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  1. Don't tell anyone, but 800 billion of those savings is from a sort of consolidation of welfare programs. The other savings, a statistic he used from the Roosevelt institute, "We currently spend over one trillion dollars on health care, incarceration, homelessness services and the like. We would save $100 – 200 billion as people would take better care of themselves and avoid the emergency room, jail, and the street and would generally be more functional. Universal Basic Income would pay for itself by helping people avoid our institutions, which is when our costs shoot up. Some studies have shown that $1 to a poor parent will result in as much as $7 in cost-savings and economic growth." That's just a couple hundred billion that is coming from the "hidden savings" that you wouldn't want to count, because gambling...
  2. Maybe grassroots advertising? I mean, hell, he's only raised a few hundred k. You have people running that have raised millions and have not even a policy point to talk about. I can't understand how a grassroots movement isn't good enough for you all. He's making his platform clear with literally no money
  3. https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/1106021514917367808?s=20
  4. This seems smart
  5. Yang is going to say that it shouldn't be pushed by doctors as some sort of medical necessity. It's not. Shapiro is going to droll on about culture, to which Yang is going to say it's perfectly fine to do if that's your belief, but it's not a true medical procedure. It's a silly debate. But it's access to a lot more eyes and ears. It's not like CNN has set up a town hall for him, since they think his policies are fringe... The actuality of it are there is more inertia in the status quo, which is empty policy and nonsense bullshit feel-good speeches with little-to-no policy behind them.
  6. Have you seen every one of his appearances? He's trying. But everyone dismisses the idea because, and I'm just guessing here, but the self serving stupidity of the elites don't want to give it a lot of thought. Plus, the whole bootstrapping meme from the whole of the spectrum from the shitlibs to the right wing think it's unamerican to enact. It doesn't matter. We're going to elect another hollow shell, like Obama
  7. Yeah, I wish Shapiro would debate him on Ubi or any number of his positions, but at this point, any media is good media for Yang. The truth if the matter is that Ubi should carry him into the white House on its own. No one else sees it. The automation of factory jobs brought us Trump. How are we doing on fixing that? Well, considering only one person has an idea that would fix it in this whole presidential clusterfuck, I guess we'll never know. We're all just going to watch the world burn with these dumbass policies from anyone else. And yes, 2.4 trillion is the number, but it's much smaller once you consider that even the savings from it will cut it in half, then a VAT that will help us actually capture taxes from Amazon, Google, Facebook, and others, since they live tax free. Yang is getting any part of media he can get in order to save this shithole of a country. The meme war helped get us Trump, so why not use it to get us an actual smart person?
  8. He came out against it being a medically necessary procedure that doctors guide people into. Not against the right to do it if you do choose.
  9. Nm
  10. He's right, though.
  11. I'm safe
  12. I would think that most Americans, especially in the states that are going to be beaten to death with the upcoming job losses, wouldn't see it as communism, since they'd be in it. The only thing anywhere near communism is the rich's entanglement with government.
  13. I would be crazy excited for a yang/butti paring. A Yang in the booty if-you-will
  14. This is an important thing to understand
  15. Well ok Mr Yang. I mean, he's actually pushing a candidacy of ideas. From his recent email: Both Iowa and New Hampshire, along with nearly the entire country, are struggling with opiates. A student asked me this question in Marshalltown, Iowa: “I have friends walking around my high school with fentanyl patches on their arms who are already addicted to opiates. A lot of them would never tell anyone they have a problem because they think they’d go to jail. Would you consider decriminalizing opiates? I think more people would be able to get help.” I answered: “I’m on board with decriminalizing marijuana use—in part because it’s a safer way to manage pain for many people—but I have to look into what decriminalizing opiates would mean for Americans. I’d be open to it if it seemed like it would help us get people healthier faster.” I’ve been looking into it. A couple other countries have taken this step and it has improved public health. Portugaldecriminalized these drugs in 2001; if caught with a small amount of opiates, you have the drugs taken away and are referred to treatment and counseling. This had dramatic positive effects—today, the drug-related death rate in Portugal is five times lower than the E.U. average and one-fiftieth (2%) of the US. Portugal is not the US. But its example may be helpful. We have an addiction crisis on our hands. More than 11 million Americans are addicted to opiates right now. 8 Americans are dying of drug overdoses every hour. For many Americans, the progression goes from Oxycontin to heroin to fentanyl, progressively cheaper ways to get similar effects. This opiate crisis began when Purdue Pharma flooded the market with enough Oxycontin for hundreds of thousands of Americans under the pretense that it was a non-addictive painkiller. They were fined $635 million by the government for fraudulent marketing. But they made $30 billion. That means they paid a 2% fine for unleashing a plague that is killing tens of thousands of Americans each year. That's more Americans than died in the Vietnam War. To me, the Federal Government screwed up by turning a blind eye when Purdue Pharma was initiating this plague. We should do everything in our power to give more Americans a fighting chance to free themselves from addiction and get well. It is destroying families and communities before our eyes. It is possible that criminalizing opiates decreases access and use. But for a public health crisis of this magnitude, the criminal justice system seems to be a terrible first resort. It pushes a lot of the activity underground and makes addicts more likely to hide their addiction. Addiction is a disease—you shouldn't criminalize people that you are trying to help. Especially when it may be partially your fault that they got addicted in the first place. I am increasingly open to the idea that we should explore decriminalizing opiates to some extent in order to more effectively address the public health crisis. We have to face facts. Millions of Americans are using these drugs right now. The priority should be doing all we can to help, not punishing people and pushing the behavior into the dark. Portugal may have gotten it right.
  16. Yeah, I understand that, but then again, there are those that are just as unreasonable on the other side, those that believe that if they bring charges against someone that they're just guilty as hell. I understand that it's never going to change, but there's an element to each end of the spectrum that should not serve for lack of fairness.
  17. That shit is dope. You must see it for what it is... A revolution of sorts
  18. I was on the chan before I came here. I found this place, then left there. I guess I matured
  19. 4chan is basically a dystopia that has rejected most of the status quo in advance. It's really just an image board with a lot of surly assholes on it.
  20. Ha ha ha Yang isn't the groyper candidate. Quit trying to act like you're not alt right. You know Yang isn't fucking alt right, you wierdo
  21. How much? You should read about that first
  22. 4chan is being overrun by the yang gang. Shit is hilarious
  23. A video of Tim pool. He's a very large douche. Anyways... Rise of the pink hats https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/rise-of-the-pink-hats/amp/
  24. It doesn't matter, because not black. Of course, if he does wear a tan suit it'll be very problematic because he's gay
  25. So, when I got shot and subsequently was DOA, I bled out internally. It was a very, very comfortable death. Bleeding out is how I want to go
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