Arthur Chrenkoff

Chrenkoff 2.0. I'm back, after an 11-year hiatus, writing about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

The reason why the left now claims everything is “violence” is because they desperately want to hurt us and they are trying to create a moral framework where they can pretend it’s self defense.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

They lost. So according to your logic, diversity made them lose?

[Joseph Massey @jmasseypoet]

You won’t find a single book that has actually been “banned” here. The left’s cancellation crusade during BLM and MeToo lead to the total erasure of numerous books, including my own. It also destroyed mainstream publishing by introducing “sensitivity readers” and “morality clauses” in author contracts. “Banned” is yet another word they’ve inverted to push anti-Western civilization ideologies. Cultural termites.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Part of the modern communist strategy is to appropriate things they not only had nothing to do with, but would otherwise ideologically oppose, and claim credit for it.

This is a privately funded park. And it was a dump when the city ran it.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

It might seem hypocritical that Variety praises Moana for respecting Polynesian culture while attacking you for wanting Nolan’s Odyssey to respect Greek culture. But there’s actually a consistent moral through-line: They just hate White people.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Nah, it's basically a grift. They know there is a endless well of wealthy progressive idiots who yearn to to firehose campaign money at stylishly commie cosplay frauds, and are more than happy to pocket 10% until it blows up

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

It wasn’t a mistake. They literally believe white people have no real culture, and to the extent they do, it’s oppressive and toxic.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Believe some women with my agreeable politics. The rest are just lying whores.

[Shawn Eni @ShawnEni]

OK. So Helen’s beauty sparks a war.

Athena is a strategic goddess guiding Odysseus.

Penelope embodies clever loyalty.

Circe turns men into pigs, which frankly is still the most realistic female character arc in literature.

Calypso traps the hero on an island for seven years.

Cassandra can literally see the future but nobody listens, making her the first woman in recorded history to experience a meeting.

The Sirens weaponize music.

Nausicaa saves Odysseus when he washes up naked and useless.

Andromache gives one of the most devastating anti-war speeches in the Iliad.

Hecuba is basically the emotional wreckage of empire in human form.

Aphrodite starts half the problems in Western civilization by being hot and petty.

Hera is running divine opposition research.

Thetis gets Zeus involved because Achilles is having a workplace dispute.

But apart from Helen, Athena, Penelope, Circe, Calypso, Cassandra, the Sirens, Nausicaa, Andromache, Hecuba, Aphrodite, Hera, and Thetis...

WHAT HAS HOMER EVER DONE TO GIVE FEMALE CHARACTERS ATTENTION?

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

Unbelievable. Ana Kasparian is telling the Lebanese people that they "lost their sovereignty" because they want to disarm a terror group and make peace with their neighbors.

Another deranged terror-sympathizing white woman in LA speaking over and on behalf of tens of millions of brown people in the Middle East. I want to throw up.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Young Hasan Piker contemplating how to harness working class populist rage for a socialist revolution

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

“Aw man, I covered up my Totenkopf for nothing!”

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

You feel lied to because a brutal regime that has millions of supporters — and tens of millions who don’t support it — and employs millions of Iranians could drive out a crowd for its most important series of events in decades?

Do you know nothing about autocracy and propaganda or are you truly this dumb.

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

Patriot Front are losers, but they hold zero power and have to wear masks in public.

Actual communists and Islamists are winning Democrat primaries.

I would suggest you prioritize the real threat accordingly.

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

Should he call out the Egyptian government for not allowing Palestinian refugees in his country?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

I'm thinking of starting a nonprofit called More Than Words that matches land acknowledgers with Native Americans families. If you acknowledge that you're on stolen land, my organization will match you with a specific family whose land you or your ancestors stole. You would then transfer "your" property to the rightful owner, with More Than Words covering all associated legal and administrative fees.

[Adam Rossi @rossiadam]

NYC had a nuclear power plant 36 miles away called Indian Point.

It supplied carbon-free safe power that would mean no one would need to turn up their thermostats.

But it was closed in 2021 by the degrowth Death Cult. Now NYC relies on fossil fuels for 90% of its power 🫠

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

Marco Rubio's parents came to the United States legally...

And just like that the man who wrote a book called "Win Any Argument" once again, loses an argument.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

I get what you mean here, but saying "the socialists" will have the "new ideas" is like saying "the Shakers have all the fresh thinking." Socialism is not new. The label is about 2 centuries old, give or take. The idea is thousands of years old. There's not a single major idea proposed by the DSA crowd that wasn't an old idea before I was born. From price controls and rent-freezes, to wealth taxes, or shunning Jews. It's all old, old hat. You can agree with it. Or admire it's newfound energy or something. But the ideas are old, tried, and failed.

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