Looking two steps ahead

Mike Cernovich doesn't like his "fans". They're the guys who hang around his twitter telling him what he should or shouldn't post, usually with some parasocial commentary as if they knew M.C. personally which they do not, as I do not. So: here comes a fan blog about Richard Hanania. I think it's pronounced Hananía(s) like the Greek; not Hananyah(w) like the Hebrew. He is certainly more Canaanite than I am. But anyway -

Hanania is a Palestinian who lives in America, as I am a European (mostly) who lives in America. Neither of us likes outspoken Americans very much, be those Murrkins Left or Right. Hanania is one of those guys Patricia Crone chuckled at in her book about the wala (I think it was the Zahiriyya): he is on-point about doctrines he dislikes.

Hanania in this capacity waxes sarcastic. It is not always easy to read sarcasm in someone else's Twitter and it's (frankly) annoying. Cerno doesn't do sarcasm (although he'll often retweet it); which would be a point for Cerno if Cerno didn't have such a slate of other literary foibles. When Hanania strikes the correct balance, he renders his twitter an amusing diversion to read ... but you're left hollow after reading too much of it.

But that's all just so much style. I'd rather talk substance. On that, I detect a problem with Hanania's "DUNK 'EM, OWN 'EM" strategery - because he is so deeply unsympathetic to American Conservatives (and, trust me on this one, I am sympathetic to Hanania here) he doesn't look that extra step ahead.

Take this poast: The idea "Covid is about liberals controlling you" is clearly wrong, as it's liberals who are restricting their lives the most, while things are pretty much normal in the conservative part of America. See The View today. Conservatives really don't understand liberalism. Hanania has devoted many, MANY poasts before that discussing how what campus radicals touted in college in 1990 became HR policy in 1998 and is now getting normies #canceled in 2021. Things are "pretty much normal" when you get out of Boulder County, yes. But that "normal" today was Boulder County fifteen years ago. What's going to be "normal" next year (h/t)?

Earlier Hanania was scoffing at Right "paranoia" on the vaccines coming into the food-supply. That's, er... well. (1) This is a real field of research and (2) if you're not hunting and growing your own food, you're at the mercy of those who do. The Right (I am on the Right) were plenty big on the movie Serenity in 2005ish, back when the bloom was really coming off that Dubya rose. We in GenX might also have seen Real Genius from two decades before. There might be some innocuous reason to develop a laser that can incinerate a small target on Earth from space. But more likely when the Federal government is developing such a device, its intent is to incinerate someone the Feds don't like. I am as pro-vaxx as any good fascist, but you don't have to live in a shack in Montana to worry about what else they'll be up to.