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u/FleekWeek420 · 94 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone when I say this but Andrew Yang's message clicked with me almost immediately. It's no coincidence when a politician posts 100+ policies and a majority of them matches with your view.

I remember very early on Andrews bid for presidency was front page of /r/futurology. I think it is very important to maintain the effort to be inclusive and convert new voters. But I'm sure there are still a huge number of people that didn't need any convincing but just haven't heard of Andrew's campaign.

One thing that really struck me when hearing Andrew speak on Freakonomics was that this guy actually respects the academia aspect of Economics. Instead of the average politician that panders by regurgitating highschool level macroecon concepts, this guy seemed to actually understand what he's talking about. So I bought his book:
https://www.amazon.com/War-Normal-People-Disappearing-Universal/dp/0316414247

And that was really what put me on 100% for Yang. If you guys haven't read this already, I highly recommend it. If Andrew was writing stuff like this when I was in school, it would've influenced all my research.

The strategy of pushing tiny snippets of Yang to the mainstream like his interviews or listing his top 10 views is great. But Yang is more than that. He has actual substance that most other candidates lack. So for the "research" phase of this post, one of the first steps should be to read this book!

I'm not sure how we can get this book into more hands? Are there political book clubs? Can we get this on more must read lists?

u/Johnny_15 · 15 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

>She's also intrigued about the idea of UBI but isn't necessarily 100% sold on it as far as I can tell.

She is, and I think that’s one of the big reasons why she supports Yang. She wrote a book supporting the need for UBI before Yang’s book was released. She was also asked by Yang to review his book before publishing. Krystal is all about helping the white working class, who are often overlooked and left behind. She brought him on her show when she was with MSNBC and Yang worked at VFA, since he was helping create jobs in these disenfranchised areas that she’s concerned about. So she already had an affinity for him, wanting him to succeed, especially as an outside underdog. They both have the same interests in mind.

Krystal has a personal soft spot for Bernie, though, that she and many others can’t let go. She was really invested in 2016, even going on a campaign tour with him. There’s a reason why she didn’t pick a side with the UBI vs FJG discussion, even though she wrote a book explaining the need for UBI. 😉

u/Fluffoide · 5 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

Hard to make that argument, both cows and humans are 100% sentient. You're looking for sapience, which is humanlike intelligence such as wisdom.

However, it's hard to even say definitively that cows are not sapient. There's so much evidence of animal intelligence on a sliding scale with humans at one end of the scale, and you're talking as if humans were somehow independent of the scale.
If you're interested in this topic, I highly recommend the book Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
It's an incredibly deep investigation into the nature of animal intelligence and the controversy surrounding the science of it. It changed the way I see animals.

u/xiaozhenliu · 1 pointr/YangForPresidentHQ

Yang is Taiwanese. He was born in New York, went to Exeter (the No.1 private high school in the US) and Brown. He got his law degree from Columbia University. He does not even speak Mandarin. (or just a little bit) His career was all about tech startups and created thousands of jobs for America. I am curious how you would become worry that he has any connection with the PRC. Taiwan and US are alliances!

I am from mainland China but I spent 6 years in the US, legally. Full scholarship and full-time job. I was quite surprised to find out about the misunderstandings between America and Chinese people. I wish you could one day visit China and see how different it is from the narratives you read about in your media.

For the meantime, I would recommend you to read the former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan-Yew’s opinion about China and US. Probably this book by a Harvard professor:

https://www.amazon.com/Lee-Kuan-Yew-Insights-international/dp/0262019124/

Lee as the third-party and one of the best country leaders provide a lot of insights in this book.

u/RBIlios · 1 pointr/YangForPresidentHQ

Frustration with how little conventional politicians have done to address the onslaught from the next wave of technological disruption drove Yang into the presidential race. It’s a phenomenon he describes at length in his book, “The War on Normal People.” He says: “Donald Trump in 2016 said he was going to make America great again, and what was Hillary Clinton’s response? America’s already great,” adding, “That was not the right answer.” In Yang’s view, the right answer is a permanent stimulus routed through the pockets of every American to help them build a post-automation economy.

