old school, humble dean smith once defended the oft-maligned rasheed wallace by saying, “hey, if i could dunk like that i’d scream, too.”

rasheed wallace never gave dean any problems in college.

if he claims to be an adult man maybe he should look into getting a name that’s not “Casey.”

every cab driver was a doctor or engineer with a phd in the old country.

sure, buddy.

you don’t know much about AA if you’ve never heard it referred to as a cult.

i would say the majority of the people with any experience with AA have used that word–including plenty who stay in it.

paul mccartney is really his only peer as a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and prolific songwriter

a friend of mine grew up in the houston area. her entire family had been from louisiana, forever.

she said her dad (extremely successful self-made man) said anyone with ambition who wasn’t already connected in that corrupt state would leave louisiana for texas.

never is a long time.

i knew one of the smartest people in EECS at MIT. perfect gpa. now a billionaire.

first engineer at a unicorn tech startup.

short clip where he tells what he meant by thinking one thing about Grant Hill but it was really the other thing

multiple famous black NBA players have said that Larry Bird would tell them, “You going to let a white guy try to guard me? That’s disrespectful”

Another Duke story:

You’ve talked about how part the dearth of white American basketball players is that white guys might physically develop later.

I think it’s also cultural, though. To really be comfortable in basketball culture, you have to not be uncomfortable with black culture.

Larry Bird was just a killer so he wasn’t intimidated and got respect from black guys.

Grant Hill said he hated Christian Laettner because he was just a nasty guy who bullied everyone on the team. And he said Coach K was a genius because he knew how to use that–Coach K liked guys who he considered “mfs” but then he would tell his assistant coaches to then go and ecomfort the guys who weren’t “mfs.” He liked that dynamic and used it to run the team. (Coach K himself, while white, said he was from south side of Chicago and that’s how he carried himself).

The new Lakers coach, JJ Redick, was also from a super white area (the Virginia mountains) but also just felt comfortable in black basketball culture. He told a funny story about how in the AAU circuit he participated in a rap battle with a guy from the Virginia basketball scene (but a guy from the hood, not from his mountain town) and how he won the rap battle and this guy (who wound up playing at UNC) punched him in the face because he was so embarrassed. And JJ Redick thought that was hilarious.

But not every white kid from a nice middle class family wants to rap battle and get punched in the face.

But guys like Larry Bird, Christian Laettner, JJ Redick just had that personality where even though they weren’t from black areas they had no problem with black guys trying to intimidate them.

Another funny Duke hate story was that apparently Shaq was a little salty the Dream Team took one college player, symbolically.

And they took Christian Laettner. Now, Shaq was the number one draft pick in the same year over Laettner so he kind of felt if he was the number one draft pick he should have been the one college player chosen. Reasonable desire.

And I guess he was telling this to his dad, “Yo, this is racist” and his dad just said, “What are you talking about, son? Laettner and Duke whipped your ass in college, how is that not fair he’s the one college player” and Shaq had to say, “Damn, I guess he did whip my ass in college.”

Shaq’s dad (stepfather) sounds like he was no-nonsense Army sergeant, like Jordan’s dad.

A couple of years ago there was a little kerfuffle when Jalen Rose of Michigan’s Fab Five (known for bringing 80s/early 90s rap culture into college basketball) said he hated Duke and thought Grant Hill was an Uncle Tom.

Grant Hill responded but in fairness what the now older Jalen Rose had continued to say was that he was “jealous” of Grant Hill for being from a great black family.

Rose said his father was a professional athlete, too– but he didn’t stick around to raise him.

Grant Hill’s professional athlete father married Hillary Clinton’s roommate and graduated from Yale.

Israel is finished.

Boomer Americans are the only ones still buying what they’re selling because Israel owns the politicians and the mainstream media.

But nobody younger than 65 watches television news or believes what the newspapers print.

Everyone else in the world sees the truth. When stupid, brainwashed boomer Americans are out of power Israel is going to have to answer to something resembling the truth.

lol no he wasn’t.

he was hitting batting practice pitching compareed to what ohtani hits

71 isn’t young. it isn’t middle-aged (what boomers have been calling themselves since the 90s).

you guys are truly ridiculous people.

steve, HBD had a nice run but…

“Coleman, the world indoor champion in the 60 this year, won the 100 at the 2019 worlds in Doha. His finish at the Pre was his first sub-10 second finish in the 100 this year. Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala was second in 9.98.

