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This is a great public example of Yang being morally rudderless:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/05/andrew-yangs-israeli...



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I'm not for Yang nor do I hate Yang, just noting the irony of the article. Unrelated, do you speak Ithkuil?

You have to squint pretty hard to call Andrew Yang a politician and not a person on a vanity/activism project.

Too much Yang.

Yang is screwed.

I feel like this perfectly makes the case for Andrew Yang.

Wow, Andrew Yang tweeted that just yesterday. Prescient. I like him more and more.

Yang had a nice plan for that :(

Andrew Yang is irrelevant.

correct me if I'm wrong but yang seemed to have balls to stand up to threats, see yang vs icahn

That's the kind of rationalizing I'd expect from someone with such a poor standard of ethics. Gates is not going to be alone here, of course. Everyone doing business in China has to be telling themselves stuff like this.

Sorry you had a couple bad experiences with folks. I'm biased, but I think Yang's message is more positive than others.

Hopefully over time he can earn back your trust.


The news story seemed to close with a counter to the argument that the Biden family are Chinese assets i.e. https://mobile.twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/133621354154038...

So, her intentions were not to go against China. But then she should have been more thoughtful and opted for not reporting the story at all, like it's usually done. If only Fox news is reporting it, the news is easily ignored by liberals. If Bloomberg starts reporting it, even if ends up with a counter, it's still seen by a lot of liberals, some of whom may be able to spot what's going on.

From a Chinese court point of view, her intentions were pro-China (she's working for Bloomberg afterall) but still she could be charged for negligence. Hope it's just some jail time and not a death sentence.


Yep. We saw it with Andrew Yang as well. Either being left out completely, or media outlets taking about 'him' without actually saying his name.

paging Mr. Yang...

Meanwhile his former transportation secretary’s sister is married to Xi. Elaine was briefly in trouble with the media for inviting family to government meetings.

But despite the mass media being a known political collaborator, let’s merely take the content you cherry picked at face value.

Power is in bed with power. Trying to paint one side or another as above that, ignoring facts of biology for political rhetoric is putting your head in the sand.


> just "Yang is like his peers"

Given the assailant was black, I doubt most politicians would get involved or publicise it.



I don't believe Yang did write that since he never (ever) used any capital letters in any of his communication.

I think that's a funny example because he's on record saying that if you're not rich, it's your own fault. Which is of course absurd, just thought it was a funny coincidence given my question and your reply. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8377924

edit: Apparently, Alibaba put out a statement saying that this oped with the tone-deaf statement was not written by Jack Ma. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8378020

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