I honestly think if I’ve had 1000 since 2016, I’d be a god amongst thrifters. I’d also be way farther ahead in my youtube career. That’s just me tho

Big facts we all gotta vote bruh

I think his tech background (or interest in it at least) and charisma with the swing vote would go a long way in shoring up Bernie’s cabinet. Hope he at least considers it

not sure if there's any hope of that. I don't think Bernie seems to like Yang that much. I don't think they're unfriendly but Bernie seems to vehemently disagree with Yang on a significant amount

That’s unfortunate but based on some of the criticisms I’ve seen from Yang about Bernie, I can believe it. However, if Bern can’t even compromise with someone who’s ideologically on the same side....woof

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Y’all think he gon get the nom?

iirc Bernie has maintained the lowest rate of bipartisan votership in the entirety of congress since his initial election to the position. he has never put on a facade of anything except ideological purity for his positions

Bernie and Yang are not ideologically all that similar at all.

Ayekay's got to put on for his race

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I honestly feel like it’s going to doom him, and he’s probably my favorite candidate

I didn’t say that, I said they were on the same side. There’s two sides in politics and they’re on the same one. That SHOULD give him some desire to bounce ideas off Yang

it's both a strength and a weakness. bernie's strong ideological purity is very appealing to many people who share his views, or at least his vision of aspects of the US (especially among younger people). it's good to know for many people that he has a specific vision and won't fold or change it to appease detractors.
however, it's a weakness because the US is not structured in a way in which ideological purity is easily disseminated into universal policy. he isn't very pragmatic and like it or not pragmatism is also very appealing these days to older generations, who make up a strong voting bloc; it's why many boomers seem to like Buttigieg so much, for example.

But they aren't on the same side. If there's two sides, then you'd argue that Biden, Pete, Yang, Bernie, Warren etc., are all on the same side and thus should bounce ideas off each other. Bernie is nowhere near any of these people ideologically and with actual policy, the only thing they all have in common is they want to beat Trump

Yang is nowhere near Biden or Pete. Biden is a milquetoast leftover of Obama-era neoliberalism, and Pete is a slightly more pragmatic standard democrat platform candidate.
Warren is the only real comparison to Yang solely because they both deviate from the party platform otherwise and are focused far more on significant cross-category reform and systematic overhauls. Warren is far more of a neoliberal plant though parading around plans traditionally to the left of her but with liberal nuances added to it.
Bernie is obviously in his own lane as a SocDem but on a per policy basis there are significant overlaps with Yang and Warren; hence Bernie's friendliness with Warren despite their foundational disagreements.

From a political standpoint it’s cool having a guy that will likely stand behind the s*** he promised, I just don’t know how he gets that through the door without the boomers

the main issue isn't even boomers, it's that unless Bernie somehow could pack every single court, state government, and local government in addition to Congress there is no way he could disseminate and enact all of his policies. look at how much trouble Trump has had, and think about completely unradical Trump's policies have actually been in the wider scheme things, and that's WITH courts packed in the favor of his party. I have this same worry about Yang as well.

Btw I really hope Medicare for all makes it through. I recently had a string of hospital/medical visits and the pre-insurance fees bro..,I can’t imagine how tough Americans without it got. That was one of Yang’s biggest points during that podcast with Rogan, but I don’t think his means of handling “someone who slips up once” are preferable to Bernies

I'm not saying Yang is near Biden or Pete, I'm saying by him implying there's only two sides it implies that these people all have things in common which mostly isn't the case.

And no, there really isn't much overlap with Bernie and Yang. You could say they maybe seek to address the same issues, but the way they do so is extremely different.

I misunderstood that slightly.

There are policy overlaps with Bernie and Yang/Warren for things like M4A and making other rights universal. The way they want to accomplish and fund them is slightly different but the actual goal(s) of the proposed policies are more or less the same. Not saying they have the exact same policies 1:1 but rather that they both have policies working toward the same goals versus other candidates in the running who do not.

Bernie wants a single payer M4A system that abolishes private insurance.

Yang has made it clear that he thinks that is "too disruptive" and I don't trust a thing Warren says on the subject after this latest 3 years nonsense.

Again I'm not saying that they have identical policies. I'm only saying that the goals of both candidates are far closer to Bernie than Biden/Buttigieg/etc. I don't trust Warren either fwiw, she's one of my least favorite candidates next to Harris, but I'm using what she said recently instead of arguing against my personal notions of her.

Well I have a suspicion that sometime soon Yang is going to release a health care plan that is going to look an awfully like the public option. Someone talking up m4a but not wanting to eliminate private insurance is a lot closer to pete than bernie