Yang Gang Back? Update: Yang loses NYC Mayoral Race; Adams wins over Garcia!

[Scholar]

The policy god getting the respect she deserves

 

[88m3]

my heart dropped when I saw the alert without a name in it

 

[nyknick]

 

[Scholar]

They thirsty af for the Hasidic vote

These guys don't understand NYC politics but they understand foreign policy

 

[FAH1223]

 

[88m3]

still #yanggang @FAH1223 ?

 

[FAH1223]

still #yanggang @FAH1223 ?

Nope

 

[chineebai]

fukk yang.

 

[duncanthetall]

I’ll be saddened by NYC if he still stands a chance. Ridiculous statement by him

 

[88m3]

Nope

Isn't it absolutely insane he's even in the running?

 

[YoNoSe]

I’m disappointed with Adams.

Yang is just slimy. He leeches on to any nearby story or movement and you will never know where he stands.

Let’s call a spade a spade and admit that Yang is really a republican running as a Democrat. Too many similarities to Bloomberg. He doesn’t give a fukk about the inner city or boroughs. He talks about wanting to entice people and tourists to come back to the city. A real New Yorker wouldn’t care about any of that. Focus on the real issues.

 

[Payday23]

Yang can eabod!

 

[Wargames]

She’s nice but I don’t see how she wins. She doesn’t have enough people to support her.

 

[88m3]

Another thing going through my head is that we have to hope ranked choice doesn't screw us on this out of the gate here, that would leave a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.

I think a few elections used it already but I didn't follow the candidates very closely

 

[Professor Emeritus]

March 2019:

Some of those ideas Yang has aren't just bad, they're dangerously bad, and they indicate a thought process that could go south in a lot of other ways too. There was Peter Thiel-type stuff in there, the sort of assumptions that tech and a business mindset are going to solve everything with a blindness to how tech and business mindsets are making the world worse at this very moment.

I hope Yang gets airtime so that certain good ideas of his (like UBI) become more and more mainstreamed. But I don't want him in the presidency. He's not just not ready, that piece exposed to me that he has a way of thinking quite incompatible with the direction I think the world needs to go.

That to me shows a mindset of "the business world knows the right way to be doing things and we should be replacing a lot of human jobs with tech." Things like turning government functions over to AI, turning psychological interventions over to AI, using geoengineering to solve climate change rather than addressing resource use...those aren't just wrong to me, those suggest to me that he's internalized some really bad ideas from the tech sector.

So then I look at his resume, see he bounced from corporate law to celebrity philanthropy to test prep to startup incubation...that's not alleviating any fears. That all revolves around the same network of ideas that I distrust.

All praise to @FAH1223 for posting an article that showed me the light on Yang very early. The pro-rich, pro-corporate, pro-'meritocracy', pro-police, pro-Israel wing of upper middle class democratic elites has got to be salivating over him right now.