1. Sapir-Worf
2. frontlash
3. affordable family formation
4. Occam’s Butterknife (may I suggest spatula as the emphatic form?)
5. ?
6. Profit!

“Invade the world, invite the world” is the best summary of late Anglosphere dysfunction.
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The border is secure.

Two Louisiana men were arrested by Texas Department of Public Safety troopers for smuggling illegal immigrants into the Lone Star State, according to a report released Sunday night.

The agency said a DPS trooper attempted to pull over a gray Toyota for a traffic violation Friday at around 9 a.m. on U.S. 90 in Kinney County, Texas. A vehicle pursuit began after the driver refused to pull over.

During the chase, the car was driven through a gate, which caused it to stall, and resulted in the driver and a passenger attempting to flee the scene on foot before they were quickly apprehended.

While searching the vehicle, troopers discovered eight illegal immigrants, including three inside the trunk, from Guatemala, Honduras and Ecuador. Several firearms were also found inside the vehicle during the search.

The DPS identified the driver as 26-year-old Donald Ray Graves and the passenger as Najoua Jabarie Harris, 25. Both men are from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Graves is a confirmed Bloods street gang member. He is wanted by the Baton Rouge Police Department for two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder in connection to a gang-related shooting in February 2022.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/louisiana-men-arrested-human-smuggling-texas-dps-troopers-find-illegal-immigrants-car

It’s not LOL, but I like this one:

To be more precise, if it were whites killing blacks at high rates, it would be the Biggest Story Ever. Blacks killing blacks is just awkward for the Narrative.

(From here).

BTW, since you like movies and you live in Los Angeles, you would probably like this 3-liner from a character in the very good movie I just saw titled In Bruges. This doesn’t spoil the movie at all: The British hit man is at a gun dealer’s house to pick up one. Among the 50 or so guns around, he sees an Uzi lying on the table.

“An Uzi?! I’m not from South Central Los fucking Angeles! I didn’t come here to shoot 20 black 10 year-olds in a fucking driveway. I want a normal gun for a normal hit.”

Maybe the screenwriter was a Steve Sailer reader.

I’ll try to think of some other one’s of yours I like over the deay and search for them.

It’s not really a “one-liner” as much as just a witty term, but I love your use of the term “Ex-Men”. It’s perfect.

Seriously, these trends among girls during the Great Awokening ought to be alarming. Our culture has reorganized itself around what girls on Tumblr were demanding a decade ago, and now a quarter of girls planned to kill themselves in 2021.https://t.co/dUzEPnjYu2 pic.twitter.com/sN0YB63G4d

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) February 18, 2023

Our culture has reorganized itself around what girls on Tumblr were demanding a decade ago, and now a quarter of girls planned to kill themselves in 2021.

No, I suspect Wokeness originated on Tumblr as the homely girls' revenge on the pretty girls.

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) February 14, 2023

No, I suspect Wokeness originated on Tumblr as the homely girls’ revenge on the pretty girls.

And I don’t know if Steve ever said it but you can just post it on Twitter now and get it into a book.
“If immigration made society more equal and raised wages it’d be illegal”

And I know Steve didn’t originate it, but I still think “Libertarianism is just applied autism” is a good one since you referenced it.

One could also include “Wokeness is just applied BPD”

In Russia you guard girls, but in the United States girls guard you.

Going back a ways, and probably paraphrasing;

“After such knowledge, what forgiveness?”
“The war on noticing.”
“They have no counter argument, they just point and sputter.”
“Feckless blacks”

Achmed,

Yes, Bruges is good.

If you liked it, I recommend another one called The Guard also with Brendan Gleeson in it. (And Don Cheadle too.)

Got a few digs at our black friends in that too.

I just noticed the director is actually the brother of the Bruges director.

Guard is as in member of the Irish Gardai, the police.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guard_(2011_film)

I have no idea why somebody carefully hung this empty picture frame from a tree alongside the Fryman Canyon hiking trail, but I appreciate it, like I appreciate your support.

Please stop saying this, as this picture no longer appears in your posts.

—

As for your request, I literally laughed out loud at Where Are the Famous Old Gay Baseball Players? I especially like your response to those who were complaining about the topic being raised, which ended with a dismissive “well, sorry” response on your part. And since Rusty Staub is no longer with us you don’t have to worry about libeling him.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/where-are-famous-old-gay-baseball/#comment-199419

Search for “Libertarianism is just applied autism”: No results found.

