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.
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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."
Based. Good to see him going for common sense easy issues to keep people engaged while he works on the harder to tackle issues.
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.
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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.
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They are essentially MAGA with few small differences.
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.
Karl Marx wouldn't be able to bring himself to write a post.
...unless some benefactor paid him to do it.
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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.
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.
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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...
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".
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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?
Trickle-down economics, or Reaganomics, is built on the tired promise that handing tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations will magically fix the economy through reinvestment and job creation. This is just a recycled version of the horse-and-sparrow theory, which basically argued that if you feed a horse enough oats, the sparrows can eventually pick through the manure for the leftovers. It is the same gaslighting we see with austerity measures where politicians ignore the actual damage they cause to chase some supposed "greater good," even though their own policies usually created the economic mess in the first place. You can see it clearly in Arkansas with the new ABAWD food assistance laws that claim to encourage work but actually strip benefits from orphans aging out of foster care and families with kids over fourteen. These policies intentionally gut government revenue to benefit the wealthy and then use that manufactured budget crisis as an excuse to slash public services like education, infrastructure, and social programs.
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!
nothing; Good
A semicolon saves the day.
Just the fact that he added Lina Khan to his team says so much about him.
In a just world Khan would be a prominent political figure on her own, but she'll do good things in this position.
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the bot provided answers that, if followed, would lead to illegal behavior by businesses, like taking a cut of employees’ tips.
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Today, the bot advises visitors to “ask an NYC government question only” and cautions that “responses may occasionally produce inaccurate or incomplete content.” Visitors must agree to accept the bot’s limitations before using it.
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
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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.
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Real heroism.
It is also the environmentally responsible thing to do.
This is the kind of waste, fraud, and abuse that Elon was supposed to be getting rid of.
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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.
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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.
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