I’ve been reading what I can on there. It’s not that I’m a cheap-ass. (I’ve been donating quite a bit to the John Birch Society and still VDare.) I comment enough on here, too much some would agree, so I didn’t want to open up another avenue for this vice. That’s all it is.

7,000 subscribers – movin’ on up fast! Congratulations.

I really hope you keep posting here at least a few times a week. I like the commenting crowd, though I know a number have made the switch over. Also, I REALLY LIKE Ron Unz’s commenting system too. Maybe Substack should think about implementing this functionality.

No thanks.

Is this the last Steve post on Unz?

No Taki’s this week?

Steve, hearty congratulations on your Substack success. I read your articles ( the free stuff, anyway 🙂 ), and I like that you also keep posting here from time to time. I’ll stick to commenting here for as long as you keep posting: Unlike Substack (and other sites), Ron’s comments system here is great—the best there is for any existing blog format. Basically, what AEN said.

Times changes, right? I remember the olden days:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020325114427/http://isteve.com/

Too bad Steve Jobs never bought out your old domain. Since he didn’t (and probably won’t now) I was always kind of expected you to migrate back there.

I really like the comments system here, and the crowd. And, the incredible variety of subjects…not just politics…also topics ranging from sports to architecture to movie reviews. I donate here because what I call “Sailer University and Pub” is superb. (and the amazing thing is, all this comes to us from a clothes closet.). But I will check-out Steve’s Substack.

Respectfully,
SafeNow
College-Dining-Hall potwasher, Emeritus

Is there an explanation forthcoming on why most of your posts have shifted there since last year? On the one hand, I don’t blame you, as Ron has not added any kind of paid option with a paywall here, which is just dumb as that is the model that most online content is moving to, as I’ve been telling him for years.

On the other hand, let’s just say you have lost the confidence of most of your readership here, and Ron has noted a significant decline in your readers here as a result.

I will not be following you to Substack, since they silently stopped allowing Kevin Barrett to make money there, through Stripe shutting him off and Substack only using that single payment option. I suspect they will come for your subscribers too at some point.

I suggest you find some more open platform instead, especially since you gain almost no visibility by being on Substack itself. Maybe Ghost? I haven’t researched if they are any better, I’m sure there are other platforms out there for you to try too.

Congratulations on the Substack!

I remember you from the old blog.

Snyder is a mere semi-finalist. Pfffft!

And how can a “cult” have only four people? That’s grade inflation.

I couldn’t help noticing that.

Ya ni los negros

"Los mexicanos en EU hacen trabajos que ni los negros quieren hacer".

— La NarcoChachalaca idiota Vicente Fox.pic.twitter.com/dbXNIapvJ0

— Pablo José H. Carrillo (@oceloxochitl_) May 14, 2023

A lot of people come to unz.com/isteve not so much for what Steve has to say but more so for the comments, community and banter.

When I first started reading Steve I actually read Steve. Then I kinda lost interest in what Steve had to say and just read the comments.

If the comment system on Substack doesn’t allow true anonymity some commenters probably won’t make the transition. I don’t know of many sites that, like Unz Review, allow such a high degree of anonymity and are as permissively moderated. (This is either a feature of a bug depending on whether you’re principally trying to create a place where ideas can freely compete, on the one hand, or an echo chamber (or cheerleading squad like Reddit is for the (((left))), on the other.)

When you are a subject of a regime which is as tyrannical and spiteful as the current (((regime))) which presently occupies the West is to its critics, the only way to find truly free and open discussion about the things that really matter (i.e., the (((regime))) itself, its true nature and its policies) is on a site that provides both permissive moderation and a high degree of anonymity.

The most important feature of “free speech” has always been ensuring that dissenters can actually dissent and critique power. It’s not about enabling Howard Stern to monetize perversion – though that is what “free speech” has effectively transformed into – the wanton profusion of lewd puerile trash, and the silencing of critics of (((power))). (i.e., anarcho-tyranny for speech)

Most comment sections on the internet that deal with politics turn into an echo chamber or cheerleading squad for one side. For whatever reason, Steve’s blog on TUR is not an echo chamber. You actually have a competition of ideas (and some find that that’s what makes it interesting). Why is this? Perhaps it’s the close proximity between OG isteve readers/fans, on the one hand, and readers of TUR’s other material, on the other. As I understand it, this was kinda the original idea behind TUR – to bring together writers (and, I suppose, commenters) who have been excluded from the mainstream on both (or all) ends of the ideological spectrum/space.

(TUR is skewed right, of course, but that could simply be because the right is vastly more excluded from the mainstream than the left is – and there is nothing that is more excluded from the mainstream than criticism of Jews, their behavior and their power.)

I hear that you can get permissive moderation and a pretty good level of anonymity somewhere like 4chan, but you can’t get the quality of discussion that you find here on TUR and unz.com/isteve.

Steve himself has been made the subject of a fair bit of criticism. This is probably healthy (even if it doesn’t feel great). Not to sound cliche, but truth is found and forged in the fire competing ideas. Not the warm embrace of a den of sycophants and believers. To find that you can go to church/synagogue or visit the faculty lounge of your local university’s anthropology department or the newsroom (or comment section) at the NYTimes.

Hopefully Steve’s comment section at Substack is as substantive and contentious as unz.com/isteve has been. (I would be surprised if it remains so (at least) on the pieces he reserves for his paid subscribers.)

Can you publish another breakdown of the countries where your subscribers live?

I finally got to where I could make a three digit contribution last year, only to find that the best stuff is over there. I’m really curious as to whether there has been more DEI hiring of air traffic controllers. You had a post about that a year or two back that I haven’t been able to relocate and your current thoughts are behind a paywall. Looks like controllers are 8% African American, which is high if it requires a 115 IQ, but perhaps a lot of qualified blacks get into this field through the military.

Also, I REALLY LIKE Ron Unz’s commenting system too. Maybe Substack should think about implementing this functionality.

With the Whimming add-on?

Which is why you’ve gone stale here.

From last August:

It didn’t take long after his arrival here at TUR to see that Mr. Sailer isn’t so much a dissident as a copium denmother for disaffected white guys who skew 40+ in age. In practically all other respects — and, thus, effectively in that one — he narrates or stands silent on behalf of the Establishment.

This was obscured by the first few years of padding the HBD posts with sportsball, Hollywood, and pop music culture (anchored in his youth), which resonated with many of the target audience. When he got serious about the COVID dempanic and Ukraine warball commentary and adopted pets like Jack D, though, more than a few of the fellows noticed. And now, maybe so has he. Isn’t this

Right now his finger is in the air to see which way the Twitter winds are blowing and what is the permissible bound of Conventioal Wisdom/Establishment narrative. My guess is that he will just ignore them.

true in general?

I keep seeing allusions to Mr. Sailer moving again, a fresh start on another platform. Deciding to appear at the Berkeley Castle and likewise joining the Diffident Right in shying away from topics like Palestine might be seen from a marketing perspective as great ways to reset the brand.

Ron Unz has since been cucking to your disloyalty.

+10 on Ron’s commenting system. The number and shall we say diversity of commenters on Substack is not what it is here.

2) Steve, you got quoted here: https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-faas-hiring

The most important feature of “free speech” has always been ensuring that dissenters can actually dissent and critique power. It’s not about enabling Howard Stern to monetize perversion – though that is what “free speech” has effectively transformed into – the wanton profusion of lewd puerile trash, and the silencing of critics of (((power))). (i.e., anarcho-tyranny for speech)

Hear, hear! Well said.

See here for FAA’s diversity hiring: https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-faas-hiring

This one?
https://www.unz.com/isteve/uh-oh-the-end-of-the-all-male-all-white-cockpit/

Or this one
https://www.takimag.com/article/die-in-the-air/

Regarding the anonymity, Mr. errr, anon: I realize that giving even a real email address is not so big a deal as one can still sign up on tuta (for example, with a tutamail address) without giving out any other identifying info, such as yet another email address (there are real rabbit holes sometimes) or a real phone # for receiving a code.

Here on this site, one can give out a fake address, which is great. This is embarrassing to write, but it took me a decade to realize something. “Why do they allow a fake one? Just keep it simple and don’t ask at all!” The thing is that an email address is unique. It’s the uniqueness that Mr. Unz’s software needs to make sure AnotherDad is not writing Jonathan Mason comments. (Yeah, like we couldn’t tell!)

Sites like this one let the email sites do the work of creating this uniqueness, for real email addresses. There won’t be duplicates. If you give a fake one, it still has that format – making it easy for you to remember – but the site software could have used any code that is unique. People would likely forget that code and end up complaining to Ron Unz.

Only Mr. Sailer could tell us here, but unfortunately, I think this may be the goodbye post on this site. I say that because I’ve noticed no direct marketing of the substack site here before, likely because Ron Unz would not like that. (Couldn’t blame him either.) Maybe there was a quota or deadline to fulfill/make, but something tells me this is probably it. I hope I’m wrong.*

The 2nd latest substack post is more of the good stuff. It shows, however, that Mr. Sailer still does not see that wokeness (“Cancel Culture”), etc. was not just a fad that, whewww!, has passed. There are people who want this stuff – they are not all simply stupid, but there is evil behind it. We’d have had to fight it all another way had Donald Trump not become President and come out kicking ass and taking names!

Maybe some people should give him same damn credit for this. Oh, but he’s lowbrow and all, so …

.

* If we’re left with one last thread going through thousands of comments, as with Audacious Epigone (many hundreds on his), that’ll be sad. For one thing, after 500, with the tweets embedded, the page will jump around for 5 or 10 minutes till it settles down. (Perhaps I need to close some tabs!)

no direct marketing of the substack site here before

It’s pinned to the top of his X feed, which often shows up on the sidebar.
Judging from the number of comments per post, Steve must still generate much of the traffic on Unz. I don’t see any ads here, so I don’t know how Unz makes money. USAID? FBI?

Funny thing: Sailer said Jared Taylor had no chance because White people don’t want an Al Sharpton (a crude example of a racial advocate, meant to show how low-class it is, and intimidate Whites into not doing what every other group does. Using Abe Foxman as your example wouldn’t make it sound as déclassé).

But Trump is the most Al Sharpton-y president we’ve ever had. Bush and Reagan sound like pansy cucks next to Trump. As it turns out, when White people are under threat, they don’t want the nice Establishment goober anymore. They want a pussy-grabber who praises Robert E Lee and talks about shithole countries. So you might wanna “update your priors” as the pretentious say.

Trump constantly talks about the importance of GENES by the way.

Liberal cat lady has herself sterilized to protest Trump:

Not Kidding: Michigan State Rep Says She Sterilized Herself To Protest Trump

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/not-kidding-michigan-state-rep-says-she-sterilized-herself-to-protest-trump/

These people really are deranged.

Are you intending to let your unz.com diary slowly die ?

Why are M-to-F transgenders usually rightists?

As with most bad things today, the trans thing only exists–in terms of being an issue that we normies are forced to pay attention to–because of minoritarianism.

These perverts are annoying to normal people and ought to be just tossed out society. An Aleutian Island or the like. Baring that level of majoritarian sanity, anyone doing this ought to at least be understood to be mentally ill and unfit for any public attention or any sort of important role or leadership.

Get a dose of ‘er in jackboot and kilt,
She’s killer-diller when she’s dressed to the ‘ilt.
She’s the kind of a gal
Who makes good use of a veil,
Yeah you could say she was attractively built.

Cancel Culture is still alive

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote in September.

What exactly is Marko Elez’s ethnicity is not explained, however. *

He appears to be some kind of white guy, so He Can’t Say That:

But if he turns out to be of Jewish ethnicity, does he get his job back? Jews get to say that, don’t they? What exactly are the rules over who gets to declare they are endogamous and who does not?

One of the ironic comedies of the decline of America–and through it the West–is how much of it is driven by one of the most ethnocentric peoples on the planet–Jews–bashing one of the most open and least ethnocentric–white gentiles–as “racist!”.

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Actually, we do have a moderately eugenic immigration policy.

C’mon Steve don’t be daft. You’re supposed to be spreadsheet man. Even just going by IQ, importing a few million came-for-grad-school Indians and Chinese does is overwhelmed by the tens of millions of Mexicans, Central Americans, Haitians, Africans. Even if you mean only our “legal immigration” the “family reunification” and assorted bullshit categories–“refugees”, “TPS”–and bullshit visas–“agricultural worker”–far outweigh the “selected for college degree” categories.

And on top of all that, yes taking in low-IQ people you know are going to be more fertile than the higher-IQ people you take in, also counts in terms of assessing whether the overall policy is “eugenic”.

But the word “eugenic” has been made utterly terrifying.

Key word “made”. Deliberately. Honest facts and clear thinking about genetics … the entire minoritarian narrative just falls apart. So it was, “hey, never let a holocaust go to waste.”

OT — USAID —
Global Affairs Canada removed their entire database of international assistance programs.
https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/?lang=eng

What don’t they want you to know?

Here’s the archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241202222621/https://w05.international.gc.ca/projectbrowser-banqueprojets/filter-filtre

Ron’s commenting system is so much better than what other sites have that I hope he has patented it. He can make a second fortune when everyone finally realizes that this unofficially banned site has cracked the commenting conundrum.

2024 vs. 2020: Trump gained most in Latino towns, Kamala in Whitopias

Blacks have been the cudgel Jews used to beat whites over the head. Blacks–slavery, Jim Crow–is the one group that most whites will acknowledge was a screwup and many are embarrassed by and many do-gooder whites think somehow “must be fixed”. So that has been the core story, mythos in pushing the minoritarian ideology.

But no one else particularly cares.

People coming in with a more-or-less “clean slate” on blacks, and without the “racial guilt” of whites, and generally more ethnocentric themselves than white-gentiles, are not buying. Rather they tend to see blacks as they are. And especially those–like Latinos–who skew working class and pushed into some proximity with blacks, have even less use for this black deification.

The Jews swinging and the white-gentiles doing their sackcloth and ashes routine taking their beating plus the blacks themselves are declining portion of the population.

The Hispanics and whites and Asians who are sick of the deification and done with “blacks!” are an increasingly larger portion.

Pfi$er $teve’s last substantive poast on UR mocked the 1.3% chance a comet hits Earth in a few years whilst he also daily shit the bed 2020-2022 viz a virus [sic] with 0.2% fatality. For the innumerates here, that comet is seven times more likely to kill you.

Pfi$er $teve is a fraud.

Economics look favorable for the transition.
Start with that 7,000 substack subscribers.
At $10/month, that is enough to keep iSteve in Natty Light for a long time.
Even at $5/month, and adjust all for the Substack vig.
Still a tidy net.

Side benefits could be better sleeping hygiene, more real life opportunities for golf.

You don’t need to toss them anywhere.
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1. Restore freedom of contract and association in the private sector.
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2. Debar cross-dressers from public employment as a disciplinary problem.
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3. Ignore prison inmates and the like who want ‘accommodation’.
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4. Ignore school children who want ‘accommodation’, ignore their Muchausen mommies.
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5. End 3d party payments to medical professionals who perform these procedures.
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6. Go the extra mile and simply debar these procedures as a species of medical malpractice.
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7. Fire school teachers, school administrators, and social workers who promote this cr!p.
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The issue would largely disappear if it were not being promoted by public employees.

Genghis Khan and the U.S. Deep State

The worst spending is the spending that
A) supports or propagandizes immigrationism or DIE or QWERTY crap
and/or
B) provides more comfy sinecures for Parasite Party voters to nest–protected from having a real job in the real world where they might actually learn something and grow up.

Cutting all unnecessary spending is general sound good-governance, but chopping down this parasite enabling/propagating spending is essential.

Not spending it would be best, but I’d rather the feds give money to Mongolia, or give it away in a lottery, or burn it to keep warm on winter nights, than spend it on parasite propagation and propaganda.

Well, I guess this is the end. Been fun, boys (and the occasional girl). Twinkie and AnotherDad, wish your family all the best. Buzz Mohawk, sorry for that time I pissed you off (still not sure what I did). Germ Theory of Disease, you had some awesome stories. Sorry I didn’t get half of your references. J. Ross, same. Never thought of Invisibles as prophetic before. Jack D and IHTG, thanks for your defense of the tribe, even if it I have to admit it was sometimes undeserved. (I mean, we still did Cultural Marxism, even if none of *us* perosonally did.) Reg Caesar, those anagrams always made me smile. Achmed E. Newman, Peak Stupidity was pretty funny.

Tiny Duck, thanks for the entertainment.

Albertosaurus, rest in peace.

Hope you all find happiness whatever you think and make America great again.

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Mr. Sailer still does not see that wokeness (“Cancel Culture”), etc. was not just a fad that, whewww!, has passed.

See also my recent comment at Peak Stupidity (under a post on the ongoing debate mid-air collision over the Potomac River and its cause):

I’ve argued with Steve Sailer commenters that Wokeness, in a reasonable definition of the term, cannot be said to originate in the early 2010s. People seem to like this ‘narrative,’ for some reason, but the “women in the military” push long predates the 2010s. [….]

Those reading this, feel free to go to Peak Stupidity and read the rest of that commentary and responses. (For newcomers–read comments from the bottom-up; earliest comments are at bottom):

“The Pilots of PAT-25” (Peak Stupidity, Feb. 6, 2025)
https://peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=3184

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And this earlier one, with the debate going strong on the cause of the mid-air collision and what Wokeness (may) hath wrought:

“Did D.I.E. cause 67 people to die?” (Peak Stupidity, Feb. 5, 2025)
https://peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=3183

Ron’s commenting system is so much better than what other sites have that I hope he has patented it

Indeed, Mr. Unz has lapped the competition. His system is well thought out, weighs the trade offs wisely, etc. Even his 3 comments per thread per hour rule prevents threads that have deteriorated into insult fests from becoming too annoying. His system is peerless, it’s in a class by itself. In fact it’s so good that I’m starting to suspect Mossad involvement…

Ego and $. both unz and sailer will be less interesting without the other. my apologies to isteve for being an ass in the past. best of luck in the future.