Steve would have never said that. He might not be the most Constitutional- and principle-minded guy around, but he’d never write an idiotic line like that.

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Correction to my comment with 3 typo-boners: “4-liner”, not 3, “ones”, and “day”. Sorry.

“The 1960s were the 1950s for dumb people.”

Also, must paraphrase because faulty memory:
“The wild Woodstock-style exuberances of the 1960s occurred within the countries that won World War Two, like a belated victory celebration for the sons of those who won.”

Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism: The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be revolutionized in order that the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking.

I always liked “Occam’s Butterknife” and “Sailer’s First Principle of Female Journalism.”

On women, tattoos often seem to imply: “Pay attention to me because I, obviously, make poor choices, so you might get lucky.”

Well obviously “invade the world, invite the world” is #1.

paraphrases:

Conservatives are too stupid to realize that intelligence is an invalid concept.

What have white men ever done for science/arts/Europe, etc.?

What little girl doesn’t dream of being [insert some highly masculine occupation held by an autogynephile]?

The racial test-score hierarchy changes frequently. For example, it used to be Orientals on top, followed by Caucasians, then Hispanics, then Negroes. Now it’s Asians on top, followed by whites, then Latinos, then blacks.

Ethnic angst affects gentiles and Jews differently. Gentiles worry they are being too ethnocentric; Jews worry they aren’t being ethnocentric enough.

“consist of killer one liners”

It’s got to be his quote “I hate to be wrong”.

And then there is this one from an anonymous…

—That (Jewish) 70s Show
Steve Sailer, December 12, 2012

After the 1960s, Jews stopped asking the question, “Is it good for the Jews?” about their own behavior and started asking it about everyone else’s.—

Is this even the case anymore?

Wow. I’ve been blocked by Steve Sailer. Couldn’t handle me? I thought you were a realist and freeze peach advocate?

“Seth Rich was killed not by the Democrat Party elite, but by the Democrat Party base”.

You forgot to add ‘in hock to the world’.

One that I use all the time is regarding the attitude that liberals have towards blacks

“Above criticism but beneath agency”

So concise and so perfect. Even my liberal friends and family couldn’t quite find it in themselves to deny it.

One question: Ron has ported all your historical work to unz.com, correct? I.e., if I were feeling ambitious (happens at least thrice a decade), I won’t need to go off the reservation to read some of your earliest stuff, correct? …Or did I dream that?

Don’t look now, but Malcolm Gladwell has competition:

It’s got to be his quote “I hate to be wrong”.

His latest bon mot is up there with it:

I really like getting money, so thanks in advance.

Who the living eff is that? Did Elon Musk have an illegitimate South African love child?

AnotherDad says:
April 10, 2023 at 12:58 pm GMT • 49 minutes ago ↑
Well obviously “invade the world, invite the world” is #1.

Yeah, but be sure not to leave off the crowning third: “In hoc to the world.”

And I can’t particularly tell my best short bits from short bits that I think deserve to be popular.

Just use the ones you think deserve to be popular.

Our culture has reorganized itself around what girls on Tumblr were demanding a decade ago, and now a quarter of girls planned to kill themselves in 2021.

That’s pretty good.

I do think, Steve’s book–really anyone trying to analyze and think of solutions to our crisis–needs some focus on the “woman problem”. Women did not invent minoritarianism and all its evil effects–in the slightest. But their need for compliance and approval and desire to virtue signal and keep their place in the pecking order is strong, and with social media, unleashed, to the extreme detriment of our society and politics.

— Steve’s law of female journalism

“The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking.”

— World War Hair

— Anything quippy about girls on social media driving this nuttery.

— And that social media has actually made young women … less happy and well adjusted.

After the 1960s, Jews stopped asking the question, “Is it good for the Jews?” about their own behavior and started asking it about everyone else’s.—

Is this even the case anymore?

Insert astronaut meme: “Always was.”

No, I remember that one. And he’s right; libertarianism is principle applied to the exclusion of all else. The NAP sounds good on paper, but how do you keep out the non-libertarians? What is “aggression” and who gets to define it? Also, people at 90 IQ and lower are going to require lots of institutional supports and enforcement unless we are prepared for a rather stupendous culling.

My personal iSteve favorite: “Diversity, liberty or equality; choose one.”

“What are the most memorable…notions of Sailer?”

Answer: “Zelle contributions are not tax deductible.”

The impression one forms of Sailer is the guy on Unz who has a giant side column asking for gibs in a 100 different ways.

