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.”
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.”
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.
That’s not ironic, because they’re not calling for the tanks to crush innocent people but to stop imperialist invaders.
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.
Yeah I’m not searching that term either