Let's stop using all ai chatbots. That shit is harming earth.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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I've yet to see any negative headlines about Mamdani ever since hr won election, aside from him opposing primarying Chuck Schumer for some stupid fucking reason.
Seeing the tankies talk about him on .ml would make you think he was leading the 4the Reich. Notice how the proletariat tends to win when we don't engage in puritanical politics based off of red fascism.
I've seen one today: "Mamdani admits massive NYC deficit! Proof socialism doesn't work!". Dude, he wasn't mayor a month ago, pretty sure socialism isn't the problem here...
Is that a real headline? If so, that's extremely dishonest journalism...
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The tankies don't like him?
They don't like electoralism, prefer to LARP revolution while doing nothing to actually lay the groundwork for one.
Which is sort of wild.
Marx was very clear that communism could not be delivered by heroes on horseback. But then again, Tankies don't like Marx, they like Lenin, the man who lost an election to actual communists and then had them all killed. He seized power via coup, and then made himself a king, and wrote how kings (vanguard parties) were somehow vital to communism, and how democracy was not.
"If your last name ends in 'in', it's time to get out."
Hey, I recognised that reference.
Tankies are chicken-hawks.
They gladly let millions of marginalized peoples suffer and die for a pipedream that those people will fight a communist revolution... on the tankies' behalf.
Tankies won't ever be the ones on the front line. They spam fuck comment sections and try to convince as many people as possible to act against their own self interests, to put them in a desperate enough state that the tankoes can more easily manipulate them.
Tankies aren't communists, they're red fascists. Same abuser mentality as the fascists they so gleefully surrendered to in November 2024.
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Tankies don't like anyone, they'll never be satisfied. I'm fairly certain most of them are russian trolls tasked with sowing discord and fracturing the left.
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One thing I've learned as a socialist is that there is always a purity test by people who consider themselves purer socialists.
Karl Marx himself could post on here and people would accuse him of being a neoliberal stooge.
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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?
Oooh, I'd love to see what stupid shit they are complaining about.
"Oh no! We are going to have healthcare again! Stop him!"
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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What's a "tankie"?
Authoritarian-Communist.
Named after the mostly Marxist-Leninist leftists who supported the Soviets brutality in the 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. These days it generally means anyone who supports China, Russia, blames Ukraine, etc.
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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Yeah, I’m also liking Mamdani. However, I may be traumatized because I don’t completely trust the situation. What did Mamdani tell Trump to make Trump support him so quickly? Trump did a 180 over night, and I want to know how Mamdani did that…
Edit: I get that Trump is impressionable, fickle, and a boy of truly weak resolve. Yet, I still want to know what Mamdani did… not what we took advantage of. What was said?
trump will literally agree with anyone he spends an hour talking to. He said he and walz had similar thoughts on what to do in ministota.
Trump is barking seal that agrees with any man that is in the same room as him.
Trump is ridiculously easy to manipulate. Just use the right words and butter him up and he'll think you're his buddy.
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I genuinely think its because Trump, and all of his supporters, are colossal pussies when actually challenged and defeated by someone willing to fight them.
If Mamdani made any concession, you'd never hear Trump and his cult not talking about it.
Instead Trump publicly sucked Mamdani's cock and MAGA is pretending it never happened.
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This is the kind of waste, fraud, and abuse that Elon was supposed to be getting rid of.
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It was costing the administration around half a million dollars.
How? Surely this was put in place as a cost cutting measure. I mean, terminate it, sure. Pay actual humans. I just have questions.
Often the promised cost savings never materialise, because when the chatbot fucks up, it's humans who need to clean up the mess.
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Oh, look, a leader leading...how strange, not beholden to anything but his constituents? I love this guy.
We're not used to seeing that around here. Feels a bit odd.
The chatbot, which was released by the Eric Adams administration in fall of 2023, was meant to provide business owners with an accessible way to check city rules and regulations. But as first documented by The Markup and THE CITY, the bot provided answers that, if followed, would lead to illegal behavior by businesses, like taking a cut of employees’ tips.
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Real heroism.
It is also the environmentally responsible thing to do.
I like him better every day.
He's got a lot of low-hanging fruit to pluck and he's not afraid to roll out a wheelbarrow for it.
That, in and of itself, is not something that can bridge this kind of a gap, but it’s an indication of the ways in which money has been spent while refusing to account for the actual costs of what these programs are.
This is what I see as the important bit, and indicates both a level head and clear communication. We need more politicians across the board who can answer directly like this, and not try to inflate or exaggerate.
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