STEVE SAILER’S KISS-OFF TO UNZ (AS I IMAGINE IT)

You Unzites provide few or no bucks.
For you, hence, I have few or no f**ks
to give any more;
therefore don’t let the door
knob divide, on the way out, your bo-tucks.

— the one they call Desanex (@oneDesanex) February 7, 2025

DEI vs. Affirmative Action

Again, “Woke” is just minoritarianism on drugs girls with smartphones.

The level of nonsense that girls are willing to parrot is apparently quite high. And many private companies have realized that listening and capitulating to all the dumb shit the “girls with BAs” on staff spew is not a winner for their image nor customer loyalty nor just running the business.

But again, if all that happens is woke excesses are peeled back a bit, then this is a wasted opportunity. Because it is minoritarianism itself–the core of the ideology that the nation’s majority, the productive normies, must bend over to accommodate all the various minority oddballs and weirdos–that is the cancer upon nation and civilization.

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And you know I don’t much like your old style smiley AA stock photo either.

And I doubt I’m alone.

The pic peddles this lame “must have blacks!” narrative that is reality upside down. America was built by “boring”, “vanilla”, “white bread” guys. If you want to center someone … center us.

And amusingly it does not even “look like America”! The immigration loons have insisted on rapidly “diversifying” America. This includes a huge Asian influx, and the pic dutiful tosses in an Asian girl. But the biggest element has been the rapid Latinization of America–from a couple million to now 60 million plus Latinos during my life–now the largest minority group. But the same people who brought us this immigration tsunami are themselves still locked into their tried beat-whitey-with-blacks routine. They don’t even seem to notice or care about the very people they waved in to diversify my stale pale ass. With predictable results–queue your Latinos swing toward Trump post.

Indeed, Mr. Unz has lapped the competition… His system is peerless, it’s in a class by itself. In fact it’s so good that I’m starting to suspect Mossad involvement…

If your device explodes when you’re typing a comment someday, you’ll know.

This is in reply to Almost MO too, as I compare this system to the Amazon one-click controversy of 25 years ago. They wanted to patent not the software code (fair enough, I guess – it’s IP at least) but the concept of “hey, I can mash one button instead of 2 or 3”! Amazon’s position was ludicrous.

Now, Ron Unz put his work into this, so, yeah, it’d be nice if substack or whoever would pay him for having that same code running their comments. However, if they find a way to do this themselves, fine too. It’s not like a mousetrap – it’s just software.

I remember when Mr. Unz made that rule and the equally good rule for # of responses in 8 hours IIRC. Perhaps he’s too busy now still buttressing his Americans did Covid and other Americans did every bad thing that ever happened theories or he’s watching more videos of cute western girls in China. (I’ll get back to you on your good question, A.M., later on.)

Does the USA make a good colonial administrator?

No. Not that there’s anything particularly good or bad about Americans doing it, but just that the whole ruling over other people thing sucks.

If there is an actual lesson of the War it is “imperialism sucks” or “stay in your own nation”–not all the “tolerance” and “diversity” claptrap nonsense we’ve been force fed.

One of Trump’s deficiencies is he’s a “big man” prone to the whole “big man” “must remake the map to leave my mark” nonsense that has been a recurrent plague upon mankind down through the ages. The upside, of course, is that Trump is–finally–going “big man”, “kicking ass and taking names” on all sorts of parasitic shit going on in the US. Trump 2, is already–just two weeks in–orders of magnitude better than Trump 1. So his random “Greenland!” spitballing isn’t bothering me on bit. Trump National Nuuk!

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It actually wouldn’t be a bad idea to “clean out” Gaza if it was part of a broader reordering of the Middle East.

The main reason Europe had been peaceful after the War was nukes and the US Army. But also involved was that in the aftermath of all that nasty carnage and borders and people–painfully–moved around, the resulting nations were much more “one-peopleish” than pre-war.

Example: a couple that are good friends of ours from grad school. The guy’s parents got the bum’s rush from the Sudetenland post-War. So our friend grew up in Bavaria, married a nice Bavarian gal. Been ten years since we’ve visited them there, but they got a couple of nice boys, have grandkids now. He’s lived a good life as a German, in Germany instead of being a troublesome minority in some other country. And–properly ensconced in their separate nations with a border–Germans and Czechs can get along fine.

Unfortunately, no one–not even Trump–has a magic wand they can wave and get all those people sorted properly–Jews here, Christian Arabs over there, Shia Arabs over here, Sunnis over there, Kurds here, Druze there … It would cost less to do that in the long run than continued conflict.

Why are African-American births plummeting?

I suspect for mostly the same reasons that births–and marriages–are plummeting in other demographics as well.

Which in terms of the 2010 speedup, I would guess mostly comes down to “smartphones”. Smartphones seem to exacerbate the natural sexual differences between men and women. They really highlight and sharpen some unpleasant tendencies and behaviors of women. (And porn and video games tend to do so with young men.) It turns out that this technology–which you’d think “dating apps” would make it easy for men and women to get together–just further separates the sexes from each other.

Now why would blacks births be slumping more than whites?

— They had kept slightly higher birthrates, so some slumpage is just catching up.

— Black men having other options lowers the birthrate for black women–whom men from other races really are not interested in.

— The immigration tsunami has particularly negative impacts on the earnings of black men. There is very little–outside of the few who can make a living in sports/entertainment–that black men can do that Mexican guys can not do better/cheaper with less hassle. Fewer black men with “husband” or “dad” potential pushes down the birthrate of precisely the more on the ball black women.

Whatever the cause, we should be encouraging it by ensuring birth control is freely available to black women and encouraging/incentivizing its use.

~~

Finally–if we could ever stop the immigration lunacy!–the natural “breeder recovery” for whites/Americans would be led by conservative religious whites like the Amish, Mormons, kaganovitch style Orthodox Jews, Mormons, “Quiverfull” Christian types, trad Catholics, etc.

But this sort of organized, conscientious, patriarchy really is not a black thing. Blacks suck at it.

American sexual mores have–sadly–become much more “black”–disordered, chaotic. But–gladly–those sort of disordered sexual hookups seem to now be tailing off in fertility.

Basically, if we could kill off the immigration loons and avoid downloading Steve’s “World’s Most Important Graph”, then the “breeder recovery” would be centered in conservative religious patriarchy and be making our future whiter and brighter.

this is the end

Substackization.

An increasing amount of all serious writing-output has now been funneled to Substack. A few years ago people were heard celebrating this. The problem is, Substack is not really what people think it is.

Substack works a lot like social-media sites. There is a feed and an “algorithm” at work. People are incentivized to put up cute, attention-getting “content” which can be shared widely. There is a huge surge of attention towards brand-new “content” and then it falls away and becomes semi-hidden to the typical end-user.

The main “feed” at Substack-dot-com is not far off from what usual social-media “feeds” are like. Content you are shown is not really of your choosing. There is also a strange thing whereby Substack automatically signs you up to follow accounts it says “Oh, you’ll probably like this” (I think this kind of process is how Lex Fridman became so popular).

Substack retains the air of seriousness, a degree of long-form-friendliness. A big difference with Twitter is that on Substack there is money being sent directly to writers. There is less a feeling that you’ve walked into the mind of a mentally unstable person, which has been true of Twitter for some time (perhaps all along, but really worrying by some point maybe in the late 2010s, and just depressingly obvious by the early 2020s).

The problems of Substack’s monopoly power and content-consumption model remain. It’s not far off from being another social-media site, with many of the usual pathologies.

Art, I don’t always agree with you, but If this comment section should go away, I’d like you to know that I really appreciate the thought and effort you put into so many of your posts.
You’ve obviously given a great deal of thought to the problems besetting our country and importantly, to some solutions.
You’re right up there with Buffalo Joe in my pantheon.
Thank you.

Well, sort of on-topic. Isn’t Ibram X. Kendi a favorite target of Steve’s?

City Journal posts ol’ Ibram’s obituary: https://www.city-journal.org/article/ibram-x-kendi-boston-university-antiracist-center?skip=1

Wasn’t he last heard criticizing Israel? No mention of that.

Of course that would have had nothing to do with his demise.

Buzz Mohawk, sorry for that time I pissed you off (still not sure what I did).

I don’t remember. All is forgiven, of you and all others here.

Fellas, it’s been good to know ya.

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Eah, Sturgeon rule. There are excellent writers in every age; this time, they’re at SubStack. Years ago, they’d be on their own blogs. Yeah there’s crap but as Dr Uwe Boll says you are on your own responsible to discriminate. As a Spanish anon noted during the recent TikTok kerfluffle (which had the effect of making him check out TikTok for the first time, Demicrats stay failing), there’s good stuff on there, and after he had viewed a few wholesome educational videos, their algorithm updated itself and stopped recommending thottery.

that is a great picture. like some goofy AI generated cartoon.

Why don’t Santa Ana winds blow from Santa Ana?

Uh … maybe because they aren’t named for Santa Ana–the city–but for winds blowing down the Santa Ana mountains? (Heck I learned this when I was a kid–2000 miles away in Cincinnati.)

LOL, Steve, not everything is about you. About LA.

And no “Death Valley Winds” is stupid. The winds have nothing to do with Death Valley, other than it is over in the intermoutain West. The winds are not blowing in Death Valley. Nor necessarily from the direction of Death Valley. Rather they are local–katabatic downslope winds generated by colder/denser air falling down a mountain slope and in the process heating up and ergo drying out (lower relative humidity at a higher temperature).

If you’re such an LA homeboy that you don’t like “Santa Ana” as the catchall, you can give a separate name for each wind for the mountain range it is blowing down. Or you can call them the generic “Devil Winds”. Or you can tuck in your LA County parochialism and give Orange County the naming rights on this one.

Even though Steve does not seem to read many books, he should try to read an autobiography of a public autogynephilia. Steve would learn that most of them always leaned toward being a woman but tried to hide it. When in a normal M/F marriage, the wife almost always knew and even assisted in their private trans behavior. However, it does not seem that Steve wants any information that would contradict his belief that being autogynephilia is like a switch being turned on in midlife.

Unz allowed me to check to see if he’d announced a terminal illness. SFG certainly comments less often than he once did.

If Africa electrifies, do Africans stay home or leave?

Quarantine.

Whenever there’s a question about Africa the answer is always “quarantine”. Africans are going be Africans. We can not fix it. But we can easily–and must!–keep the problem from spreading further.

I suspect for mostly the same reasons that births–and marriages–are plummeting in other demographics as well.

I would also speculate that maybe, through some mechanism we haven’t yet plumbed, we have collectively realized there are enough people now.

I mean, modern populations are literally an order of magnitude greater than what they traditionally were. Nations have five to fifty times the populations they once did.

There are a great many people. Maybe it’s time the numbers fell a bit — nicely, like with lower birthrates.

Obviously, there can be too much of a good thing. You can’t have six helpless oldsters for every able-bodied twenty-something.

But what’s wrong with 1.5 children per woman for a while? Assuming the pattern isn’t dysgenic, I really don’t see the problem with a US with 120 million people. Things worked fine when that was what we had.

OT — I don’t think it’s this simple but this was definitely a major factor. Anon says:

All it took to destroy the Democrat Party was some *very mild* criticism of israeli genocide. Jews withdrew their organization, media, and financial support and the Democrat Party died after 150 years.

Let that sink in.

I’m also not sure about the “mildness,” Democrats effectively said “I don’t care if your daughter gets kidnapped naked on the back of a truck with terrorists spitting on her and stoning her.”
He’s talking about this:
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A different anon observed:

They’re doubling down on what lost them the election lol. They have no leadership whatsoever too. Who the %@#$ is the leader of the democrat party? Chuck Schumer?

‘Whenever there’s a question about Africa the answer is always “quarantine”. Africans are going be Africans. We can not fix it. But we can easily–and must!–keep the problem from spreading further.’

Morbid thought for the day: what about all the animals? Don’t you want lions and elephants and zebras and giraffes?

Just keep letting the blacks breed and get modern medicine and those will all vanish.

So…bar pharmaceuticals? After all, we could always tell ourselves they can learn to synthesize their own.

Uh huh.

BTW, I really, really like this JD Vance guy.

Smart, level-headed, American thinking:

Here’s my view:

I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life.

We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever.

So I say bring him back.

If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of… https://t.co/OgG6Z3hKPE

— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 7, 2025

After the reign of terror of unhinged girls and soy boys, we are now seeing actual male leadership again. What a breath of fresh, sane, rational air.

I take it you didn’t sign up, A/D. How far back are you gonna go here? He’s been writing there at a decent clip for half a year at least. For me, I’ll just take it to my own site.

I’m sure you know I’d have liked to read the DIE in the sky one, but I have a real beef with Mr. Sailer (admittedly not into economics) say that deflation is worse than inflation. (To me, that it’s a bad thing at all. It’s NOT!) That was in the pay-walled post about tariffs. Alas, I calmed down and sulked off to Peak Stupidity.

I agree. So does Elon. Vote here: https://youtu.be/9sI8goniDOA
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I worry about Substack as a choke point. What if they go woke? What if they go broke? A lot of writers are relying on them now.

Also, I notice that Steve’s site doesn’t have a “substack.com” domain name. Does this mean that he is running his site on his own host using Substack’s software? (As I believe you can do with, e.g., WordPress). Would this at least partially insulate him from corporate Substack, and allow him to maintain his site if things go south?

Also, not having any subscriptions, I wasn’t even aware that Substack has an algorithm and a feed. Hmm. Well, anyway, at least they don’t frontpage swine like “The World’s Most Censored Writer”!

I take it you didn’t sign up, A/D. How far back are you gonna go here?

No, I’m signed up, though I haven’t upgraded to paid.

It’s just a lazy afternoon. AnotherMom’s out sitting/chatting with the neighbor gal on their dock. I didn’t get enough sleep last night and am a slug. Figured I could toss off some thoughts on Steve’s last week’s worth of posts to get some new conversation started here while I crash down toward a nap. (We’re what 500+ on the asteroid post now?)

SS’s Substack is about what you’d expect – good on Human biodeversity – but when it comes to Everything really important in the past few years – Covid, the stolen election, Ukraine – you might as well check in with Jonah Goldberg.

Ron’s comment system is by far the best I’ve seen anywhere. I’ve made that comment before and there were complaints that it was flaky, but I’ve run into very few problems myself.

I C. Yeah, I was going to answer Almost Missouri under that post, but the page would not settle down. Anyone else have that problem, or do I need to clean up this device?

BTW, I don’t know if you’re on the west coast of Florida or the east, but, especially on the east, there are airports every 10 miles. Get your certificate. It sounds like you’ve got the money now. ;-}

Something I really respect about you is that you don’t try too hard to be popular.

You know better than I do that a grifter in your position would change their blog to, “HoLoCAusT is FaKE! CoViD is FaKE! GAzA is FaKE! ThE DoLLaR is FaKE! FLouRiDE is FaKE! ANtarCTicA is FaKE! BUY MY LIVER DEFENDER VITAMINS! INVEST IN MY CRYPTO ASSET PORTFOLIO AI SPAC!” And be a lot more popular, wealthy, and with much less hate mail.

On the other hand, let’s just say you have lost the confidence of most of your readership here, and Ron has noted a significant decline in your readers here as a result.

Are you an actual bumpkin or is the handle ironic? Because it seems like Steve has a lot of ruraloid, working-class guys who are mad he as a college educated suburbanite from L.A. isn’t indulging their fantasies about Satanic pedo rings or whatever the latest thing is.

Of course deflation is bad. You borrow money to produce something, and you can only sell the product for less than you planned, plus you have to pay back the loan, if you can, with money that’s more valuable. Food prices plummeted early in the Depression, and many farmers lost their land and livelihood. Businesses with large inventories went bust. Homeowners couldn’t pay their mortgages. Then the government tried to fix things and made them worse.

Speaking of indeed, you should.

“Cancel Culture is still alive”

Patently false, Mr. Sailer. The WSJ published public comments made previously by a supposed government employee. He chose to resign as a result of the fallout. Then said person was brought back to his “job”.

“edgy wisecracks”

False characterization, Mr. Sailer. “Normalize Indian hate”. “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool” and “I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask.

It’s a grown ass man, not some “kid” engaging in “stupid social media activity”. Rather, he is a raptor testing fences, a man purposely seeing if he can make those comments without reprisal. He has been emboldened by yourself and others on the Interwebs to say whatever the hell he wants.

But reality doesn’t work that way. You know that, Mr. Sailer. Free speech is never free. There are positive and negative consequences to one’s words. But your snark here gets in the way of common decency. I suppose you figure if the current target was Indians (dot, not feather), rather than the old standby Jews, it’s no big deal.

So JD Vance the cuck further opens the Overton Window. “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity” is a direct shot at him. Yet, it’s only out of political necessity that Vance and his hot piece of ass Indian wife give the white dude a free pass. I’m certain that his kids will look forward to the future when some f—-head goes up to them and says his father is race traitor. Then Vance can intervene and meekly say “well, you made a mistake”, rather than punch the guy in the face in response to his wife and family being dishonored.

What would your buddy Andrew Anglin say?

Anyways, the bigger issue, of course, and one you dare not openly.and critically address, is how this guy, who just got reinstated, is one of two temporary appointees at Treasury connected to DOGE who was granted access to a highly sensitive Treasury system that processes trillions of dollars in payments every year. I thought you were a rule of law and law/order type of guy. If this was George Soros who installed members of Antifa to engage in similar conduct, and not Musk and his loyal band of sycophants called the Incel Clown Posse, you’d be NOTICING.

