I’ve seen one today: “Mamdani warns about massive NYC deficit! Proof socialism doesn’t work!”. Dude, he wasn’t mayor a month ago, pretty sure socialism isn’t the problem here…
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
loutr@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Is that a real headline? If so, that’s extremely dishonest journalism…
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The overly rich own most large news outlets so it‘s not surprising.
SedatedJdawg@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Yup, when they asked “Is this a real headline?” The song “This is America” popped into my head…
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 weeks ago
Conservatives don’t care about truth or internal consistency. They just want to harm the out-group.
loutr@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
IIRC It was newsmaxx or some other propaganda outlet.
percent@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Generally, I would never put much weight into an article with an exclamation mark in the headline.
bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Not the first time I read that kind of BS. In Cadiz (Spain), a left wing major said 1 month after being appointed that the previous right wing major left nothing but spider webs in the accounts. The right wing tried to push that as “only a month and he has broken the city”.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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…
scintilla@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Trump is barking seal that agrees with any man that is in the same room as him.
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Trump is ridiculously easy to manipulate. Just use the right words and butter him up and he’ll think you’re his buddy.
loutr@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Exactly. Mamdani came prepared, and Trump was caught off guard by how nice and eloquent the dangerous communist was.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Expanding on what others have answered, Trump is extremely suggestible due to dementia. He literally just agrees with whoever told him something last because he can’t think on his own anymore.
That’s why it’s even more vital to get rid of fascist advisors like Steven Miller than it is to get rid of Trump himself.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
trump will say anything. he doesn’t support mamdani, at least not in action. but trump wants to be popular and for people to like him, so he will attach himself to anything successful. he loved the new england patriots until the kansas city chiefs became the dynasty to beat. suddenly he was talking about patrick mahomes constantly.
the criticism for that meeting should purely go on mamdani allowing his brand to be attached to a fascist. but that gets into that electoralism will never save us because politicians who play political games to curry favor are inherently compromised. however, the value of electoralism is that it can help us put people who will allow us to organize on the margins in office as we grow our movement
IronBird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i saw it as a genius move, anyone on the left with half a brain should have realized he was just making a fool of trump.
and the cognitive dissonance generated by such a public whiplash change of face on “some dirty communist muslim” might have been jarring enough to disillusion a couple magats
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Trump can’t afford to dislike anyone overwhelmingly positive.
chaitae3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Trump can’t hate on Mamdani too much, lest he becomes a folk hero.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I think it’s too early to tell with Mamdani. He’s saying all the right things but he needs to deliver on them, and for that he needs time to cook.
protist@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
All you have to do is mildly flatter Trump and then he’s your best friend
nednobbins@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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?
LordCrom@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What’s a “tankie”?
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Authoritarian-Communist.
Named after the leftists who supported the Soviets brutality in 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.
mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
The irony of the use in respect to Ukraine is that they’re calling anyone not wanting to send tanks a tankie.
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I’m not searching that term either
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
A lot of things get removed from
.mlso its hard to go back find things sometimes. If you are around lemmy a while you will find quite a few takes from tankies.Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Idk the post calls him infiltrator but there is -54 likes. Even .ml likes mamdani.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
So I had a look at the voting score and only 5 of those down votes came from .ml, most are from .world accounts.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
doesn’t that mean he is liked over there?
Hard to say, I have seen a few that outright don’t like him. But more of a he isn’t as far to our liking overall.
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Perhaps in light of your recent post here, https://lemmy.world/post/42467256, you may stop to reconsider your comments about tankies.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why should I? Tankies at the end of the day are counter productive to organizing and simp for authoritarians.
mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
They don’t.
There’s two main criticisms of Zohran that come from the left.
One is that while good, his victory is going to be limited because the mayor has little power to enact systematic change. The keeping of Teach (likely to avoid a war with Hochul he can’t win) is a point for this
The second is that it reinforces the Democratic party which actively opposes socialism, by giving it a face of that. And that in that way it also serves to dilute actual revolutionary energy, etc.
You don’t have to agree with those arguments - I don’t fully. But those are them. But considering the person here is hitting a shitlib trifecta - screaming about tankies and horseshoe theory, conspiracy theories about Russian bots, and claiming “nuance” when caught in obvious contradictions - theyre not going to make an actual argument. Just claim ownership of the left for the center, again.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Oooh, I’d love to see what stupid shit they are complaining about.
“Oh no! We are going to have healthcare again! Stop him!”
IronBird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
something something he kept a “genocide supporter” on his cabinet
note, the biggest compliant about him from the other side is that he has too many pro-palestinians in his cabinet
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Seeing the tankies talk about him on .ml would make you think he was leading the 4the Reich.
Source: I made it up
I’ve seen many that are skeptical that he’ll stick to his promises but I don’t think any of that crowd would disagree that he was clearly the best option and a big step forward.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Found the tankie
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Thanks for the links to the posts/comments backing up your statement. Really made me think.
