Macchi_the_Slime

Nah it it was just the dementia I feel like he’d have started like trying to make it look more like Mamdani bent the knee once his advisors got back in his ear.

Oh that sounds like a great show!

100% agree. It’s pro wrestling to him. I absolutely think he sees Mamdani as someone who is playing the game like him. Mamdani is very good at finding common ground and has talked to a lot of Trump voters so I’m betting that it was a very like I don’t hate you, I just wanted to win the election and deliver for New York and I think we can figure out ways to do that. I think it’s why he likes Bernie too cuz Bernie isn’t above giving Trump his flowers when he’s proposing something good for his people (however disingenuous it may actually be).

No straight up I think this is the reason. Trump’s a TV guy through and through. He’s no stranger to having “fights” publicly to boost ratings. Look at how he talks about Bernie. Another guy who will call him an authoritarian one minute, but if he’s got something good for his people on the table he comes in and says yeah let’s get it done.

It’s pro wrestling kayfabe. Yeah I’ve gotta play it up for my base, call you a fascist to win. No hard feelings right? As long as we can Make New York Great I don’t really care that much. I’m not ideologically opposed to you just because you’re Donald Trump and I’m Zohran Mamdani. I’m gonna have to fight you if you try to ramp up ICE actions in the city, but we can work together to lower crime this way and I’ll absolutely give credit where it’s due.

That kind of thing.

I don’t think it’s even that. I think the real thing is that it comes down to kayfabe basically. He’s a TV guy, he’s no stranger to getting a little catty on camera to boost ratings. I think Mamdani basically convinced him that yeah they might end up fighting publicly sometimes because of their positions, but at the end of the day Mamdani wants to deliver for New Yorkers and if they can do that together he’s not above giving Trump his flowers too. I think that’s the same reason Trump seems to like Bernie. Yeah they fight in public sometimes, but when Trump is offering something good Bernie is on board. He’s not just against Trump because he’s Trump.

If Mamdani had walked back any of his criticisms of Trump I’d agree, but he didn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I feel you. We’ve been burned. But I don’t think this is Mamdani burning us.

One! Nothing wrong with me! Two! Nothing wrong with me! Three! Nothing wrong with me! Four! NOTHING WRONG WITH ME!!

Well yeah, but in that case if they’re making an example of her that can’t inspire confidence for anyone in the Original Recipe MAGA world that’d replace her right? It’d almost have to be some super groyped up little freak show right?

Didn’t he like specifically take over managing what productions happened at the Kennedy Center or whatever to have them do his preferred musicals? Or am I tripping? i swear I remember something like that happening.

idk, it’s hard to say at the end of the day what is real belief and what is playing politics. Personally with what I’m seeing if a right leaning think tank like the Manhattan Institute is mad about what you’re saying about Cuba and Venezuela then you’re probably on the right track even if you did call them “dictatorships” in a later statement.

I absolutely feel being burned. I’ve been very disappointed in some of my more progressive officials in government lately. But right now IMO he’s given no real tangible reason I’ve seen beyond things that have been said to doubt him. Until that point I’m willing to believe that the no condemnation interview version is the “real belief” and the “they’re dictators” statement is a placating bit of politics playing after having said the important part first.

idk, from what I can find he only issued the statement calling them dictators after answering questions about those countries talking about the horrible things the US has done to them like the embargo on Cuba and the extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans Trump’s been doing in which he didn’t directly call them that.

I could definitely be reading too much into it, but it feels kinda like he’s effectively saying “yeah, they’re dictators because the US keeps interfering in their affairs”

Musicals too right?

I’ve been seeing a bunch of people saying that he’s not really anti-Zionist because he says Israel has a right to exist “as a state with equal rights” rather than saying they don’t have a right to exist and that he’s not actually a Lefty because he isn’t making like huge sweeping promises before even getting into office officially.

It honestly just sounds like more “Holier Than Thou, I’m The Better Leftist” LARP that the Online Left seems to love engaging in.

Edit: Oh and people taking him talking about the talks he’s had with Jewish New Yorkers about the whole “Globalize Intifada” smear the wrong way. I guess some have taken it as him capitulating to the Zionists when I guess to me it sounds more like he’s just saying that he understands that he had a different view on what those words meant than other people apparently did not that he’s changing his views or anything.

Can the government even afford to bail out the AI bubble? There’s so much “money” tied up in it I don’t think they could even print enough could they?

I don’t doubt it lmao

I was just kinda goofing with you. Sorry I wasn’t clear enough that’s on me

Well… I’ve never been on it so… yeah that tracks. Like I said, I only guessed it because of the context of where this was posted to.

From context I’m guessing they’re alluding to Grindr? Just a guess though, I’m ace so I’m utterly clueless when it comes to stuff like this.

I did said it was a comedic explanation

Here, have a comedic explanation that makes fun of the people who say it instead

I’m not saying that he said it was all a joke. I’m saying that the possibility of it all being a joke would be the Least Funny Timeline and that I hope we don’t live in the Least Funny Timeline.