One assumes this is in exchange for him posting the odd link, a tweet, sometimes with a little bit of commentary, but often not much.

Apparently these actions carry a material worth (presumably that only really IQ people get).

He then mentions leftist violence, followed by a re-post of his side column asking for money.

Unironically, he asks others to reflect on him, “what do you remember best?”

This. “That guy” asking for money online for posting some tweets and links.

And probably if someone pushes many mainstream platforms to send them money, they are not themselves advocating or necessarily presenting anything that politically dangerous..

Hey, Kreszka will save you some money, which you can pay forward to Steve:

8 TED Talks That Will Teach You Much More Than a Four-Year College Program

7 Free Courses From Harvard University That Will Change Your Life

Quotes about Moynihan’s way to improve American schools. Quotes and paraphrasing.

I’d have to search, but some pithy paragraph about these autogynephile freaks being the least feminine dudes imaginable and getting their kicks beating up the chicks would be great.

Pushing out some understanding of these autogynephile freaks really illuminates the whole WWT debacle. And–as said before–this whole “trans” thing is a gift. “Trans” is minoritarianism raised to parody.

The “racism!”, “anti-Semitism!”, “Islamophobia!”, “xenophobia!” oppression whining is able to psychologically piggyback on people’s dislike of actual–slavery, serfdom, rape, murder–oppression. One has to point out that the normal productive majority actually has a fundamental right to live their lives in the community they want, with the norms they want. (Their lives belong to them, not minorities–else they are the ones enslaved.)

But this trans thing … LOL. Anyone whose brain isn’t pickled with minoritarian glop immediately gets it–nutjobs demanding that normies have to accommodate their nutjobbery.

Minoritarianism in a “nutshell”.

My personal iSteve favorite: “Diversity, liberty or equality; choose one.”

That’s super-good TAG. Thanks.

Steve, definitely put that one in. At least one of the books.

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BTW, Steve–you’re probably already doing this now–I’ll suggest that one way to get on top of some of this for the future that anytime you write something you think maybe be book “quipworthy” or “essayworthy” you save the link off to a database or tag it somehow. And furthermore, do the same whenever you are thinking about something and looking at your old material. But yeah, you’ve probably been doing that now for a while.

I like it when you refer to immigration policy as “Electing a new people” (I know this isn’t originally your line but applying it to immigration is original. Also like it when you refer to potential new voters from immigration as “bringing in ringers”

Ma’k the knife was very funny. Ma’khia Bryant who was killed stabbing that girl

Stale pale male

Men with gold chains

Neocons need a college football team

I have always had a soft spot for your ” The arc of the Moral Universe is long, but it bends towards lazy Susan baby distribution.” Also “The only thing worse for a non-White than living in a racist America among bigoted Whites is not being allowed to immigrate to a racist America and live among bigoted Whites.”

And, of course, ” Above criticism but beneath agency” is a true classic.

Don’t forget your Law of Female Journalism, guaranteed to royally piss off 99 percent of that rapidly declining and feminizing industry

As far as the fundraising stuff, it is with mixed emotions that we announce the third annual iSteve Buccothon. Just when the pieces were starting to fall into place our star young shortstop falls on his ankle, raising the ugly spectre of a third straight hundred-loss season. Yaaarrhh

https://mobile.twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1412566639241928704

“Why do old white men love projecting their biases” “Hope I choke on broken glass”

My favorite is that if Obama would have had a son with his old girlfriend, he would have looked like George Zimmerman.

It’s fundamentally a religious movement. They are beating people up for saying that transgenderism is a mental disorder. That’s a level of conviction you only get with religion.

Paraphrasing somewhat, too lazy to Search:
The Great Retreat to the Donut Shop
Portnoy’s Complaint and the last 60 years in USA:

Goyisch guilt is about being ethnocentric; Jewish guilt is about not being ethnocentric enough
The chips on Jordan Belfort’s and Matthew Weiner’s shoulders
Who blackballed my grandaddy from the Golf Club: WASPs or German Jews?

Sailer’s Law of Female Journalism
Sailer’s Definition of Feminism
Starchitects Hate People
(However, Le Corbusier, star architectural theorist, perhaps didn’t hate people like Urban-Density-loving liberals assume: maybe he was trying to save us from pandemics.)
Liberals assume creative Hollywood people must be liberals, so comically miscontrue the message of alpha-male directors’ movies
Ezra Klein, a Californian entrepreneur, sunnily assumes that what’s good for him is good for everyone.
According to Occam’s butterknife, all those gay Americans in the 1980s were killed by Nancy Reagan, not the HIV+ men who infected them with the virus
The Flight From Unhyphenated

Sailers 1st Law of Female Journalism needs to be included.

