c/world · by Zapados@sh.itjust.works · 19d

'The Falklands are Argentinian,' declares Milei

https://news.sky.com/story/falkland-islands-latest-argentinian-president-javier-milei-to-make-national-address-after-trump-suggests-us-wouldnt-back-uk-13580943

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12 Comments

inari@piefed.zip · 42 pts · 19d (1 reply)

Whenever the current Argentininan president becomes unpopular the Falklands suddenly become Argentinian again.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 19d

MFAA (make Falklands Argentinian again)

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 19d

That low rumble is the sound of zombie Thatcher rising from the depths of hell.

nocturne@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 19d (2 replies)

There was a 4 day run of Bloom County about the Falklands back in '82.

Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 19d (1 reply)

it's quite pithy, but the UK military action was to protect people from a dictatorship.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 19d

One installed by America, after the neofascist Peronists got a little too uppity and independent for the CIA's liking.

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 19d

Trump: I think you mean the American islands.

Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 19d (2 replies)

Isn't sky news right wing?

Sky News is owned by Comcast as of November 2018 and is funded through advertising. Rupert Murdoch is no longer affiliated with Sky News UK; however, Newscorp still has a share of Sky News Australia, which reports with a right-leaning bias.

I hate the company name shuffle so bad...

Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 19d (1 reply)

I mean... are you encouraging OP to get better sources or are you trying to say it's made up?

Argentinians have been pretty fucking famous for naming everything under the sun "las malvinas argentinas" ever since the 80s, so this isn't just milei being a deluded psycho, it's just the general modus operandi for the arg govt

although to re-iterate, Milei is a deluded psycho that talks to his cloned dog for fiscal advice.

I am not fucking making up the last part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_(Javier_Milei's_dog)#Conversations_with_dogs

Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 19d

Sky news is no longer affiliated. I'm just pissed off that Murdoch owns anything sharing a name with a center-progressive news source.

ChairmanMeow@programming.dev · 2 pts · 18d

"The Falklands are Argentinian" is code for "The economy is doing terrible".

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19d