Thread by @gauravsabnis

If Yang becomes mayor, it'll be like the 4 Trump years at city level. The dude will just be chasing media praise while actively scuttling the very things that actually make New York great. He wants to actually cut our admittedly slightly flawed but still effective public services

Repeat after me, Andrew Yang is NOT a UBI advocate, at least not the kind of UBI advocate we need in NYC.
He gets random msm & sm love for pushing UBI. But his supposed UBI "dividend" comes from a conservative perspective, not a progressive empathetic one.

Progressive idea of UBI is to give everyone a basic income as a supplement to other public services already in places.
Yang comes from a conservative/libertarian perspective. He wants to REPLACE public services for the needy with a $1000 check. That is a voucher not UBI.

If Yang had intellectual honesty and/or self-awareness, he would be running in the Republican primary.

Listen, #NYC is far from perfect and we will keep working together to make it better. But it's still a city that works way way more than it doesn't. In 20 years, we got 9/11, 08 crash, Sandy, and a covid wallop. We're still soldiering along. Yang is THE worst choice.

Oooh, the whiny self-pity prone members of the #YangGang have discovered this thread and seem to think flooding my mentions is a way to get me to shut up. Who will tell them about me? 🤣

LOL, those who pretend to be libertarian are now coming to my mentions to stan for Yang. If that doesn't show how wrong he is for my city... 🤣🤣🤣

The funny thing is, I never said Yang himself or his policies were like Trump. I just said a Yang mayoralty will have a couple of features similar to the Trump presidency in a general sense.
But the #YangGang keeps stopping the flying arrow as we say in Hindi. 🤣