So why not delve deeper into how “ [as] critics highlight legal and ethical issues surrounding DOGE’s seemingly unchecked pursuit of government austerity, Democrats in Congress are running into obstacles. A Democratic-led attempt to subpoena Musk about possible conflicts of interest over juggling his DOGE role with the six companies he operates was blocked by Republicans on Wednesday. Democratic Senators are issuing blistering statements, and writing letters to Musk’s companies demanding answers, but such moves are unlikely to result in testimony in Washington, as long as Republicans hold a majority in both chambers.”

Answer—you’ve got closets to remodel and dog food to buy.

The commenting system on Unz is far better then twitter or other sites.

Europeans have got themselves jumbled up again. Again you have a lot of Poles living in Germany and a lot of Ukrainians in Poland to mention wholesale movement of others. There are English living in Spain and France.
Basically the entire continent is on move.
So the simple picture you like isn’t reality anymore. It was artificial in 1945 and more artificial now.

The Sudetans were not a troublesome minority making trouble in other people’s country. They were an anciently settled majority in Sudetenland which was given to Czechs as spoil of war.

Your error lies in ignoring the fact the borders between the peoples are not given by God for all times but are negotiated through war. So each nation living peacefully in its own land is a pipe dream, a mirage.

Plus the fact that some people don’t recognize some other people as a a separate people. Spanish don’t regard Basque as a separate people that need their own land and neither do the Chinese regard Tibetans.

So, the nationalist prescription doesn’t work either. If anything, the imperial prescription is better for peace, harmony and prosperity.

Attorney General Bondi just issued her first statement touching on 2A and the ATF.

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William Kirk discusses the matter of United States v. Peterson, a ruling from a 3 Judge panel in the 5th Circuit that leaves instrumentalities like suppressors very vulnerable for future regulation with this line of reasoning.

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The US Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit issued a major ruling on suppressors under 2A.

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It's funny how in the Fifth Circuit, a Bush-Bush-Reagan panel draw is an unlucky one.

The ruling in US v. Peterson is plainly wrong. While I understand why the panel thinks that suppressors are not "arms", as they are an optional added-on tool and guns can fire without them,… https://t.co/G1XKwWTfi5

— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) February 7, 2025

Trump Issues Executive Order to Protect Second Amendment and Gun Ownershttps://t.co/Z5hDZFi2UB

— Bearing Arms (@BearingArmsCom) February 8, 2025

Swedish Government Backs Gun Ban After School Shootinghttps://t.co/oerL4pdyM0

— Bearing Arms (@BearingArmsCom) February 7, 2025

DJT, JD, and Elon just rehired the Big Balls kid, so you and the WSJ doxxing bitch can FOAD.

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Well it’s looking like “the falcon has heard the falconer” as more and more of the media are finally taking Steve Sailer’s longtime assessment of popular sociopath Ibram X. Kendi to heart.

Better late than never, I suppose:

https://www.city-journal.org/article/ibram-x-kendi-boston-university-antiracist-center?skip=1

Ironic, as I now live in a city that is considered more backwards.

The problem with Steve, and perhaps you, is that he doesn’t follow the evidence where it leads on matters other than immigration, say how the Ukraine war was clearly provoked by US deep state trolls like Nuland over the last decade. His take on that war and some others like Covid or the Nordstream pipeline bombing have been so laughable that one suspects him of outright lying, ie trying to ingratiate himself with the establishment by mouthing their lies that he doesn’t believe. Jeff Sachs talks all the time about major reporters and officials he knows who have to do the same at their large institutions, Sailer clearly feels similar pressure at his small blog.

Steve is big on IQ, but frankly my assessment of most of the “best and brightest” I’ve observed over the years is that they fall for almost as many dumb ideas as those less gifted, they just do it a little less and can create all kinds of convoluted but wrong rationale for why they do. I don’t exclude myself, as I once supported Bush II’s Iraq war and ignored the anti-vaxxers.

You and Steve’d do better to not worry about who went to college, but to actually examine the evidence for these various positions and say what you think, then examine the rejoinders from those who disagree. Steve stopped doing that here, presumably because of the aforementioned outside pressure from above, so it’s time for him to decamp.

“Of course deflation is bad.”

Deflation is bad for people in debt like people who borrowed money for new businesses. This is largely the fault, though, of the previous inflationary era that distorted economic activity. In the late nineteen twenties, inflation created a huge stock market bubble.

Inflation has created bubbles in recent decades like the nineties dotcom bubble and the mortgage bubble the next decade. We now are likely in a bubble that may pop that involves stocks and other assets like Bitcoin.

The worst part of the inflation in recent decades is rising wages. On the surface this sounds good. However, the higher paid American workers can’t compete with lower paid foreign workers. Not many people understand that inflationary Federal Reserve policies have helped lead to the offshoring of industrial production and our large trade deficits. Our factory workers lose jobs but people who own assets that rise in value with inflation, like stocks or real estate, become wealthier.

I think Musk has won the best DEI win. Deserves a gold medal. It is a double benefit too.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/boeing-has-informed-its-employees-that-nasa-may-cancel-sls-contracts/

This was the moon project to launch a bunch of DEI astronauts to go walk on the moon and may be bring some dirt. Zero scientific value, besides ‘winning’ over China as they are planning a moonshot.

Or, for some of you guys who are not Ralph Mooney acolytes:

Not all subscribers are paid subscribers, LG5. We discussed this in another thread a few months back – got no idea of the ratio. At 10% even, at this point, it’s OK money. He can write off the closet on his taxes too!

Women were not forced on to the military. When they were allowed to join the regular armed forces sufficient numbers did so to allow the volunteer military to succeed. Without women volunteering to join, the draft would have had to be reinstated. Would you like to have been drafted, Mr. Hail? If not, thank a woman who joined up so you didn’t have to.
Women served in combat long before they were legally allowed to — they volunteered to served in combat roles. They served knowing that they would not receive hazardous duty pay like their male comrades, nor receive CARs or CBIs when their male counterparts did. Or Purple Hearts.
As far as women aviators, I’m surprised that you don’t realize all those who oppose women pilots are cherry picking. I thought better of you. I guess I was wrong.
In any case, I am personally acquainted with a female who served as a Navy Corpsman who later went to OCS as a Navy Aviation Officer Candidate, flew helos because at the time she got her wings the Navy was long on fixed wing aviators and short on helo bubbas. After her first fleet tour she applied for transition to fighters and was accepted so her shore duty was going back to flight school for a fixed wing refresher then to advanced. Once that pipeline was completed it was on to Fleet Replacement Squadron and then back to sea.
So here is a female who served on the ground with the Marines, flew helos and then fighters. What about her being female disqualified her for any of those roles she performed as well as her male counterparts? How was she “forced” onto the military when all the armed forces are suffering from a severe shortage of individuals capable of doing those jobs?
You know, the US has been more or less continuously at war for just about all of this century. Did you serve? Did Sailer? Did this Achmed character? If not, why not? Why do you object to others doing what you were not willing to do? And if you think an unqualified person is allowed to be a “doc” or to pilot a military aircraft you are either an arrogant fool or a mental case.
People like you all would probably be happier in an Islamic culture where you could keep women enslaved, rather than a Western Christian country, especially America, where women have worked side by side with their men to conquer the land and create this country.

“…However, the higher paid American workers can’t compete with lower paid foreign workers. Not many people understand that inflationary Federal Reserve policies have helped lead to the offshoring of industrial production and our large trade deficits. …”

This has more to do with the exchange rate than the domestic inflation rate. The dollar tends to have a high exchange rate because lots of foreigners would rather hold dollars than their local currency. I guess they haven’t got the memo that the dollar is about to become worthless.

“Pfi$er $teve’s last substantive poast on UR mocked the 1.3% chance a comet hits Earth in a few years whilst he also daily shit the bed 2020-2022 viz a virus [sic] with 0.2% fatality. For the innumerates here, that comet is seven times more likely to kill you.”

Speaking of innumeracy this calculation assumes a comet hit would kill everyone on the earth. Suppose instead it would just kill anyone within 100 miles of where it hits and that it is equally likely to hit anywhere on the earth’s surface. Then your chance of being killed given a comet hit is about 1 in 6400. Combined with a 1.3% of hitting this is a probability of being killed of about .013/6400 = .000002 or 2 parts in a million. .2% on the other hand is 2 parts in a thousand. Which is a thousand times more not seven times less.

You can tell the difference between paying and free subscribers in the comments.

If you look at commenter’s avatar the paying commenters have a symbol overlaid on the avatar that looks sort of like a rosette (line drawing not solid).

“Why are African-American births plummeting?”

I don’t believe that they are. This is propaganda that I have seen for several years that I believe is intended to put White patriots to sleep.

The proportion of blacks in this country keeps on rising, while the proportion of Whites continues to sink.

There are excellent writers in every age; this time, they’re at SubStack

My comment was, I think, only a superficial/partial criticism of the Substack model.

Another problem, with “great writers being at Substack,” is the creation of a celebrity-journalist bubble. There are some writers who make fantastic money on Substack due to being celebrity-writers. People plug into the Substack-money-paying ‘ecosystem’ and crank out wealthy celebrity-journalists.

One can easily see (or foresee) problems with this part of the Substack model.

But Trump is the most Al Sharpton-y president we’ve ever had.

Who is his Tawana? His Crystal Mangum?

They want a pussy-grabber

Congratulations. Your standards are as low as any black’s. But we already knew that.

Trump constantly talks about the importance of GENES by the way.

His last campaign was pure “civic nationalism”. That’s what put him back in office, where he can do some good for a change. Geez, he bombed with whites making six figures, while improving with every other demographic. Kamala, not Donald, is the one who followed your (and Al’s) advice.

It’s great that Trump is standing up for white farmers in South Africa, but he’s not doing this because they’re white; he’s doing it because they’re true victims.

You’re no different from those “switcheroo” Democrats who claim credit for Republican policies their own forebears strenuously opposed.

As for your perennial all-caps charge, the G-word…

I wasn’t even aware that Substack has an algorithm and a feed

Try visiting Substack.com main page.

If you’ve ever plugged yourself in to any of the “Substack family of products” (and possibly even if not), even if NOT having an account signed in, tour browser will, due to data-tracking, successfully enmesh you in an algorithm-feed. It will guess what will get your time. This is part of the deal with Substack. And really all the big Internet “platforms” and the entire Internet, evident to varying degrees.

The Internet had evolved into a kind of mind-control machine (“the attention economy”) by ca. 2020, when Substack enters the scene. Substack is not off that model, is my idea, although it seemed to be at first (around late 2020 is when, I believe, real momentum began towards Substack.) Part of the concern about “AI” is extrapolation from what the Internet had already become “pre-AI.”

(Followers of my commentary on “the Corona-Panic” in 2020-2022 know I believe that was a key part of the entire thing. To simplify the idea: no Internet-driven disruption in info-flows (no “Internet mind-control-machine attention-economy, no pandemic.)

There is great value in a ‘model’ in which a community specifically goes to a specific place for a specific purposes, rather than have their informational lives completely managed by fatcat Big Tech barons and their H1b minions and a global network of wires.

Yeah sure that’s all true but I assume that the rational consumer is seeking good content and not Current Thing.

OT — Steve, I hear that your neighbor Kanye bought you a shirt, what’s that about?

Your standards are as low as any black’s.

Loyalty to one’s own people is indeed a low benchmark. Sad so many don’t reach it.

His last campaign was pure “civic nationalism”

In many ways, yes. But these are early days and what’s important is the direction things are going in. Your side, the anti-White identity side, has lost.

while improving with every other demographic

Yeah, non-Whites prefer allying with a real White man, not a “race-blind” cuck.

one of the most ethnocentric peoples on the planet–Jews–

Emma Lazarus was horrified by the wild horde of Eastern European Jews disembarking at Castle Garden, but nevertheless felt a bond with and an obligation toward them. She joined the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society to help civilize them. But ethnically, she was very distant from them. Something else was at work.

Likewise with Netanyahu. He may be Ashkenazi, but his base isn’t. They’re scarcely of the same race, let alone ethnicity.

I agree with you the Republican party should represent the interests of Whites and Trump made an attempt to do that but there were a couple of other factors involved in him winning.

Trump seemed to make a concerted effort to appeal to male voters by appearing on media popular with them like the Joe Rogan show. While the percentage of Whites have dropped in this country, the percentage of males has not. The Republican party may in the future rely on the male vote to win elections.

In addition to this, Trump made an effort to appeal to independent voters who are unhappy with both parties. This would include admirers of RFK Jr. and his opposition to Big Pharma, Tulsi Gabbard and her opposition to endless wars, and Elon Musk and his opposition to government overspending.

The stock market as a whole did horribly in our previous inflationary period, the 1970s. That was partly due to higher tax rates on capital gains begun in ’69 and repealed in ’78. It’s really annoying to pay any tax on entirely inflationary gains.

The Hispanics and whites and Asians who are sick of the deification and done with “blacks!” are an increasingly larger portion.

More blacks than one might imagine are beginning to come around to the “blacks!” narrative, and the political party that authored and championed their own hamstringing since the sixties, thanks to YouTube.

Don’t expect Thomas Sowell to directly implicate the Jews, however. Jews continue to be the third rail of politics. Like in Judo, the only way to defeat Jews in political power is to use the weight of their shitty rhetoric against them, when possible.

Thomas Sowell is pretty good at that and, like in Malcolm X’s day, some black Americans are coming around:

Steve’s data was for US-born black women. I believe that ~20% of US blacks are more fertile foreign born or born of immigrants, which is why the black proportion of the US didn’t drop with the yuge Hispanic/Asian influx. I assume this includes cat-eating illegals.

To be fair I think that a comet strike would affect people way further out than 100 miles. Tunguska was an amazing stroke of fortune, except for the very few underneath it. It hit land so no tsunami, it mostly burned so no quakes, and chose one of the remotest places on earth.

“a copium denmother for disaffected white guys who skew 40+ in age. ”

Very nice. Captures it nicely, and I say that a disaffected white guy 40+ in age. Very nicely said.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth.

The vast majority of M-F are only engaging in a perverted form of narcisstic bullying. They know they aren’t female. We know they aren’t female, and they know we know. But they will make us submit to their demands for access to women’s sports and women’s bathrooms by using the power of the State to bully us.

They aren’t being bullied. We are!

They should mount that thing at the entrance of the Israel embassy.

The name of that female Marine? Hillary Clinton, bigots.

Corvina, thanks for the post. It filled in a lot of blanks on a story I haven’t been following.

If this is to be our final posts on Steve’s Unz blog, you went out with a bang.

Something else was at work.

The suspense is killing us, Reg…

Hooters is to open in the Bigg Market, Newcastle, a drink and debauchery kind of a place whose most famous literary habitués are The Fat Slags.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fat_Slags

“They are depicted as overweight, eating large amounts of food, mainly chips, while also having a lot of casual sex.”

Naturally the Guardian is horrified.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/08/its-horrible-hooters-plots-british-breastaurant-expansion-via-newcastle

“It’s horrible,” responded Jen Bagelman, 41, a professor of geography at Newcastle University who lives close by in the city centre. “We can do better than this.”

Hooters has never really been successful in the UK – everyone likes a pretty barmaid, but maybe it’s a bit too obvious for us. The only other success story is the one in Nottingham – another place with a big drinking/partying scene.

The Newcastle Hooters will have a capacity for 200 people, but Goard suggested the brand would raise the standard of outlet on the Bigg Market, perhaps Newcastle’s rowdiest street. The council has been seeking to regenerate the area after years of decline.

Blimey. Never been there, but if Hooters will raise the tone of the Bigg Market, it must be quite a place.

Steve, why is everyone assuming you’ll stop posting here? Did I miss something?

There were probably plenty of better qualified guys who would have liked to been a helo pilot or fighter jock, but were denied the chance because the slot went to this chick to fill the DEI/AA quota.

Yeah, sure, anonymous, the Service Academies and flight schools are just starving for applicants, so they are forced to accept women and blacks.

If we hadn’t been at war for the last forty years in pointless wars that did nothing to advance the prosperity and security of the country the military would have all the manpower required.

But who wants to sign-up to get forced to participate in Gay Pride Month, then sent to some fly-blown crap-hole to get one’s legs blown off, while some chick flys around in Uncle Sugar’s toys?

I’ll miss your posts on TUR and the comments that they elicit. Sorry, I’m too skittish/paranoid to follow you on SubStack or Twitter.

So here’s a (silly O/T) goodbye post:

Is Microsoft Excel the Next Big E-Sport?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/microsoft-excel-world-championships.html

And yes, there really is a World Dog Surfing Championships:

So…bar pharmaceuticals? After all, we could always tell ourselves they can learn to synthesize their own.

Seems they were smart enough to decline the Covid vax.

“Without women volunteering to join, the draft would have had to be reinstated. Would you like to have been drafted, Mr. Hail? If not, thank a woman who joined up so you didn’t have to.”

LOL! This is some of the best lunacy I’ve read in quite some time.

Speaking of deranged women, Rosie has indeed returned to UNZ, but steers clear of Sailer’s comments and thinly veiled and recycled feminist crap in the front page article comments.

If you had served you would know that women in combat roles in the combat arms, tanks, infantry and artillery is a bad idea. Aerial warfare has been non existent sine Vietnam. Women can drop bombs from aircraft easily and it involves little risk.

A Trump Slump in immigration has happened before. The exact same happened in early 2017. It didn’t last; nothing about the Trump movement 2015-16 momentum lasted, not at all in the way the USA needed/needs.

