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  1. I think he's going to surprise a lot of folks in Iowa tomorrow and I fully expect him to grab at least a delegate tomorrow. If he doesn't his campaign will take a major step back considering how much time and money he's spent in Iowa.

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  2. As much as I love Yang his words seem to indicate he won't be too harsh on this group of Republican criminals. The main problem is I see no one in this party who would and should go full witch hunt on every single on these this traitors.

  3. As someone who's done both of these options I would definitely go w the SIM at the airport option but he can actually just decide for himself once he lands in the country and tries it out. 

    Worked great in Japan but I wound up getting a sim card in Thailand and Korea because the speeds were so slow.

  4. On 12/30/2019 at 11:41 AM, gsoda3 said:

    I don't think it's preposterous to say Luka's skill set at this point in time is better than Dirk's was at any point of his career. Obviously a player's greatness takes more than that in to consideration which is why no one is saying luka is greater than Dirk right now. But in terms of shooting, rebounding, scoring, assists... I think Luka is better. Can he take an entire team on his shoulders and will his way to a championship? Can he sustain that level over 2 decades? Remains to be seen.

    Edited because you amended your original statement. If Luka had Dirk's shooting ability we could place him in the all time top ten today.

     

  5. 6 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    It is idiotic to claim that Andrew fucking Yang is the only one up there thinking about jobs. He's on stage with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for Christ's sake. They've been pounding the drums about the death of good-paying work for decades.

    You can't even explain how Yang's UBI addresses job loss via automation, and neither can he.

    Yet Bernie has a full-on jobs plan that actually makes sense and deals directly with the problem.

    Jobs for All

    - Enact a federal jobs guarantee, to ensure that everyone is guaranteed a stable job that pays a living wage.
    - Create 20 million jobs as part of the Green New Deal, rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and creating a 100% sustainable energy system.
    - Create millions of healthcare jobs to support our seniors and people with disabilities in their homes and communities.
    - Create new jobs in early childhood education.

     

    Clearly I never said that he's the only thinking about jobs.  Yang's point is that those jobs aren't coming back and they aren't. His proposal is to give Americans a base to start from and a way forward in a new economy. 

  6. 2 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    The entire article is about job loss to automation. The only solution or idea presented in the article is the dividend.

    Can you tell me what the point of the dividend is if it has nothing to do with jobs?

    Can you tell me why Yang ties job loss via automation to the dividend if it has nothing to do with jobs?

     

    1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

    If we're really concerned that we're not going to have enough jobs to go around...

    - Raise wages per hour
    - Decrease hours worked

    Giving people $1k/mth via a regressive VAT tax isn't going to solve jack shit as far as jobs.

    Yes, the dividend is in response to job automation and job loss. My earlier response was more about your particular response above. Personally, I like Bernie and I'll gladly vote for him if he's the candidate but Yang is the only one in this field who actually seems to be forward thinking and has a handle on a lot of the underlying issues. 

  7. 1 minute ago, bad_teammate said:

    Andrew Yang disagrees. This is his entire gimmick.

    Our economic numbers need to measure what matters. We know stock market prices don’t mean much to the 78 percent of workers in this country who are living paycheck to paycheck or the 40 percent of workers who are a $400 bill away from financial crisis.

    We need to move to a human-centered capitalism, where the market serves us instead of the other way around. That starts by investing $1,000 per month in every adult so that we can build a trickle-up economy, as I have proposed, with the proper measurements and incentives.

     

    Where in that statement does that have anything to do with your statement of creating jobs/solving unemployment? That really isn't the point of the dividend. 

  8. 53 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    If we're really concerned that we're not going to have enough jobs to go around...

    - Raise wages per hour
    - Decrease hours worked

    Giving people $1k/mth via a regressive VAT tax isn't going to solve jack shit as far as jobs.

    It's not supposed to solve shit as far as jobs. 

  9. 3 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Yang is fucking great. 

    Welcome aboard. I was on the anybody but Trump train and still am (even including Corporate Robot Pete) but Yang is the only one who has me picturing a better way forward for America. 