You once said something like “Most of America’s problems would be solved if we could take 15 IQ points off our Jewish population and add 15 IQ points to our blacks.”

I also liked your nickname for today’s USA: “Strip Mall One.”

Are you allowed to use some of the best pithy comments from your readers?

It’s fundamentally a religious movement.

Exactly. In a real life conversation I had someone actually embrace the comparison to religion and consider that a positive.

Once that happens there is no compromising (e.g. see Ron’s Ukraine piece and the idea of the US as “not agreement capable.”).

There are reasons the terms “religious war” and “holy war” have the connotations they do.

Where are the golf quips?

Btw, in view of the recently completed Masters, the following is a perennial observation.
See how the winner wives are beautiful and so are their offspring?
And where are the calls for more diverse caddies?

I was charmed by the following line when Steve wrote it, and have remembered it warmly ever since:

“the essential Italian story, going back to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, revolves around a long conspiracy to commit a single strategic murder.”

From Steve’s review of The Irishman (Nov. 6, 2019).

Something along the line of “Blacks want mailbox money for being black” or “Blacks want a royalty on being black.”

Get Out is a remarkably racist kill-the-white-people horror movie that makes Django Unchained look like My Dinner With Andre.
It would be really stupid to have deftly side-stepped nuclear war during the Cold War only to stumble into it today when so much less is at stake.
Friday Night Lights fans are who you want in your foxhole. Heathers fans are probably going to create more interesting art and music. You want a culture that can balance both.
Gaming tends to be a black hole for male talent and attention, one that reflects back little light on the rest of society.
Blacks and transgenders have clawed their way to the peak of the ladder, leaving hard feelings in their wake among the losers, such as lesbian feminists, who are increasingly out of fashion and perhaps slated for hormonal extermination.
A lot of media types, like David Frum, believe The World Is Already at War between the Moscow-Tehran-Fox News Axis of Evil and the Beltway-Jerusalem-Kiev Axis of Niceness.

I have always had a soft spot for your ” The arc of the Moral Universe is long, but it bends towards lazy Susan baby distribution.”

Good quip making an important point. But this one doesn’t work as a quip for Steve’s book, as it requires the surrounding context. I could sus out more or less what it was going to be about and searched up a link:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/researchers-discover-racism-in-babies-is-caused-by-babies-inheriting-their-parents-races/

BTW, Steve, the link to “genetic chauvinism” that apparently has the original reference is now dead. Apparently that post has left unz.com or the link is broken, or something.

Also “The only thing worse for a non-White than living in a racist America among bigoted Whites is not being allowed to immigrate to a racist America and live among bigoted Whites.”

Excellent! This is indeed a classic and the most important point about minoritarianism:

The “oppressed” minorities are not demanding we leave them alone, the “oppressed” minorities are actually demanding our presence–that we make ourselves, and our stuff, available to them.

“Bowie didn’t care about the gay rumors, since they diverted public attention from his real interest: black girls.”

I’m not as hard-core as they get*, A-G, but principles matter. That’s the problem I see here with the discussions of how America can get out of the huge messes of all kinds we are in. Take that last post, please! Affordable Housing, Section 8, compromise, please the most people or, piss off the fewest people, WTF?! Please, people, I want nothing to do with that discussion because everyone is missing the point. Compromise means giving in and accepting your loss of freedom and quality of life.

How can you EVER get back to something resembling America, if you don’t understand how you got away from it, i.e. into all these messes? Get to the root of the problems. The root of all the problems is a big out-of-control Feral Government Beast that hasn’t cared what the people want in half a century.

I would bet that a survey of iSteve readers (and iSteve too) would come out very high for Barry Goldwater v JFK as a hypothetical retrospective question. Goldwater had nothing against black people**, but he understood that the “Civil Rights” crap undermined Freedom of Association. It went on like this, with one principle from the Constitution after another being left behind to please certain groups of people. It’s been 6 decades now.

Anyone who doesn’t care for the real principles has no business thinking he has any ideas that will actually turn things around.

PS: Also, A-G, I want nothing to do with the open-borders Reason magazine crowd. You are right. We are not importing people who will be the next Reason magazine subscribers or the next listeners to Ron Paul’s Liberty Report

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* For example, I’d like to see eVerify be used EVERYWHERE. Ron Paul would disagree on privacy grounds, but since 1913, that’s water under the bridge. Gotta fix the existential problem (the invasion) first.

