Spanish.- One thing is to “not see it,” but “not wanting to see it” is too much. Kirchnerist militants, who have disconnected from reality and were greatly surprised in the elections, are now beginning to traverse the path of voluntary denial. In recent hours, supporters of Kirchnerism have decided to block all government officials and supporters. As if not seeing what they write would magically make them cease to exist.
It’s a pity not to have the appropriate tools from the field of psychology to understand more deeply this curious phenomenon, which seems to be a process of denial as clear as day. To reach as many people as possible, lists with thousands of libertarian users have even been compiled, whom they have mass-blocked.
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Of course, as is often the case with denial, they do not acknowledge that they simply want to stop seeing them so that they stop existing in their heads. No. They argue that the blocked users are not normal users but an army of paid trolls, who in turn monetize interactions. Therefore, they consider that by blocking them, they strategically harm one of the main enemy bastions: that of social media. Thus, they propose to damage Javier Milei’s political space ahead of the midterm elections in 2025. Unbelievable.
acá bloqueando y denunciando al presiduende que lucra con su cuenta de twitter como buena ciudadana democrática 🥰 #BloqueoMasivoDeTrolls #Bloqueado pic.twitter.com/Q2Byd4aBLE
— tutú 💌 (@valen_rgz6) March 30, 2024
In addition to trying to dismantle a kind of officialist call center, Kirchnerist users believe that by delivering the blow of mass blocking, libertarians will have to go “to the streets” to advocate for their ideas. This is where everything becomes more absurd.
At this time, they are dusting off the manual of “micromilitancy,” which they appealed to in the 2015 elections when Kirchnerism lost the presidential elections to Mauricio Macri. Despite the meager result of the action, micromilitancy is making a full comeback to the streets of Argentina.
I witnessed an example of this bizarre behavior the other night at a bar with tables outside. Suddenly, a young man with clear emotional instability starts walking back and forth near where we were seated, pretending to have a conversation on his cell phone. But the lie was obvious: he spoke continuously, forgetting to be silent occasionally, as if to make us believe that there was someone else on the other end of the line.
Shouting, he pretended to confront a supposed repentant voter of Milei about the consequences of his action: “What did you expect voting for the right?” “Now you complain? Wasn’t it obvious what he was going to do?” he repeated over and over, while pacing back and forth within a 10-meter radius, so that those of us sitting could hear him.
At one point, the poor actor told his imaginary companion – still shouting – that everything Argentinians were currently suffering was the price we paid for a supposed revenge. “Néstor took down Videla’s portrait, and that’s why they’re doing all this to us,” emphasized the deranged individual. That was too much. All of us sitting down burst into simultaneous, reflexive laughter that was much louder than the Kirchnerist militant’s performance, who decided to leave in the face of the operation’s resounding failure.
As expected, the spontaneous reaction sparked a conversation. It turns out that the people the Kirchnerist militant was trying to persuade with his acting were all supporters of Milei’s government.
Will all this have any effect? The answer seems very clear. However, Kirchnerist militancy is determined to continue down the path of ridicule.