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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      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.