His belief is that, eventually, an American working class told to accept an ever-reduced standard of living — while the corporate beneficiaries of our system show indifference toward the despair, suicide, alcoholism and opiate abuse afflicting those left behind — could lash out with a fury that makes Trump look like a mild precursor. When Yang explains that “Trump got many of the problems right,” even if the president gets many solutions wrong, it is this dynamic he has in mind, and it is this economic wound that he proposes to heal with UBI and a raft of other policies focused on rescuing Americans from the zero-sum “mind-set of scarcity” currently deranging our politics.

Andrew Yang speaks to voters at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 9 in Des Moines. His emphasis on being an Asian American math nerd helps him pitch one of his central policy ideas: a universal basic income. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

Yang has somehow used the bleakest vision of any candidate to generate the most fun of all the campaigns: He has tweeted video of himself playing Rachmaninoff on the piano, skateboarded, crowd-surfed, done the Cupid Shuffle and challenged Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to a game of one-on-one basketball. The #YangGang calls out instances when their candidate is left off mainstream media infographics — neglect that only feeds their ardor. They love it when he revels in his underdog status, as he did when he tweeted, “It’s all fun and games until Andrew Yang passes you in the polls.”

Yang has cracked the code on how to be something that doesn’t have much precedent in our political culture: an Asian American man able to summon and inspire large, enthusiastic crowds across the country in support of his bid for national leadership, charismatic enough to commandeer a spotlight that no one had wanted to train on him. After interviewing him, Politico senior politics editor Charlie Mahtesian tweeted: “Yang was much better than some of the veteran pols we’ve seen before in the office — easy to see why he’s got a following. Authentic, comfortable in his own skin, able to articulate a coherent reason for running, minimal amount of b.s. in answers to a wide range of questions.” (Two other Democratic contenders, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) and Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.), have Asian roots but don’t conspicuously frame themselves as Asian American candidates.)

It turns out that being this figure doesn’t entail being a scold about race. As Yang brought his Asian jokes to the televised debates (there’s also the one about knowing a lot of doctors), some Asian American progressives took him to task for embracing a facially positive stereotype that, in their view, is “reaffirming toxic tropes” and traps Asian Americans within a “model minority” framing. These critics were voicing the general strictness on matters of identity to which we are all supposed to defer these days. This month, Yang met with some of them and explained that while he respected and understood their objections, he sees it differently. And he’s not an outlier: In one 2018 study, when asked if people nowadays “don’t take racism seriously enough” or if they’re “too sensitive about things to do with race,” 73 percent of Asian Americans said people are “too sensitive,” more than the 60 percent overall who said the same.

Yang with supporters at a campaign event in New York in May. Their signs reference the candidate's ideas about "human capitalism" and his "MATH" slogan: Make America Think Harder. (Andres Kudacki/For The Washington Post)

The criticisms fundamentally miss Yang’s objectives. His humor breaks the ice surrounding the first thing you notice about him — and the thing audiences are least prepared to parse. It has the paradoxical effect of highlighting how few of the identity-based hopes or antagonisms plaguing other candidacies affect the Asian American guy “who wants to give everyone $1,000 a month.” Asian Americans, only about 6 percent of the population and heavily clustered in a few states, are often overlooked as a group. But given the overheated rhetoric surrounding other identity categories, for Yang, this lack of visibility could turn out to be a strength.

In the hierarchy of the schoolyard, the Andrew Yangs of the world were often the quarry of white bros like podcaster and “Saturday Night Live” washout Shane Gillis. But in the world run by Big Data, it’s Yang who is the New York millionaire with ties to Silicon Valley. When Yang forgave Gillis for mocking him as a “Jew C----,” it wasn’t just out of electoral expediency (though it was that, too) but because he believes that the key to stability between America’s hinterlands and urban areas, to averting the civil disorder he spells out in his book, is a truce. After watching Gillis’s comedy, Yang decided he wasn’t the evil pariah that the progressive consensus assessed but instead “a still-forming comedian from central Pennsylvania.” This magnanimity isn’t a capitulation, it’s a sign of strength.

