Presidential Hopeful Andrew Yang Is a Hit With the Alt-Right

[crazytown]

Presidential Hopeful Andrew Yang Is a Hit With the Alt-Right

Presidential hopeful and Universal Basic Income enthusiast Andrew Yang is shaking up the Democratic field—at least among the extremely online. After collecting more than 65,000 individual donors following an appearance on fighting commentator Joe Rogan’s show, he’s nearly guaranteed himself a spot on the debate stage.

Yang’s meme-friendly campaign and his promise to pay everyone in the country $1,000 a month, forever, if elected, have collected a wide range of adherents. But Yang’s run is also notable for how many adherents it’s won among members of the racist alt right.

White nationalists like Richard Spencer, Faith Goldy, and Nick Fuentes have all tweeted, seriously or not, about their support for Yang.

That chatter is echoed on hard-right Trumpist forums like 4chan. A Storyful analysis found that Yang has been mentioned more than 17,000 times recently on 4Chan, while the next most-mentioned Democratic candidate, Bernie Sanders, has been discussed less than 1,000 times.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/yang-gang-season

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Yang’s campaign manager told the Daily Beast earlier this month that the boon is largely a result of his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, consistently one of the highest-performing podcasts on iTunes. Rogan’s libertarian bent has also given him a cult following among the alt-right, which appears to be driving the #Yangmentum. “Trumpism was the fantasy that America can be we saved,” prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer tweeted earlier this month. “Yangism is the awareness that it can’t.”

Yang’s campaign told the Daily Beast last week that he doesn’t want “hate-fueled donations,”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/yang-gang-explained-810872/

[irisblue]

1. Well, that is discouraging. I learned about him from Freakenomics radio on NPR

[Sherman A1]

3. I learned about him on C-Span

last fall from the Brooklyn Book Festival where he was speaking on a panel and will continue to support him. What others from any political spectrum choose to do is their choice.

I don't take my guidance from hit pieces.

[Sherman A1]

2. He has been mentioned 17000 times on 4Chan

are those negative or positive? Might be worthwhile knowing.

[crazytown]

4. I think it's mass trolling.

But If it’s in Rolling Stone, it’s out there.

[Devil Child]

6. Bingo!

Mass trolling and mass chaos is the primary goal of the incel 4chan demographic.

[Devil Child]

5. Mix of positive and negative

There is a contingent of posters promoting Yang on 4Chan called the YangGang. Some alt-right trolls have hopped on in hopes of securing "yangbux" universal basic income to subsidize their NEET lifestyle.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adamjayne/meme-caucus-is-done-with-trump-full-yang

[Celerity]

7. lol at some of the pics from that article

[crazytown]

8. Maybe it's that easy.

The alt- right will dump trump for $1000 a month.

[Celerity]

9. I don't like UBI because it gives a built in excuse the cut the hell out of all the other social

programmes.

That said, I think you are right, many Trump Turds would drop his orange arse like a hot brick for a grand a month.

[JI7]

10. it's all starting to make sense.

[Socal31]

11. Going on the top Podcast doesn't make you alt-right.

Lazy analysis.

[crazytown]

12. cf

White nationalists like Richard Spencer, Faith Goldy, and Nick Fuentes have all tweeted, seriously or not, about their support for Yang.

[Socal31]

13. I was referencing the first bolded part.

As far as what you quoted, I don't support Yang, but I also don't let wing-nuts troll me.