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.”

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    14 hours 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

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      8 hours 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