  10. 16 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    This could literally be written about any candidate 

    Strong grassroots

    Media ignores them

    Uptick in poll numbers

    Yang is behind Michael fucking Bloomberg and tied with Klobs in The Economist average of averages. 

    But not the fundraising. He has more small donors than Bernie and has outraised Biden the past quarter and will probably smash thru 20 mil this quarter.

  11. 2 hours ago, BradInATX said:

    I like Yang, but his movement is basically Reddit bros that get their political views from South Park. They should just go back from whence they came, because at least as Bernie Bros they can give Biden a run for his money.

    I went to the Yang rally in Dallas. Crowd was way more diverse than I expected. Good mix of all races both female and male (skewing on the younger side for sure) and it was nice to see a ton of Asians in the crowd for a change.

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  12. 3 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

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    Lol

    I know you don't take him seriously as a candidate Hugo but he's going to be around til the very end and his grassroots support is starting to show in polls even if the mainstream media doesn't necessarily cover it. Expect another uptick after tomorrow's debates. Dude has the most fervent base out of all the candidates and it shows in his fundraising. 

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  13. 21 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    This is so fucking weird and hilarious. I bet Yang smoked A LOT of weed when he was younger.  And earlier today. 

    That's his campaign manager trying to stop it. LMAO. 

     

     

     

    His campaign song is Return of the Mack and he rides a skateboard and looks like every other Asian kid I knew in HS. He has my vote.

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  14. 20 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

    He won’t win but Andrew yang is spouting out things that make more sense than anyone else in the running.

    So yeah he’s generation X. 

    He has a bigger following than is being reported (and his fundraising keeps growing at a crazy pace) so I wouldn't give up hope yet.  And he seems to be the only one who's getting ahead of all the issues ahead. Smart dude w a good temperament who seems willing to listen to the best ideas available regardless of political affiliations.

    Also Gen X and Asian so I guess for the first time in my life I can seriously relate to a candidate.

  15. 22 hours ago, Pancho said:

    The only people “seriously considering” Andrew Yang are...

     

    (checks notes)

     

    Andrew Yang. 

     

     

    I'm voting Yang until he's off the ballot. Then its Warren. Everyone else is just a vote against Trump.

  16. 1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    He has a (D) next to his name.  That’s the weird part. 

    They all work in the sector of one of his biggest policy pushers (automation). Truck drivers, ff workers and retail. Anyone with eyes can see that's where the market is going. For the most part, that doesn't really apply to the Surly demo. I'd guess most of us would be on the other side of this equation.

  17. Just now, Js1 said:

    The Yang Gang does seem a potential problem.  

    I really really hope everyone gets their supporters in line immediately.  As in, "It didn't work out for us this time, but if you don't support THE NOMINEE (who is hopefully not Joe Biden), y'all are just selfishly getting Trump re-elected." 

    I'm ready to vote for a week old tuna fish sandwich that someone farted on and then got run over by a truck.  But enough about Biden. 

    I think the only problem comes from the number of former Trump supporters who have flipped strictly to the D side for Yang. He is the only one resonating with that group and their problems which doesn't really seem to fit the Surly D demographic.

  18. 1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Yang has a link to amazon on his twitter bio pimping his book.  I’m sorry but I just can’t take Yang seriously as the leader of the free world.  He’s a smart and decent guy as far as I can tell but he has all these cheesy gimmicks where I’m like, “Is this just an awesome grift or is this guy serious?”  I lean towards the former. 

    I think the gimmick is the only way he has a shot. He's the only candidate who's not a politician and he isn't a celebrity like Trump was. If he keeps hanging in there he can get his other policies out there too. They all make a ton of sense to me. He doesn't have much of a chance this election but in 4-8 years maybe he will have enough cred and experience at the time to make a real run. Maybe my bar is too low but smart and decent is all I want out of a politician ( on both sides). It would be miles ahead of what 90 percent of what this current climate is.

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