His views on women:

In November, Argentina was the only country to vote against a UN general assembly resolution to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls. Two months later, Milei’s administration went further, pledging to strike the aggravating factor of femicide, defined as when a woman dies at the hands of a man on the basis of her gender, from the penal code – a move that drew swift condemnation from human rights groups

Correct choice. Murder shouldn't have different penalties for killing men and women.

Show us meaningful statistics that display equality in killings based specifically on gender.

I feel like you're not going to like where that logic leads if you apply it to other things.

I’m not applying it anywhere but the topic at hand. Prove there’s not a meaningful difference between men killing women and women killing men.

> I’m not applying it anywhere but the topic at hand.

That's the objection to it.

I don't have them and I don't care. It could be 1000:1 and my point would still stand.

Human rights groups have no credibility. They can reliably be found attacking men and all things masculine, like the hard decisions that Milei is taking to create prosperity. If it were up to them Argentina would be in a Peronist dictatorship forever. And the UN assembly has become a joke too. Look at their childish antics, turning escalators and microphones off to annoy Trump. It screams irrelevance and immaturity.

These institutions are scared because the people who work there know they are useless and if the government funding stops there'll be nowhere for them to go. Milei has been cutting people like that off from the spigot. Trump too. They are not unbiased actors.

Milei's "created prosperity" seems to be dead in a ditch (as far as actual Argentines are concerned) and somehow still stealing money from working class US tax payers.

The Natural History Museum in La Plata, the National Library, Palacio de Aguas Corrientes, San Telmo antique markets, Palacio Barolo, empanadas, alfajores, ice cream, walk down 9 de Julio, dance in a contact improv jam, Teatro Colón, tour the Tigre delta in a boat, Casa Saltshaker, look at graffiti in Palermo near Gorriti and Thames, Teatro Ciego (blind theater, ideally with a MOTAS), go to some protests, Tango Queer, the bullet holes just to the south of the Pink House, choripan on the street outside any train station (if you eat meat), get your phone stolen in La Boca or Once, Recoleta Cemetery, neighborhood cafés, the Thinker in Plaza Congreso, the Jardín Botánico, see a football game, change dollars or Tether on Calle Florida (the moneychangers yell cambio like a Pokemon), drink yerba mate with friends in Parque Centenario, go to a telo with a friend or MOTAS, I don't know, I can't think of much.

I liked that, a rare objective description of a city, with all the entertainment (and since the middel of the trip you know your hands will be free :))

(There's a lot of live music stuff, but it changes all the time, so I don't know what to recommend.)

Definitely check out Open Folk for weekly shows (some folk but a very eclectic mix so don't overindex on the name).

And hit up La Viruta on Saturday nights (after midnight) for amazing live tango music.

Must have vacío madurado

Try some peñas folklóricas.

Agree he’s articulate and charismatic, despite being odd. And whatever the outcomes, it feels more coherent than the people he has faced off with.

Must dos - seek out the food you like and make time for it. There is a lot of great food. I recommend finding the best steak at the price you’re willing to pay.

> but I do respect his willingness to calmly talk about his vision for hours.

He calls the opposition "rats", "mandrills" and scum of the earth and has a clear and objective disdain for poor people. It's amazing how that part continuously gets left out in neoliberal media.

Yeah, I agree that coverage of him is unduly fawning.

We're at a weird time in history where the only people saying things that are reasonable are also saying things that are horrible.