Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap

• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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  • Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • mattyroses@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You don’t know what fascism is, apparently.

    As for horseshoe nonsense . . .Image

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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      • mattyroses@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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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  • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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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    • sbbq@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Capitalists could not give a fuck less about tankies, what they think, what they are doing. These people basically only exist on Internet forums and have zero effect on anyone outside of their bubble.

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    • postpunkmusic@musician.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      @FlyingCircus

      @wonderingwanderer

      It's wild innit? This whole section of children jawing about adult topics while chewing capitalist bubblegum.

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fuck off, tankie.

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am an ML as are most communists.

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes that’s obvious when you said you were called a tankie.

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    • nforminvasion@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How does a system that requires a stateless society appeal to hierarchists like tankies?

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  False accusations mean nothing.

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