Yang grasps that, despite the grievances many Asian Americans justifiably hold about discrimination, members of the best-educated and highest-earning group in America shouldn’t linger on victimhood.

u/fromoutsidelookingin · 9 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

I guess he can always say "people I know in Silicone Valley." But that would sound like Trump's exaggeration/lying. Besides, what if those "people" are actually his friends. I will be very surprised if he and Kai-Fu Lee are not friends. Silicone Valley is littered with people with Asian persuasion, be it East or South. If he kept his mouth shut about his relationships there, then you can imagine some people accusing him of trying to cover up his "techbro" cred. Anyway, transparency is the best policy.
Edit: BTW, Yang is not a techbro. Not sure why people think he is.

u/FickleDeparture · 4 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

You can listen to it on youtube for free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC25cPvp4zg

Don't see it on spotify but you can buy the audiobook on amazon( also for free if you use an audible credit) https://smile.amazon.com/The-War-on-Normal-People/dp/B07BSHJ8RB/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1564715704&sr=8-1

u/ImNotExpectingMuch · 12 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

International Yang Gang can phone bank or text bank for the campaign. It's the most impactful way to help. This video should help, if you want to phone bank (there might bea more updated video out there though): https://youtu.be/iohN7qG4ylg

You could donate to Steve Dannely's patreon. Steve does unofficial advertising for Yang and is planning to mail out 5,000 cards to older voters in New Hampshire. I got confirmation from him that international people can donate to him. Here's a link to his patreon: https://www.patreon.com/stevedannely

You can also buy "The War on Normal People." I think Yang is using the profits from this book to help fund the campaign. Here's a link to it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/War-Normal-People-Disappearing-Universal/dp/0316414247

u/ESCLCT · 15 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

I STRONGLY recommend reading his book, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley/dp/132854639X

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Also, I think that Kai-fu Lee would make an excellent US Ambassador to China under President Yang

u/RowdyBuck180 · 1 pointr/YangForPresidentHQ

It is a very valid concern. China is going very hard at AI, while our government seems to only care about the Donald Trump sideshow.

Andrew credits this book with largely shaping his opinions on the coming AI Race:
https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley/dp/132854639X

Here is the author speaking on Andrew's campaign:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7gSD-LXT34

u/junkmale79 · 1 pointr/YangForPresidentHQ

Let me start by saying that I Love Bernie, he got screwed in 2016 by the DNC, i was really choked about it.

Raising the minimum wage to 15$ by 2024 would mean that 40 million people would see a pay increase, that's great! and it should be done, however implementing the freedom dividend would put $1000 a month into the hands of over 240 Million Americans.

240 million > 40 million

The number's that really stood out to me is the fact that of the 206 million working age adults (18-64) 102 million of them don't currently have jobs. Think about that for a min, 102 million includes people going to school, taking time off to raise a family or people that have retired early but for the vast majority this economy has turned on them and they have given up on looking to taken some sort of disability. I could also add numbers around under employment or people working multiple jobs to make ends meet but at this point its just overkill.

But we are at record lows for unemployment! you say, yes but the unemployment number is massively flawed in that it doesn't include anyone that isn't actively looking for a job or on some sort of disability.

In addition to these staggering numbers automation marches on, we aren't bringing any of these jobs lost to automation back, sure new jobs will be created but at a terrible ratio and automation will continue to leave a wake of people who's labor isn't worth what it use to be.