…In the men’s 10,000, Kenyan Daniel Matieko won in 26:50.81, a world best so far this season.”

Sorry, what? Kenyans are now silvering with sub-10s times in the 100m at meets where they’re also winning the distance races?

“The most recent incident involved a doll with a noose being delivered to his front door with threatening messages pasted all over the body.”

in 2024 SF there is most certainly ring footage from some people. the authorities know.

he’s mischling, a group that seems *especially* overrepresented on the soi-disant “dissident right.”

BAP and steve himself are also in this category, of course.

so overrepresented that it really does raise the sociological/psychological question of why this particular group (and im not usually interested of that kind of inquiry)

also, steve has gone overboard talking about how handsome he thinks his friend is. hes apparently been more influenced by the BAPsphere than he lets on. i find that kind of thing frankly bizarre.

BAP is both homosexual and intellectually eccentric so, ok, but this whole thing about putting out ‘sophisticated literature’ in Man’s World magazine with nude bodybuilders on the cover is getting absurd. personally, i wouldn’t buy it* just for that reason–it looks ridiculous to have this on your coffee table in real life and im tired of all these dorks talking about their obsessions with their looks. its feminine and/or gay, not inspiring or revolutionary. shut the hell up about tanning your balls and posting sweaty gym pictures, its just weird.

•im an actual adult man, so why the hell would i buy this cover of “man’s world” magazine?

first example doesn’t bother me at all. i’m sick of fake “AI” telling me what to think.

it doesn’t and shouldn’t have an opinion about whether stalin is “bad”

shut up and calculate, computers

belief in the apollo lunar landings is the senile boomer version of toddlers believing in the tooth fairy

just a reminder, when steve says oakland is cheap, a newlywed cousin of mine (management at apple) just bought a (crappy, small, old) house there for $1.5m

just saw cooper dejean (iowa cb) listed at 13 in a mock draft.

white dbs are back on the menu!

It’s funny how Steve points out numerous conspiracies in other countries but according to our host none ever happen in America. What are the odds?

The Killers are huge for milliennials, the demographic that’s been having the most weddings recently.

Still hear their hits in bars all the time.

I went out on Pinehurst #2 the Wednesday night before the US Open opened. (oops, probably wasn’t supposed to do that…their mistake for having a cocktail party at the course hours before opening tee times)

I wasn’t hitting balls but I did walk around a bit and threw some balls onto greens. It was incredible. You could softly land something right by the hole and it would just fall right down the whole green.

and ted williams is the only non-golfer to say it was too easy.

in that case, unfortunately, if you had really pushed him on that, he might have still beat you.

henry kissinger wasn’t slaying. what a weird thing for political nerds to fantasize about.

I wasn’t surprised, though I was gratified, to have one of my old guesses confirmed by Isaacson, who is first-rate on Kissinger’s social register. He may have taken out a dozen or so starlets in order to boost ugly over-priced restaurants and provide a few photo-opportunities. But no business resulted. In his little nest in Rock Creek Park: ‘The only decorative elements, other than books piled about, were pictures of Kissinger with a wide variety of foreign officials … The bare room had two twin beds, one of them used as a laundry dump. A woman who stole a glance later reported that socks and underwear were scattered about and the mess “had so repulsive an aspect that it was hard to imagine anyone living there … ” The dirty little secret about Kissinger’s relationship with women was that there was no dirty little secret.’ Repress the pang of pity. Recall what was said by James Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defence and yet another betrayed colleague: ‘Henry enjoys the complexity of deviousness. Other people when they lie look ashamed. Henry does it with style.

From what I understand Chomsky is also on his way out.

Perhaps we’ll still get a pithy comment from him amongst all the paeans to Kissinger’s “genius.”

Sometime after William F. Buckley died, Noam was asked about him and in a response about the general arc of the conservative intellectual movement from Buckley’s time to the “far worse” neocons he added that Buckley was “considered witty, learned, intelligent–though not by me.”

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/snowflakes-hamas

I read a really good short story recently by a white guy and discovered he was a Pulitzer winner and a professor at Stanford.

“That’s odd.”

Turns out he claims he’s 1/4 Native American (but has never been around “the rez” or Indians in general; he says he listens to podcasts to learn about his folklore and heritage).

steve, with the obviously correct conviction of SBF, how ridiculous does michael lewis look?

even *during the trial* when SBF was getting torched, lewis was still praising his performance.

can we finally shut the door on every single pop “journalist” airport bookstore author?