VDare’s pro-Trump cheerleader element, back in the late 2010s, jumped through hoops to make it seem Trump-I was a true hardliner on immigration after all, even though there was no wall, no mass deportations, no crackdowns on employers, no moves to eliminate “birthright citizenship,” no talk of shifting policy towards moratorium, no talk of a sensible and rational demographic-stabilization program (“for us and our posterity”). The overall impact of Trump-I, I think even pro-Trump fans today (and there are many still in elevated moods from the Slaying of Kamala a few months ago), was much less than should have been.

The man is a performer. The deportations are staged as made-for-TV (or social-media) events. The tough-guy talk is still not backed up by actual surge in deportations. The annualized rate under Trump-II is the same, possibly lower, than under Biden. But he declares victory and demands to be given accolades, then picks big fights over nothing (more “performance”).

The best that can be said about the so-called mass-deportation program supposedly ongoing is that either (1.) it’s not yet geared up (but when would it be a better time?); or, (2.) it’s really all about sending a message, not deporting brown bodies, and that the message will induce brown bodies to self-deport or future brown-bodies to never show up at all.

There is a likelihood, I think, that this same man could offer a grand bargain of amnesty for most illegals in exchange for guarantees of accolades for himself, and guarantees about building and running that Mega Trump Resort along all the beachside property in Gaza (to be accessible to vetted global wealthy-elites on whom Jared signs off on, along with all Israelis and dual-citizens not of Muslim or Christian origin).

Interesting commentary this week similar to some of my commentary:

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Katherine Br*dsky:

Substack’s…business goal, which is savvy, is to get bigger names with existing audiences to transfer over here and this is what they are incentivizing. However, it means that smaller publishers aren’t going to get the same boost and might be overlooked by audiences.

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Richard K*slan:

The problem with Substack is the absence of 1) editorial review and 2) curation. That is why the writing is generally very poor.

Neither of the above can be accomplished without significant subscription revenue to pay professional editorial staff. Tech, the most perfect cost-free copyright theft mechanism ever invented, can never limit copying and therefore supply is endless.

The only ones who can make money are the platforms, like vampires. That is the basis of streaming music. Writers made real money in the 1920s, when copyright laws were strong, enforced and when it cost a good deal to print pirates. But a century later, it is only possible for a very few. But the tech firms get free content! It’s a racket.

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P. Nayland K*st:

From what I can see, Hamish McKenzie [Substack co-founder] and the rest of the Substack leadership are succumbing to the saccharine allure of celebrity.

A substantial number of the “names” who have been recruited to Substack honed their social media style on Twitter when it was the corporate media’s echo chamber, and which there is decided effort underway to recreate on Bluesky.

Echo chambers are stagnant swamps—and while Elon Musk turning Twitter into X has ended the liberal media echo chamber, the sobering reality is that a MAGA echo chamber is every bit as stagnant.

Which means recruiting these celebrity “names” means Substack is filling users’ feeds with insipid, anodyne, banal content that says nothing and accomplishes even less.

I already know what these “names” have to say, which is to say I have full measure of just how boring they are.

Substack would be far more successful and far more appealing if it would take a chance promoting the non-celebrities within its user community. Give the undiscovered diamonds in the rough a chance to reach a wider audience.

That would be maintaining fidelity to Substack’s vision and to their corporate mission. Recruiting celebrity “names” is a betrayal of both.

https://substack.com/@mysteriouskat/note/c-90578751

Also, I notice that Steve’s site doesn’t have a “substack.com” domain name. Does this mean that he is running his site on his own host using Substack’s software?

I don’t know how Substack does it, but you can redirect xxx.com to go anywhere you want. It’s just a bunch of DNS records and Apache configuration.

“DJT, JD, and Elon just rehired the Big Balls kid, so you and the WSJ doxxing bitch can FOAD.”

There wasn’t any doxxing. The guy publicly made comments on social media. There are consequences in life. The guy is lucky that he is allowed to come back.

The vast majority of M-F are only engaging in a perverted form of narcisstic bullying. They know they aren’t female. We know they aren’t female, and they know we know. But they will make us submit to their demands for access to women’s sports and women’s bathrooms by using the power of the State to bully us.

Right. And how many have done the surgical transition rather than just flounce around like “Admiral” Rachel Levine? Very few, I’d wager.

There was a guy in Arlington VA who was hanging around naked in the women’s room at a local pool and the usual libtards were all for his trans rights until they found out he was a registered sex offender.

Trannies are an 80-20 issue with the public and it’s surprising that the Ds think this is a hill worth defending.

Steve Sailer is moving to Substack because he is an American boomer who still remembers the Cold War and doesn’t want to be associated with a pro-Chinese Communist Party platform, which the Unz Review has become in the past few years.

“until 2024 when I finally had a chance to meet them in person and most of them turned out to be a generation younger”

Not according to one of my friends whom you signed their book.

So, is this your last post here? Is this post your cagey way of saying goodbye on this site? How does Andrew Anglin feel about it?

My vague impression is no, but I think you owe it to your fanboys and fangirls to say directly if it is.

“The man is a performer”

This is why you and those who voted for him are suckers. Not saying Harris was any better, she wasn’t, but everything Trump does is TRANSactional.

He pretends to care about flyover country. But in a heartbeat, he would sell them out.

Look at how he is fellating Musk, his benefactor. I thought Bannon was going to find a way to get him removed from being his right hand man. Lol.

Sailer knows this, but he is busy building up his brand to remodel his closet and buy more dog food.

Deflation is bad for people in debt like people who borrowed money for new businesses. This is largely the fault, though, of the previous inflationary era that distorted economic activity. In the late nineteen twenties, inflation created a huge stock market bubble.
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There was almost no inflation between 1922 and 1929. The stock market’s P/E ratios weren’t above the median until 1928. There’s nothing pathological about increases and declines in securities prices. One problem which was if I’m not mistaken peculiar in 1929 was the degree to which shareholders had relied on borrowed money to purchase their shares.

Now, Ron Unz put his work into this, so, yeah, it’d be nice if substack or whoever would pay him for having that same code running their comments. However, if they find a way to do this themselves, fine too. It’s not like a mousetrap – it’s just software.

I think Ron Unz has commented before that the system gradually evolved and that there is so much spaghetti code in the system that it could never be separated out or maintained as an independent product.

However I don’t see why some software company doesn’t start from scratch and duplicate all its main features. It could easily become a global standard. Probably AI could write the code.

Here is what AI says.

Duplicating the commenting system used on *The Unz Review* (Ron Unz’s website) would depend on the level of functionality and moderation features you’d want to replicate. Based on the site’s existing system, here are some key aspects and how difficult they would be to implement:

### **Key Features of the Unz Review Commenting System**
1. **Nested (Threaded) Comments** – Users can reply directly to specific comments.
– **Difficulty:** Medium. Most modern CMS platforms (WordPress, Discourse, etc.) support this natively.

2. **User Authentication (Optional, Anonymity Allowed)** – Users can post under pseudonyms without registration.
– **Difficulty:** Low to Medium. Allowing guest comments is simple but increases spam/moderation challenges.

3. **Comment Formatting (BBCode-like or Markdown)** – Users can bold text, italicize, insert links, and use block quotes.
– **Difficulty:** Medium. Libraries like Markdown.js or BBCode parsers can handle this.

4. **Comment Sorting and Filtering** – Comments appear in a structured way (chronologically or by relevance).
– **Difficulty:** Medium. Sorting by timestamp or votes is straightforward with a database-backed system.

5. **Upvoting and Downvoting** – Users can “Agree,” “Disagree,” or otherwise react to comments.
– **Difficulty:** Medium. Requires a database structure to track votes per comment.

6. **Spam and Moderation Controls** – Includes flagged comments, admin moderation, and possibly auto-filtering for offensive content.
– **Difficulty:** High. Automated moderation (e.g., word filters, AI-based detection) can be complex.

7. **Permanent Comment Links** – Each comment has a unique permalink for sharing.
– **Difficulty:** Low. Standard for most commenting systems.

8. **Email Notifications (Optional)** – Users may be notified of replies.
– **Difficulty:** Medium to High. Requires backend email handling and user opt-in features.

9. **Highlighting “Important” Comments (From Editors, VIP Users, etc.)** – Some comments are visually distinct.
– **Difficulty:** Medium. Requires a user role system.

### **Implementation Approaches**
– **Use Existing Platforms** (Easiest)
– **Disqus, Commento, Isso, or Remark42** – Ready-to-go third-party solutions.
– **WordPress + Comment Plugins** (e.g., wpDiscuz or Thrive Comments) – If running a WordPress site.

– **Custom Development** (More Control, More Work)
– **Backend:** PHP (Laravel), Python (Django/Flask), or Node.js.
– **Frontend:** Vanilla JavaScript, React, or Vue.js.
– **Database:** MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB for storing comments.
– **Moderation:** Akismet (for spam filtering), basic admin tools.

### **Overall Difficulty**
– **For a basic system:** **Moderate** (1-2 months for a skilled developer)
– **For an exact Unz-like system with moderation and features:** **High** (3-6 months or more, depending on complexity)

Would you be looking to build a similar system for your own site?

“Steve is big on IQ, but frankly my assessment of most of the “best and brightest” I’ve observed over the years is that they fall for almost as many dumb ideas as those less gifted”

Right. But it is no surprise that Mr. Sailer hasn’t written post after post about the incompetent and brainless Department nominees by Trump. It would interfere with his brand building.

you…are suckers.

You know what would be funny?

I’ll tell you what would be funny. It’s this: It’d be funny if Mr. Blumpf gets done his vow to deport Palestinians and gets more Palestinians but claims victory and moves on after a view deportations-for-show in the USA. More Palestinians permanently removed from Gaza (and the West Bank?) than illegal immigrants permanently removed from the USA.

– 2,100,000?: Palestinians in Gaza (minus ca. 50,000 killed; ca. 125,000 wounded, of whom at least 25,000 are likely to die of wounds, or have already died, as they have not received treatment; generally, an untold net-loss of life-years for all causes, deprivation);

– 1,250,000: Extrapolated total deportations of illegals in the USA under Trump-II (four years), based on the Jan 23 to Feb 3, 2025, illegal-alien detention rate (caveat: Yes, it may increase later; but why not now?).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_deportation_of_illegal_immigrants_in_the_second_presidency_of_Donald_Trump#Statistics

Inflation rewards debtors and punishes those who would like to conservatively save the value of their lives of labor. Deflation does the opposite. “Neither a lender nor borrower be.”, said some guy in a Shakespeare play. Yes, of course there’s a reason to borrow when doing business, but the interest rates in a free market (without Gov’t interference) reflect the price of the use of that money.

Your example of the Great Depression 1.0 was more of a bubble busting, due to FED messing with the money supply during the 1920s. Of course, there’s a lot more to it. Mr. Sailer’s example is from well before the FED, at the end of the 1800s. That was, gold production could not keep up with the demand for dollars.

I started to write some more, Ralph, but I’ve been meaning to write a blog post on this subject for a long time. I’ll do that next week. Same for my reply about China to Almost Missouri. Trying to sucker people onto my blog? Well, sure, I guess …

I didn’t know that, Mrs. Katze, so thanks. (I would NEVER have known what that rosette meant. I’ve been really bad with understanding icons since the beginning of Windows!)

However, there aren’t 7,000 commenters – maybe there are 100 (hopefully increasing…) That sample of paying vs. nonpaying is only for that small sample of commenters who, I hope, would lean toward being paying subscribers.

If nothing else, if you really get into it, as I do here, you wouldn’t want to miss commenting on the many pay-walled posts.

Certainly the rearrangement of borders following both World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman empire and World War II and the breakup of the British empire shaped the modern world.

Eighty years after the end of World War II it is a ridiculous situation that the descendants of displaced Palestinians are still hanging out to dry in refugee camps with no homeland, but then they are making things worse for themselves due to poor decision-making.

Even if the Jews did not have Israel, they would still have strongholds and considerable influence in the US, France, Canada, and the UK.

Unfortunately when they were given quasi-independence in Gaza, the Palestinians were quickly overpowered by the Hamas crime syndicate and billions of dollars of international aid was funneled off and used to build tunnels and home-made fireworks instead of for infrastructure development and public works to build a model state that could have shown what Palestinians could really do.

Things were going well with the opening of the Yasser Arafat airport in Gaza in 1998, which was attended by Bill Clinton, but not long after the Palestinians started the Second Intifada for what seemed to be really childish reasons, and that was the end of progress for the Palestinian people.

Possibly the situation could be resolved if Hamas were all deported to Guantanamo Bay and the city redeveloped as an international protectorate where local Palestinians would have at least some kind of self rule, but with adult supervision to make sure that the rough kids did not take over the playground.

Howeve the bottom line remains that the Israelis and the Palestinians hate each other, and probably always will. Even though both sides refuse to eat pork, they cannot see how much they have in common.

Good point, Greta. I agree with you on this. It’s no fun like that – I was under that deal for half the time or so.

For TUR, I’m pretty sure the “whimming” method, or lack thereof, is a setting for the blogger. I notice in threads of Ron Paul, who along with Pat Buchanan, when he was here, are syndicated so widely that they probably wouldn’t even know their columns are here, much less read comments, the setting has some short time duration (possibly just a wait time for whatever routine in the dBase or somewhere makes them active) to de-moderate comments. For Ron Paul it was always under an hour, IIRC.

Paul Kersey might take DAYS sometimes, to get around to it. That’s no good. Some others, with perhaps fewer comments than iSteve has, might have the manual setting but are so excited “I GOT 3 COMMENTS!” that they de-moderate them very soon after they are submitted.

Now, re substack, some of the people writing here now (e.g., Mr. Hail) would be able to tell you, but those wordpresses and blogspots, disqus, etc. systems have censorship that is built in. Not just racial/sex/tranny stuff that is “not cool” with somebody somewhere but even just too many links (when you aren’t told the rules), a minor cussword, etc. gets comments trashed. I don’t know how bas substack is about that. In that case, it may very well NOT be up to Steve Sailer on stevesailer.net.

Curtis Yarvin makes the Gaza plan sound downright reasonable.

Trump loves Jews. But you still voted for him anyways against your own (white) interests. Isn’t that hilarious?

And you know what’s even funnier? Conservatives claiming they champion privacy rights but enabling DOGE to run roughshod over them.

—Various state law enforcement officials warned that DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, has reportedly used a third-party, open-source artificial intelligence system to process data from other agencies recently, sparking fears that Treasury Department records could be mishandled.—

Regardless, Trump is YOUR man.

The US Military has turned into history’s most expensive daycare program.
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3662171/dod-reduces-on-base-child-care-fees-for-military-families/#:~:text=Improving%20access%20to%20child%20care,year%2C%20according%20to%202022%20figures.

The DOD operates one of the largest employer-sponsored child care programs in the U.S., serving more than 160,000 children every year, according to 2022 figures.  

From the chart, given that most of the participants will be in categories I-III, we’ll call the average weekly fee $61. The average weekly cost of daycare in the US, per Google AI is $343. So 82% of the cost is subsidized by the taxpayer. That’s before we even get to the lifetime medical benefits and hiring preferences for federal makework jobs.

But of course, the US Military is the galaxy’s most formidable fighting force, having won a war as recently as 1990, so there must be a payoff in military readiness for having all these birthing persons in uniform:

https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/01/exclusive-deployed-us-navy-has-a-pregnancy-problem-and-its-getting-worse/

A record 16 out of 100 Navy women are reassigned from ships to shore duty due to pregnancy, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.

PRC influence operations bearing fruit…

2) Steve, you got quoted here: https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-faas-hiring

Thanks JDB. I had a back-n-forth with another commenter a week or two back who was trying to blame the CTI (collegiate training initiative) as the ATC problem rather than Obama nuking the actual aptitude test (AT-SAT)–for, of course “adverse impact”–and putting in a racialize hiring metric. That’s just wrong. That system was working adequately.

And had another back and forth with AEN last week who was pointing at Covid delay–which no doubt made things worse.

But as this makes clear the culprit is clearly the Obama administration destroying the existing, decently functioning system with a good aptitude screen, with a “diversity” screen. The black controller organization cheating was just a cherry on top. Simply put the “diversity” screen just means a lot of mediocre candidates who
— wash out in greater numbers
— take a much longer time on the job being mentored–which sucks up seasoned controller’s time–before they can independently work
— a poor/medicore performers on the job
— can only be assigned to less busy centers/airports
— have shorter careers as active controllers–i.e. get promoted to do management or quit

The ATC shortage–including the failure to actively manage the airspace at DCA to the level necessary–is a product of the “diversity!” ideology being imposed on the FAA and ATC.

I really hope you keep posting here at least a few times a week.

Are you kidding? This post was Steve’s swan song from Unz

I was always kind of expected you to migrate back there

It was difficult to monetize a self-made blog like that; I’m not sure you can even monetize Blogspot

Agreed. One of the things I hate most about the current internet is the degree to which everyone tries to tell you what to read AND makes it hard to find what I want to read. Facebook seems like the best example of this. Always a challenge to find old comments I want to reread.

How is Substack for allowing one to search effectively for content? I think that is one of the less heralded aspects of Ron’s comment system. Though that is still less powerful than I would like. Especially with the sheer volume of comments some of us have accumulated.

P.S. A useful metric for this is whether one can search on the site itself or whether it is necessary to do a more general internet search targeted at the site.

I think the best we can expect of today’s “rational consumer” is that s/he seeks what is easy and most stimulating. If only that mapped to good content and not Current Thing.

In Chinese history, the most tragic and resolute form of resistance comes from Generation Z, known as the “Lying Flat Generation.” They are the “peerless beauties” without mortgages, car loans, or descendants, choosing to forgo buying houses, cars, marriage, and having children – the “Four Empties.” (No money, no families!)

“The depreciation of the Chinese yuan in 2025 will surpass expectations, triggering widespread panic and capital flight in China,” predicted the former president of the investment banking division at China Construction Bank, Zhai Shanying.