I challenge you please read his book "the war on normal people" (https://www.amazon.com/The-War-on-Normal-People/dp/B07BSHJ8RB you can do the audible free trial and get it for free.) And not get changed over to the #yanggang. This isn't like sports were you can be excused for liking any candidate for any reason. We need the best candidate to solve the problems of the 21st century.

thanks for reading if you got this far.

u/3x1x4_ · 14 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

It is the OG scarf!
You can get it here
The price has gone up a couple bucks since Yang popularized it.

u/DorothyMatrix · 1 pointr/YangForPresidentHQ

I got these for my Yang bumper stickers. They are larger than the bumper stickers but i just centered them. They work well!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYGOXU2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_Y42wDbWTN2BP2

u/LilithX · 2 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

$12 on Amazon: Andrew Yang Scarf

Got mine and it's soft!

u/Not_Selling_Eth · 2 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N6E6J8X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Its actually really soft, just like reviews state. Not sure how durable it will be in the long run, but I'll probably only wear it to rallies and around the primaries and general.

EDIT: Also, I noticed he seems to alternate between the scarf I have and a more knitted, lighter colored one. I wasn't able to find that one.

u/JNoel1234 · 4 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

I'm waiting on my stickers to come in. I hate the idea of using adhesive to put a sticker on my car so I got these magnets to put it on. For everyone else out there who is wary of stickers use these and let's get as many vehicles out there showing our support.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LYGOXU2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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  • ^(This is not an affiliate link, sponsored in any way, or an endorsement of this specific product. Get whatever brand you want.)
u/rxr55z · 2 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N6E6J8X/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_pQsNDbWHGVPPV

I got mine the other day. It's the exact same one he wears.
I offset by donating $ directly to the campaign.

u/Boloni86 · 3 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LXIG11X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It comes in a 2 pack which is perfect coz Yang sells bumper stickers in 2 pack. The magnet is bigger than the sticker but I just put the sticker on it and cut the extra magnet off with regular scissors.

u/dr_tr34d · 2 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

Good question. Yang addresses this in his book- The War On Normal People.

In brief, the changes brought about by AI and advanced robotics are unprecedented in scope and depth; far more so than the Industrial revolution. These changes cause much more fundamental shifts in both efficiency and labor requirements and are particularly severe for the middle class.

u/Erratic567 · 2 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

Part 2 of 3:

Yang is a kind of defector from the knowledge-worker class he once epitomized as an Ivy League-educated corporate lawyer and chief executive of a test-prep company. The seven years he spent building a nonprofit called Venture for America, matching graduates of top colleges with start-ups in Rust Belt cities, made him acutely conscious of both the injury that his cohort has done (and is working tirelessly to expand) in the service of corporate America, and the volatile reaction this injury has stirred up. His campaign is an attempt to fashion a technocratic response to populist demands — by simply giving people money. The overt emphasis on being an Asian American math nerd frames his signature policy, a universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000 per month for every American adult, as a responsible, sober-minded and data-driven measure to “rebalance the economy,” rather than the giveaway it looks like. The core mission of Yang’s campaign is to get people to see UBI, which he calls the “Freedom Dividend,” as the former rather than the latter, and he’s exploiting every angle he can — including stereotypes — toward that end.

Frustration with how little conventional politicians have done to address the onslaught from the next wave of technological disruption drove Yang into the presidential race. It’s a phenomenon he describes at length in his book, “The War on Normal People.” He says: “Donald Trump in 2016 said he was going to make America great again, and what was Hillary Clinton’s response? America’s already great,” adding, “That was not the right answer.” In Yang’s view, the right answer is a permanent stimulus routed through the pockets of every American to help them build a post-automation economy.

His belief is that, eventually, an American working class told to accept an ever-reduced standard of living — while the corporate beneficiaries of our system show indifference toward the despair, suicide, alcoholism and opiate abuse afflicting those left behind — could lash out with a fury that makes Trump look like a mild precursor. When Yang explains that “Trump got many of the problems right,” even if the president gets many solutions wrong, it is this dynamic he has in mind, and it is this economic wound that he proposes to heal with UBI and a raft of other policies focused on rescuing Americans from the zero-sum “mind-set of scarcity” currently deranging our politics.

