And Bukele doesn't have any policies, that's the thing. This is basically one of the first times he seems to be about to act politically, and he chiose to do this.

His excuse until now is that he's been busy with the gangs, which I myself have publicly said here was a valid reason... with an expiry date. I have given him a pass all along and said that I hoped he would turn out OK. I didn't have a prejudice against him and I couldn't care less about the allegations that the Western media make about him.

In the meantime, every time he has spoken about his social outlook, it's been always clear he's just a run of the mill authoritarian conservative. Now he has decided to start acting like one too, so that's when I stop giving him the benefit of the doubt.

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Interesting, thanks for the perspective

I’m not sure he marketed his government in the libertarian way like Milei did though.

Either way, price controls will obviously fail.

Oh, absolutely. He never did. My beef is not with Bukele (other than the fact he's a conservative authoritarian), but with all the "libertarians" who for some reason insist Bukele is one of them. That includes perhaps most of all bitcoiners, who even those who reject the label, are factual libertarians.

Interesting, and I agree on core principle. However I think there might be an ascendant “Plato’s Republican” idea in Bitcoin-

nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m latest book is coming soon but his political aspirations are not hidden. See latest interviews with Bent or Breedlove.

I’m not saying I agree with it. But I have to admit the limits of the sheep and their susceptibility to the socialist machine.

Are we not to help provide them a better opportunity in life?

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