OptimalHyena@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seriously, compared to all the great specific references you made! Good for calling that shit out!
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
The popular tankie influences have soured a bit on him and that sentiment flows down. I think Mamdani said against the protestors shouting globalize the intifada outside of a synagogue which pissed off tankies.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen tankies trying to call him fascist on lemmy, and I called them out and said how wrong they are. They responded by calling me a zionist and accusing me of supporting genocide…
These are not rational people arguing in good faith…
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
I’d love to see then link. You’ve got over 1k comments in 30 days or I’d look for it on your profile.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I don’t save links to every comment I ever read, don’t be ridiculous.
My comment history has nothing to do with it. Admitting to stalking my profile doesn’t prove any point.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve yet to see any negative headlines about Mamdani ever since hr won election
Seeing the tankies talk about him on .ml would make you think he was leading the 4the Reich.
Well yeah, it depends exactly what kind of social bubble you are in. If you are in a right wing bubble, you would be led to believe that Mamdani is a wome Muslim terrorist commie.
eskimofry@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Notice how the proletariat tends to win when we don’t engage in puritanical politics based off of red fascism.
I disagree. This just comes off as a half-truth. Mamdani actually is far and away the most pure candiate apart from Bernie Sanders in the whole of US politics.
what according to you is “puritanical politics based off of red facism”?
The people want inclusivity, better welfare for the working class people, better overall healthcare, debt-burden free education and we don’t want a government that’s corporate leaning, takes money from foreign interests, arrests citizens for no explainable reason, fucks up the planet for the profits of a few. We don’t want governments that support genocide, slavery or other atrocities at home or abroad.
Which part of this is “red facism”?
DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I believe he banned raspberry pi devices, which is dumb.
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
From the inauguration, which is kinda weird but inderstandable if you’re not very tech savvy. He didn’t ban them from new york in general
DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Ah, that makes much more sense. Going back to double check things, I article I saw user the wording “he banned them at the inauguration”, which I understood at “during his inauguration, he signed a bylaw which banned raspberry pi devices”.
Thanks for the correction!
luthis@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
The tankies don’t like him?
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
They don’t like electoralism, prefer to LARP revolution while doing nothing to actually lay the groundwork for one.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“If your last name ends in ‘in’, it’s time to get out.”
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
postpunkmusic@musician.social 2 weeks ago
@HazardousBanjo
@Schmoo
So are tankies accelerationists or sellouts? You weirdos need to get your story straight
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
They are essentially MAGA with few small differences.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
eskimofry@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
but be very careful of labelling people puritanical. Everybody draws lines that when crossed make the other person untrustworthy. This should be encouraged for a healthy democracy.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Karl Marx wouldn’t be able to bring himself to write a post.
…unless some benefactor paid him to do it.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Excuse me, we’re Chinese trolls, thanks very much; we are unhealthily obsessed with China because it’s incredibly economically successful, it’s the last hope of actual oldschool dictatorship of the worker socialism, and it’s barely avoided being controlled by the market.
It’s incredibly centralised, it’s authoritarian, yes, but it’s also building all the solar panels and executing billionaires when they get too powerful and making the imperial nations look like chumps, so you should forgive us for our infatuation.
My lack of action and lack of building local organisation? Guilty. I’m trying to correct this. China is not the model for the West, and even the Chinese govt says that, so as a true Chinahead I do not call for Chad Xi to come save us, that is missing the fucking point. We must grow our own socialist organisations to bypass the state, and anarchists and syndicalists might be the best idea for the West, with our individualism and love of freedom.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I honestly can’t tell if you’re being facetious or not…
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you omit the word Russian, I think you just described the entirity of the current reddit user base.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
You’d be surprised. I read about a time when there was a power outage in moscow, and for the span of a few hours there were hardly any trolls active on reddit
sudo@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Historically, a socialist holding an elected executive position 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.
eskimofry@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why would you argue that we should stop doing our duties once we have cast our ballot and the candidate we support won?
sudo@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Idk why you think I was arguing that.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Tankie does not equal any communist. People are fine with listening to communists, it’s MLs they draw the line at.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am an ML as are most communists.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks 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.
Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
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.
mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
You don’t know what fascism is, apparently.
As for horseshoe nonsense . . .Image
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fascist tankies? Tell me you’ve huffed capitalist propaganda without telling me you’ve huffed capitalist propaganda. Y’all are miseducated af
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
False accusations mean nothing.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
I’d say they’re skeptical that Mamdani will keep to his promises or that electing him isn’t enough. But dislike? I bet every one would’ve voted for him.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Assuming they vote at all and don’t think the best way to show your dissatisfaction is to stay home and complain on the Internet
Serinus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They can’t vote. They’re either not American or they’re bots.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
I believe enough of them are American and Lemmy is a dumb place to create a bot army.
boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tankies don’t like objective reality.