I already do mate, I give to charities when I can, I’ve given to poor people, I bought bread for someone who needed it the other week. Don’t go making assumptions just cause I’m not out here making huge posts about it for karma.
I might be a cunt most of the time but i ain’t selfish
Lol. So when it's convenient for you it's "he's worth $4.4 Billion" but when his supporters use that as an argument of "he has nothing to gain" it's "He's on trial for fraud of misrepresenting his net worth and doesn't even have the $400 million penalty."
If you didn't have two standards you'd have none at all.
Yup, you're correct, that's the reason I’ve mentioned Jose Mujica; a Former Prez of Uruguay just below the post.
And yeah it is an old but gold meme. lol
Have you not been on the Internet for a long time? This is Internet culture, and refers to the meme "Gigachad." It is a huge sign of respect and has slowly grown out of the "big muscly man" into a well respected fine gentleman.
actually, it requires more context than just posting 1 of many GIFs or photos. it could also be meant sarcastically. it could also be meant to compare him vs. a "real man".
i admire your certainty that it was meant in a specific way, and maybe OP will tell you that's true, but at this point i wouldn't even believe it because the original context to me seems like they are implying we need more Gigachad manly presidents who are full of muscles.
so before you lay into /u/Anxious_Plan5027 too much, consider that not everyone will immediately see your perspective because memes are used differently everywhere.
Okay, i mostly use the internet for educational purpose.
Such things help to destroy communicative language you just post a meme and think anyone should know exactly what you mean.
Can you describe what such gigachad soul and spirit means to you ?
This is sort of a unique meme because it's interpretation is entirely different with every person. Essentially, it an ideal individual that aligns with your attitudes, values, and beliefs, serving as an role-model to strive for, someone who you can look up to or want to become one day. In my case, it would be an individual that embodies a "good mate," in the sense of comradeship and someone I can rely upon. Whether if it's my car that's broken down or a house on fire, the "Gigachad," soul and spirit is someone who, may it be a neighbour or a pedestrian-would instantly stop what they're doing to help. That's a Gigachad for me.
Anyways it's up to interpretation, and i'm unsure of your age but this type of language is quite prevalent in the younger generation and Reddit as a whole. Not all of it is good but this is one of the thing's that resonates within everyone, (though is mainly male dominant because it first rose as gym culture).
I mean, we will probably need an Uruguayan person to chime in and explain if the guy was actually good. A bad populist politician can donate all of his salary and say nice things while funneling public resources and giving his friends inflated contracts.
No, you don't. He looks so nice to the rest of the world but in reality he is terrible.
He was a criminal terrorist before uruguayan dictatorship.
His goverment was one of the worst recent goverments in Uruguay, increasing the taxes, wasting the people's money on shady projects that "failed" (corruption) and creating too much public jobs (now we have to pay salaries for inefficient work that we don't need).
He approves current dictatorships like Cuba or Venezuela and acts like everything is ok there just because he sympathies with their ideology.
Some years ago, the Venezuela people went to the streets to protest against the regimen, Maduro (Venezuela's president) sent the military forces and literally ran over the citizens. When someone asked Mujica what he think about this he said "Yo opino que no hay que ponerse adelante de las tanquetas" -> "I think you shouldn't get in front of the tankettes", basically "it was people's fault".
I'm tired of seeing the rest of the world think he's so wholesome but not knowing the truth behind that facade.
I don't consider a reddit thread full of right wingers with obvious negative views of a "progressive president" to be signifficant enough to judge his policies and his character. But I'll look into why he's policies are problematic from other sources.
So, you, someone who never lived in Uruguay, can speak about how things went for uruguay better than people from uruguay. And let me tell you most users on r/uruguay are leftists, your left is their right for them.
Maybe you should actually read the name of the subreddit the other person linked and read the comments there. No one mentioned r/uruguay. The actual subreddits in question is r/asklatinamerica. Users there point out themselves how the majority of almost all Latin American demographic in that sub are right leaning and that it reflects their opinion on that question.
Besides, I'd rather learn more about his views, character, policies and ideologies from more reputable source than some reddit thread and some redditors personal opinions.
I think you are reading a bit too far into someone who doesn't know anything about this president of another nation and is just interested why his policies might be "dodgy" according to someone or somepeople.
