Message from @aguyyouknow
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I realized I was upset about losing Harambe after a meme informed me of his existence
@Salacious Swanky Cat, @micamike45,
¿Who? Never heard of her.
just using this vid as a jumping off point
why aren't people pushing Yang on some of his more concerning policy plans?
like, he literally wants to implement a rudimentary version of social credit scores
and he wants to "work with media outlets to discuss ways of getting Americans 'agreeing on the facts again'"
like, the idea of having the government control - oops, I mean, _work with_ - the media openly is fucking horrifying to me
he wants to gamify taxes by incentivizing people to complete their taxes early with stuff like trips to the white house
I like his proposal to make tax day a holiday so that people can spend time getting them done, fine, but the idea of giving incentives that push the idea of glorifying the federal government is extremely concerning to me
also, of course, there's the fact that he wants to create a path to citizenship for every illegal currently in the country. I don't disagree with him that just throwing them out isn't necessarily efficient, but surely _rewarding them_ for entering the country illegally is not the right way to go
(also, dropping the voting age to 16. I haven't seen anyone pushing back on him for that yet)
i haven't sen all those proposals from him, but noone takes him seriously anyhow
those are the first two that I mentioned
and I don't think that brushing him off as "no one takes him seriously" is the best idea
that's a big part of how we ended up in our current political state
especially regarding the social credit score stuff, because I'm convinced that sneaking in social credit scores is the next step that the democrats are going to take in slowly pushing more creeping control on citizens' lives
@aguyyouknow I don't care at all about his UBI stuff, i had a much bigger problem with his terrible platform websites policies and how often he plays identity politics.
what's insane is that one of these short vids that Rubin put out was Yang talking about "why identity politics don't work"
it's like, dude _you were the one saying that you feared that white men would start shooting up locations with heavy Chinese populations in the foreseeable future after the New Zealand shooting_
^that clip, yeah
he _clearly_ has no interest in identity politics!
(/s, if it wasn't obvious)
also, he pushes the bullshit about the pay gap
Whenever someone says the words "white male" unironically in a derogetory way, I check out.
the man is, as far as I'm aware, the CEO of at least one company, or at least on the board of a company or two
But i also don't talk about him that much either because he has no chance at winning lol.
so does that mean that he's been paying women less, per the pay gap?
Fucking racist ass can go back to the DNC pre 1960 when they were at least honest about their racisim.
no chance of winning, sure, but the ideas he's putting forward are almost certainly going to be picked up by the left over time (maybe with a more overtly socialist spin to them, but still)
like, UBI is literally just wealth redistribution with a different name
and the socialists would LOVE to have a social credit score system so that they can weed out dissidents
Its sad how many people on the right who just jumped on board with him because of his interviews and don't even know all of the things he is pushing.
that's what prompted me to bring this up
also, to be completely fair, we don't actually know how many of the people claiming to be republicans that would vote for him are shills
because afaik, he was caught paying people to at least do meme campaigns