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Javier Milei

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

And fortunately today, thanks to social media, especially due to the enormous and brave work of Elon Musk and the role of Twitter, today, X, right, allows information to flow, which makes it possible, let's say, to expose politicians and also expose the media. And that's why journalists in Argentina are so violent. Why? Because before

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

They could, for instance, a journalist went and, for example, he would go to a person and he would throw a folder at them and say, if you don't give me X amount of money, I am going to publish all of this and tarnish your reputation. And I know for a fact a case of a journalist who carried out this extortion twice to a businessman. That businessman told him that he wasn't going to pay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

They could, for instance, a journalist went and, for example, he would go to a person and he would throw a folder at them and say, if you don't give me X amount of money, I am going to publish all of this and tarnish your reputation. And I know for a fact a case of a journalist who carried out this extortion twice to a businessman. That businessman told him that he wasn't going to pay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

They could, for instance, a journalist went and, for example, he would go to a person and he would throw a folder at them and say, if you don't give me X amount of money, I am going to publish all of this and tarnish your reputation. And I know for a fact a case of a journalist who carried out this extortion twice to a businessman. That businessman told him that he wasn't going to pay.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

and evidently the journalist did it obviously they went to court there was a trial and that journalist lost both times but that process is very slow and in the meantime they smeared so since the justice system takes a long time so what is the problem the problem is that in the meantime your life got dirtied so why can journalists do all this

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

and evidently the journalist did it obviously they went to court there was a trial and that journalist lost both times but that process is very slow and in the meantime they smeared so since the justice system takes a long time so what is the problem the problem is that in the meantime your life got dirtied so why can journalists do all this

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

and evidently the journalist did it obviously they went to court there was a trial and that journalist lost both times but that process is very slow and in the meantime they smeared so since the justice system takes a long time so what is the problem the problem is that in the meantime your life got dirtied so why can journalists do all this

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

Well, that's why they dislike X. They dislike social media. They dislike the new form of communication because it took away their monopoly over the microphone. And by taking away the monopoly over the microphone, it removed the economic benefits of extortion. So clearly that's another battle I'm fighting. You read a newspaper in Argentina and 85% of what you read is a lie.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

Well, that's why they dislike X. They dislike social media. They dislike the new form of communication because it took away their monopoly over the microphone. And by taking away the monopoly over the microphone, it removed the economic benefits of extortion. So clearly that's another battle I'm fighting. You read a newspaper in Argentina and 85% of what you read is a lie.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

Well, that's why they dislike X. They dislike social media. They dislike the new form of communication because it took away their monopoly over the microphone. And by taking away the monopoly over the microphone, it removed the economic benefits of extortion. So clearly that's another battle I'm fighting. You read a newspaper in Argentina and 85% of what you read is a lie.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

That is to say, the fundamental characteristic of most journalists, not all, but the vast majority of journalists in Argentina, with some honorable exceptions, is that they are liars, slanderers, and defamers. And if the monopoly they demand were still in place, that they want to reign again, I have no doubt that they would demand money in exchange for silence, because that's what they are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

That is to say, the fundamental characteristic of most journalists, not all, but the vast majority of journalists in Argentina, with some honorable exceptions, is that they are liars, slanderers, and defamers. And if the monopoly they demand were still in place, that they want to reign again, I have no doubt that they would demand money in exchange for silence, because that's what they are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

That is to say, the fundamental characteristic of most journalists, not all, but the vast majority of journalists in Argentina, with some honorable exceptions, is that they are liars, slanderers, and defamers. And if the monopoly they demand were still in place, that they want to reign again, I have no doubt that they would demand money in exchange for silence, because that's what they are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

They are extortionists, they are thieves, they are corrupt. And then, of course, obviously, when you take away a privilege from a sector, they get upset. Well, welcome to freedom.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

They are extortionists, they are thieves, they are corrupt. And then, of course, obviously, when you take away a privilege from a sector, they get upset. Well, welcome to freedom.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

They are extortionists, they are thieves, they are corrupt. And then, of course, obviously, when you take away a privilege from a sector, they get upset. Well, welcome to freedom.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

I fight for freedom in all aspects of life. That is to say, one of the things that seems most interesting to me is that when the Berlin Wall fell, It's true that officially fell in the year 1989. But the reality is that the wall or socialism fell in the year 1961 when they had to build the wall. I mean, they built it because people were leaving communist Germany for capitalist Germany.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

I fight for freedom in all aspects of life. That is to say, one of the things that seems most interesting to me is that when the Berlin Wall fell, It's true that officially fell in the year 1989. But the reality is that the wall or socialism fell in the year 1961 when they had to build the wall. I mean, they built it because people were leaving communist Germany for capitalist Germany.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

I fight for freedom in all aspects of life. That is to say, one of the things that seems most interesting to me is that when the Berlin Wall fell, It's true that officially fell in the year 1989. But the reality is that the wall or socialism fell in the year 1961 when they had to build the wall. I mean, they built it because people were leaving communist Germany for capitalist Germany.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#453 โ€“ Javier Milei: President of Argentina โ€“ Freedom, Economics, and Corruption

They realized that those on the Western side were much better off. And of course, to prevent people from leaving. They put, what a wonderful system, right? So, I mean, they had to trap people. They couldn't let them go. I mean, these are such wonderful ideas that they had to apply them at gunpoint. It's quite, well, it's no coincidence that they killed 150 million human beings.