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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    7 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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        3 hours ago

        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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      6 hours ago

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