Andrew Yang speaks to voters at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 9 in Des Moines. His emphasis on being an Asian American math nerd helps him pitch one of his central policy ideas: a universal basic income. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

Yang has somehow used the bleakest vision of any candidate to generate the most fun of all the campaigns: He has tweeted video of himself playing Rachmaninoff on the piano, skateboarded, crowd-surfed, done the Cupid Shuffle and challenged Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to a game of one-on-one basketball. The #YangGang calls out instances when their candidate is left off mainstream media infographics — neglect that only feeds their ardor. They love it when he revels in his underdog status, as he did when he tweeted, “It’s all fun and games until Andrew Yang passes you in the polls.”

Yang has cracked the code on how to be something that doesn’t have much precedent in our political culture: an Asian American man able to summon and inspire large, enthusiastic crowds across the country in support of his bid for national leadership, charismatic enough to commandeer a spotlight that no one had wanted to train on him. After interviewing him, Politico senior politics editor Charlie Mahtesian tweeted: “Yang was much better than some of the veteran pols we’ve seen before in the office — easy to see why he’s got a following. Authentic, comfortable in his own skin, able to articulate a coherent reason for running, minimal amount of b.s. in answers to a wide range of questions.” (Two other Democratic contenders, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) and Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.), have Asian roots but don’t conspicuously frame themselves as Asian American candidates.)

It turns out that being this figure doesn’t entail being a scold about race. As Yang brought his Asian jokes to the televised debates (there’s also the one about knowing a lot of doctors), some Asian American progressives took him to task for embracing a facially positive stereotype that, in their view, is “reaffirming toxic tropes” and traps Asian Americans within a “model minority” framing. These critics were voicing the general strictness on matters of identity to which we are all supposed to defer these days. This month, Yang met with some of them and explained that while he respected and understood their objections, he sees it differently. And he’s not an outlier: In one 2018 study, when asked if people nowadays “don’t take racism seriously enough” or if they’re “too sensitive about things to do with race,” 73 percent of Asian Americans said people are “too sensitive,” more than the 60 percent overall who said the same.

u/aoxunwu · 1 pointr/YangForPresidentHQ

PART 2/3:

Yang is a kind of defector from the knowledge-worker class he once epitomized as an Ivy League-educated corporate lawyer and chief executive of a test-prep company. The seven years he spent building a nonprofit called Venture for America, matching graduates of top colleges with start-ups in Rust Belt cities, made him acutely conscious of both the injury that his cohort has done (and is working tirelessly to expand) in the service of corporate America, and the volatile reaction this injury has stirred up. His campaign is an attempt to fashion a technocratic response to populist demands — by simply giving people money. The overt emphasis on being an Asian American math nerd frames his signature policy, a universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000 per month for every American adult, as a responsible, sober-minded and data-driven measure to “rebalance the economy,” rather than the giveaway it looks like. The core mission of Yang’s campaign is to get people to see UBI, which he calls the “Freedom Dividend,” as the former rather than the latter, and he’s exploiting every angle he can — including stereotypes — toward that end.

Frustration with how little conventional politicians have done to address the onslaught from the next wave of technological disruption drove Yang into the presidential race. It’s a phenomenon he describes at length in his book, “The War on Normal People.” He says: “Donald Trump in 2016 said he was going to make America great again, and what was Hillary Clinton’s response? America’s already great,” adding, “That was not the right answer.” In Yang’s view, the right answer is a permanent stimulus routed through the pockets of every American to help them build a post-automation economy.

His belief is that, eventually, an American working class told to accept an ever-reduced standard of living — while the corporate beneficiaries of our system show indifference toward the despair, suicide, alcoholism and opiate abuse afflicting those left behind — could lash out with a fury that makes Trump look like a mild precursor. When Yang explains that “Trump got many of the problems right,” even if the president gets many solutions wrong, it is this dynamic he has in mind, and it is this economic wound that he proposes to heal with UBI and a raft of other policies focused on rescuing Americans from the zero-sum “mind-set of scarcity” currently deranging our politics.