When JJ Redick was being recruited by Duke, his father called the Duke assistant coaches who were driving up to visit them.

“You need to make sure you know how to get here, so let me walk you through it…”

“We have GPS navigation.”

“Yeah, and you won’t be getting any service near me.”

question that isn’t raised often: is it good or bad for a culture to be as anti-intellectual as america is?

surprisingly, noam chomsky says it’s good. he said to consider the alternative: if he says something it’s front page news in le monde, which chomsky thinks is kind of ridiculous. along with that comes the entire parisian culture of worshipping intellectuals as rock stars, which leads the silliness of french postmodernism and people like foucault, derrida, et al. being extremely pretentious and performative.

maybe it’s better to have the kardashians as kardashians instead of “philosophers” as celebrities.

there is no such thing as a $400 (new) book.

by that alone i know you’re working with idiots who probably do everything else wrong in terms of making and selling books.

like, i now wouldn’t trust them to sell me a $23.95 trade paperback because they’re so manifestly incompetent.

oof.

not many. they’re still going woke but it seems like white women are doing it. crazy cat ladies and certain white-hating ethnicities can actually learn languages.

there’s a new awful translation of the odyssey by a non-zuckerberg woman; expect it to become the standard one offered in libraries and reading lists

οι ζωές των μαύρων έχουν σημασία

how much does it cost to be safe in WV?

literally. nothing. you can live off welfare in the worst trailer and if you don’t participate in those “worst trailer” activities you will be fine.

how much does it cost to be safe in nyc? a ton.

the coolest avant-garde cultural-artistic scene in the world is centered around a female podcast that constantly references steve sailer.

those are the facts. and yes, it’s important to have people, especially women, who make movies and literature and are social and cultural tastemakers. cool girls look up to dasha and anna. the right has never had that.

i love counter-currents, too. but you need the hipster artists in dimes square to impact the culture.

if dasha and BAP are really dating that’s like the royal power couple the dissident sphere has been waiting for.

it is to steve, who thinks things like competitive girls sports and take your daughter to work day were just swell ideas boomer dipshits had for their kids.

“My guess is that while nobody pays to see, say, college golf, a certain number of big donors like bragging about their alma mater’s golf team.”

that would be a terrible guess. you can’t brag when nobody pays attention to the sport.

i know someone who does employment law in california.

he lives in asia (and did before covid or zoom trials). he literally could not take a case to trial but that was his business–you get fired and you’re black/a woman/whatever and he threatens the company and they settle.

what is a company going to do? pay their expensive law firm to win in court? for what? to avoid a 50k payout?

and the truly elite think about greece, steve.

shaker heights is very jewish.

steve, you may expect your readers to know this–but then again, you have plenty of readers who aren’t even from america so may not be that familiar with every suburb in this country.

(yes, i saw the hints you gave but let’s just be clear)

funny.

i’ve recently joked with a friend that buying up stockton isn’t a bad idea.

tons of bay area people have flooded sacramento.

san francisco just isn’t that big for the amount of people who live there or want to and stockton is just too close that much wealth to be a completely useless ghetto shithole.

there are some good schools very close to no joke ghettos. and not just in what you think of as major cities.

yale is one, duke is another.

people from europe, new zealand, asia have no idea what “bad neighborhood” means in america. they should be warned. fairly often you’ll see some sad story about a tourist in new orleans or miami or chicago or philadelphia or dc or new york or….getting killed. they just don’t have the the instincts for american cities.

after traveling through europe at age 21 it was shocking to realize what i’d internalized about cities, public transportation, etc. and how different it was there. i realized americans don’t spend a lot of time talking about this aloud because there’s no need to. if someone’s new in chicago you can quickly tell them what train lines to avoid at night or the boundaries of where it’s safe and everyone knows what you mean. but other than that, nobody is going to come into work and say, “can you BELIEVE what happened to me last night? I was just taking public transportation out to englewood last night, just to explore the neighborhood and–”

but if what you’re used to taking the train to some random city in germany and just going out to get drunk and explore all night then you are not prepared for america.

this ain’t switzerland or new zealand and you have to know where you’re at once you walk out the door.

there are white sororities and black sororities and it has been that way for quite some time.

what needs to be understood is who’s really kept out of the greek system: people whose parents dont have money to blow.