US President Trump has ordered a 10% tariff increase on Chinese goods, starting February 4. It’s important to note that this is an additional tariff on top of the existing ones, with Chinese goods already facing an average of about 25% tariffs. With the new 10% increase, the total tariff on Chinese exports to the US will be around 35%. (Tariff EO on hold.)

Any thoughts on comparing and contrasting the philosophies of Substack and The Unz Review?

Kara Hultgreen wasn’t qualified.
It sure doesn’t look like Rebecca Lobach was qualified.
If you don’t think standards have been lowered throughout the military to accommodate women and some minorities, then it’s you that is insane.
Some are perfectly capable, but we’ll never know which, because lowering standards for some has tainted them all.

“Loyalty to one’s own people is indeed a low benchmark. Sad so many don’t reach it.

JFC, yes we do. YOU are saying there is only ONE exclusive loyalty—racial fealty. Every other loyalty that a person chooses that involves freedom of association you personally find odious. It’s beyond the pale on your part.

“the anti-White”

You’ve been asked to repeatedly define it and give specific examples. Instead, you utter it as if it just have extreme importance among normal whites.

I never would have noticed this, but VoxDay’s Substack Sigma Game is hosted directly on the Substack domain, but Steve’s isn’t

One of my least favorite parts of the Deluge (2020) was established search engines deliberately making search not work. Also the whole slew of good resources that got snuffed out at about the same time. Maybe now they’ll find a way back (as Second City Cop Blog for example already has) and search will be restored to its former functionality.
Steve’s not letting it through but there’s a crucial observation by Literally Who on Twotter: this USAID story is not about one million dollars going to a ridiculous cause. It’s not about the ridiculous cause turning out to be a transparent embezzlement scheme. USAID and Total Society Initiative and “trusted sources” was about robbing you to blind you, making the Truman Show real, and using censorship, lawfare, harassing investigations, and pooh-poohing to enforce the boundaries of the Matrix. Everything has been fake for twenty years, the same period for which culture has been stagnant.

How Much Money Can Andrew Anglin Make Writing or Would You Have Heard of Andrew Anglin If You Had To Pay For Him?

‘…After the reign of terror of unhinged girls and soy boys, we are now seeing actual male leadership again. What a breath of fresh, sane, rational air.’

The woman in front of me in the Walmart return line was an unhinged girl.

We can define the problem group more precisely, if less palatably.

After the reign of terror of unhinged girls and soy boys
Jews, we are now seeing actual male leadership again. What a breath of fresh, sane, rational air.

Really, that’s what it was. It’s time to admit it.

…and until we do, we’ll just repeat the same cycle. After all, the Jews are still there: Miriam Adelson, Jared Kushner. And in the end, they’ll just lead us astray.

As I say, this is unpleasant to face — but it has to be faced. Unless you really want to keep playing Charlie Brown and the football forever.

Good riddance old man. You’re way past your ‘best used by’ date.

“the anti-White”

You’ve been asked to repeatedly define it and give specific examples.

An example of it is the swill that you spew here, you yammering piece of s**t.

Propaganda at work: The WSJ goes out and finds one single solitary Trump voter (assuming he’s even telling the truth about that) who doesn’t like what Trump is doing during his first month in office and writes a story on it:

‘Not What We Signed Up For’: Trump Voter Rips Trump Policies To WSJ — Says ‘I Don’t Like Chaos’

https://www.mediaite.com/news/not-what-we-signed-up-for-trump-voter-rips-trump-policies-to-wsj-says-i-dont-like-chaos/

Then Mediaite touts the story and Drudge puts it up in big bold letters at the top of his webstite, as if this represents some kind of groundswell of opposition to Trump within the ranks of Republican voters.

This is an example of how “The News” is manufactured.

But what’s wrong with 1.5 children per woman for a while? Assuming the pattern isn’t dysgenic, I really don’t see the problem with a US with 120 million people. Things worked fine when that was what we had.

Therein–bolded–lies your problem.

And, of course, none of this works with the immigration loons doing their dirty work. If you nation’s people cut back on fertility, while waving people in … you are simply replaced. The nation killed.

And 1.5 is far more dramatic than most people realize. Just two generations at 1.5 cuts your cohort size roughly in half (56%). This has already more or less happened for whites in most white countries. There is a huge difference in white cohort sizes–a bloated 50s and 60s born (peaks vary among nations) and now 50-70 year old cohorts supported by much smaller young cohorts.

This dramatic population shift has just hidden because the overall populations have not moved much, because
a) the older depression and war era dying off cohorts are smaller and replaced by the new smaller cohorts
and
b) immigration hiding the white collapse.
But this is dramatically changing now as the larger post-War cohorts enter the prime death zone over the next couple decades.

It is really not population–a lagging indicator–but these cohort sizes that really matter. And if you want a smaller but stable population you really have to “pull up!” now so you don’t crash.

For example US white birth cohorts have been running 2 million-ish–generously defined–and are now below that. Two million would already be a stable population of just 160 million whites … *if* we immediately got back to replacement white fertility! But we’re no where near doing that. In fact, we haven’t even see an end to the plunge, we are still heading down.

Yes, smaller populations would be goodness, if we did not have minoritarianism and ergo did not have the immigration insanity and the “discredited theory of eugenics” nonsense. Sadly we have both … and the white cohort size of America–and most Western nations–continues to plunge.

Immigration is always #1. But we are in serious deep shit on the fertility issue as well. Both of these need immediate reversal.

It’s funny how liberalism makes people stupid. Here are some liberal journalists reporting what is being said by liberal “mental health professionals” about what young women say about young men:

Rise of the ‘ick’ damaging men’s mental health, experts claim

The expression is used to describe a feeling of disgust or repulsion at a specific behaviour but therapists say it is no joke

“Telling men they give you the “ick” is driving a hidden mental health crisis, experts have claimed.

The expression is used to describe a feeling of disgust or repulsion at a specific behaviour and moved from a popular slang word to being recognised by the Cambridge Dictionary in 2024.

It is particularly used by young women to describe things they find unattractive in men.

Across social media, users have shared their lists of things young men and teenagers do that give them the dreaded ick.

Wearing skinny jeans, running for the bus, putting on a baby voice and doing doggy paddle in a swimming pool are among the most commonly featured.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/08/rise-of-ick-damaging-mens-mental-health-experts/

If you read the article, it is pretty clear what is going on. Women are expressing disgust at behavior they see in men that is effeminate or childish. i.e. – they want men to be men.

Immigration is always #1. But we are in serious deep shit on the fertility issue as well. Both of these need immediate reversal.

If you don’t watch out, the immigrants will stay, but you won’t get much increase in the birthrate of desirable whites (and plenty of them aren’t so desirable, to be frank). Paying tweakers to have kids won’t solve your problem.

I note that you don’t object to declining population as such, but only to the proportion of whites in that population declining. I’ll even go so far as to assume you’ll agree that a United States with only 120 million people 90% of whom are white would be preferable to a United States with 500 million 40% of whom are white. Hey, the latter gets you twice as many whites…

In any case, it tends to come down to specific measures. I’d advocate:

1. Barring all immigration and deporting everyone who’s here illegally. I’ve heard that absent continued immigration, we would have reached zero ZPG and stabilized at about 200 million sometime around 1990. In point of fact, that’d be good enough for me.

2. Insisting on contraceptive implants for anyone receiving public assistance. This should have a happily eugenic effect, and it’s really not violating anyone’s rights. You want kids? Get off public assistance.

3. On the other hand, introduce a vigorous programme of tax incentives promoting fertility among the more-or-less functional. We could, for example, subsidize mortgages for anyone who has children and keeps having them.

4. An end to promoting careers for women and disparaging motherhood. Here, see the role of Jewesses in promoting Seventies-style womens lib. The founders of that movement were horrified that the average coed of the Fifties wanted to find a nice man, settle down, and start having children.

What’s wrong with that? She should want to do that. If she wants to be Julia Morgan or Amilia Earhart instead, fine — but don’t make her feel like she ought to. Note here that this change would involve confronting Jewish domination of the media. They’re not going to go for Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver taking back America and having five kids to boot.

It’s worth noting that with what amounted to (3) and (4), Nazi Germany juiced its birthrate by 25% by 1938. This can be done — and their current image notwithstanding, the Nazis did it without coercive measures. They did it more with propaganda plus coupons for free furniture.

Now you’ve got me arguing for increased fertility. Oh well. I’d say it’s a matter of altering the proportions rather than the aggregate total — and if the aggregate total sinks, I see that as a plus as well. I don’t actually want three hundred and fifty million Americans of any color.

That whole comment is a load of crap.

Without women volunteering to join, the draft would have had to be reinstated. Would you like to have been drafted, Mr. Hail? If not, thank a woman who joined up so you didn’t have to.

Because they are held to lower standards, women take the good positions and promotions that would otherwise go to men. How many American men do not join the US military because they’d rather be warriors than be part of the big social experiment that the armed forces are now?

American White men have grown up their whole lives knowing that they are prone to getting screwed out of promotions, jobs, and even whole careers due to the AA 60 years running. Perhaps, they feel they shouldn’t have to take that when “serving” Uncle Sam.

If the Dieversity stupidity were ended, we might see more men sign up. Oh, wait, that’s what I just read.

Did this Achmed character?

I’d have been able to do many of the same jobs as some of these fat fucks I see at twice their ages. I can do more push-ups and probably shoot better than 90% of you “service people”.

The quote marks are there because all you mercenaries are not “serving” Americans whatsoever. You’re in it for free skills training and the GI bill and VA benefits. People in the armed forces will freely admit this.

Then I have people occasionally saying we should all applaud the brave diverse fat-ass “service”-men and woman on a plane, and I’ll just sit there. Had your platoon just gotten back from the Mexican border after having it out with the cartels or herding 100,000 invaders back across the Rio Grande, I’d be slapping the guys on the back. However, you’re not defending jack squat, when it comes to America or Americans.

… where women have worked side by side with their men to conquer the land and create this country.

They have NOT worked side-by-side. When men do men’s work and women do women’s work, things can get done. Otherwise you’re just in the way. Step off!

He and a bunch of 40 to 50 year-old married men are trying to recapture their youth on that Substack by perpetuating a made up hierarchy in which Fox day can claim he is at the top.

And none of these guys who lived a lie for at least half their life, didn’t write their biography to fit the narrative? Further, who cares? They are perverts.

How much guys like you get paid ultimately by US tax dollars? Do you need to hit certain points every day? Are you paid by engagement or ridiculousness?

Yup, checks out: lots of bluster about Steve “falling for” the “establishment” on Ukraine/vaccines and ZERO evidence that YOU are someone who understands these issues or anything else.

Also, I think it’s funny how you guys always accuse your skeptics of credentialism (as if Steve has blind faith in anyone “who went to college”, LOL) when selective credentialism is the first, middle, and last thing you guys turn to when actually challenged to support your opinions. “You think vaccines are safe? Well RFK doesn’t and he a LAWYER who ROIDS! And so does this DOCTOR who’s INTERNET FAMOUS!” Yeah, and your dad could beat up my dad. I don’t care.

‘…(1.) it’s not yet geared up (but when would it be a better time?)…’

Indeed. As someone who has some indirect contact with some illegals, I would say that they appear to be freaked.

It has to be noted that most of these are not criminals in the sense of deliberately violating an enforced law. They’re here because they thought it was ‘okay.’ Now that it’s not, they’re frightened. These aren’t professional smugglers or anything. Psychologically, they’re like you and me; they’re no better at crime than most of us are.

I say this not to excuse them, or to argue that we shouldn’t act. I say it to argue that we should act now, while they’re still scared. Throw some carrots out there. If you leave now, we’ll…whatever.

Pay bluebook for their car. Give them a thousand dollars. Say we won’t record the fact they already came here once if they want to apply for a green card once they’re home.

Make it easy to go — before they relax and realize it’s all a lot of hot air.

Not according to one of my friends whom you signed their book.

Nice English, stupid

Big talk from someone who cowardly blocks their comments history from being viewed

I’d assumed until last year that most of my readers were old fogeys my age who’d soon be dropping dead, until 2024 when I finally had a chance to meet them in person and most of them turned out to be a generation younger.

You’re not an old fogey. You’re just rationalizing why you won’t work out at a gym three times a week. I’m your age, and I still go snow-skiing, water-skiing, JET-skiing, and take my Harley out on weekday mornings to bolsa chica when the traffic on PCH is low, and the highway is wide open. There aren’t even any Mexicans out there on the road at that time. They’re the biggest danger to motorcyclists by far.

Riding through the California wetlands on one side of you, with the stunning Pacific ocean on the other side of you at 75 mph on a wide open highway is just as exhilarating as any video game, kids! Even at 65 years of age!

Join a health club, work out three times a week with weights, lifting until muscle failure, take general supplements daily, and you can be like me, Steve!

Steve? Steve?

Blimey! He buggered off!

Anyway… seriously, get a physical life. It’s highly likely to inform your literary life.

Stomp into oblivion with intention, don’t rot into it, while whining.

We are on earth for a limited time, then it’s infinity for us all. Be pathetic AFTER you die, I say!!

You make some good points. And I’m still not reading a fraud who feigns innumeracy – except to mock him.

If / when we have a recession / stock
market crash then Trump , to maintain popularity , will focus on no wars , the culture wars , defunding leftist universities , immigration control
Trump is going to get a lot of credit from
His base over defunding Samantha Power , media money laundering ; making vulnerable S African farmers refugee eligible is also smart and boosts his bases’s morale and undermines leftist narrative

“A record 16 out of 100 Navy women are reassigned from ships to shore duty due to pregnancy, according to data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. ”

And I would speculate that the number of pregnancies resulting from infidelity is at least 50%. The men who get caught doing this lose rank and usually their career; the women get lifetime benefits for the kid.

Greetings, Achmed!

the page would not settle down. Anyone else have that problem, or do I need to clean up this device?

I just checked. No problems here.
All 606 comments load right up.
(Debian for the win.)

You could try a different browser.
(Especially one that doesn’t have six million tabs open.)
That would probably help.

Cheers! ☮

Wokeness in the military has been going on for a long time. Colin Powell was a pretty good guy, but being (sorta) black was a huge leg up for him in getting to be Chairman of the JCS.

‘Because they are held to lower standards, women take the good positions and promotions that would otherwise go to men. How many American men do not join the US military because they’d rather be warriors than be part of the big social experiment that the armed forces are now?’

There’s also the perfectly respectable motive that boys join the military because they want to demonstrate their manhood. Hey: at 66 it’s not a major regret of my life, but I wouldn’t mind being able to say I’d done four years in the Marines back in the day.

So that’s all good (or mostly, anyway). But the motive is kind of eroded if girls are doing it too. It would be like joining the swim team to demonstrate your manhood. Nothing wrong with that either, but there goes the incentive.

this guy, who just got reinstated, is one of two temporary appointees at Treasury connected to DOGE who was granted access to a highly sensitive Treasury system that processes trillions of dollars in payments every year.

Just to comment on one of Corvey’s many off points, this “concern” is pure BS.

Plenty of people have access to this “highly sensitive” system. The fact that the Elon guys aren’t on the federal payroll means nothing. If something goes missing, you can bet they would be the first ones investigated.

This hue and cry is bogus.

I’m speaking as someone who for professional reasons related to my job, had my personal info with the IRS hacked about ten years ago. This was from a supposedly secure special IRS website used by tax professionals. So, every year the IRS sends me and wife a letter with a new PIN number we have to use on our tax filings.

A few volunteer auditors recruited by Elon isn’t going to be any special problem.

The US Treasury/IRS payments system is a separate system Access to that hasn’t been granted and has never been hacked to my knowledge. That is the system banks and tax payment processers use.

The IRS has already had several “political” tax return disclosure breaches in recent years.

Various leftwing media targets have had their personal tax return data leaked by IRS personnel. So far none have been prosecuted, and the legacy media has gone unpunished for disclosing this illegally leaked personal data.

Now, of course, these same medias outlets echo the laments of government bureaucrat drones who may be losing their jobs. This “privacy” concern is pure hypocrisy.

Will you have any events in Northern California this year?

‘…People like you all would probably be happier in an Islamic culture where you could keep women enslaved, rather than a Western Christian country, especially America, where women have worked side by side with their men to conquer the land and create this country.’

Sounds good. Not particularly accurate, but hey.

It sounds good.

Plenty of people have access to this “highly sensitive” system. The fact that the Elon guys aren’t on the federal payroll means nothing. If something goes missing, you can bet they would be the first ones investigated.

By whom? The investigators are being pushed out.

Good on you, man, for calling out Steve for one if his many, stupid oversimplifications.

He writes that he’d assumed that “…most of my readers were old fogeys my age who’d soon be dropping dead…”

Well, I take that as an insult. It’s a weird one, because Steve is insulting himself. Maybe it’s just a, cough, ahem, “literary” statement. Maybe he feels that he must cater to his imagined, younger fans. (After all, he has, for apparently the first time in his life!) experienced what we in my college generation labeled “college Republicans.”

Yes, Steve was surprised to meet boys in khakis and their gurls at his book signings. (Those signings carefully arranged by his Jewish handler.)

That’s fine. But, you hit a nail on the head when you “Noticed” how Steve threw me and himself under the bus as “fogeys… who’d soon be dropping dead…”

He is a whore. He will sell out his own generation. I have news for Steve: I am healthier than you, Mr. Sailer. I am better looking than you. I am much, much better spoken than you, as proven by my television, radio, voiceover and writing CAREER in Colorado! I never have had the pathetic health problems that you have had. (So much for your “HBD” superiority! I am superior to you, genetically!)

I am one year behind Steve in age, and I am much more like you, dear commenter: very active, strong and healthy. My father died at the age of 85 — 20 full years beyond where Steve and I are now — and he chain-smoked and drank Scotch every day, like many American MEN! of his generation.