Yang has somehow used the bleakest vision of any candidate to generate the most fun of all the campaigns: He has tweeted video of himself playing Rachmaninoff on the piano, skateboarded, crowd-surfed, done the Cupid Shuffle and challenged Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to a game of one-on-one basketball. The #YangGang calls out instances when their candidate is left off mainstream media infographics — neglect that only feeds their ardor. They love it when he revels in his underdog status, as he did when he tweeted, “It’s all fun and games until Andrew Yang passes you in the polls.”

Yang has cracked the code on how to be something that doesn’t have much precedent in our political culture: an Asian American man able to summon and inspire large, enthusiastic crowds across the country in support of his bid for national leadership, charismatic enough to commandeer a spotlight that no one had wanted to train on him. After interviewing him, Politico senior politics editor Charlie Mahtesian tweeted: “Yang was much better than some of the veteran pols we’ve seen before in the office — easy to see why he’s got a following. Authentic, comfortable in his own skin, able to articulate a coherent reason for running, minimal amount of b.s. in answers to a wide range of questions.” (Two other Democratic contenders, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) and Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.), have Asian roots but don’t conspicuously frame themselves as Asian American candidates.)

It turns out that being this figure doesn’t entail being a scold about race. As Yang brought his Asian jokes to the televised debates (there’s also the one about knowing a lot of doctors), some Asian American progressives took him to task for embracing a facially positive stereotype that, in their view, is “reaffirming toxic tropes” and traps Asian Americans within a “model minority” framing. These critics were voicing the general strictness on matters of identity to which we are all supposed to defer these days. This month, Yang met with some of them and explained that while he respected and understood their objections, he sees it differently. And he’s not an outlier: In one 2018 study, when asked if people nowadays “don’t take racism seriously enough” or if they’re “too sensitive about things to do with race,” 73 percent of Asian Americans said people are “too sensitive,” more than the 60 percent overall who said the same.

u/GolokGolokGolok · 2 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

2/3

Yang is a kind of defector from the knowledge-worker class he once epitomized as an Ivy League-educated corporate lawyer and chief executive of a test-prep company. The seven years he spent building a nonprofit called Venture for America, matching graduates of top colleges with start-ups in Rust Belt cities, made him acutely conscious of both the injury that his cohort has done (and is working tirelessly to expand) in the service of corporate America, and the volatile reaction this injury has stirred up. His campaign is an attempt to fashion a technocratic response to populist demands — by simply giving people money. The overt emphasis on being an Asian American math nerd frames his signature policy, a universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000 per month for every American adult, as a responsible, sober-minded and data-driven measure to “rebalance the economy,” rather than the giveaway it looks like. The core mission of Yang’s campaign is to get people to see UBI, which he calls the “Freedom Dividend,” as the former rather than the latter, and he’s exploiting every angle he can — including stereotypes — toward that end.

Frustration with how little conventional politicians have done to address the onslaught from the next wave of technological disruption drove Yang into the presidential race. It’s a phenomenon he describes at length in his book, “The War on Normal People.” He says: “Donald Trump in 2016 said he was going to make America great again, and what was Hillary Clinton’s response? America’s already great,” adding, “That was not the right answer.” In Yang’s view, the right answer is a permanent stimulus routed through the pockets of every American to help them build a post-automation economy.

His belief is that, eventually, an American working class told to accept an ever-reduced standard of living — while the corporate beneficiaries of our system show indifference toward the despair, suicide, alcoholism and opiate abuse afflicting those left behind — could lash out with a fury that makes Trump look like a mild precursor. When Yang explains that “Trump got many of the problems right,” even if the president gets many solutions wrong, it is this dynamic he has in mind, and it is this economic wound that he proposes to heal with UBI and a raft of other policies focused on rescuing Americans from the zero-sum “mind-set of scarcity” currently deranging our politics.

Yang has somehow used the bleakest vision of any candidate to generate the most fun of all the campaigns: He has tweeted video of himself playing Rachmaninoff on the piano, skateboarded, crowd-surfed, done the Cupid Shuffle and challenged Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to a game of one-on-one basketball. The #YangGang calls out instances when their candidate is left off mainstream media infographics — neglect that only feeds their ardor. They love it when he revels in his underdog status, as he did when he tweeted, “It’s all fun and games until Andrew Yang passes you in the polls.”

