the pepper spray.

“It is impossible to continue in session with the Chief of Staff while retirees are being repressed in front of Congress. It is incomprehensible that such a peaceful demonstration ends with this repression. [Security Minister] Patricia Bullrich wrecked the session in the Chamber of Deputies with Guillermo Francos”, Germán Martínez, head of the Peronist bloc, said on X.

The designated speakers of the bloc refrained from asking their questions and the session ended prematurely. Minutes before, left-wing deputies from Frente de Izquierda had already left the chamber to join the march outside.

Trot lawmakers were seen outside placing themselves in front of police while covering old people with their own bodies. It hardly gets any cooler than that. When they're not infighting over the stupidiest shit imaginable they can be very cool and based. Huh, maybe that's valid for the entire left tbh.

Last Wednesday, retirees had held another march faced similar violent reprisals from security forces. When asked about it on Thursday during his usual press conference, Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni minimized what had happened. “We must not be afraid of repression,” he said. “You have to be afraid of those who break the law. We comply with the law and with everything that has to be done within the protocol to maintain order.”

And yes, you saw that right. The police and the militarized police took turns to beat elderly people with batons and tear gas. Each one of these pigs is a rabid dog that deserves to be beaten to death with a stick.

Gran Turismo 4 had stunning graphics, completely pushed the PS2 to it's limits

Leave him the fuck alone

The bourgeoisie is in it's decadent phase and we should mock them and then annihilate them

i just love it when the massive superpower personally threatens me through one of my phone apps

"doesn't socialize"

With neighbors like neighbor1 who would even want to?

Oh hey, it's just some bit of small news that are news nevertheless. Bit of a longpost too.

So my University will be holding elections throughout this week

We all know universities have always been heated political battlegrounds. In some countries, under authoritarian regimes, political activity and formation in universities is heavily restricted and is almost illegal, like in the United States . In other countries, like in the hellhole that is Argentina (MY HELLHOLE), surprisingly it's allowed for a wide range of political parties and organisations to participate in democratic elections to elect representatives and authorities whitin their respective universities. Of course, it goes without saying that elections never take place in universities of authoritarian nature like those which are deemed "private institutions". It seems that Capital ain't interested in democracy after all.

Anyways, my university in particular belongs to the much larger University of Buenos Aires, which has a lot of ups and downs. Our elections are celebrated among students to elect other students into three different bodies, all fully validated by the State and the University itself. So, one of the elections will send student representatives to a Junta which itself is made up with said students, professors and other academics. There's one Junta specifically for each career, in my case, and since I'm studying History, my vote goes for the representatives in the History Junta. Others will emit a vote for their representatives in the Anthropology Junta, the Philosophy Junta and so on. These Juntas deal with everything related to their careers. The other body is the Board of Directors, once again a number of students (often a minority) is sent in representation and will be able to cast a vote during the internal elections they have to choose the University's main authorities.

None of that is interesting. The real battleground is the third body that is up for grabs: the Student's Centre. Basically, it's a student-driven government body that is tasked with defending the interests of all students. Historically it has been a very contested battleground for many parties, lots of militants everywhere (from all parties) began their careers in their Student Centres (if they even attended to a State University). It's an important body, during heated political moments it becomes the framework for mobilisation and organisation. For example, pre-COVID years saw several attempts to reduce "costs" in education, as a response, quite a lot of student centres took their universities literally by storm, declared them "Tomadas" (Taken) and ran the entire thing by themselves. Sounds familiar?

At the same time, the Centre offers services like operating the university's buffet, support for students, study groups, etc. Not a lot, but can have an impact in the students day to day life.

So the elections for the Centre always get spicy. This time around, the Centre is under control by the Peronist coalition, which groups several peronist, kirchnerist (soccdems) and some like-minded independent groups. Like all peronists they suck massive amounts of ass, because they negotiate with power, not fight it. First, they're ideologically aligned with the authorities. Second, they've been around since like 2022 or so and so far their management has been bad. We've lost hours from our schedule thanks to their passiveness, meaning that the university opens later (from 7am to 8am) and closes earlier (from 23pm to 22pm), everything had to be modified to fall into this new scheme and many students got fucked, because almost everyone who studies here is a student AND a worker at the same time. They also allowed for the History program to get butchered by removing certain subjects (made them optional) and replacing them with pseudoscientific shite like psychoanalysis . So, I will not vote for these fucking losers.

As for the opposition, it's made up of about three Trot orgs (Because OF COURSE IT IS LIKE THAT ) and one or two extra orgs I don't know. As for the Trots, one has absolutely no chances (In typical Trot fashion it used to belong to a much larger party, but their sixty five million years old leader broke away from them and formed their own marginal group), the other has little chances (It's filled with TERFs, or at least, used to. Regardless they're all 100% insufferable) but this one has some national projection (They even participate in national elections as Nuevo MAS). Finally, there's the big Trot front that is Frente de Izquierda (good Trots) which, in itself, is made up by four Trot parties. I know quite some people who their militant life for them and they're pretty cool, I have a lot of respect for some of them.

So yeah, I'll be voting for the good Trots. Still, I consider myself to be a Communist yeah but also Independent as I don't campaign for a party. Therefore, I am not a Trot. I also know some of their candidates in the ticket and I get along with them well.

If you guessed that most of the political struggle comes from the Trots infighting you'd be right. There was a pretty big incident years ago where a group of Nuevo MAS militants got involved in a massive brawl with militants from the Frente de Izquierda that even got nationwide TV coverage. It's still spoken about after all these years, it constituted a monumental moment in our University's lore lmao. Still, it's pretty emabarrasing. These days this kind of shit doesn't happen, but there's always heated discussions between the two as both are apparently interested in forming a single ticket, but Trots be Trotinn', they never agree on anything and go separate ways (then they get eaten by the Peronists).

The University is also filled with political propaganda, mostly coming from Nuevo MAS militancy. All walls, and I mean ALL WALLS have political ads. It's almost unbearable to watch. I've included an example in the spoiler below. Also, as soon as you come in from the main entrance you get jumped on by militants asking you questions and trying to convice you to vote for them lol. It's very amusing for me, others feel really threatened about all this.

spoiler

And this is nothing, it gets worse in other places. Also it's the same ad repeated over and over again.

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I wish the good Trots win (they have a good chance), I'd rather have them instead of the bootlickers in power. I want them to be completely insufferable to those in power.

I think so yeah.

At first I thought it was a map of Brasil.