or, in the case of asians and indians, even the parents who *have* the money wouldn’t spend it on fraternities and sororities in nearly the same proportion as whites and blacks with money.

i imagine most hispanics at southern schools (a relatively new phenomenon) either wouldn’t have the money or don’t come from a household where the parents are into greek life.

one of the things i like about hugh grant is how he outwardly loathes doing the whole hollywood thing with press obligations, etc.

he also said even movie set themselves are a drag now because it’s all about celebrities and their social media phones instead of actors just getting drunk together every night.

he really just hates it all.

koreans are insane drinkers. not sure if this was always the case but it sure is now.

china and japan are nothing like it. im aware of the “salary man” stereotype from the 80s but i’ve also been to all these places.

i’ve never seen anything like seoul, not even in russia. neither had my half-korean girlfriend, who grew up in wisconsin and went to madison for college, probably the biggest drinking state in america, maybe after louisiana (i’ve seen wisconsin at the top but it’s hard to believe having lived in louisiana).

go out in the street in korea on any sunday morning–or any day–and it’s worse than fraternity row after homecoming. trashed people and passed out people everywhere like you’re in a zombie movie.

“Modern Korean drinking culture. As society developed, the drinking culture started to change. Recent studies have shown that Koreans drink the largest amount of alcohol in the world. In the past, people drank on specific days like New Year’s, but presently alcohol can be consumed regardless of the occasion.”

spielberg sucks.

but he’s perfect for boomers, stupid children who never grew up and were raised on the braindead television schmaltz of their youth.

a white man’s only job is to empower black women.

even in britain.

thank god black girls get more attention and representation

almost all acting is casting.

someone like gary oldman is the rare pyrotechnic outlier where he can play anything, look different, sound different, etc. and just blow the doors off with his scene-chewing however he chooses to do it.

funny story about jake:

when tobey maguire tried some hardball negotiating over spiderman the studio just looked at him and said, “ok. walk. we’ll just replace you with kirsten dunst’s actual boyfriend, jake gyllenhaal.”

also funny is that he is continuing to be harassed by taylor swift’s song about him and her fans (i think the song about him was one she recently re-released). even his sister has had to comment about being harassed *herself* by swifties, which is pretty funny.

hey, play “date taylor swift” games and win…

someone pointed out they had different accents and christopher (humorlessly) replied that he went to school in britain and his brother went to school in america

the problem is a bunch of smart dilettantes were talking about high stakes politics across the world without having done the work of actually learning anything about it.

cf, chomsky’s ability to talk about leninism off the top of his head–i have zero doubt chomsky knew more about the russian communists, revolutions, writings, etc. when he was barely a teenager than oppenheimer ever learned in his life.

which is why chomsky could, as a teenager, in real time, see what stalin’s soviet union really was; there was nothing to be shocked by in the 30s or 40s if you’d been paying attention.

boomers are going to lose a lot of money to AI phone call scams

I often wonder if matty y is consciously running a parody of the bugman libtard ersatz technocrat

eugenics?

do you really want your children to be doomed by heredity to become nobel laureates?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Y._Tsien

Tsien had a number of engineers in his extended family, including his father Hsue-Chu Tsien who was an MIT-educated mechanical engineer and his mother’s brothers Y. T. Li (李耀滋) and Shihying Lee (李诗颖), who were engineering professors at MIT. Tsien’s mother Yi-Ying Li was a nurse.[15] The famous rocket scientist Tsien Hsue-shen, regarded as the co-founding father of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology and, later, the director of the Chinese ballistic-missile and space programs, is a cousin of Tsien’s father.[37]

Tsien was the younger brother of Richard Tsien, a renowned neurobiologist currently at New York University,[38] and Louis Tsien, a software engineer. Tsien, who called his own work molecular engineering, once said, “I’m doomed by heredity to do this kind of work.”[39]

One of the funnier things about that Chicago era is Billy Corgan whining he is–and was even when he was just coming up–hated by his hometown scene.

Corgan, one of the most talented rock musicians in history, wonders if they were just jealous. Well, yeah, but you’re also kind of a douche, Billy–it’s both!

friends dad was an ortho.

he said the catchphrase for derm was, “nobody dies and nobody gets better”

i understand raytheon’s business position (and that raytheon owns congress)

….so what’s greg’s and steve’s excuse?