Yang has cracked the code on how to be something that doesn’t have much precedent in our political culture: an Asian American man able to summon and inspire large, enthusiastic crowds across the country in support of his bid for national leadership, charismatic enough to commandeer a spotlight that no one had wanted to train on him. After interviewing him, Politico senior politics editor Charlie Mahtesian tweeted: “Yang was much better than some of the veteran pols we’ve seen before in the office — easy to see why he’s got a following. Authentic, comfortable in his own skin, able to articulate a coherent reason for running, minimal amount of b.s. in answers to a wide range of questions.” (Two other Democratic contenders, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) and Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.), have Asian roots but don’t conspicuously frame themselves as Asian American candidates.)

It turns out that being this figure doesn’t entail being a scold about race. As Yang brought his Asian jokes to the televised debates (there’s also the one about knowing a lot of doctors), some Asian American progressives took him to task for embracing a facially positive stereotype that, in their view, is “reaffirming toxic tropes” and traps Asian Americans within a “model minority” framing. These critics were voicing the general strictness on matters of identity to which we are all supposed to defer these days. This month, Yang met with some of them and explained that while he respected and understood their objections, he sees it differently. And he’s not an outlier: In one 2018 study, when asked if people nowadays “don’t take racism seriously enough” or if they’re “too sensitive about things to do with race,” 73 percent of Asian Americans said people are “too sensitive,” more than the 60 percent overall who said the same.

u/Dog_Phone · 7 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

It’s called “The War on Normal People ”. It’s mentioned earlier in the article.

u/hitssquad · 1 pointr/YangForPresidentHQ

https://www.amazon.com/Catching-Fire-Cooking-Made-Human/dp/0465020410/

> Automation relies on lack of human input outside set up

So there's no auto in any automobile? You're saying there's no automation right now?

> a beast of burden to plow fields was not automation [...] Ai/Algorithmic learning isn't the same as a mechanized arm

Prove animals don't learn.

> we now have a tool in AI that can replaced an infinite number of processes.

That makes your labor more efficient. Thus, you are now more employable.

u/BuraisonFujii · 2 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

How is surveying people who identity with the Republican Party not credible?

" New analysis by PRRI and The Atlantic, based on surveys conducted before and after the 2016 election, developed a model to test a variety of potential factors influencing support for Trump among white working-class voters. The model identifies five significant independent predictors of support for Trump among white working-class voters. No other factors were significant at conventional levels.

If you don't like that study, here's several more.

MORE EVIDENCE THAT RACISM AND SEXISM WERE KEY TO TRUMP'S VICTORY

Economic anxiety isn’t driving racial resentment. Racial resentment is driving economic anxiety.

The comparison between 2004 and 2012 is especially informative. Both George W. Bush and Obama saw the unemployment rate rise by about two percentage points at various times during their first terms in office; both presidents then presided over drops in the unemployment rate during the year leading up to their reelections (about half a point for Bush and one point for Obama).

Graph Analysis limited to whites only. Predicted values calculated by setting party identification and ideological self-placement to the average white respondent. (Graphic by Michael Tesler)

This suggests that the national economy’s association with Obama has made racial resentment a stronger determinant of gloomy economic perceptions than it was before his presidency. However, comparisons between 2012 and earlier years cannot conclusively resolve the chicken or egg question.

To do so, it’s important to have surveys of the exact same individuals before and after Obama became president. The 2007-2008-2012 Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project can do this by testing whether racial attitudes — measured before Obama became president — increasingly shaped economic perceptions during his presidency.

The results below show that this is precisely what happened.  Racial resentment was not related to whites’ perceptions of the economy in December 2007 after accounting for partisanship and ideology. When these same people were re-interviewed in July 2012, racial resentment was a powerful predictor of economic perceptions. Again, the greater someone’s level of racial resentment, the worse they believed the economy was doing.

