r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • 2d ago
Amount of tweets and retweets last month by the President of each South American country
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u/Accomplished_Note_81 2d ago
Uruguay needs to step it up!
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u/FreeWillyBird 2d ago
Now I have to know what the one single tweet says. It’s gotta be amazing if you only have one per year.
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u/M-Rayusa 2d ago
I wonder what was so important that the uruguayan guy felt the need to retweet
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u/WallSina 2d ago
An increase in pensions for the retired, with a long and well written explanation as to why, how much and how many will be affected (in a positive manner cause it’s an increase in monthly pensions)
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u/scriptingends 2d ago
Amateur numbers. This is what Adolph Twittler is doing up north in a long weekend.
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u/BakedLaysPorno 2d ago
America .. we always overdo it.
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u/Qwertyunio_1 2d ago
Holy crap Argentina chill out 😂
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u/clamorous_owle 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah, that's 230.35+ per day.
If it takes an average of 1 minute per tweet, that's almost 4 hours per day of tweeting.
EDIT: typo
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u/notyomamasusername 1d ago
Weird... I wonder what other world leaders use Social Media at similar rates
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u/Ponchorello7 2d ago
Populist dickheads and spending too much time on social media. Name a better duo.
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u/Due_Background_4367 2d ago
What’s wrong with populism?
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u/TheStraggletagg 2d ago
Populism relies heavily on an appeal to emotion and not to logic and reason. Very often this includes creating an "us vs them" mentality, escape goats, a cult of personality and very little emphasis on plans and policies but rather a generalised feeling of "vote for me and I'll resolve all your problems as if by magic".
You see that a lot with Trump. You don't actually see that last part much with Milei, in the sense that his speeches and his general campaign rethoric was very policy-focused. He does have a lot of other populist traits, from cult of personality to an "us vs them" mentality, but that's not unusual in Argentinian politics of the past few years (Peronismo is particularly prone to populist leaders like Menem, Néstor and Cristina).
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u/timoumd 2d ago
It's the Achilles Heelof democracy.
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u/Vaaaaaaaape 2d ago
From the time of Athenian democracy until now, it has been democracy's biggest weakness and often resulted in disaster. That being said, democracy is still better than any other system, despite this flaw. Voters have to be educated on the dangers of populism and how to avoid falling into the trap.
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u/Kng_Wasabi 2d ago
I feel like 'populism' in this case implies not actually actually doing anything for the people and instead just appealing to the worst of them and stoking culture war fears. Milei has made life hell for working class Argentinians, but he manages to maintain a base of support by railing against "wokeism" and other culture war nonsense.
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u/TheStraggletagg 2d ago
I don't think people care about those things here, at least not over the economy. People here care about inflation, the value of the dollar and crime. Everything else is secondary in terms of political support (wokeism, for example, is mostly addressed in Argentinian politics when it comes to the perceived fiscal burden).
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u/Level-Tangerine-3877 2d ago
Milei has been busy, since economy is blooming after all
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u/Slipknotic1 2d ago
He sure has been busy tweeting while the poor get poorer in his country. But hey, at least the rich also got richer.
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u/Sadgue 2d ago
false , the poverty rate there has declined massively.
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u/Slipknotic1 2d ago
Nope, poverty is anywhere from 1/3 to 1/2 of the population. Many of the people who are technically rising above the poverty line also aren't seeing any actual increase in quality of life.
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u/XAWEvX 1d ago
thats from March mate
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u/Slipknotic1 1d ago
What makes you think that invalidates the data? Did something happen between March and now to radically change the face of Argentinian society? Because I couldn't find any sources that suggest such, and this period is in the middle of his term.
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u/Sadgue 2d ago
I said declining compared to when he took office not declined.
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u/Slipknotic1 2d ago
No you didn't, you said "the poverty rate there has declined massively." Your comment is literally right there. And anyway, my link details how being above the poverty line doesn't really mean you're effectively living better than poverty. It's an arbitrary line.
Also did the Argentine nationalists wake up or something? Why all the votes suddenly on a 15 hour old post
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u/Nicktune1219 2d ago
After selling his country out to American and Israeli corporations. But after all he did say that he would immediately convert to Judaism if it weren’t for the fact that he was the president of a catholic country. His first foreign visit wasn’t Brazil, it was chabad lubavitch in Brooklyn, then Israel.
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u/Automatic-Blue-1878 2d ago
Ah yes, the man of the country who asked “What would happen if Elon Musk was president but instead of Elon, it was the Argentinian equivalent?”
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u/eilif_myrhe 1d ago
And of course Brazilian president Lula does not use a personal Twitter account, it's just a tool of his communication team. In fact he does not use smart phones at all.
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u/NineBloodyFingers 2d ago
Your map mistakenly labels the Falklands as part of Argentina.
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u/Braith117 2d ago
Argentina is tweeting like they're trying to get the Falkland Islands back or something.
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u/Neat-Beautiful-5505 2d ago
More like “map blue balls”! Label your countries jackass, I’m over here fighting for my life with my American education.
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u/DumbFish94 2d ago
Honestly I expected Maduro to have twitter