** Nor did a much large section of the country who, other than those in the South, or inner cities, had no experience in the matter. Even in the inner cities, the big riots hadn’t begun.

Kim Foxx: I Let Jussie Walk Not Just for Reasons, But for a Variety of Reasons, Which, Sadly, I’m Not at Liberty to Tell You

“Most of America’s problems would be solved if we could take 15 IQ points off our Jewish population and add 15 IQ points to our blacks.”

LOL. That is another great one. So much truth in one sentence, delivered rather wryly.

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BTW, this strikes me as sound policy as well. Since Jews love diversity so much and are so appalled by racism, and Jewish intellectuals tell us that race doesn’t exist and all the race-IQ stuff is a big Nazi fraud … Jews should have no issue with a policy that American Jews must marry blacks. Any black they want, just 50%+ genetically SSA ancestry. This fusion adds diversity and Jewish culture/values will help lift blacks up.

This is a chance for Jews to finally fix a problem for once–not just whine about them and create them.

This could be extended. Jews–Stephen Miller excepted–absolutely love immigration. It’s a core Jewish value–or so media Jews keep telling me. And immigration–if you are actually a real part of the nation, not someone who plans on their descendants eventually bailing out for greener pastures somewhere else (Israel)–is a lot like marriage. You are taking in people who will inevitably down the road mingle with your descendants and share their future. So as an alternative to blacks, Jews could chose the “marry immigrant” option. But no cherry picking! We don’t need more Hinjews and Chinjews. Random draw. (Though Jews would be allowed to pick someone of their preferred “gender identity”.)

Diversity is our greatest strength! With those diversity enhancing policies in place America’s future will soar!

I asked ChatGPT to provide a list of Steve’s one-liners. I asked for 50, but it only provided 20. Then I changed part of my description of Steve from “an American writer” to “a very controversial American writer” and I received a list of 40 one-liners. The length of the list necessitates the use of a “More” tag.

“Because Taleb has a much higher IQ than I have, the only way I can win an argument with him is by being right.”

2 PPS’s:

1) Yes, I do like that “pick one of three”. Which would we all pick here? I think I know the answer. No, we can’t that one just now, because we have the others, so what do you do, just live with that and let Liberty go away slowly, and then quickly?

2) I did that search (normally the search feature works well), so I don’t know if you could point me to Steve’s reference to that. He can remember better, but I don’t know if he’ll come back with “Yes, I DID write that idiotic line!” ;-}

Not surprisingly, modern boys listen to this school room propaganda, assume that American Indians must have been total dweebs, and go back to listening to Master P rap about how many millions he’s making.

Obama Is an Overly Polite Loner Night Dweeb

Churchill, Stalin, and Hitler were all night people and they all got lots done, but they weren’t polite loner dweebs like Obama is.

In Evelyn Waugh stories, a sure clue that a character is a lower middle class dweeb doomed to never rise in a society run by Oxbridge grads and Old Etonians is that he boasts of having signed up for some correspondence courses.

Who Says All NPR Fans Are Dweebs?

Mayor Emanuel is a worldly man. He’s not some dweeb from Lake Forest.

Dweebs Think Chechens Are Cool, Too

A continuing theme here at iSteve is that the top creative guys in popular culture are not quite as politically inane as the mass of liberal dweebs who write about them.

Well, he’s Matthew Weiner and a lot of nice liberal dweeb critics have a vast amount invested in the cult of his genius, so why not use it to tell some truth?

One of my more central themes is that the mass of liberals dweeb who frame The Narrative of how you are supposed to think about everything have come to view each question in childish, destructive, brain-sapping Who? Whom? terms.

Here’s a microscopic example of these two counter-currents in Slate, in which a minor league kultursmog dweeb calls out a major league novelist for the high crime of Noticing Things.

Bruni is the Perfect Gay Liberal Dweeb with an IQ around that of a summer day in Palm Springs.

But, it ought to be rather obvious that one consequence of this is that the creative people in movies and the nice liberal dweebs who explain what their movies are about to us aren’t always in sync.

I’ve never sat through a Tim Wise lecture or attended Eddie Moore’s White Privilege conference, but they don’t sound all that emotionally galvanizing, except maybe to total dweebs.

This is great stuff compared to humorless dweeb Ta-Nehisi’s depressing downers.

Among celebrities, Hillary clearly is the favorite of all the humorless dweebs.

