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Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap (themarkup.org)
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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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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 12 points 18 hours ago (10 children)

If you're comparing shitting on tankies to McCarthyism, you might be a tankie.

Lots of people on the left hate tankies, because tankies are more fascist than leftist in praxis. McCarthyism basically accuses anyone with a remotely left-wing opinion as being as bad as a tankie, which is a strawman.

Tankies have more in common with McCarthyism than they're willing to admit. That's called horseshoe politics.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today -2 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

You don't know what fascism is, apparently.

As for horseshoe nonsense . . .

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz -3 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I know precisely what fascism is, and the dumbfuck tankies accusing Mamdani of it are absolutely wrong.

I said they're the same in praxis, not ideology. You'd think a fucking leftist would understand the difference.

And your picture is kind of a strawman in this context, because I wasn't using "horseshoe politics" to describe phenomena of the abolition era. I was using it to describe phenomena of the current era where the contexts are different. But since tankies are allergic to nuance, I don't suppose you'll be comprehend that and you'll probably just resort to ad hominems.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yes dear, everyone that doesn't agree with your nonsense is a tankie, and therefore wrong.

You were saying about ad hominems?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I never said everyone who disagrees with me is a tankie. I said anyone who accuses Mamdani of being a fascist is a tankie. That's a delusion no one but a tankie would hold.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago

Nah dear, the horseshoe nonsense is something you seem to be partial to. "Tankies", not so much.

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