In a press conference this week on New York City’s $12 billion budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number of different things we’re going to pursue for savings.”

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    13 hours ago

    I just headed over to .ml and did a local search for “mamdani”

    I see a bunch of the more conservatives Democrats and their supporters complaining about him and conservatives of all stripes are really hoping he’ll fail.

    I’ve been called a tankie several times and I rather like Mamdani. I see him, AOC, and Sanders as the best hope for the future of the US.

    Where are these tankies that hate Mamdani so much? What do they hate him for?

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      4 hours ago

      Oooh, I’d love to see what stupid shit they are complaining about.

      “Oh no! We are going to have healthcare again! Stop him!”

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      10 hours ago

      Where are these tankies that hate Mamdani so much? What do they hate him for?

      I have seen a few, here is one I saved from some time back.

      https://lemmy.ml/post/39249375

      A lot of things get removed from .ml so its hard to go back find things sometimes. If you are around lemmy a while you will find quite a few takes from tankies.

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        10 hours ago

        Idk the post calls him infiltrator but there is -54 likes. Even .ml likes mamdani.

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          9 hours ago

          So I had a look at the voting score and only 5 of those down votes came from .ml, most are from .world accounts.

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          10 hours ago

          doesn’t that mean he is liked over there?

          Hard to say, I have seen a few that outright don’t like him. But more of a he isn’t as far to our liking overall.

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        9 hours ago

        Authoritarian-Communist.

        Named after the leftists who supported the Soviets brutality in Hungarian Revolution of 1956, when they sent into tanks to kill the student democratic uprising. Used by non-auth leftists for decades, past few years some centrists and rightists have started using it for anything left that they don’t like as calling everyone communists wasn’t working any more.

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          The irony of the use in respect to Ukraine is that they’re calling anyone not wanting to send tanks a tankie.

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            That’s not ironic, because they’re not calling for the tanks to crush innocent people but to stop imperialist invaders.

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              As long as someone else gets drafted to die in the trenches, right?

              You’re either disingenuous or beyond naive about ethnic and nationalistic conflict.

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      10 hours ago

      something something he kept a “genocide supporter” on his cabinet

      note, the biggest compliant about him from the other side is that he has too many pro-palestinians in his cabinet