Graph Analysis limited to white panelists interviewed in both the December 2007 and July 2012 wave of the CCAP Re-Interviews. Predicted values calculated by setting party identification and ideological self-placement to the average white respondent. (Graphic by Michael Tesler)

Furthermore, additional analyses indicate that economic perceptions, whether measured in 2008 or even in 2012, did not cause people to change their underlying levels of racial resentment.

In fact, multiple studies, using several different surveys, have shown that overall levels of racial resentment were virtually unchanged by the economic crash of 2008. Some data even suggests that racial prejudice slightly declined during the height of economic collapse in the fall of 2008. The evidence is pretty clear, then, that economic concerns are not driving racial resentment in the Obama Era.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that economic anxiety has no influence on support for Trump. John Sides and I presented some preliminary evidence that economic insecurity was a factor in Trump’s rise.

Nor does it mean that racial resentment is the prime determinant of economic anxiety. It isn’t.

Nevertheless, in an era where racial attitudes have become increasingly associated with so many of the president’s positions, Obama’s race is largely responsible for the association between racial resentment and economic anxiety. And this racialized political environment undoubtedly aided Donald Trump’s rise to the top of the Republican Party.

u/BoomersForYang2020 · 9 pointsr/YangForPresidentHQ

Okay, this has become quite long. TL;DR At the bottom.

First off:

>It started soon after T_D became big.

You know what, that's probably one of the reasons the term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" caught on - legitimate corruption within the Democratic Party was continually treated as nonsense by the majority of liberals since the ones who were talking most about it happened to be Trump + his supporters; based on this fact, WikiLeaks/etc. had to be just some crazy conspiracy theory that's not worth looking into, right? (Wrong!)

And I hear you - I was fooled as well for a good while, and viewed these people as conspiracy theory whackos until I looked into it myself. I honestly half-wish I could go back to being politically naive again, since the 2016 election/Wikileaks debacle has made me quite cynical when it comes to politics... it forced me to reckon with the fact that the Democratic Party is cut from the same cloth as the Republican Party in far too many ways, and that we have no moral high horse to ride on :-/

As for Wikileaks - I haven't looked for a while, but the DNC acknowledged that their internal DNC correspondences which were leaked are legit. And what they've got is freaking nuts - not only was Bernie fucked over, but Donald Trump was propped up via the DNC/MSM in the Republican primary to run against Hillary, since he was the only one her they thought she could beat due to her unfavorability numbers.

This is the primary reason Trump's face was blasted on the liberal media basically 24/7; they actively wanted him to clinch the nomination so Hillary would face someone she could defeat in the general. (Look up the "Pied Piper" strategy)

Also, Donna Brazille (former DNC chair + Hillary Clinton advisor) publicly corroborated the WikiLeaks findings (after Trump won), and threw Hillary/the DNC under the bus by writing a tell-all expose airing all of their dirty laundry (link below). She's also been quite vocal about the corruption on various news outlets such as PBS/The View/etc. - you can find these videos easily on Youtube.

Donna Brazille's book on Amazon

(For the record, I have NOT read this book personally - just excerpts + synopses.)

And get this - Donna now works for FOX, since the DNC obviously wants nothing to do with her anymore!

In any case - just look up key words like Julian Assange/Wikileaks/etc and you should be able to find what you're looking for; WikiLeaks had a home page back when it was released, but things might have changed since then. I would personally probably use a VPN by the way, but maybe I'm just paranoid due to the Snowden leaks/etc. :-/

Finally, I'm assuming that any Wikileaks material is more likely to come up on DuckDuckGo than Google at this point.

Happy hunting, and try your best not to become too cynical upon discovering for yourself just how corrupt those fuckers were (and seemingly still are).

TL;DR: Wikileaks is completely legit, but don't take my word for it; do some sleuthing of your own, and don't listen to or believe anyone (including myself!) without verifying things with your own eyes.

EDIT: I am officially no longer drunk, and have finished my comment. It has become quite long. Hopefully this suffices, but DM me if you're still having trouble finding it.