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Populist leader alleged to have ‘copied word for word’ a monologue by TV show’s fictional president Jed Bartlet

Argentina’s rightwing populist president, Javier Milei, has been accused of plagiarising a chunk of his recent speech to the United Nations general assembly from the political drama The West Wing.

“It seems like fiction, but it isn’t,” the left-leaning Buenos Aires newspaper Página 12 reported on Friday, claiming Milei had “copied, word for word, a monologue” by the television show’s fictional president, Josiah “Jed” Bartlet.

Suspicions over Milei’s address surfaced this week when the political columnist Carlos Pagni flagged the “extraordinary” similarities between part of the president’s speech and words uttered by Martin Sheen’s Bartlet 21 years earlier. “Didn’t anyone else notice?” Pagni wrote in the newspaper La Nación, before transcribing the words of both men.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

He's a right wing extremist. Like all libertarians.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 11 hours ago

That's inaccurate, there's no such thing as a right wing libertarian, just a fascist who wants corporations to absorb the state instead.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Yeah, we're saying the same thing. I've never met a libertarian that wasn't in favor of Corporate Feudalism.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 11 hours ago

Not quite.

I'm saying they aren't libertarians.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Then there are no libertarians.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 3 hours ago
[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Yup that reads like they let a libertarian write it. But none of those individual freedoms mean a damn when they go after the government protecting them. Ergo, they are either supporters of Corporate Feudalism or useful idiots for the would-be Aristocracy.

[-] Letsdothis@lemmy.world -3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

But... there are libertarians, this is an objective fact.. Some folks are so extremely left that any other political opinion is to the right of them. You may need to come back a little towards the center.

Edit: In contemporary US politics libertarian is usually used to describe a set of political values that advocate liberal social policies with conservative economic policies. This means they don't fit neatly on a left/right spectrum because they (mostly) align with Democrats on social issues and Republicans on economic issues.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Okay? I think you missed what was going on there. I agree there are libertarians, I do not agree that they have any meaningful participation in the left. Their ideas about small (or no) government completely invalidate everything they say about social issues. The corporations will set and enforce the rules if we don't have a government capable of doing so.

[-] Letsdothis@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago

This is just objectively wrong...

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago
[-] Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online 5 points 6 hours ago

He doesn't consider himself a right-wing extremist, yet he hangs out on Truth social, and admitted to it himself. That tells us all we need to know about what kind of person he is. Most people who aren't rather far right wing don't hang out on truth social, a platform by conservatives, for conservatives.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Oh I checked out his policies and he's a far right populist corporate hack for sure.

[-] Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online 5 points 5 hours ago

Yeah it's easy to spot when you know what to look for. Even if they do try to hide it, which this guy did a shitty job at.

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