OT:

Steve, remember when your pal Greg Cochran thought Ukraine + NATO was going to defeat the Russian military?

Yeah, what do you guys think now that it’s just become an absolute slaughter?

“Keep that same energy” as the kids say when it comes to Greg basing his arrogance on his ability to make correct predictions. I and most of your commenters told you there was no path to victory for Ukraine.

As Mr. Putin said, “What is their plan? To defeat me on the battlfield? Let them try.”

Well, they’re trying. And it’s just the annihilation of both the military and at this point, the country of Ukraine. Putin was ready to end this in April 2022 but you and Greg thought we could militarily defeat Putin just by stealing my tax dollars and praying.

I await your apology.

steve, if kids and teens used to read comic books and comic strips can we really doubt that in the good old days they would have been ecstatic to have an ipad with tiktok?

yeah, i don’t know how steve missed this. maybe he’s old enough to not realize how old women in their 30s are?

it should have been sydney sweeney. the blonde zoomer who is the apex “hot girl” of her generation (while they otherwise try to force weird racially ambiguous girls like zendaya).

here’s your ken and barbie:

women shouldn’t engage in competitive sports. it’s gross and disgusting and something steve, like many dumb boomer dads, is incredibly wrong about.

women should be doing feminine physical activities (dance, basically).

OT: classic sailersphere stuff.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/wealthy-liberal-suburbs-economic-segregation-scarsdale/674792/

“Watch what they do, not what they say.”

Window signs are cheap. I laugh when I see the BLM signs in front of $2m homes in my neighborhood. A couple of miles away and you could be surrounded by all the black lives you wanted and your house would literally cost 1/10th of what it does in this neighborhood.

Rich liberals are the worst people on earth.

OT: Steve, I wonder if the kids applying to colleges could even comprehend the 1980s.

Decent grades and test scores? You’ll be *recruited* to college like a basketball player!

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,951116-1,00.html

OT:

so they’ve got that going for them, which is nice:

Yes:https://t.co/02sysV0jUn

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 14, 2023

as a millennial, i learned the deal at elite schools very quickly.

clearly, the black and latino AA admits are just not relevant.

but just as clearly, the great “middle” of uninteresting intellectuals in your dorm are rich Jews from wealthy suburbs who are going into law/medicine/finance.

Steve, is there a reason you’re obsessed with supposed “Jewish genius?”

Why? because some movie called Oppenheimer is coming out about the 1940s?

What are you talking about? You “heard” that Jews made Yale more intellectual in the 1960s?

But this is 2023, is it not? Everyone at elite schools know the modal student is some intellectually mediocre rich Jewish kid from the same suburbs–which we can all name–in the areas of NYC, DC, Chicago, LA, etc.

They major in political science or econ and get jobs in finance, consulting, law school. They are thuddingly mediocre and everyone knows it.

But it took Ron Unz 50,000 words to “look at the data” and be shocked by this fact? And you were also shocked by Ron’s article?

You could have just asked anyone–the way you say asked someone about Yale in 1963 (for those of you counting at home, that’s 60 years ago).

It’s just absolute nonsense.

https://www.imo-official.org/country_individual_r.aspx?code=USA

A while back I worked at a company that held a corporate event by renting out Dodger Stadium.

Really not a bad idea.

Anyway, Maury Wills appeared to be employed by the Dodgers as a professional Dodger-for-life and seemed to enjoy his job. Just giving us the tour, telling stories.

Who among the Men of Unz swings the biggest stick?
We know Ron is hung like a Clydesdale,but what about the various bloggers? No doubt,SS is up there.
I’ll stop now.

athletically, he’s the rare triple “80” (baseball scouts use an SAT like scale of 60-70-80, with each 10 representing a standard deviation).

he’s an 80 i speed, power, and throwing arm (less than 80 as a “hitter” but ignoring power).

one baseball writer was trying to recall if anyone was a triple-80 in terms of those tools and said maybe bo jackson was.

he is not a candidate, he simply is the best player ever as we type.

if ruth were born in…but he wasn’t. ohtani is simply better at the game of baseball than ruth ever was.

elly de la cruz throws 99 mph heat….after he fields ground balls

the fast twitch king. fastest runner and possibly the hardest hitter in baseball (and Judge outweighs him by about 80 lbs.).