Steve, quite frankly, is a pussy. Yes, he is what boys of my genration would call a pussy. He hides behind his shit, including his tacit approval of the powers that be. He thinks he is popular, when the latest chef I watch on YouTube has ten times as many subscribers.

For Valentines Day, I will cook three recipes that I recently learned from that chef, he of 700,000 subscribers — ten times as many as Steve.

Join a health club, work out three times a week with weights, lifting until muscle failure, take general supplements daily, and you can be like me, Steve!

I know a 71-year old guy he can aspire to be as jacked as.

Meh.

Steve went to a highly ranked MBA program, graduating over 42 years ago. This was long before there was an MBA glut, and MBAs from highly-ranked institutions were fast-tracked to lucrative positions.

Now, nearly half a century later, to have just 7000 Substack subscribers (out of which maybe 2% pay) is underwhelming, especially considering that this has been his full-time occupation for over a decade. If all the male classmates of Steve’s UCLA MBA call were ranked on success, Steve might be at or near the bottom.

Richard Hanania has 30,000 Substack subscribers.
Noah Smith has 328,000 Substack subscribers.

OT — Somehow I missed this, we’ve been so focused on all the recent winning that this didn’t come up on right wing radio or the internet, it’s a week old, but it’s delicious: by way of Second City Cop Blog, The Beerick Obongo Presidential Library for Violent Teenagers Who Can’t Read Good is literally falling apart. Extensive cracks in brand new concrete.
It’s like pottery.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/obama-library-behind-schedule-over-budget-and-mired-in-lawsuits/ar-AA1ycbNx

There is only one way out of inflation and Reagan/Volcker proved it hurts but it works.

Steven Ernest Sailer
born December 20, 1958 (age 66)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sailer

Memento mori

Age at death

Enrico Fermi 53
John von Neumann 53
G.K. Chesterton 62
Christopher Hitchens 62
Evelyn Waugh 62
Bob Ross 52
Vince Lombardi 57
Pierre de Fermat 57
Steve McQueen 50
Rene Descartes 53
Blaise Pascal 39
Ludwig Wittgenstein 62
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 61
Saint Thomas Aquinas 49
Dorothy Sayers 64
C.S. Lewis 64
James Gandolfini 51
Steve Jobs 56
Frank Zappa 52
Bernhard Riemann 39
Joseph Fourier 62
Abraham Lincoln 56
Patrick Swayze 57
Benito Mussolini 61
Adolf Hitler 56
Jane Austen 41
Charles Dickens 58
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 59
Nathaniel Hawthorne 59
William Shakespeare 51 or 52
Ernie Pyle 44
George Eliot 61
J. Robert Oppenheimer 62
Wolfgang Pauli 58
Edgar Allan Poe 40
John Gotti 61
Al Capone 48
Louisa May Alcott 55
F. Scott Fitzgerald 44
Edna St. Vincent Millay 58
Henry David Thoreau 44
Friedrich Nietzsche 55
Ernest Hemingway 61
George Orwell 46
James Fenimore Cooper 61
Kate Chopin 53
Emily Dickinson 55
Jerry Garcia 53
Babe Ruth 53
Humphrey Bogart 57
O. Henry 47
Jack London 40
William Faulkner 64
Margaret Mitchell 48
Flannery O’Connor 39
Aristotle 61 or 62

Steve, I wish you the best of luck at Substack. You deserve so much better than the troglodyte trolls on Unz. They are unworthy of you. Scraping the bottom of the IQ barrel to spit the same predictable responses and hate you for daring not to hold their own particular party line.

Not according to one of my friends whom you signed their book.

What a grammatical wreck. Just as bad posts replace good posts, bad commenters drive out good commenters. C’est la vie.

WDCB.org’s Juke Box Saturday Night for today features Vol. 2 of Glen Miller’s 1940 band, if anyone’s interested.

Availible on their twi-week archive.
https://wdcb.org/archive

The Palestinians have never, since the destruction of Judea, ever had a collective identity, always a collective of fiefdoms and city states. Those who have claimed leadership have been murderous incompetent. In the 1940’s before the destruction of Palestine they out numbered the Zionists 2-1 but were incapable of organization. If one tenth of them had taken up arms in combination with the outside Arab armies the forces of newly formed Jewish state would have been seriously outnumbered instead of enjoying a slight numerical superiority. In defeat they now seek destruction and victory instead of some sort of citizenship or partner status. As is said “Where there is no vision, the people perish…”

Speaking of deranged women, Rosie has indeed returned to UNZ,

Look, guys, the both of ya’. It’s an asteroid, not a comet, so don’t anyone get his panties in a wad. And that’s a big difference, like the difference between Covid-19 and the flu, kinda … so …

But ethnically, she was very distant from them. Something else was at work.

Nonsense. She wasn’t “very” different from them. She was somewhat different from them. But still substantially similar in ethnic background. “Ethnic Group” is a perfectly good term to describe them. And they certainly – as a group – tend to act that way.

Tunguska was an amazing stroke of fortune, except for the very few underneath it. It hit land so no tsunami, it mostly burned so no quakes, and chose one of the remotest places on earth.

The Tunguska event is now thought to have been caused by a stony asteroid. It disintegrated in the atmosphere, and the total kinetic energy of the bolide was somewhere in the range of tens of MT’s of TNT equivalent, distributed over a long track. The effect on the ground was something like a 10 MT H-bomb.

No matter how hard you try, you’re still a Gamma, whether it be here or in the eyes of Vox Day. You try way too hard to go above your natural station in life. Go grade your math papers for your seventh grade Rugrats.

Lol. Asteroid, hemorrhoid, intergalactic buttplug, I don’t care! By the way, $cience’s $acred model$ (TM) suggest we’re now at a whomping 2.2% odds of impact, so 11X or a full order of magnitude more deadly than ‘covid’.

Substack subscriptions would make more sense at $2/mo per subscription. If I subscribe for paywall with 10 writers, which I could easily double, that would cost me $600 – $1200/yr. I can’t afford that.

“Plenty of people have access to this “highly sensitive” system.”

So why Musk and his Incel Insane Posse? A billionaire with an axe to grind. Dude, don’t be a shill.

“The fact that the Elon guys aren’t on the federal payroll means nothing”

It means everything. I thought you were opposed to the gummint invading your privacy.

“I’m speaking as someone who for professional reasons related to my job, had my personal info with the IRS hacked about ten years ago.”

Sure you did.

Dude, she is your ex-wife. I get that she took you to the cleaners, but, after all, you did go to the pokey for attempting to put her in her place. One too many Andy Anglo articles you read gone too far.

What particularly obnoxious thing he wrote that made him unfit for civilized company?

Not according to one of my friends whom (sic) you signed their book.

Sure.

As if you have any “friends.”

Nice English, stupid

I wonder if USAID supplements his SSI disability payment? (Mental disorder).

You try way too hard to go above your natural station in life.

Says the clown who makes a spectacle of this anmbition each and every day.

The Democrats used to be the party of the average person. That is no longer the case. In the last election they won the majority of the vote among voters who make over a hundred thousand dollars a year while losing the majority of voters who make less than that.

Democrat John Fetterman was asked what the Democrats can do to win these voters back so the Democrats can win next time. His response was that Democrats need to stop calling average people names like “fascist” and stop talking down to people and scolding them. This sounds like good advice to me. There is likely to be a intraparty struggle between the more sensible types and the more insane Woke leftists to get control of the Democrat party.

OT — Winning — So much Winning — Also — Smith-Mundt — It’s all coming together — It’s all happening at once.

This

Pretendian-American-Canadian has just had her comeuppance. Running away from ‘White’ may be dangerous.

“I keep seeing allusions to Mr. Sailer moving again, a fresh start on another platform. Deciding to appear at the Berkeley Castle and likewise joining the Diffident Right [sic] in shying away from topics like palestine [sic] might be seen from a marketing perspective as great ways to reset the brand.”

There is no “palestine.”

Our side has young White men, which means your side is COOKED.

The Old Establishment is mortally wounded. It used to have White men, somewhat cuckish but still effective.

White men are better, stronger, faster – and now we are building loyalty to one another. You guys can’t compete.

Bill Gates may be among the most effective of the remaining Old Establishment type. Look at him – kissing up to bulldykes like Kara Swisher and prostrating himself before Hillary Clinton! Both of his daughters have gone to non-White men.

So much, for the Glory of the Old Establishment.

My suggestion to Democrats is to keep their mouth shut for two years. A magic will happen. Untrammeled (by Congress) DOGE will bite someone on the butt. Really hard. Like some crucial checks to some ‘privileged’ people might not be cut. Then the Democrats may ‘win’ by default. Not much of a strategy, but better than them opening their mouth. Some possible ‘opportunities’ for them: Tariff chaos may bring Stagflation. Debt limit extension infighting may lead to government shutdown or even rating lowering if some crucial payments get delayed. Tax cuts may lead to long bond collapse. Democrats are not out of luck.

I’d prefer longform/shortform posts/essays where you freestyle without fear or favour but with an always provocative bent against the world.

You’ve earned the right, haven’t you?

Surely by now you’re all squared away to live comfortably on into alzheimers and don’t have to feed your family by appeasing Unz, or your commentariat?

Or are you like Salvatore “Pussy” Bonpensiero and in too deep to be your true self without engaging homicidal maniacs to wreak their revenge?

Steve, these are your best years: you’re at the peak of your game – writing.

From 70 onwards it’s all down hill even if you’re lifting weights and doing methyl blue, horse tranq and exchanging your blood with 5 day old calves. It’s all over at 70, mate.

Between here and then you are at the peak of your powers and what you MUST do is outpour the best of you into unmitigated freeform floods of your pent up brain to benefit the White races.

You owe it to yourself.

A dozen or so male US pilots were shot down/ejected, captured, and raped during Desert Storm.

comparing and contrasting the philosophies of Substack and The Unz Review

It’s hard to say what The Unz Review is today.

The Unz Review model is admirable — without reference to anything political — in that it harkens back to the “open Internet” era, I’d say. There is no direct mechanism of money-flow from consumers to producers going on here. Ron Unz has means, I don’t know how much money, but the website has been a personal project of his. On the other hand, he has probably not been the best possible editor of his own site. There are some serious problems that I won’t touch on at risk of making this comment too long.

(Here in the mid-2020s, it should be remembered that Steve Sailer was a homeless, independent blogger whom no one would host, back in the early 2010s. (“Homeless” in the Internet sense; he had a mighty-fine closet all along.) I believe it was June 2014 that he moved to Unz.com. It’s possible his entire corpus might have been deleted from the Internet within a few years without Unz, in the era of perma-bannings for Racism.)

Substack is a big business, and was born really in the mature-Internet era.

If contrasting is the name of your game to which I’ve stepped in, remember this: Substack is very much a product of the Corona-Panic era. They say it was founded a few years before, but I think it was really winter 2020-21 where you really saw any kind of momentum begin.

No one had heard of Zoom or Substack before the announcement that a terror-virus would probably kill hundreds of millions. without the introduction of a newly discovered set of sacred doctrines including cloth masks, social-distancing stickers on the floor, and Holy Lockdowns.

(If you use the Unz-search function, you can confirm that Steve Sailer himself began using the word “Substack” in his writings regularly only in Feb/March 2021, and the first-ever use was on Aug. 31, 2020; the earliest appearances of the term from Sailer-commenters were a small handful in summer 2019; the ‘site’ may not have gone anywhere without the Corona-Panic.)

(As you note, res, it’s a shame that Substack and Steve-Sailer-dot-net are so much less searchable than the Unz archives. “When did Steve Sailer first use the term/phrase xyz” will be much harder for items after mid-2024.)

Substack, Ithink, has much less of the idealism that The Unz Review has had at its best. Substack came onto the scene with a veneer of idealism (along with the energy of the Corona-Panic era, Lockdowns will save souls). Substack doesn’t really deliver on the idealism front, and instead you get a series of walled gardens to which you need to pay bribes to guards to get in.

Substack’s commenting system, I think, TENDS to discourages thoughtful comments and reward quick one-liner zingers. Another big impact on the commenting system, however, is baked deep into the entire Substack system, which as I say functions more like a social-media feed than the Unz Review ever did. There is a frenzy of activity to the newest posts and old ones are dropped away to levels apparently near-zero activity. Substack adopts the model of frenzied-activity as a goal. This is really “problematic,” because it tends to incentivize activity over quality, and is at the heart of the social-media-ization I mentioned.

As for commenters and the value of a discussion-community. The Unz Review has paid the price for its openness. There is a huge amount of chaff here, outside the high-ground held by the hearty Sailer-commentariat.

Or, rather, I should say “what remains of that Sailer-commentariat.” The great man himself has mostly abandoned his own decade-long home. (None except the loyalist-commenter Mr. J. I. Errican and one or two others, even noted the 10-year anniversary of the move-over, in mid-2024).

Now we see many of the loyalists paranoid; some are seen hectically moving about hiding the family silver. The market-square continues to overflow with rumors: the great man, it is said, is plotting how best to order and carry out a St. Bartholomew’s Night-style massacre of the remaining commenters.

Which is why you’ve gone stale here.

I never could figure out if Steve was trying to align with conventional wisdom because that’s who he authentically is, or if it was a calculated marketing strategy to broaden his appeal. I still don’t know. Maybe Steve doesn’t even know.

But I always thought he was making a marketing mistake anyway. You can watch cable news for the conventional wisdom. People on the internet like to explore controversial issues and hear strong, logical analysis of contrarian points of view. That’s why Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson are huge. My (admittedly non-expert) business advice would have been to lean into his old “dissident” reputation to generate a bigger following among people who were hungry for that stuff on other platforms.

But for his whole “coming out” campaign, Steve instead went the opposite direction by avoiding any whiff of controversy, sticking to narrow issues, and adopting this whole persona of: “Aw shucks, I’m just a conventional guy who notices raw facts. I don’t have theories or opinions, I am just a neutral observer. Anyone who claims I was ever not mainstream is simply confused.”

To my mind, he was basically doing everything possible to make himself less interesting. He once had a dedicated fan base that liked him precisely because they thought he was a smart contrarian. But he’s currently traded that brand in for a slightly larger but much less dedicated fan base. Hopefully that will work for him long term. But wide and shallow support has its own problems.

Steve should have been an intellectual hero and leader in the whole “Vibeshift” heralded by Trump’s win. But he’s basically always been passive-aggressively anti-Trump and pro-Deep State (and gave up his anti-immigration stance a long time ago). So he’s just on the sidelines “noticing” events. Oh well, at least he’s hedged his bets for when the pendulum swings back to the Left someday and he can “notice” that, too.

There is no “palestine.”

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fthe-plan-to-colonize-palestine-reported-in-the-new-york-v0-w53r5gov4xzc1.jpeg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D61afa847023545ab4d5255475ed1e64cbdc2afed

Exactly. The White population in America has already collapsed since peaking in 1990, especially among the age cohort which matters most, whites under the age of 40

In 1990 we had 120 million Whites under the age of 40. Today just 80 million whites under 40. The fertile white population has declined almost 40% in 35 years.

Only Fertile whites females can have white babies. Today we have less than 40 million fertile white females, which will decline to 35 million by 2030. Back in 2010 ~2 million whites were born, this fell to ~1.8 million in 2019 and last year fell below 1.7 million white births.

White fertility would need to increase to 3.2 to stabilize our population. A fertility rate if 2.1 would still result in a declining white population, since the median age of white females today is 49 years-old, thus we cannot expect 40 million fertile whites to maintain the current white population of 188 million unless they each have 3+ children before reaching 42 years—old.

established search engines deliberately making search not work

Since 2020, I’ve sometimes found the Unz-search function of more use than Google, on specific info for specific things.

My own little website, HailToYou.wordpress.com, has often been effectively ghosted by Google. New posts would not appear. Direct searches would yield websites that mentioned Hail To You but not the website itself. Whatever paltry results did come up, most of the website had evidently been delisted. Weird results like the teaser-archives of June 2014 would come up but URLs of posts would not appear in Google-results at all.

Yandex and others did a better job, but Google still has, as far as I know, near-monopoly-style power. Then you had the real heavy-hitters of the New Internet era, Youtube, Twitter, and others such as that, who would punish any use of links and often specifically ‘disappear’ links to Hail To You (I have been told), esp during the Corona-Panic era.

Using LLMs to search for info about Hail To You has yielded the usual boilerplate: well-crafted astrology that seems plausible, but is never really specific and often not useful (informational “fool’s gold”). I don’t know how much the brownlisting(s)/blacklisting(s) of my site have affected the “training” the LLMs (“AI”) were getting in the late 2010s and early 2020s, since Hail To You was hit with these problems around late 2017.

From longtime Sailer-commenter and Sailer-loyalist Dennis Dale:

“Dennis Dale on Steve Sailer: the perils of success” (late-May 2024).

Original: “Noticing and Nothingness”

https://dennisdale.com/2024/05/26/noticing-and-nothingness/

— —

My commentary on Dennis Dale’s essay:

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/dennis-dale-on-steve-sailer-the-perils-of-success/

HBD writer Steve has not been as good on Covid and the Ukraine as he might have but a number of writers who have been good on these subjects pretty much ignore HBD. It has long been an observation concerning many libertarians that they do not take into account racial differences when formulating policy on a topic like immigration.

HBD writer Charles Murray has been much like Steve on Covid and the Ukraine. HBD writer John Derbyshire has been somewhat better. He has written there is no reason for the U.S. to be involved in the Ukraine and no reason for us to be in NATO either. He also criticized the Chinese zero Covid policy, saying the harsh lockdowns caused too much economic destruction and prevented natural immunity from developing among the population from getting the disease.

