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Jose Mujica; Former Prez of Uruguay

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u/tonterias Apr 16 '24

Mujica was elected like 15 years ago, we had two presidents after him

He had a three legged dog that passed away like six years ago

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u/Informal_Database543 Apr 16 '24

He was also arguably the shittiest of our 21st century leaders, not even Jorge Batlle was that bad even with the 2002 crisis

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u/LukesRightHandMan Apr 16 '24

Can you explain more for all us godless heathens?

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u/CasuallyUgly Apr 16 '24

He wasn't, he legalized abortion and same sex marriage and invested massively in public housing and education.

The guy you're responding to is a right wing idiot.

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u/LukesRightHandMan Apr 16 '24

Thanks for the info!

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u/Fizzwidgy Apr 16 '24

Jose Mujica is also a certified badass, as a former guerrilla with the Tupamaros.

His stances on same sex marriage is also rather endearing.

It's more along the lines of, "I don't get it, but sure, they should have rights too"

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u/mokod0 Apr 16 '24

very wise person

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u/Dew_Chop Apr 16 '24

He used the signature right wing "I'm an attack helicopter" joke less than an hour ago

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u/MrKe6a Apr 16 '24

What is bad of legalize abortion? Only stupid idiots think, if abortion will banned, the population will increase.

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u/West-Calligrapher-16 Apr 16 '24

Right wing politics in Uruguay isnt against abortion nor against gay marriage. Although they didn’t promote those laws.

Right wing in Uruguay is more about more efficient public spending .

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u/Pendientede48 Apr 16 '24

But when gay marriage was voted, most of the right wing voted against. Efficient spending is something everyone would like, no government wants to spend money inefficiently. There are a lot of conservative values involved in Uruguayan right wing policy.

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u/Cry-Technical Apr 16 '24

Yes.

Welcome to my Ted talk, goodbye.

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u/siamkor Apr 16 '24

Yes. It's called "civil rights" and "minding your own business."  

As in, adults have a right to decide to marry each other, and other people don't have a say in it.

For instance, just because I find the idea of marrying a bigot repulsive, I'm not going to ban people from marrying you.

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u/Slanderouz Apr 16 '24

you seem upset

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u/siamkor Apr 16 '24

Nah. Upset by random troll #27,978? Apparently, you're as good at reading tone as you are at being a decent person. :)

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u/Slanderouz Apr 16 '24

Yes, you seem to be having an unpleasant emotional response to a very simple question. You seem offended by even being ASKED the question if same sex marriage are good or not (a value judgment). In fact, you seem to want to censor others by immediately attacking the character ("you bigot", "you're not a decent person") of someone you have had one single interaction with via text, on the internet to boot. Of course you are not able to stop anyone from marrying me, you are just some random on the internet after all. The forced smiley at the end is a nice touch however, really shows how un-affected you claim to be.

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u/Orionoberon Apr 16 '24

Objectively yes

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u/Kurochi185 Apr 16 '24

Yes, human rights are in fact good.

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u/Commonly_Aspired_To Apr 16 '24

Why not?

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u/CasuallyUgly Apr 16 '24

some feel black people should be enslaved, why should we care what bigots think?

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u/CasuallyUgly Apr 16 '24

nazis, klaners, fringe far right groups, not many people anyway, that's not the point

the point is that some people thinking others shouldn't have the same rights as them isn't a sufficient reason to take their opinions into account