“The switch-hitting 21-year-old went 3-for-4 with a jack from each side of the plate and a double Tuesday night for the Bats. He hit all three over 116 mph, an achievement that has never been reached by an MLB team in a single game in the Statcast Era (since 2015)”.

and he’s 6’5. let’s put him on the mound.

people, even opponents, if anything *underestimate* how bad AA is.

at my sister’s medical school they had remedial classes for AA kids because they couldn’t do the first year med school classes. these are people who are supposed to already be in medical school, not pre-med students trying to get their chemistry up to par so they can apply to medical school.

forget doing well in med school–they couldn’t find enough AA admits to even do the work

Her Princeton thesis is not just bad for a Princeton thesis.

It would be bad for a high school essay you wrote hungover after prom weekend.

The less charitable Christopher Hitchens’ observes:

“To describe (Michell Obama’s thesis) as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb; this is because it wasn’t written in any known language.”

OT:

Ohtani, the best baseball player of all time, just played one of the best games of all time today.

someone at ESPN said it’s now clear Reds rookie De La Cruz is an “80” (it’s on the SAT scale) prospect in throwing arm, speed, and power. Nobody in the MLB is an 80 in all three (maybe Ohtani if he played the field?) and he speculated that perhaps Bo Jackson was the last time someone might have a claim to that treble.

But our stats are now much better. De La Cruz is objectively >99th percentile in throwing power, batting power, and running.

fun to watch:

“likable managers”

in real life sonny vacarro was known as the biggest lying, cheating scumbag in the sport–with the particularly appealing niche of preying on illiterate, ignorant underage teen boys and their naive families.

steve, check out this absurd story about a college baseball player:

https://www.espn.com/college-baseball/story/_/id/37859588/gators-jac-caglianone-shohei-ohtani-men-college-world-series

“They monitor Caglianone’s sleep patterns through a Whoop band and ensure he gets at least 5,000 calories a day to stave off the weight loss that normally comes during a season. They did almost daily maintenance on his body: massages Monday, acupuncture or dry needling Tuesdays, soft tissue work on his fascia throughout the week.”

for a 19 year old college kid. what a joke.

part of it is, of course, size. it’s great for peak performance if you’re 260 lbs. of muscle. not so great for avoiding injuries (maybe someone should call lebron james team since he is still really, really good at 275 lbs. and 38 years old).

Dick Groat was the best college basketball player and the best college baseball player at the same time. he probably just drank beer and chased college girls in his “rehab time” between games.

This stuff is pretty cringe, though. Oh no, pitching and playing….*checks notes* first base? At age 20?

Did I miss the part where he’s running marathons between games or something?

early sports specialization is awful but the trend isn’t going anywhere.

roger federer didn’t specialize as a kid.

jack nicklaus didn’t specialize as a kid.

Steve, serious question:

Are we ever going to get an update on your Big Lebowski The Dude-esque boomer nonchalance that, actually, “We don’t have to worry about anything–after all, the people who are *really* steering the ship are boring, old competent white male Republicans who just like to Get Things Done, play golf, and watch the alma mater’s football games. Don’t worry about all the noise–because only the competent, conservative, old white men are really even capable of running things, so they are! Everything else is just silly people saying crazy stuff on their blogs or whatever.”

As a millennial, I’m still waiting for the “adults in the room” to show me they’re in charge. I was told that after you leave the crazy leftist college campuses, in the “real world” it’s all about serious business, not funny business.

I don’t really get the Nietzsche thing.

As someone who actually did philosophy, he’s fine but he’s not taken that seriously in the field.

But every single right-wing twitter “intellectual” is obsessed with him. They act like they want people to be well-read “philosophers” but nobody in philosophy would say to start or finish with Nietzsche.

other great multi-sport athletes who don’t get mentioned as often as Bo or Deion:

My sister, who doesn’t care about pro sports, sat next to someone on a flight. Had no idea who he was but she asked after a couple people asked for autographs.

She called me and asked, “You heard of someone named Dave Winfield?”

“I have. You’re sitting next to someone who might be the best athlete of all time.”

Apparently he laughed. He’d told her, “Famous? I don’t know, I used to play baseball.”

The best thing about “restricted” clubs is that if you’re famous enough you don’t need to join–you just get invited by members.

Michael Jordan used to play at my country club. This was in North Carolina so he didn’t actually need to go through the process of formally joining to play rounds with friends whenever he felt like it.