High School Never Ends: Dweebs vs. Jocks, 35 Years Later

So far, they haven’t gotten much backtalk on this out of the affirmative action beneficiaries of the Great Awokening, who tend to be women, gays, or dweebs (TNC) who grasp the Rules about who they should and shouldn’t criticize because they know their funding can be cut off.

On the other hand, so did Minnesota’s Democratic politicians, but the dweebs of the Gopher State swung strongly toward Biden.

‘…But their need for compliance and approval and desire to virtue signal and keep their place in the pecking order is strong, and with social media, unleashed, to the extreme detriment of our society and politics.’

Indeed — but I’d say ‘detriment to the present order of society and politics.’

No one seems to have considered the differences between men and women, and the impact those differences will have if women actually do begin seriously participating in all aspects of society.

I’m viscerally opposed to these changes; we’ll have a far more repressive, ideologically intolerant society. But then, I’m a man.

But regardless: it’s not the course of wisdom to simply ignore the implications of what we are encouraging. No, Herland will not be like Hisland. People have to look at the very evident differences in the way men and women think and react, and realize that things will necessarily change — and perhaps not in the way they would like.

In “Femme Fatale,” writer-director Brian De Palma
(“Carrie” and “Dressed to Kill”) tries to create a
new kind of heroine combining the alluring but cruel bad girls of
classic film noirs such as “Double Indemnity” and “The
Maltese Falcon” with the victimized but butt-kicking heroines of
recent years.

Cameron, as much as anybody, is responsible for the contemporary film fetish for
butt-kicking women, like big Sigourney Weaver in “Aliens” and
the beefed-up Linda Hamilton in T2.

As you probably know, my pet peeve as a
film critic is Hollywood movies built around butt-kicking babes, that
sexual fetish that has spread so far in recent years. In real life,
women can’t kick men’s butts in a fair fight

The best thing about the new movie is director Sam Raimi’s all-out assault
on the butt-kicking babe fetish, that pseudo-feminist trope about how
pretty girls can easily beat up big strong men that infests almost all
of Raimi’s competition.

First, let me point out that I’ve been arguing for some time that the
butt-kicking babe craze, as epitomized by The Matrix’s black leather
clad Trinity, doesn’t have much to do with feminist empowerment or
whatever.

In a season of boring butt-kicking babes, young starlet Bryce Dallas Howard
is terrific as a blind girl who triumphs over What Lurks in the Woods
without even punching anybody. She just uses her courage and brains.

It’s roughly same reason you see so many butt-kicking babes in movies aimed at male teenage comic book geeks—such as “The Matrix,” “X-Men,” “Charlie’s Angels,” and “Tomb Raider” franchises.

Unfortunately, Sienna Miller is dull in an awful role as the anachronistic butt-kicking babe and proto-feminist nag for whom Casanova implausibly forswears all other women in the world.

I’ve loved director Kathryn Bigelow, who is like a 6′-tall real life version of one of James Cameron’s butt-kicking babes (she’s one of Cameron’s countless ex-wives), since 1991’s “Point Break,” which featured a hat-trick of Hollywood’s most cerebral-looking leading men — Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, and Gary Busey — as surfing bankrobbers.

Unsurprisingly, Cameron, to whom too much is never enough, digitally rendered Avatar’s butt-kicking blue babe to be ten feet tall.

A.O Scott starts out by recounting that some nobody in some nowheresville (Buffalo?) complained about Snow White and the Huntsman being yet another Butt-Kicking Babe movie in which a 105 pound starlet whomps on bad guys in hand-to-hand combat.

Neither the NYT scribe nor the nobody in Buffalo seem to notice that the main audience for Butt-Kicking Babe movies are nerdier guys who wish women would be interested in the kind of stuff they are interested in: weapons, fighting, quests, and so forth.

In reality, Snow White and the Huntsman was least interesting for its Butt-Kicking Babe aspect — pothead Kristen Stewart’s under-energized Snow White has been dropped from any sequel, with Chris Hemsworth’s Huntsman more likely to carry.

The big innovation in Brave and The Hunger Games in the Butt-Kicking Babe genre is that the heroine does not fight with her fists or feet, a gun, or a sword, but with the more culturally traditional bow.

An old buddy of mine had her under contract to star in his butt-kicking babe post-apocalyptic movie around 1989, but it didn’t get off the ground.

