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Richard Hanania

@RichardHanania

May 8

John Spencer, expert in urban warfare, explains to Sam Harris what was unique about the October 7 footage. First, Hamas members were absolutely euophoric as they were going off to rape and murder. As someone who has led men into battle, he tells us that “this is not normal”.

Most striking was the reaction to the sound of a young boy moaning to death. In a normal battlefield situation, even when there is an enemy combatant, there is usually an instinct to render aid. Here, a boy’s eyes were gone, his father just killed, and the Hamas fighter nonchalantly goes and grabs a beverage from the refrigerator.

This war has clarified so much for me. I keep talking about why Hamas is worse than Nazis, and the moral culpability of Palestinian civilians. People don’t like these opinions. They still remain true. If you have a position on this conflict other than “Israel keeps going until Hamas is destroyed” you have failed one of the great moral tests of our time.

Sam Harris on the overwhelming sadistic joy regular Palestinians felt at seeing Jewish mothers clutching their babies, and defiling the bodies of dead girls.

We simply refuse to face the truth about this culture.

Harris points out the obvious truth that there would be no appetite to parade Palestinian women around Tel Aviv.

Spencer: “Militaries are reflections of their societies.”

Few things about all this are more outrageous than people treating these two sides as morally equal.

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Richard Hanania

@RichardHanania

Apr 29

You've probably heard about Americans fleeing blue states like CA for FL and TX.

But this isn't new.

I've dived into 40 years of GDP and population data and show it's been happening for generations.

Here's how we know economic freedom is better.🧵
richardhanania.com/p/forty-years-…

First, to give one example of how states differ in policy, here's tax burden by state. It varies from less than 5% to 15.9% in New York. They also vary in regulation, minimum wage, strength of civil rights, unions, etc. Here's one map of economic freedom.

You might be suspicious that all these indexes are released by conservative orgs. But nothing stops liberals from coming up with their own rankings and showing how awesome Democrat states are doing. Except the facts. One side is probably doing all the measuring for a reason.

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Richard Hanania

@RichardHanania

Mar 27

Jewish woman moves to the Bay Area for the "progressive values," shocked that the half-literate DEI types who control the school system take the side of the Palestinians.

"At every stop in their education in this progressive community, they had learned about a world divided between oppressors and the oppressed—and now they felt that they were being accused of being the bad guys."

So weird! Wonder how that happened.

"When the Women’s March listed the various injustices it hoped to conquer on its way to a better world, anti-Semitism was absent. It was a curious omission."

lol, imagine being this delusional

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Richard Hanania

@RichardHanania

Mar 25

Conservatism has a low human capital problem. Most smart people are leftists, particularly in the influential professions that are High Status, Low Pay (HSLP).

Does that mean conservatism is doomed? Not at all. I explain how it can still win.🧵 richardhanania.com/p/coping-with-…

It's not simply that engaged liberals are smarter, though they are. It's that they have a near monopoly on HSLPs, people who go into fields like academia, the arts, journalism, etc.

Maybe in the long run you inspire a change here, but this going to be a problem for a while.

Conservatism already gets this and has been adjusting. The first thing is getting better at staffing and appointing people.

Republican judges have become more right-leaning, even if the legal profession as a whole might be leftist. The "No More Souters" campaign was successful.

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Richard Hanania

@RichardHanania

Mar 19

Leftists are trying to pretend like they never had a problem with women's bodies.

We were all there during Gamergate, the opening shot of the culture war.

We're actually doing this. Yes, Sydney Sweeney's boobs are anti-woke. richardhanania.com/p/yes-sydney-s…

My tweets on this topic have gotten 80 million+ views and two Know Your Meme pages, while inspiring too many think pieces to count. You may call it a troll, but the best trolls are based in truths that everyone understands but no one has explained.

This was the main issue in Gamergate! Men liked looking at women's bodies. As video game journalism, like everything else, became woke in the 2010, this became problematic. We're supposed to now pretend that this didn't happen? That the "male gaze" was never a thing?

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Richard Hanania

@RichardHanania

Mar 13

You can't make this up.

The Biden administration tried to make financial aid easier to get for those in the country illegally.

But the system broke down because it froze you out if you didn't have a social security number.

The whole system is backlogged and now in chaos.

The Department of Education was too busy finding ways to forgive loans to be able to distribute this year's financial aid and loans. Also, to deal with school reopenings after teachers unions forced them to close. Every leftist cause just feeds the cycle of incompetence.

Students calling the hotline hang up after waiting for up to 3 hours.

Biden administration offers to help universities deal with their disastrous policies. 180 schools ask for help, only 20 have gotten it.

Minority students and HBCUs hardest hit. There goes equity!

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