In my childhood John Smoltz was the best pro athlete golfer on the country club circuit

an old school basketball journalist once wondered why Danny Ainge wasn’t considered for the title of “best athlete in the world”–the modestly sized Mormon white guy was good enough to play professional basketball and baseball and was apparently the best golfer of anyone in pro sports–a legitimate scratch golfer who could have been a pro in that game, too.

So yeah, I think Steve should ask David Irving about Dunkirk

Steve should read his Pravda.

https://www.unz.com/page/world-war-ii-articles/

I’m old and my *grandfather*–not my father–who was a decorated WWII hero died of natural causes *decades ago*

it’s history. it just is.

I’m pretty old–35, middle-aged–and it’s not even close to the war of my parents. My WWII veteran grandfather died in the 1990s. The Nazi party ceased to exist in 1945.

It’s literally history.

Right. I didn’t say it’s not historically relevant. Of course it is.

I’m just done with the emotional-narrative crap from spielberg movies or whatever.

There’s literally no reason to be more emotional about it than you are about other major historical events.

For people who think I shouldn’t insult Steve: you’re right, he could just delete and ban me. He can do whatever he wants.

On the other hand, he’s also said it’s not that great when we say people (whether it’s black women activists or elite hedge fund managers) are not allowed to be criticized.

So yeah, I think Steve should ask David Irving about Dunkirk before he makes his next (tenth? fifteenth?) post about it.

I’ll give you an example.

Why is Steve obsessed with the Dunkirk movie about Anglo heroism?

It doesn’t make any sense, historically. The story of Dunkirk is the story of eeeeeevil bloodthirsty Hitler letting them go. That’s it. That’s the heroism: Hitler had no interest in slaughtering British people.

lots of things are historically important.

that doesn’t explain steve fantasizing about evil nazis being metaphysically satan while we simply incinerated millions of people from dresden to nagasaki. he’s on twitter accusing them of things that never happened (IF they had won they would have murdered slavs for fun!).

it doesn’t explain greg cochran’s stolen valor.

i’ve actually been to war. sorry if i don’t give a shit about greg bragging about his uncles in WWII (which was, again, in the 1940s). i’d be happy to pay for greg’s ticket to the frontlines so he can fight eeeeeeeevil putin’s artillery, though, if he wants to bleat about how tough he is.

it’s just not so amusing for someone who actually was sent to make the world “safe for democracy” on the orders of these boomers weeping about it. Munich! Churchill!

can’t wait until WWII is history and not some weird boomer psychodrama/fetish.

Steve is still tweeting about the eeeeeevil Nazis. It’s 2023, btw.

Gregory Cochran won’t shut up about his uncles being WWII pilots. It’s utterly bizarre.

ot: Steve, were you aware that while the elite media has shut out your references to the science of male transgenders, plenty of the younger trans people are having an open discourse using the agp/homosexual distinction?

i wasn’t until twitter brought it to my attention:

eg,

I might look like one, but I don’t see myself as a woman in any meaningful sense – I developed dysphoria due to internalised homophobia & a deep intense love of straight men.

It says a lot about our deeply prudish society that me saying this is seen as superficial- I’m supposed…

— aimee (@basic_chanel) May 27, 2023

if you search ‘agp hsts’ on twitter you get people saying they’re already tired of how it’s taking over the framework of discussion in some trans circles

as usual, steve, you’re aiming at the wrong audience: the elite NYT ypes do what they will and you suffer what you must. your real audience is younger, more honest people trying to figure things out.

knowledge is good. but i don’t think most people (including parents) understand things like AGP from the mainstream media or their doctors/therapists so hopefully this does take over the discussion in trans/gay circles online since this is where the kids get it from. nobody is a woman trapped in a man’s body.

winthrop cabot-lodge IV strikes again!

what i really cannot believe is that there’s a color-coded bookshelf trend.

it would take a lot to forgive that.

Screw Karen, she voted for this.

OT: steve, another entry in the game of, “Do journalists know they’re lying or are they just useful idiots for people smarter than them with skin in the game?”

My “friend” works for that insurance company, & I’m here to say that we didn’t pull out of California because of global warming, lol. We pulled out because CA’s laws on HOI are *extremely* policy-holder friendly—it’s really hard to deny coverage. So we just said “fuck it” & left. https://t.co/G9IxCZciqb

— Michael Haneke Paneke (@davo_arid) May 31, 2023

whoops, turns out liberals are the reason they pulled out, not republican global warming!