I just want to let you know that if ANY of you motherfuckers buy Richard Hanania’s heel-turn even for a hot second I am going to judge you so hard your grandkids are going to come out cringing
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I’m not forgiving the fools in my own circle for such poor judgement in the face of overwhelming evidence so no reason to give grace to a grifting stranger.
The problem with Hanania isn't that I don't think he can turn himself around, but that he's not even trying. He is carrying on, leaving the work of his redemption to others.
Changed? Changed what!? Is he not a white supremacist snuggle buddy, and misogynist apologist anymore? Even then, he should still be a Neuralink volunteer.
Obviously my threat does not apply to simple souls like Hamish McKenzie who are easily misled. They are victims here and should be cherished and protected.
The post is in itself incredibly telling given that he *still* refers to folks who disagreed with Trump and were proven correct as having “TDS”. He’s telling on himself.
Oh yeah. Every accusation a confession, and that one's a dead give-away. Anyone using the term "TDS" at or about someone else is telling you that THEY have it.
Yeah but, no give any credit to the Nazi, that's not exclusive to him. Like half of punditry has at least one piece (which they were paid in USD to write) about how they were wrong about Iraq but only because they were so smart and savvy, not like the hysterical lefties who happened to be right.
I need someone to write an explainer on this guy. He's on the periphery where I know the name but he rarely pops up on my feed. The few times he does it's with a set of views that don't seem like they're coherent. Like Vermule. I just lump them all together in the Free Press corner of hacks.
Whatever you do, don’t ever bring up the fact that Richard’s own brother threw 2 dogs off the roof of a hospital’s parking garage. He’s very sensitive about that
Hanania’s teed himself up to be the Loyal Opposition and putting markers on the board so he’ll have something to use as a boarding pass if the water starts coming over the gunwales.
Also, f supposedly/self-appointed progressive media brands for platforming or even embracing him. I'm open to people genuinely changing but Hanania isn't one of those people.
The Hell’s Angels didn’t abandon their membership. They put on suits, modified their speech, and sponsored toy donations… while still being a goddamned criminal organization.
I had to look up Richard Hanania. It said he was a political science researcher and political commentator, but seemed to be illustrated with a picture of a random teen pulling faces at a house party.
lol, no the pro wrestling term dates to the territories period my guy. The territories period ended more than 30 years ago. You don't know what you're talking about.
Also the term itself is not a pivot, it's a change in allegiance. The heel in this is not the part of your foot but a heel in the pro wrestling sense, which means villain. The professional wrestling term face is for a hero. These terms were used way back in the territories days to disguise the
fact that pro wrestling was fiction. It's essentially talking in code. The origins to these terms are incredibly hard to pin down because they come from carney and scam culture. Like the term for a fan is a mark, like the way a scammer calls their target a mark.
Preach. Hanania didn’t “change”—he rebranded.
Racists don’t grow out of eugenics like it’s a phase.
They just get better PR and a book deal.
Letting him back in the discourse is how we lose the plot again.
People can have conversions though. I know some who have. But it’s not common, and they need to be aware they’re going to have to prove it to me. I have no clue about this particular guy tho the name is familiar.
Some people do! But nobody's obligated to take a supposed ex-racist's word that they've gotten better, especially if they don't do anything meaningful beyond just saying "I'm not racist any more."
Hanania in particular has very clearly not changed.
I ran into the guy a few months ago for the first time and didn’t know what to make of him but kept my 🧐 peeled and read a few substacks and can now say with roaring confidence: omg, wut the heck man. WHY does he even have ANY audience. 🥶
As Vonnegut explained, "we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." If you pretend not to be a Nazi for long enough, you may turn into a non-Nazi.
I do think part of his deal is that he fancies himself an intellectual and even though he believes all the racist crap he has spewed he is also repulsed by the ignorant cretans that he finds himself surrounded by.
I think he’s mostly trolling them as a way of separating himself in his own mind.
The fact that I even know who this little shitbag is infuriating enough. You'd have to clockwork orange me to read even one of his posts, let alone buy anything he's selling.
Or was it a worked shoot? Regardless, that CM Punk promo was 🔥🔥🔥 I’m not really up on the storylines anymore, but my husband is still obsessed and will be at Wrestlemania this year.
I mean, it's entirely possible his regrets are genuine.
It's also entirely possible this could lead to actual reflection and growth
It's even entirely possible that he could regret being a colossal turd.
But - in the parlance of the olds - sh'yeah right, and monkeys might also fly out of my butt.
Some people really do become better! But Hanania has done nothing beyond claiming a change of heart. I can buy that he wants Trump out, but not because of major ideological objection, just that Trump's tariffs are hurting him, personally.
Vice's "Dark Side of the Ring" is a TV guilty pleasure for me... After this week's episode on Tony Halme/Ludvig Borga I just really cannot take any more pro wrestling correlations anymore. I just can't. It's breaking me.
In 2023, Hanania published The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics, arguing that contemporary "wokeness" stems from civil rights legislation beginning in the 1960s.
Just another racist, right-wing political commentator, who has no problem with Trump, except if his idiocy effects him directly. There are many jumping on that train right now.
I’m not above hoping that him trash-talking Trump will get his followers on the train out of Trumpistan. We don’t have to like them or agree with them on anything else, but we need enough of them to turn if we have a hope of getting out of this.
As far as I can tell, all that guy said was "I was wrong, but not really because I was also secretly right, and nobody saw this coming, except the people who did but we called them crazy so it doesn't count."
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I keep having to use google for this kind of stuff…
Is their some kind of an App to identify racist piece of shit mother fuckers I can refer to?
It would make the task easier.
Never met him
I know intellectually that Hannania has done real damage; he spread vicious, racist lies for fun and profit. I still hope he can reform.
But then a lot of people hang on Noel Skum's every word as if they were scriptural, so one's base expectations should be set appropriately low.
https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/oak-lawn-man-who-threw-dogs-parking-tower-paroled-prison
https://youtu.be/jzMhcP7ab3k?si=oF4vfuGyqo2JIaTB
Thanks
Allow us more than just that one context
Pardon moi
Racists don’t grow out of eugenics like it’s a phase.
They just get better PR and a book deal.
Letting him back in the discourse is how we lose the plot again.
It's not.
https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/oak-lawn-man-who-threw-dogs-parking-tower-paroled-prison
Hanania in particular has very clearly not changed.
https://bsky.app/profile/hananiarichard.bsky.social
Ahhhh, those were the days…
I think he’s mostly trolling them as a way of separating himself in his own mind.
Anyway!
That's logic.
Some things aren’t just ‘bad takes,’ they’re disqualifying.
https://bsky.app/profile/righteoushazard.bsky.social/post/3llycj5ww2s27
Any Trumplodyte that has had an epiphany gets no free pass to Start from me.
"long and hard is the road that up from Hell, we may rise to see the light"
You're all walking, bitches.
It's an interesting question why he's doing that.
It's also entirely possible this could lead to actual reflection and growth
It's even entirely possible that he could regret being a colossal turd.
But - in the parlance of the olds - sh'yeah right, and monkeys might also fly out of my butt.
Hanania is a nitwit's idea of a smart person.