I’ve been following his candidacy for some time and have become increasing disgusted as time goes on. Initaly he seemed to be taking some of the more logical if not accurate rationalist policies into the mainstream but as time has gone on, he seems to have descended down an intellectual shitposting route similar to rationalist culture?
Is anybody else hoping he gets slaughtered in the primary?
Yang’s been pretty unequivocal about denouncing the alt-right despite the 4chan shitposting (in a way rationalists often aren’t or at least insist on derailing into frozen peaches)
Sources?
He does seem to be popular with the rationalists / IDW, at least on twitter. Based on his background, I’m sure he’s browsed SSC and LW at least a few times. Nevertheless, his policies are definitely interesting and should get more mainstream attention, although Yang himself has become somewhat of a meme.
Is there anything more to this guy than another SV techbro promoting UBI? He’ll probably burn out before Iowa.
mark it nsfw ffs, and also don’t do this, it’s decrepitedly boring
You might just be the only one.
Not sure what you mean here. Can you provide some examples?
I’ve gotten this feeling too.
It seems to me that Yang is the last gasp of any affinity with the Democratic party and vaguely left wing policies before they jump ship and just become Republicans.
Kinda similar to what we saw with Bernie (not a commentary on the man himself, just a subset of his supporters in 2016), where there was a number of dudebros clinging to him as a source of white pseudo-socialist populism before being rebuffed and becoming Trumpists.
Andrew Yang himself just comes off to me like a neoliberal who’s specifically targeting hot button young white guy issues (UBI, being a white guy sucks, LEGALIZE IT) to try to meme his way into political significance.
000 though…
Just gonna drop this here
https://putanumonit.com/2018/10/10/ubi-for-president/