NYT: Breakthrough Butt-Kicking Babe Movie to Empower Young Girls

OT — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: I am a conservative. I am on my way to vote for school choice and against abortion. Ha ha ha.
[French window opens; Larry Crow demonically flies in and settles intimidatingly before Thomas, brandishing a manila envelope full of cash.]
Crow: I am going to bribe you!
Thomas: Oh no!
Crow: For this money, I want you to vote conservative! For school choice and against abortion!
Thomas: I — wait — what?
Crow: I am not very good at this!

Thanks! That is a great illustration of the kind of thing ChatGPT can be useful for.

I asked for 50, but it only provided 20. Then I changed part of my description of Steve from “an American writer” to “a very controversial American writer” and I received a list of 40 one-liners.

Was there a notable difference between the two groups of responses? Can you summarize that difference and/or post the 20 response version?

It might even have been in a comment he left at Marginal Revolution.

one-lin·er
noun INFORMAL
a short joke or witty remark.

Posters don’t seem to know the definition

What self respecting woman would admit that no man had ever made an unwanted sexual advance toward her? She’d be admitting either that no man’s ever made her a sexual advance or that she’s never met a sexual advance she didn’t like.

Knuckleheads.

“Bowie didn’t care about the gay rumors, since they diverted public attention from his real interest: black girls.”

Not limited to black girls “China Girl,”
More like “exotic.”

Steve Sailer… “the Yogi Berra of HBD.”
Best compliment I can give you brother!

This concept reminds me of what Paul Theroux (the greatest travel writer of our time) did years ago. He published a small book called “The Tao of Travel,” choosing lessons learned, enlightenments, and one-liners from his many separate travel books. I read it years ago, but even now I can recall a well-observed one-liner that ranks right up there with Steve’s “They want my equity.” Theroux said “Being mistaken is the essence of the traveler’s tale.” Ain’t it so true! Anyway, I wonder if Theroux compiled The Tao from memory, or, went through his many separate books line by line, or at least skimmed them all.

My understanding is that the ChatGPT website uses OpenAI’s application programming interface (API) to run the user’s inference query (“message”) using either of the OpenAI GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 large language models (LLM).

Within your “chat” (session) with ChatGPT, the LLM has memory between your “messages” (queries), but not between chats; once your chat ends, the LLM forgets everything. But the text content of your chat session’s queries and responses are saved as a record (there’s a history panel on the left). You can manually delete an individual chat’s text content record from that history panel (see below).

When I changed the question (in a subsequent “message” during the same “chat”), ChatGPT’s response just added 20 more one-liners (#21-40) to the original 20 (#1-20, which were unchanged); that was the only difference. I could have modified the query (message) in a variety of more creative ways, and could have obtained even more interesting answers, e.g., asking for the pithiest, funniest, or most controversial one-liners. Also, I suspect that the training data for OpenAI’s LLM’s and the LLMs themselves are likely sanitized (censored) so that people won’t be “harmed” by untoward thought crimes committed by people like Steve Sailer.

Maybe I’m naive, but I take OpenAI’s word that they do not retain (or at least anonymize) the text content record (queries and responses) of the chats that users have deleted. You need to be cognizant of any chat session that might contain subsequently identifiable content that others could use to harm you, and use the left (history) panel to delete that chat session’s text content record (which I did).

Finally, I can’t resist adding this O/T item:

Who You Play Affects How You Play: Predicting Sports Performance Using Graph Attention Networks With Temporal Convolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16741

“My personal iSteve favorite: “Diversity, liberty or equality; choose one.”

That’s a good one. He really didn’t think it though, however. The answer is liberty, which encompasses diversity and equality, as espoused by human rights law norms. Individuals are granted the maximum possible freedom as long as that freedom does not interfere with the freedom of anyone else. Furthermore, God commands liberty. Created in His image, man’s likeness to the Creator consists in His freedom. Romans 12:15-18–Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Isn’t Mr. Sailer a Christian man? Not really certain about you, however.

On women, tattoos often seem to imply: “Pay attention to me because I, obviously, make poor choices, so you might get lucky.”

Steve didn’t say this, but the inscription that should be added beneath every tattoo should be, “Ask me about my divorced parents.”

“On the other hand…”

Actually, the quote was ‘choose any two’ – and it works better that way.

“As we all know, blacks don’t have agency or free will, so it would be inappropriate to ask Wisconsin blacks to choose to behave less destructively.”

From here.

To fill out the book you should just page through a quotations dictionary and pick a few dozen that you like and claim them, including a few from Mark Twain and Will Rogers, since neither of them actually said half of what they’re credited with.

