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Yang’s positions:
Publicly owned banks
Universal free government provided broadband
Universal government provided basic income
Un-privatize mass transit in NYC
Housing is a human right
Increase rent stabilization enforcement
Green New Deal for NYC
Dude doesn’t sound like a libertarian. Just seems like his supporters aren’t as loyal to the Democratic Party as Generic Democratic Party candidate’s bosses, er, donors, er, supporters.
His libertarianism is not classical economic libertarianism, its technobro libertarianism. The idea is that tech companies should be exempt from traditional government controls because something something blockchain. This is why techbros think Facebook should be totally unregulated for example. Tech companies would gleefully take government handouts, their libertarianism is limited to “the government shouldn’t tell me not to do something I want to do”.
I’ve probably missed it, but where has he said this stuff? People seem to think he’s a tech billionaire or something too, but he’s not.
There’s tech stuff sprinkled into a bunch of his ideas. For example his public bank comes with:
Yang has had good ideas but then once more detailed versions are announced they aren’t as great as they seem to be. Most of his initiatives to help the poor seem to open the doors for a lot of tech finance companies. There’s a reason he is supported by rich right wingers
https://twitter.com/maketheroadact/status/1400801314699812866?s=21
It seems like most of the community based orgs I follow in NY are very skeptical about him and don’t trust him.
Also from some clips I’ve seen of him where he is asked about some of his ideas in more detail it seems like he is unprepared to answer questions and not fully tied to the ideas he pitches
Yeah he absolutely wants to regulate the tech companies and actually quite heavy handedly.
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Yeah this is the impression that’s been made from a lot of the videos I’ve seen
A weird thing about Andrew Yang is that everything he says sounds reasonable unless you know anything about the topic
The only yang gang person I know in real life is also a huge crypto geek.
Ponies and such. 
lol right after the part I quoted in the post above yours the article talks about how Yang wants to make NY a crypto hub
Back during the primaries I decided to look into Yang to see what he was all about and… there’s just nothing there. He doesn’t have a history of experience or accomplishments or ideas or contacts or really anything at all. He’s a void. People assume he must have a high profile for some reason or another, but if you go looking for whatever it is you quickly learn that isn’t the case. There is just no reason at all for him to be a public figure.
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I’m not a Yang-ganger, but people thought he was a tech-bro rich guy because he’s Asian and doesn’t wear a tie. He may have some techie bro-ie ideas, but it was mainly the look. His platform is not libertarianish now for mayor and it wasn’t when he was running for potus.
People think he’s a techobro because he has hot-take solutions that always seem to involve dismantling the social safety net. There’s a reason so many libertarian-leaning bros flock to him.
Where did he say that? IIRC he was one of the M4A candidates. Not all of them were. M4A guy wanted to dismantle the rest of the social safety net? $12000/year isn’t a social safety net?
I agree with ths, but I think its because you know what libertarian means because you think in traditional political terms and Yang doesn’t seem to think that way. He actually doesn’t seem to adhere to any specific political belief system and he seems to be more curious than knowledgeable about the operations of government.
That must be from his Presidential campaign? Because his mayoral run is explicitly pushing the idea of making NYC a more desirable place for tech companies to thrive. I dont really see how he gets that done while adding regulation.
Among his ideas to raise that extra revenue is to identify “inefficiencies” in the current social safety net that Yang says could be made redundant if the city’s poorest were given monthly stipends.
You’re old enough to remember the last guy who wanted to pay for things via “inefficiencies” in social programs. I’ve heard this song and dance before, it’s a hard “no” from me, dog.