Oooh, I’d love to see what stupid shit they are complaining about.
“Oh no! We are going to have healthcare again! Stop him!”
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?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
LordCrom@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
What’s a “tankie”?
Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 hours 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 1 hour ago
The irony of the use in respect to Ukraine is that they’re calling anyone not wanting to send tanks a tankie.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 hour ago
That’s not ironic, because they’re not calling for the tanks to crush innocent people but to stop imperialist invaders.
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah I’m not searching that term either
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 9 hours 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 9 hours ago
Idk the post calls him infiltrator but there is -54 likes. Even .ml likes mamdani.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 hours 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 8 hours 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.
IronBird@lemmy.world 9 hours 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
mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 hour 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.