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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Historically, a socialist holding an elected executive office of a capitalist government is a precarious position fraught with contradictions. You can only meaningfully govern by making massive concessions to the ruling class and betraying some supporters. Communists will stake out the "he will betray you" position.
FWIW the Mamdani administration is very aware of this contradiction and deliberately made promises that he can do by decree, such as the rent freeze. But there's also been some rather heinous concessions, like keeping on a bunch of Zionists in the admin, and also keeping on the NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch.
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...
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.
Exactly. Mamdani came prepared, and Trump was caught off guard by how nice and eloquent the dangerous communist was.
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.
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?
It feels ridiculous I have to say this, but it feels so good to hear about a politician just immediately saying "oh yeah, we needed to figure out where to make cuts, and these shitty AI chat bots seemed like an obvious place to start."
Wild that a politician deciding to terminate an application (and its associated contract) because the application doesn't actually work as intended seems so odd.
But I like it.
Yes! It is so sad this seems like such a bold move, but we've just become so fucking conditioned to bullshit politicians gaslighting us about why everybody else is just going to have to go without in order to keep giving handouts to the most entitled and useless pieces of crap just because they're already wealthy.
Why? Allegedly because they generate more money... But do they really? Have they ever?
Adams is a dickhole collaborator. I’m surprised the contract was only around $600k. How much so you think Adams got on top?
I wish Mamdani the best. There’s so much happening to be able to ingest it all, but so far he seems genuine. My natural glare of “what SHIT are you up to!??” has so far yielded nothing; Good. More!
Oh, look, a leader leading...how strange, not beholden to anything but his constituents? I love this guy.
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.
unfortunately we live in times where saying "we're getting rid of this thing that no one ever asked for and never does anything good" is unusual.
Based. Good to see him going for common sense easy issues to keep people engaged while he works on the harder to tackle issues.
Real heroism.
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.
It is also the environmentally responsible thing to do.
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.
I asked why NYC had the shittiest mayor a year or so ago... Now I'm wondering why CA doesn't have one this good.
To be fair, we did at one point... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_Max_II?wprov=sfla1
This is the kind of waste, fraud, and abuse that Elon was supposed to be getting rid of.
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.
Now that you mention it, there was that story about Air Canada’s chatbot misleading a customer which ended up costing them $800. 😔
Edit: I know, legal fees and such, but there didn’t appear to be any punitive component nor incentive to change course.
