r/Hanania 4d ago

How can Hanania complain so much about the mess that he voted for?

16 Upvotes

UPDATE: Hanania has admitted voting for Trump was a mistake.

Original Post below:


So, for the past two months, Hanania has been a strong critic of the Trump administration. He's criticized the tariffs, the RFK appointment, defunding science research, the crypto scams, the list goes on.

These are all valid, of course, but how can Hanania complain when these issues come from the candidate that he voted for?

He says it here himself: Hating Modern Conservatism While Voting Republican

Some choice quotes:

...mostly due to historical contingency, we live in one of those relatively rare societies where [conservatism] is associated with more pro-market policies.

Democrat judges, political appointees, and politicians default to 'do something,' while Republicans default to 'do nothing,' or, if they’re feeling ambitious, 'undo what has been done.' The conservative approach is usually better.

In this election, one side threatens democracy and the other threatens capitalism. My sympathy towards Republicans is based on my belief that capitalism is simply much more important, and also a lot more fragile.

...there’s no doubt that they [Republicans] have a long way to go before being as bad as the other side [Democrats on being anti-market].

This one's my personal favorite:

On foreign policy, Trump will likely support Ukraine

Reading all of this stuff is so laughable in light of recent events. Has Hanania walked back all of this rhetoric? If not, how can you take this guy seriously?

r/Hanania Feb 01 '25

Why the hell are we throwing every international ally we have under the bus for no reason?

28 Upvotes

Tariffs on Canada, tariffs on the EU, tariffs on Taiwan. What on earth is trump even thinking???

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Coming out as an adult who doesn’t know the strict definition of gooning
 in  r/Destiny  Jan 28 '25

gooning

noun

  1. A state of extended and often obsessive focus on sexual stimulation, typically through the consumption of pornography or engaging in prolonged solo sexual activities. Individuals experiencing "gooning" may enter a trance-like state, losing track of time and becoming highly absorbed in their activities.

1

If major train stations are clean and modernized like this, would that remove the stigma towards public transit in the US?
 in  r/fuckcars  Jan 28 '25

The stigma comes from having to share trains with crazy homeless people.

3

Trump supporter Yolo'd 1.2m on Trump crypto, he lost 500k instantly
 in  r/Destiny  Jan 22 '25

(r slash) wallstreetbets/comments/1i6k39f/i_recorded_myself_instantly_losing_500k_of_my/

it was DJT

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Trump supporter Yolo'd 1.2m on Trump crypto, he lost 500k instantly
 in  r/Destiny  Jan 22 '25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Media_%26_Technology_Group

It's the ticker symbol for the company that runs Truth Social which is Donald Trump's Twitter clone. This company has no involvement with crypto.

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Trump supporter Yolo'd 1.2m on Trump crypto, he lost 500k instantly
 in  r/Destiny  Jan 22 '25

You are aware that DJT is a stock in a company (the one that runs truth social) and completely unrelated to crypto right?

The crypto memecoin you're confusing it with is $TRUMP

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What dictionary do you all use?
 in  r/koreader  Jan 15 '25

From the KOReader Wiki:

How to install a dictionary

To use the dictionary lookup function, you first need to install one or more dictionaries in the StarDict format.

The StarDict format dictionary files have suffixes *.idx, *.ifo or *.ifo.gz, *.dict or *.dict.dz.

The dictionaries need to be installed into one of those directories:

  • /sdcard/koreader/data/dict directory for Android
  • /mnt/private/koreader/data/dict for Cervantes
  • koreader/data/dict directory for Kindle
  • .adds/koreader/data/dict/ directory for Kobo
  • applications/koreader/data/dict directory for Pocketbook
  • $HOME/.config/koreader/data/dict directory for Linux
  • $HOME/Library/Application Support/koreader/data/dict directory for macOS

Since v2020.04 you can override the directory where dictionaries are installed. This is useful if your device has more than one app that can deal with StarDict dictionaries to avoid duplicates. To do so, you'll need to add the full path to defaults.custom.lua. For example: STARDICT_DATA_DIR = "/mnt/onboard/.adds/vlasovsoft/dictionary".

Source: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Dictionary-support

-3

All AI Art Is Now Banned
 in  r/slaythespire  Jan 09 '25

I mean, we still don't. Despite all the populist sentiment about it, AI art is still perfectly legal in the US and Europe, and that's what matters.

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All AI Art Is Now Banned
 in  r/slaythespire  Jan 09 '25

That's pretty much what I'm going to do, but I'm still going to put in my two cents and say this is silly.

3

What are your thoughts on Elon? Pro or against?
 in  r/Hanania  Jan 09 '25

The way I see it, wealthy people like Musk have always been influencing politicians behind the scenes. Musk is just autistic enough to do it out in the open.

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What are your thoughts on Elon? Pro or against?
 in  r/Hanania  Jan 09 '25

He's kind of cringe sometimes, but I appreciate what the X app has become, warts and all. The guy single-handedly shifted the Overton window to the right and now even Mark Zuckerberg is following in his footsteps with Meta.

I'm also hoping Musk can talk Trump out of his more insane policy positions like crazy tariffs on China. As a businessman, hopefully he can be an economically literate voice in Trump's ear.

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All AI Art Is Now Banned
 in  r/slaythespire  Jan 09 '25

Yeah, I don't mean the past as in prehistory; I mean the past as in 10 or 15 years ago when we used to be more pluralistic about divisive issues.

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All AI Art Is Now Banned
 in  r/slaythespire  Jan 09 '25

When did everybody turn into such moral authoritarians? We used to be able to say, "live and let live" and not try to ban every little thing that we don't like or clashes with our moral views.

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All AI Art Is Now Banned
 in  r/slaythespire  Jan 09 '25

Jesus, this is such a non-issue. Just don't look at the art if you don't like it.

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(YOU CAN'T BE FUCKING SERIOUS!!!!!!!)
 in  r/lowtiergod  Jan 03 '25

Would be funnier without the cackling baboon in the foreground.

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Do you believe he makes a good point here?
 in  r/lowtiergod  Jan 02 '25

He's 100% right.

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Destiny and Hanania 2nd convo
 in  r/Hanania  Jan 02 '25

c'mon, destiny and gay jokes go together like bread and butter

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Destiny and Hanania 2nd convo
 in  r/Hanania  Jan 01 '25

Did they discuss destiny's love of grindr penises