this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
1028 points (99.3% liked)
Technology
79763 readers
4921 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Yeah, I’m also liking Mamdani. However, I may be traumatized because I don’t completely trust the situation. What did Mamdani tell Trump to make Trump support him so quickly? Trump did a 180 over night, and I want to know how Mamdani did that…
Edit: I get that Trump is impressionable, fickle, and a boy of truly weak resolve. Yet, I still want to know what Mamdani did… not what we took advantage of. What was said?
trump will literally agree with anyone he spends an hour talking to. He said he and walz had similar thoughts on what to do in ministota.
Trump is barking seal that agrees with any man that is in the same room as him.
Trump is ridiculously easy to manipulate. Just use the right words and butter him up and he'll think you're his buddy.
Exactly. Mamdani came prepared, and Trump was caught off guard by how nice and eloquent the dangerous communist was.
I genuinely think its because Trump, and all of his supporters, are colossal pussies when actually challenged and defeated by someone willing to fight them.
If Mamdani made any concession, you'd never hear Trump and his cult not talking about it.
Instead Trump publicly sucked Mamdani's cock and MAGA is pretending it never happened.
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
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
Expanding on what others have answered, Trump is extremely suggestible due to dementia. He literally just agrees with whoever told him something last because he can't think on his own anymore.
That's why it's even more vital to get rid of fascist advisors like Steven Miller than it is to get rid of Trump himself.
Trump can't afford to dislike anyone overwhelmingly popular.
Trump can't hate on Mamdani too much, lest he becomes a folk hero.
All you have to do is mildly flatter Trump and then he's your best friend