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.”
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.”
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.
I honestly can’t tell if you’re being facetious or not…
That’s probably because my thoughts on the matter are not incredibly settled.
That’s fine. The real world is messy; it’s never about “good versus bad,” it’s always about “better in this context versus worse in this context.”
China does some things better, like green energy. They’re also pretty bad in some areas, like worker’s rights, political representation, and human rights in general.
That being said, if they saved us from trump, I for one would welcome our new yuan-based overlords.
China is still a capitalist country though. It’s state capitalism, but capitalism nonetheless. Calling themselves communist is really just branding.
Based on some other comments though, clearly tankies in the west don’t understand that there can be a discrepancy between what one calls oneself and what one truly is. Oh well…
If you omit the word Russian, I think you just described the entirity of the current reddit user base.
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