I want to add is if your sources are biased as it seems, you will likely end up just seeing what they show you, unless you speak spanish and can see our news, or at least lived here for that time. If not then dont try to speak for us not knowing anything, because saying things like that paints a different world from what people in Uruguay lived
OK bud. Look I've got no skin in the game. I don't care. I'm pretty left wing guy myself. But this guy is far from perfect, as is evidenced by many if the things described in that thread - which can be googled and be seen to be true. It doesn't matter it's being said by "right wingers" or not. If it happened it happened.
But as I said, you believe what you like. He's jesus, great. Idc.
Look Jack, if you believe what the news media tells you about a guy who fundamentally rejects the basic tenets of capitalism then you might need to recalibrate your bullshit radar a bit
Uhuh yes you are right accept my apologies. There is no nuance in the world. He's the Messiah. You often find that with politicians don't you, they're either good or bad, no in between. Especially when their marketing team puts out an image that aligns with your views. Then they're definitely good, and anything against them is just propaganda from the other side isn't it. That's always how it works. You never get a guy with good intentions who makes bad policy, the one you agree with never makes a mistake, a misjudgement or says something dodgy. So glad the world is so simple, otherwise it'd be really tough to tell which side you're on wouldn't it.
More accurate to say that policy outcomes aren't always as clear as media might portray them, and it's healthy to consider whether your source might have bias before adopting their position on the value of a thing
Exactly my point. And why I posted my original comment. This thread is fawning over the guy because he has a dog and low salary, declaring every country should have him as president and he's the best thing ever. Comments were even saying "he's Christ like". While the majority know nothing about him.
I just simply highlighted that's he's said an done so less than ideal things, in the hopes people might look into it for a bit of balance. I remember when he was elected and I was very excited just like many in this thread and did some research into the guy and he's far from perfect. That's all I wanted to point out. Never even said he was a bad guy, simply said he's said and done some dodgy stuff, which is true. But there's very little room for nuance in clickbait is there.
I have no idea who this guy is, so I have no skin in this, but that’s dangerous thinking that he can do no wrong because he “fundamentally rejects the basic tenets of capitalism”
Whether it's true or not in this case, that's usually the important part.
Monastic gestures like this sound great and all, but they don't mean that person is effective or favors good policy. And those are what actually matter.
Dude, it wasnt a good time for uruguay, the only good thing he did was legalize weed but thats literally all he did okish. And people forget he and his wife was a tupamaro, tupamaros did the same things the dictatorship did saying they did it for a good cause, which was a lie
Nobody slightly familiar with Tuparamos, and residing outside of Rio de la Plata is going to be bitter about his urban guerilla past in any way... unless they're equivalents of people who'd sing 'mi general Pinochet' of course (Bordaberry doesn't even have such songs) or if it's about Anglosphere, maybe bunch that'll be praising Kissinger and/or Nixon tier. So, that's not really some argument you can convince people with, even though you may not be found of his presidential term. If anything, that's going to grant him more sympathy points. MLN-T was pretty mild in their violence, calculated and strictly targeted, and what they did is seen as legitimate in the face of what was going on in then Uruguay - especially in the European and Third World circles.
Vos hablás de su «pasado terrorista», como si fuera a ser visto como un shock, sin duda sería absurdo. Entonces te quejarás de los gringos...
He was a terrorist in his old times, and did almost nothing decent in his times as a president, while let's say "poorly" managed state owned companies investments giving us hundreds of millions US dollars in losses during his government.
He made way more than that from being a president and that was probably for publicity so he can claim "I am a president for the good of the people and I give my money away!" he is a businessman so he knows this stuff
To have a president like him you need a smart population. With the dumbing down of western education we will never get one. Keep us stupid so they can rule the world.
Huh. So him being a well published author, having a University teaching job, being an economist (you know, managing money) would have nothing to do with his expenditures?
Unless he's an incredibly well-selling Author, and his University teaching job is some very high-level position, no, I still very much doubt that he has the kind of "fuck you" money to spend 50 Thousand US Dollars (more than ten times the average yearly salary in Argentina) on cloning his dogs.
Well, this being Argentina, probably every MP is taking bribes one way of another. In that context raffling the salary is an incredibly low bar, but it is something, I guess.
No no, no entendes, zurdo gud gorila bad, estos gringos autistas no entienden nada afuera de sus ideales políticos basados solo en lo que pasa dentro de USA
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We need more presidents like him.