Socialism as a Millennial religion
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, as George Santayana once said. Slightly before him, Karl Marx claimed that history repeats itself, the first time as a tragedy, …
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Crazy Rich Commies
Not that there is anything new or surprising in the fact that the self-proclaimed friends of the workers are living it up while the workers themselves are rummaging through rubbish …
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Now do Hitler
If it was the Soviet Russia, everyone would have needed to swipe right in order to be left: It’s amazing what kind of behaviour hot people can get away with on …
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Welcome to communist anime porn
While we’re still waiting for a comic book about Lenin and Stalin as superheroes (the original Iron Man), the ChiComms produce some cartoon (in both senses of the word) history: …
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20 Best Books I’ve Read in 2018
Happy New Year to The Daily Chrenk readers. If 2018 sucked for you, as it did for many people I know, keep marching on, onward and upward; if it was …
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Should we laugh at evil?
Theodor Ardano had once famously written, “After Auschwitz, no poetry”. One can understand the sentiment even today. But there is poetry. And there is comedy. But not about Auschwitz, of …
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Your social credit card has been declined
I prefer to live in a country where I can rate my government and not the other way around – but many others don’t have that blessed choice: Millions of …
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The strange attraction of communist brutalism
Last month “The New York Times Style Magazine” asked the question that no one has really been asking anywhere: “Can Poland’s Faded Brutalist Architecture Be Redeemed?” My short answer was …
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What Cultural Marxism has wrought
I will keep using the term “cultural Marxism” not only because it annoys cultural Marxists but also because it is accurate. At “The Australian”, editor-at-large Paul Kelly has a good …
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Dear Resistance, listen to my lived totalitarian experience – you have no effing idea what you’re talking about
In a world that the identity politics has wrought, lived experience is a trump (apologies for the use of a triggering word) card: your viewpoint or opinion on an issue …
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The end of The End Of History
Francis Fukuyama got famous, at least in the nerdy political circles, almost thirty years ago when he wrote an article for the neo-con magazine “The National Interest”, which he expanded …
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Welcome to China’s new vocational education colleges
Totalitarianism, as Orwell noted, has always been big on euphemisms to disguise the true nature of its activities. Chinese Marxism-Leninism-Maoism has given the modern world its fair share of innocuously …
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Screw Brutalism
“The New York Times” asks the questions no one needs to ask, much less answer: The short answer is “No”, or at least it should be the answer. There is …
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Children of the Revolution
Number one most-read article in “The Atlantic” monthly at the moment is a very interesting piece by Yascha Mounk, lecturer on government at Harvard, titled “Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture”, …
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Happy 70,000,058th birthday, the Flintstones!
On September 30, 1960, at 8:30 PM, ABC network aired the first episode of Hanna-Barbera-produced “The Flintstones”. The late broadcast hour was a recognition that initially “The Flintstones” were made …
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Stalin and Assad fanboy now hearts North Korea
Jay Tharappel is a Sydney Uni academic (a tutor in human rights apparently) whom TDC readers might remember from last year when I wrote about some of his sterling political …
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Does Millennial illiteracy leads to socialism?
Here at The Daily Chrenk we ask all the important questions. Firstly, the recent scary study: Researchers from San Diego State University recently analyzed four decades’ worth of data from an …
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The Unbearable Lightness of Identity Politics
I blogged yesterday about “The New York Times” hiring a Korean-American anti-white bigot to their editorial board. Andrew Sullivan now provides the ideological context much better and more succinctly than …
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Profiles in corporate courage
The tech giant kow-tows before the Chinese government: Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about …
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