Writers like Steve Sailer and Charles Murray are still worth reading on HBD. Leftists dislike them and they are certainly on the political right and not on the left.

Sailer’s HBD is only to formulate a plausible account for why Jews are disproportionately represented in powerful groups of government or government linked crime syndicates: it’s because they’re smarter than you.

It’s HBD.

QED.

100 times as many!

Deflective flak, or did you just want to see this gem one last time?

Nicholas Stix (December 18, 2014):

I can’t respond to all your charges against the Irgun, but if they drove the Arabs (the term “Palestinians” had yet to be invented) out of Israel, I say, more power to them!

I’ve enjoyed reading Steve’s work but no way am I going to pay, just to read one man, an amount of money that gets me a subscription to an entire magazine or newspaper’s worth of writers. Or better yet, money that’ll buy me about ten books on Kindle.

Does anybody want to pay me to go to Northern California to speak?

You still haven’t Noticed that this depends on what you’ll say and skirt?

Thanks for the link. Note the year: 1899. In 1899, there was a Palestine, but it was renamed Israel. When people speak of “palestine” today, they mean “Israel,” as in the nation, all of whose Jews they intend on driving into the sea, and giving it to the arab nazis.

It seems a two-tiered (or more-tiered) subscription system would be in order:

– Tier 0: Access to half the Sailer-Substack material but not to the “paywalled” material.

– Tier 1: Low annual fee, for access to all the paywalled material but NO other benefits.

– Tier 2: Higher annual fee, for access to all the paywalled material AND other benefits. But also, implicitly, to accommodate those who want to be real Sailer-patrons, in lieu of the old-tyme Sailer Fundraising Drives.

(We recall that Passage Press published two versions of the Noticing book, one “patrician edition” whic hwas overly expensive, and one of normal expense for a new book.)

Another idea, for the sake of the balance of the universe: a time-delay mechanism that makes all the Sailer-paywall material flip to “open to the public” (Tier 0) after a certain number of days, say, 30 days and therefore also Googleable and so forth.

Another idea, with a mind to Sailer-corpus completeness and archive-searchability: a problem with Substack, as res mentioned in a comment up there somewhere, is it’s hard to search for back-material with any kind of precision. Another mechanism by which there is long-time-delayed reposting (archiving) to an off-site area, especially one running on the Unz software for searchability and no b.s., would be ideal.

And do those who speak of “Israel” intend what you call for in #215 (subject to Whim)?

Your “drive” jive is pretty revealing, too.

So you’re that a-hole waking me up with their f’ing motorcycle.

Amen.

“captured and raped”

Typical Arab behavior. This is why there won’t ever be peace in Gaza unless the Palestinians are pushed into the sea or dispersed amongst their fellow Arab savages.

P.S. Not a Jew.

Is that “higher brow” a natural trait or nurtured?

Here is an excellent article (https://freebeacon.com/israel/the-historical-case-for-trumps-riviera/) on DJT’s plan for Gaza.

An excerpt: …peoples who unleash unprovoked aggressive wars against their neighbors and are then defeated—as the Gazans have been on any conceivable metric—lose either their government or their sovereignty, or both.

tl;dr: Start a war, lose a war, you don’t get to go back to square one and try again.

“ higher brow readers”

Code for sycophants.

Speaking of higher BROs, aka the Incel Clown Posse, what are your thoughts?

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-doge-running-highly-sensitive-government-data-through-ai-report-2000560381

TRT being an obvious factor in RFK’s physical wellness. But remember boomers, testosterone is eeevil! RFK will probably die of roid rage any minute!!! Better to have soft bones and man boobs and a prostate the size of a grapefruit and take you statins!

I’ve got a trailer hitch that has a little bit chrome left on it. Would you be able to help me out with that?

Last time this happened (all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again), Terry MacAuliffe and Bill Clinton won big, by letting George HW Bush be the adult equivalent of a smart but disconnected nerd who can’t read a room, and by pretending to be basically the same thing as a Republican anyway. The left went nuts but nobody cared because at that time we were sane.

“What particularly obnoxious thing he wrote that made him unfit for civilized company?”

You mean patently vile words unbecoming of a Christian such as yourself.

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity” was a direct shot at JD Vance and his hot piece of ass Indian (dot, not feather). Then Bsnce cucked, essentially saying it’s “no big deal”, rather than punch his square in the jaw to defend the honor of his family.

Again, speech has consequences.

John Derbyshire, champion of whites who pens on this fine opinion webzine, is married to a Chinese women. Is he a traitor to his ethnicity and race?

Ha, a while ago someone speculated on your earnings based on the P.S. rate being 100%, and you also LOLed. (You think money’s funny?) So, it’s somewhere between 2% and 100%. Now we’re making progress!

Anyway, for your sake I hope it is a number like 20% or higher.

” engaging in a perverted form of narcisstic bullying”

Amazingly a cis-female Guardian columnist has come out in favour of women not having to get changed in front of female impersonators.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/09/no-woman-should-be-forced-to-change-her-clothes-in-front-of-a-trans-colleague

Despite the law of the land enshrining that commonsense insight – that employers are obliged to provide separate changing facilities for their male and female employees – female staff working for this Scottish health board have been expected to share changing rooms with a male doctor who identifies as female. One nurse, Sandie Peggie, has brought an employment tribunal claim for harassment, sex discrimination and victimisation against the board, following her suspension after she raised concerns.

Peggie shared her account of what happened with the tribunal last week. She initially talked to her line manager on a couple of occasions, including after Dr Beth Upton, the male doctor in question, walked into the room while she was partially undressed. Her manager said she passed on the nurse’s concerns but didn’t get anywhere; Peggie said that if she were put in that position again, she would need to address it with Upton. This is what happened a few months later, when she found herself needing to use the changing room after heavy menstrual bleeding.

Peggie says she told Upton she felt embarrassed and intimidated; but the doctor claimed as much right to be there as she did. Peggie says she raised her previous experiences of sexual assault to try to engender understanding, and mentioned a recent case when a male prisoner had been put in a female prison. She described how she was “shaking with distress”. After this encounter, Upton put in a formal complaint, and Peggie was suspended for bullying and harassment.

“when a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge”

As Steve has noticed before, many M->F trans are successful, combative types.

A senior consultant sent an email to the whole department giving a one-sided account of what happened, to Peggie’s detriment, a few days afterwards. It transpired that Upton – who clearly took strong offence at two previous incidents when Peggie left the changing room after entering to find the doctor there – later made other potentially career-ending allegations in relation to Peggie and patient safety, which her lawyer has suggested, together with the complaint of bullying, are unfounded.

See what I mean?

And, of course, absolutely no one at her hospital wants to be the hateful transphobe who puts their head above the parapet to defend this poor nurse. Funny, it looks as if the last 20 years of what-would-you-do Holocaust education has been wasted.

But there’s a little light in the sky, and amazingly it’s called Donald J Trump.

There is a cautionary tale from across the Atlantic, where Democrats’ stubborn and unpopular defence of men’s rights to self-identify into women’s sport has dropped the unlikeliest of moral victories into President Donald Trump’s lap, allowing a man accused of serious sexual assault to somehow position himself as a defender of women’s rights. Abandoning basic common sense for unpopular policies that put women at risk does not go well for the left.

John Derbyshire, champion of whites who pens on this fine opinion webzine

Not anymore, apparently.

So why is the Diffident Right packing up and out?

I’ve no interest in subscribing to a Substack, for various reasons.

Blogs like this have probably served their purpose anyway. With Trump at the helm, the time for complaining online is over, it’s time for real-world demolition of the leftist hegemony.

We don’t have the kind of country that would buckle down and deal with it, as Jimmy Carter, Reagan (well, the results), and Mr. Volcker did anymore.

That aside though, that is no longer a viable solution, Mr. Ross. Were the interest rates let or set to rise to even 10%, the interest on the $36,000,000,000,000 debt would be that easy to calculate $3.6 Trillion, about 75% roughly of the amount of income tax taken in.

No, even if collected, which is not so much the point, tariffs can’t pull in a low fraction of the income tax confiscated errr, collected annually.

Well, as per the old Allman Brothers’ song, there is still One Way Out, high and maybe hyper- inflation.

“captured, and raped during Desert Storm”

Didn’t something similar happen to T.E. Lawrence in WW1 ?

My impression is that a fair few Muslim guys have the same beliefs as US prison gangs – “it’s not gay if you’re the active participant“.

” Start a war, lose a war, you don’t get to go back to square one and try again.”

1920 Germany would like to disagree with you.

He’s basically a lazy Jack-D

It is basically just making fun of black people and talking sports in a high-brow way

Corvinus’s projection has been going off the charts lately.

“Our side has young White men, which means your side is COOKED.”

My side is with white people make their own decisions about race and culture.

“It used to have White men, somewhat cuckish but still effective.”

You mean like Marco Rubio and JD Vance.

“White men are better, stronger, faster – and now we are building loyalty to one another.”

You have few whites who are of the same mindset in adhering to absolute racial fealty.

This is why you act like an alpha but are a gamma male.

Doesn’t your publisher know Peter Theil? Have him bankroll your barnstorming tour of Stockton and Eureka.

Then, when Trump orders the U.S. to take over Gaza, you can headline at one of the posh resorts—it will take a couple of years to build, but you’ve got time. You will never have to think of remodeling closets or buying dog food ever again.

Only a Fool Would Say That

Big talk from someone who routinely presses the troll button rather than engage in discourse.

Do you tell your black middle school math kids that you are a race realist? Or is that something you hide from them? Better yet, do you create story problems that cagily display white superiority?

Thanks! That was full of insights.

One thing I do need to note though. From 5/24/24.

(None except the loyalist-commenter Mr. J. I. Errican and one or two others, even noted the 10-year anniversary of the move-over, in mid-2024).

https://www.unz.com/isteve/video-of-my-speech-what-if-i-am-right/#comment-6580352

AFAICT Steve started posting here in November 2013 at unz.com/ssailer

I don’t think he fully migrated to here until June 2014 at unz.com/isteve
Here are two of his welcome posts noting the move.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/welcome-to-isteve-on-the-unz-review/
https://www.unz.com/isteve/welcome-to-isteve-on-the-unz-review-2/

Hey. That means Steve’s 10th anniversary here (for the full move dating from the welcome posts) is imminent. Cool.

One more thing regarding this.

Substack’s commenting system, I think, TENDS to discourages thoughtful comments and reward quick one-liner zingers. Another big impact on the commenting system, however, is baked deep into the entire Substack system, which as I say functions more like a social-media feed than the Unz Review ever did. There is a frenzy of activity to the newest posts and old ones are dropped away to levels apparently near-zero activity. Substack adopts the model of frenzied-activity as a goal. This is really “problematic,” because it tends to incentivize activity over quality, and is at the heart of the social-media-ization I mentioned.

I agree with you, but I can’t put my finger on exactly why this is so (both points). What differences in the environment (commenting system, overseer, bloggers, etc.) cause the behavioral differences?

P.S. Reviewing how this played out, I wonder if Ron and Steve had a ten year contract?

P.P.S. My big questions concern who/what is driving Substack and why have they not been deplatformed? For example, have they been nerfed in Google search like TUR has? That makes me nervous about trusting the anonymity of comments there.

There’s also the perfectly respectable motive that boys join the military because they want to demonstrate their manhood.

Right. And the same thing is true of some other occupations, like firefighters. We run into burning buildings, we’re tough guys.

Then women come in and complain about this tough guy attitude that is the workplace calling it “toxic masculinity” (wtf that is), run to HR the first time some guy looks at them sideways, and then get out of the fire house into “management” as fast as they can. That’s how LA ended up with three lesbians in the top FD jobs.

We had a tree fort when we were kids with a sign on the door saying, “No girls allowed”, and for good reason.

There wasn’t a “Palestine” in 1899. There was a set of Ottoman subprefectures which were assembled 21 years later and called the ‘Mandate of Palestine’.

He has been emboldened by yourself and others on the Interwebs to say whatever the hell he wants.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/mexicos-49-billion-man/#comment-194939

Corvinus says:
March 11, 2007 at 10:29 am GMT

I hate Mexicans. They blame the evil American gringos for cheating them and becoming rich off the labor of others, even if the gringos are middle-class folks trying to get by, and give their own super-rich a bye.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/army-getting-lower-iq-recruits/#comment-209730

Corvinus says:
January 26, 2008 at 3:11 pm GMT

Unfortunately, the white supremacists on this board would rather have an empty country with a few white people than a vibrant superpower with the high IQ of the world working here.

Last I checked, Latinos were not particularly bright. Neither are Africans, Muslims, or South Asians in general. And these are the exact same types of people who are reproducing like crazy.

Countries with decent IQs (95 and above), on the other hand, are without exception below replacement level, and usually FAR below replacement level.

Due to this extremely stark inverse correlation between IQ and fertility, the IQ of the world is sinking like an anvil. Idiocracy will be here in 2050, not 2500.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/ted-kennedy-rip/#comment-260609

Corvinus says:
August 30, 2009 at 4:24 pm GMT

These new incoming Catholics, from Mexico or South America or would they be from Africa?

I dont see where you are going to get enough white Catholics from to keep you non-WASP show on the road.

Agreed. I’m a white Catholic — a very conservative one, in fact — and I’d much rather marry an open-minded white Protestant than a mexican or filipina. Call it caste identity if you will, but I am in fact a white American and not just a “Catholic”.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/leftist-eugenics/#comment-273687

Corvinus says:
December 4, 2009 at 11:08 am GMT

I think we might think of a new term: Leftist dysgenics. The ultimate aim of this is a handful of smart, super-rich leftists with the brown masses serving as their pets. In this scenario, there is no room for regular white people.

HBD writer Steve has not been as good on Covid and the Ukraine as he might have but a number of writers who have been good on these subjects pretty much ignore HBD. It has long been an observation concerning many libertarians that they do not take into account racial differences when formulating policy on a topic like immigration.

The issue isn’t that Steve’s right or wrong on a particular issue, but that some of his non-HBD takes are so laughably stupid that he’s either lying or controlled. Another problem is that he doesn’t really listen to his readers on these issues and engage with their arguments at all, many of whom disagree with him about Covid and the Ukraine proxy war. This is a problem with Ron on the Covid lockdowns or vax too, he just doesn’t engage with those contrary arguments much.

As for your defense of HBD generally, I agree with those authors on the importance of that topic, but I do think they overrate IQ and intelligence. Western civilization was the product of many factors, and population-level intelligence was only one of them, certainly not the most important. Probably more important was decentralization, with lone geniuses able to find niches to think and produce in corners of the many warring European states.

Anyway, the internet is completely remaking today’s landscape, so high-talent immigration hardly even matters anymore, ie the current H1-B debate is a complete smokescreen. As for immigration across the southern border, it seems obvious that Biden was puppeted to open the floodgates for some political end, likely to make Trump popular when he shuts that down, only so he will have popular support when he starts WWIII with China.

We are reaching the end stages of the US empire, which could end with a bang or a whimper.

I’ve unearthed another series of bold statements Corvinus may have released:

I’m just a White boy, just looking for a place to do my thing.

Some might call me a good-time fellow.
I ain’t Black and I ain’t yellow!
I’m just a White boy lookin’
for a place to do my thing.

I don’t want any “hand-out” living
And want no part of anything THEY’re giving
I’m proud! I’m White! And I’ve got a song to sing!

See here:

Philistia[a] was a confederation of five main cities or pentapolis in the Southwest Levant, made up of principally Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and for a time, Jaffa (part of present-day Tel Aviv).[1][2]

Scholars believe the Philistines were made up of people of an Aegean background that from roughly 1200 BC onwards settled in the area and mixed with the local Canaanite population,[3][4] and came to be known as Peleset, or Philistines. At its maximum territorial expansion, its territory may have stretched along the Canaanite coast from Arish in the Sinai (today’s Egypt) to the Yarkon River (today’s Tel Aviv), and as far inland as Ekron and Gath. Nebuchadnezzar II invaded Philistia in 604 BC, burned Ashkelon, and incorporated the territory in the Neo-Babylonian Empire; Philistia and its native population the Philistines disappear from the historic record after that year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistia

I’d never heard of the November 2013 forays into Unz.com by someone (presumably Steve Sailer himself) writing under the name “ssailer.”

I think Ron Unz ran Unz.com as a kind of pure hobby-project, not really public facing, until he invited Steve Sailer in June 2014 and then a handful of others around the same time. (Audacious Epigone was one, and retired from blogging, I believe on the “advice” of his wife, after his second or third child was born.)

The pre-Sailer Unz Review was a little curation place for Ron’s own writings, like that influential essay on meritocracy and Harvard. It’s possible Ron Unz was personally always basically only interested in that, which explains his many (IMO) poor editorial decisions over his own website.

— — —

There have now been four Sailer-blog eras (plus a pre-blogging era), each sort of aligning with other mainstay activities of his writing. Correct me, anyone, if I’m missing anything big:

(0.) 1990s: Sailer as an intellectual-commentariat gadfly but employed at a normal desk-job, and writing for fun, including letters-to-editor and columns for minor papers, and his big 1994 debut at the National Review with his “Why Lesbians are Not Gay” article (an interesting historical artifact in itself, looked back on after thirty years). Sometime in the end of the 1990s he is running an invitation-only HBD email list involving some important names.

(1.) The iSteve-dot-com Era (the URL long gone), ca.1999?-2007: plus the start of column publishing in VDare and American Conservative and others.

(2.) The iSteve Blogspot Era, ca. 2007 to May 2014, plus VDare and the start of Taki-Mag and others. He takes zero part in early social-media at this time, and there are similar number of plausible Bigfoot sightings in the period as video-interviews with him. For years, the only Youtube video of him was a 2010 interview with Craig Bodeker (a documentary-maker who set out to get to the bottom of who was right: those who argue race is real and important, or, otoh, those who want to race is not real or important but who believe Whites need to be crushed anyway).

