reminder that andrew yang opposes a $15 minimum wage and uses right-wing propaganda to attack it, proposed a neoliberal version of UBI with the purpose of destroying the last remnants of public welfare, and has shit foreign policy views. THREAD WITH CLIPS

here is andrew yang admitting to dave rubin that the explicit aim of his neoliberal UBI is to destroy social programs, and in the most craven way imaginable: by luring people who desperately need them away from it with a lower but immediate cash payment

as chomsky notes, this is the standard technique of privatization. andrew yang knows its unpopular to attack these programs head-on, so instead he's going to trick people into voluntarily abandoning them, and then destroy them. yang is a trojan horse neoliberal piece of shit

after andrew yang was humiliated in the primary, getting a whopping 0.45% of the vote, he not only refused to endorse bernie, but became a CNN commentator who used his position there to constantly shit on him. this was all in february, when the race was still in contention

now we move to perhaps the most disturbing and grotesque aspect of andrew yang's politics: his foreign policy views. this was on his campaign site when he was running for president. it's something you'd expect from some deranged neo-con, and that's exactly what yang is

here is andrew yang regurgitating some of the most depraved propaganda to defend and support the israeli apartheid state when he was running for president. notice how he doesn't care at all about palestinians and their rights, or international law

when he announced his run for mayor, andrew yang came out with a grotesque smear against BDS, calling them anti-semitic and comparing them to nazis (see https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210202-the-palestinian-boycott-of-israel-is-not-racist-it-is-anti-racist/). after being called out on it by activists he lied and pathetically ran away

instead of apologizing for his disgusting smear against activists fighting for basic rights for palestinians and upholding international law, andrew yang doubled down on it in one of the most bizarre interviews I've ever seen. look at this pathetic hack

andrew yang has a knack for not giving a shit about basic rights, which is why he also wholeheartedly supports the extradition and prosecution of julian assange, literally the gravest threat to press freedoms and freedom of speech right now

in short, andrew yang is a neoliberal ghoul who cosplays as some edgy outsider when in reality he's the most establishment shill you can think of. he's the sillicon valley techbro version of biden and mayo pete

btw while andrew yang's version of UBI is neoliberal, there is also a socialist version of it, which is proposed as being *in addition to* universal basic services and social programs. that is the only version worth supporting. see also this thread: https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1222881925473492992

andrew yang's support for cracking down on street vendors, among the most marginalized working class folks in society, with stricter policing and punishing, is just another expression of his overall reactionary neoliberal politics https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1381245547051372548

see these threads to get a sense of the horrific shit andrew yang supports in terms of the genocidal israeli apartheid state's actions and violations of international law

https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1352244928139694080
https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1371905317320134664
https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1362860635147677698 https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1367401800169619459