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.”

  • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I’ve been accused of being a tankie, and I think he’s great. But obviously the McCarthyites of Lemmy would rather create a straw man than listen to anything a red has to say.

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      12 hours ago

      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.

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        I would swap fascism with authoritarianism or totalitarianism. To equal the left and right wing in any kind always sounds like horseshoe theory. But apart from that you are right.

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          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.

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

            You were saying about ad hominems?

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        12 hours ago

        Fascist tankies? Tell me you’ve huffed capitalist propaganda without telling me you’ve huffed capitalist propaganda. Y’all are miseducated af

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      14 hours ago

      Tankie does not equal any communist. People are fine with listening to socialists and communists, it’s MLs they draw the line at.