(3.) The Unz Era, June 2014 to ca. June 2024. By the end of 2010s, Sailer begins to become a Twitter user. He comes to develop a largely-frivolous social-media fanbase. (People interested in “playing” reality as a “video game.” Cheerings-on of Sailer from them similar to cheering on a top video-game player). Many of Sailer’s old-loyalists believe he deliberately moderated as his nominal public profile grew. Ironically, the reach of Unz-dot-com receded (in the political-censorship era), just as Sailer’s own footprint grew.

(4.) The Substack Era, mid-2024 to present; plus the start of involvement (in 2023) with promotional and tour agents (in effect), including those associated with Passage Press; and the publication of a compendium of old writings in paper-book form.

Each step of the way built on the others.

Steve always had a high degree of respect for his “commenters.” Even in the isteve-dot-com era, which had no built-in commenting feature, he’d often republish reader emails.

The best discussion-community was that of the Unz era. OTOH, it’s still too early to say what the Substack comment-community will shape up to be. I’ve given lots of reasons why I am on the skeptical side of Substack’s model already (and could give more).

Speaking about writing fur Taki’s, so you post on your Substack an article from that publication offering insight into how Musk runs his business, but without any of the necessary connections to directly what is going on now in Washington.

In other words, you punted. Go figure.

There wasn’t a “Palestine” in 1899. There was a set of Ottoman subprefectures which were assembled 21 years later and called the ‘Mandate of Palestine’.

The term “Palestine” has been used for millennia to describe a region in the near-east. The exact boundaries of what was meant by the term have shifted or been vague, but there is no denying that it was a term used to describe a geographical region.

I agree totally.

The WSJ and AP (the major purveyors of bias, propaganda and fake news) love to use the word “chaos” and “concern”, etc. all vague criticisms of Trump and his policies.

They never actually define what is meant here.

Bureaucrats worrying about their jobs? Unhappy Swamp dwellers? “Nonprofit” moochers and their numerous PR people who are now threatened by being kicked off the FedGov tit?

The sluggish Soviet Brezhnev era US Deep State resists positive change. Any effort to change the status quo is “chaos” and Media Megaphone lamentations by those whose money and power are threatened.

Well, people voted against that by denying Ms. Word Salad her promotion.

Trump long spoke in numerous rallies about what he intended to do on Day One. Now he is trying to do that.

Some of it is weird and strange. (No, we don’t want Gaza or Gazans). But much of it is just common sense and what Americans voted for.

Nearly all of Trump’s bold initiatives are affecting new bureaucracies and agencies which were set up in the past 30 years by RINO Republicans (“go along to get along”) and neo–Marxist Democrats who have hijacked the Democrat Party from traditional JFK type liberals.

American private businesses rise and fall all the time. New ones rise and old ones are sold off or go bankrupt. Millions of employees lose their jobs and find new ones.

That isn’t “chaos.”

Per the Legacy Media Newspeak, Chaos = Democrats losing power over society.

Legacy media will either change, reform or die. Can’t happen soon enough.

What differences in the [Substack] environment (commenting system, overseer, bloggers, etc.) cause the behavioral differences?

There are a lot of little things, most of them deliberate choices by design that Substack thinks helps the good times continue to roll.

About half the ways people engage with Substack, I don’t think they even see (most) comments. The default, I think, is to see exactly the top two comments only (and not even any of the replies to the top two comments). People then have to click through a maze of links to find the full list of all comments. Whereas if you got to the URL of this page (Unz-dot-com-slash-isteve-slash-nameofpost), you see all the comments all at once.

Another thing is, my observation is that most users of Substack do not really follow specific people in order to read all their material. Jump back twenty years and a Sailer-reader had to make the conscious choice to “log on” to isteve-dot-com and read as little or as much as he wished.

Today, most people are engaging with these things instead through getting bombarded, one way or another, with notifications. The flow is so steady that specific pieces of writing are implicitly disincentivized if even a single day old, in many cases. They drop off the feed. People don’t see them. So discussions dry up fast.

In the case of today’s SteveSailer-dot-net, this is less a problem because a portion of his readers from the Unz Decade are used to holding substantial discussions. Most of the Substack model doesn’t want that, doesn’t encourage that.

A strange thing happens with brand-new material at SteveSailer-dot-not: A new post can often be observed to get, say, 15 comments a mere thirty minutes after being published, and then only another +15 comments over the next 24-36 hours, and likely less than +15 more comments for the rest of time. Activity is highly front-loaded, much like Twitter. The early-arrivers are reacting to being zapped with notifications. There are comparatively fewer late-arrivers.

The commentariat-culture at Substack soon enough teaches late-arrivers that their comments on ‘old’ posts will get little attention, so they don’t make them. There is also no way to search an individual commenter’s contributions at once.

A lot of these little choices are disempowering to those forces that move towards shoring up a healthy commentariat. Plus a great deal of comments on any of the Sailer-Substack material come from tweets anyway, which are usually some species of ironic or sarcastic or weighed down by Internet-jargon and in-jokes and in-references.

LOL, we’ve been through this before.

There was a commenter before me who had this handle on this fine opinion website who was a compete d—-, as you’ve unearthed his vile posts. Obviously, you agree with him. I do not. I repudiate these particular UnChristian comments.

Anyways, before Uncle Ron’s commenting system came into form, I took over that handle. And since that time (2013 or 2014), you have my commenting history free from his perverted version of truth regarding race and Christianity.

So thanks again, Digital Harpo, for showing your true colors as well.

Wow, talk about rebranding!

How’d you guys lose him?

Gosh Buzz, this comment here sounds like you’re off your meds.

Trashing poor iSteve here and shamelessly bragging about your “manhood.”

Seems a wee bit insecure. Though your prior boasts about all of the lovely mountain women in Colorado you’ve had, your great life now, etc, this post’s rage seems a bit forced.

From posts, plenty here appear to be regular gym rats (myself) as well as boomers. Why trash iSteve just for assuming most here are Boomers? No shame in that; just means we are living well and still healthy.

This post here of yours seems “off.” Unless you’ve been building up hostility for a while.

Your sneering chest thumping today is off target.

All of the Jew bashing here is bad enough, but if you hate it here so much, go brag about your superiority someplace else. Maybe Substack yearns for your latest cooking tips.

I am disappointed with you. If you are just going to brag and sneer, get your own column here on Unz. The other neo Nazi Supermen won’t mind. You can all share the same three dozen fanboys here.

Anyways, before Uncle Ron’s commenting system came into form, I took over that handle.

Why? Or was that a mere coincidence?

You’ve changed shticks at least one since, and have been a readily apparent troll for years.

(2.) The iSteve Blogspot Era, ca. 2007 to May 2014, plus VDare and the start of Taki-Mag and others.

Steve had a commenter during that era, RKU, that some speculated was Ron Keeva Unz.

‘…his vile posts…’

What’s vile about them?

I don’t agree completely with all the ideas and sentiments, but they all seem intelligent, reasonable, and grounded in fact.

Now, instead of just vilifying me as well, why don’t you pick one of the claims and explain exactly why it’s vile?

For those of you fans of LLM-“AI” out there:

I asked the Twitter-X-infobot (“Grok”) the following question:

Q. When did Steve Sailer move to Unz.com?

The LLM info-bot Grok told me it had “consulted 15 web pages and 1 post” and believed it had come up with an authoritative answer to the matter and could put it to rest. It “wrote back”:

A. Steve Sailer moved to Unz.com in September 2015.

A swing, and a miss.
Definitely wrong.
“Don’t quit your day job,” Mr. Grok, is our advice.

(Notice that what the LLM is doing; it mirrored my phrasing of the question and dumped out some plausible-seeming wrong answer. It’s all just a numbers guessing game.)

___________

By the way, the “1 post” (formerly known as “tweet”) the LLM ‘consulted’ was this:

Steve Sailer
@Steve_Sailer

In case the ADL tosses us all off Twitter on Monday, you can follow me at the Unz Review: http://unz.com/isteve

Dec 18, 2017

6 replies (three invisible to me)
31 Retweets
98 Likes

It appears that the X-LLM grabbed this completely-unrelated tweet (post), solely because it saw the text-string “Unz-dot-com” and said “Okay, this is good enough; close it down, squeeze out the info-sausage, and get this idiot out of here.”

And do those who speak of “Israel” intend what you call for in #215 (subject to Whim)?

Your “drive” jive is pretty revealing, too.

Obviously, I need to add Nicholas Stix to my list of Zionists who post here.

I know there’s Meamjojo. He’s blocked. The egregious ‘Thomm’ is fun to tear up whenever he makes an appearance, so he stays up. I have a curious liking for fiery Fran — she really does wear her heart on her sleeve, you have to give her that.

A123…not much sport to be had there. He’s blocked. JackD.

Any others? Was Art Deco one? I blocked him as well…but why?

I await the collapse of the Chinese economy with interest. Perhaps it will be as real as the collapse of the Japanese economy and the ‘lost decades’ was.

https://archive.ph/SEOwJ

Japan’s current account surplus — the widest measure of its trade — totaled $196 billion in 2010, up more than threefold since 1989. By comparison, America’s current account deficit ballooned to $471 billion from $99 billion in that time. Although in the 1990s the conventional wisdom was that as a result of China’s rise Japan would be a major loser and the United States a major winner, it has not turned out that way. Japan has increased its exports to China more than 14-fold since 1989 and Chinese-Japanese bilateral trade remains in broad balance.
As longtime Japan watchers like Ivan P. Hall and Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr. point out, the fallacy of the “lost decades” story is apparent to American visitors the moment they set foot in the country. Typically starting their journeys at such potent symbols of American infrastructural decay as Kennedy or Dulles airports, they land at Japanese airports that have been extensively expanded and modernized in recent years.
William J. Holstein, a prominent Japan watcher since the early 1980s, recently visited the country for the first time in some years. “There’s a dramatic gap between what one reads in the United States and what one sees on the ground in Japan,” he said. “The Japanese are dressed better than Americans. They have the latest cars, including Porsches, Audis, Mercedes-Benzes and all the finest models. I have never seen so many spoiled pets. And the physical infrastructure of the country keeps improving and evolving.”

The BBC has an interesting, and not too horribly biased, piece on Trump’s long term love affair with tariffs:

There was a commenter before me who had this handle on this fine opinion website who was a compete d—-

The only complete dick here is you, you poisonous toad.

Actually “dickless” probably describes you better. You opine like the effeminate lady-boys who broadcast on NPR.

You’re right. Just another drunken post.

You’re a case in point for why Steve deserves better.

“Doesn’t your publisher know Peter Theil? Have him bankroll your barnstorming tour of Stockton and Eureka.”

Lol, good one Corvi. And don’t forget Weed and Tracy while you’re in the ‘hood – lotsa USAID cutouts still have $$$$$$ left to shower on vax shills.

It is a fact. SubStack officially says that at $50/yr, 5% of subscribers pay.

Hence, at Steve’s $100/yr, it is safe to say that 2% of the 7000 are paid subscribers.

Steve is unable to dispute that.

And 7000 is a low number given how many years of full-time work Steve has put into his writing.

The people I mentioned started much later, and yet :

Richard Hanania has 30,000 Substack subscribers.
Noah Smith has 328,000 Substack subscribers.

Very good comment here, Muggles.

The WSJ and AP (the major purveyors of bias, propaganda and fake news) love to use the word “chaos” and “concern”, etc.

I used to read the Wall Street Journal until I got wise to the “There shall be open borders” crap – this was over 25 years ago.

Yes, they are the ones always praising the creative destruction in business. I understand the concept and don’t really disagree, but then how’d they feel right now, if the Wall Street Journal got creatively destroyed by new alt-right, truth-telling media, after the WSJ’s legacy of lies.

A little bit whole lot of creative destruction in the Feral Gov’t will be a very good thing indeed! This is a new and highly-improved Trump compared to -45.

When the Øb☭mabrary finally opens, there’ll be mostly black bums in there using the computers.

The place will feature kids books such as When Aiden Became a Brother.

There will be drag queen story hour after lunch on Wednesdays, featuring Big Mike when she isn’t out of town at HER compound on the Vinyed.

There will be $100 million municipal bonds issued every 5 years for total renovations, yet the Micheal Keaton’s Dad-looking librarians won’t be able to answer the simple question “What’s new?”

So, in other words, it’ll be like every other public library in America.

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PS: Is it just coincidental that Andrew Anglin is wrapping up his blog on this site too?

This 2012 comment is a nice foreshadowing of TUR. In multiple ways.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/race-iq-and-wealth/#comment-406634

Ben Tillman: No, smart people don’t impute the actions of stupid or malignant people to smart and benevolent people in the same field.

Yes, exactly.

After all, when you’re mining for something valuable—say gold—it’s perfectly acceptable if most of your ore isn’t gold, even 99% or so. People who restrict their activity to ore which is at least 50% pure gold don’t find a lot of mines to work.

When exploring controversial topics inadequately covered by the mainstream media, the Internet constitutes a useful resource, even if most of the commentary is rather stupid or ignorant, just so long as you occasionally find a comment suggesting an important idea or fact you otherwise might never have considered. All it really takes is some solid effort at efficient filtration and analysis, and some patience in removing all the gravel, quartz, and fools’ gold. On the plus side, lots of the stupid and ignorant commentary can sometimes be quite amusing, or even provide useful insights into various forms of mental illness.

Obviously, the central issue is the quality of the ore. Perhaps filtering ore which is 99% junk is acceptable, but 99.9% may just become a cost-ineffective waste of time.

Frankly, this particular thread seems to consist of rather low-grade ore…

OT — Cole Porter was Yale and Harvard?

Oooops, meant Alex P. Keaton’s, but still most of you probably don’t know what I’m getting at here…

“Typical Arab behavior.”
U.S. decries reported sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners after graphic video aired on Israeli TV

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-sexual-abuse-palestinian-prisoners-rcna165811

Andrew Anglin now says he’s “ready to wrap this up?”

Yeah, subjectively I would agree. Modern sexual harassment laws have basically turned every workplace in America (military or civilian) into a gynocracy in which the people who wield the ultimate power are those whom normal people would be least inclined to be led by (i.e., dykes and whores).
Besides the obvious effects on readiness, combat efficiency and morale (basically, every male serviceman is forced to submit to blatant discrimination every day of his enlistment), the whole Women in the Military charade has endless ripple effects into the industrial sector. Here’s a personal example.
As you know, any large military system consists of a set of LRUs (Line Replaceable Units). These are the smallest discrete hardware modules which are expected to be replaced by service personnel in a field location, such as a radar installation or a flight line. If the LRU is in a position such that the service man (we both know it’s not going to be a woman) is in a confined space, then it must conform to the one-man lift requirement. In the US military, the weight limit for a one-man lift to chest height is about 88 lbs – for a male. The weight limit for a one-woman lift to chest height is, however, half of that – about 44 lbs. The military says that this will cover everyone down to the 5th percentile female soldier, and since there can be no discrimination based on sex, 44lbs is effectively the one-person lift weight for all hardware.
Now, as you and anyone else who has ever been in the military or worked a job that involved any sort of activity more strenuous than tapping on a keyboard knows, women do not lift heavy objects. If you try to get them to lift heavy objects, even if that is their literal job definition, you are opening yourself up to all sorts of grief. Eleventy-Star Admiral and Hero of the Trans-Galactic Union Rachel Levine xirself could not get a female servicewomyn to lift a heavy object. I have been in numerous military and civilian installations, and I have never seen a female removing a drawer from an equipment rack.

So once upon a time, I was involved with a LRU that consisted of very high power electronics devices. In order to meet the hard and fast technical requirements, we absolutely could not get it to weigh less than 46 lbs. No problem, you say – any guy worth his salt can pull a 46 lb object with handles from a chest high position in a rack. You would be wrong, however. The military insisted that it had to meet the one-man lift requirement of the 5th percentile female soldier, even though everybody knew she would never be anywhere near the thing. So we spent some time, then some more time, then way more time trying to lose 2 lbs. Several million dollars later, all we could do was make the heat sink smaller (being liquid cooled, this meant that lots of screw holes for mounting circuit boards and other parts were now impinging on the newly located coolant channels, so all those screw holes had to be moved, meaning printed circuit boards had to be redesigned, etc. etc). After a great deal of (unnecessary) trouble, we met the weight limit and all our other requirements, with one caveat. As you might expect, less metal in the heat sink means everything runs hotter. For semiconductors, the rule is for every 10 degrees C hotter the junction temperature, you cut your Mean Time To Failure in half. Luckily, we had margin in this requirement. But the net result is that the company spent a bunch of extra money and the military customer took a reliability hit just so the massive insult to human nature that is feminism can continue. I guarantee you similar things go on every day all over the country. Feminism is one of the most destructive ideologies ever invented, which is saying alot.

Liberal cat lady has herself sterilized to protest Trump:

The sad parts are:

1. She’s not all that bad-looking. I mean, not Playboy Centerfold material, but you wouldn’t be embarrassed to admit she’s your wife.

2. She’s still young enough to have children.

3. She’s white.

4. She’s not so batshit crazy that she couldn’t maintain long enough to get herself elected.

A statement about his personal preference only. Nobody’s honor is impunged.

The asteroid is timed to the reappearance of the Primordial Mothers. The Mothers will beget the androgynous human which will eventually evolve to a variant with reproductive processes and so on. This cycle presents itself after every cosmic catastrophe.

Buzz, you can atone for this rather embarrassing drunken phone call by wiring me five thousand dollars. Five hundred of which I will pass on to your favorite Steve at his Northern California speaking engagement. In this scenario all hearts are mended.

Andrew Anglin now says he’s “ready to wrap this up?”

Was he on USAID?