Also, you can easily rebrand Coulter’s Law, O’Sullivan‘a Laws, and Conquest’s Laws as your own. I don’t think they ever really wrote them.

Don’t take a knife to a gunfight. This quotations legacy thing is kill or be killed. Nice guys finish last.

Steve, I browsed my past year or so of “Liked” Tweets and picked my favorites of yours:

Perhaps the people demanding Amy Wax be fired for telling the truth are kind of like how an autogynephlic gets off on forcing you to call him a woman?

Why are parrots and crows smarter on average than chickens and grouse? Why do border collies tend to be smarter than afghan hounds? Provide a coherent explanation or this couldn’t possibly be true!

We need to treat blacks as human beings with free will who when they make good choices should enjoy the benefits and when they make bad choices should experience the consequences. Instead, The Establishment views blacks as our Sacred Cows, above criticism, but beneath agency.

The Floyd Effect (from May 25, 2020 to who knows when?) is like a cross between the Ferguson Effect and the Flynn Effect: except instead of people getting higher IQ scores, they get dumber and shootier.

“Uncle Tim” — I created that name for a white Uncle Tom in honor of anti-white activist Tim Wise.

Feminism in a nutshell: Less maternal women who want to be leaders of women explain why other women don’t feel like them: they’ve been GASLIGHTED by men. It’s the fault of men that you like babies. Instead, you should be like me, your natural leader.

I have this vague theory that one reason Mexico, one of world’s finest pieces of real estate, stays shoddy and disorganized is that that’s how they keep from being utterly swamped by gringos.

The way Americans reason about historical events like AIDS, increasingly, is:
A. AIDS was bad.
B. Gays are good.
Ergo, homophobes caused AIDS.

A large fraction of the most prominent late-onset M-to-F ex-men _are_ lying about the cause of their transgenderism: they’ve managed to keep their autogynephilic fetish out of public awareness. They never felt like a girl on the inside, they just masturbated in mom’s lingerie.

Typical mass shooting (e.g., 1 dead, 5 wounded) is due to guns, blacks, and touchy rap culture. Rarer Columbine-style mass murders in public places (5 dead, 1 wounded) are due to declining fear of going to Hell.

What little girl didn’t always dream of growing up to be Deputy Chief of Acquisitions Policies and Process Division for the @SpaceForceDoD?

In general, people who identify as bisexual tend to be losers who are trouble for those around them.

Marxism is about class, while Wokeness is about biological categories such as race, sex, sexual orientation, and (unsaid but hugely important) attractiveness.

An anti-Trump take I haven’t seen: Kushner’s pro-Israel diplomacy, such as US recognizing Israel’s annexation of Golan Heights & Morocco’s of Western Sahara in return for Morocco recognizing Israel, encouraged Putin to think military conquest was again internationally acceptable.

I think JFK’s martyrdom in 1963 and elevation to the pantheon of American heroes brought the long cold war between Protestant and Catholics to a quick end, with Catholics soon reducing their birthrates toward Protestant levels, which had been a major WASP concern.

Back in W.E.B. Du Bois’s day, black folks had souls.
Now, in Foucault’s Era, they just have bodies.
This is considered progress.

Seriously, Andy Samberg as Jeffrey Epstein.

Quite honestly I don’t really see Steve as a one liner generator in the manner of, say Oscar Wilde. Nevertheless (and I’m sure Steve has already done this) a Google search turns up some fun ones. E.g.:

In contrast to New Orleans, there was only minimal looting after the horrendous 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan – because, when you get down to it, Japanese aren’t blacks.

The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white folks for two contradictory reasons. First, he constantly proclaims his belief in human equality, but they don’t. Second, he has a high IQ, but they don’t.

What goes unsaid eventually goes unthought.

Let the good times roll is especially or risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poor native judgment than members of better educated groups. Thus, they need stricter moral guidance from society.

Monogamy is a huge time-saver.

Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it’s more interesting.

Immigration policy, by its very nature, is about discriminating, about selecting whom we should admit and whom we should keep out. It is one of the fundamental responsibilities of our elected representatives because if they don’t decide, inevitably some private interest is going to decide who gets in.

Just as the managers of a public company have a responsibility to the existing stockholders not to diminish the value of their shares by selling new ones too cheaply to outsiders, our politicians have a moral obligation to the current citizens and their descendents to preserve the scarcity value of their right to live in America.

It becoming ever more clear that the combination of racial gaps in IQ and the IQ taboo acts as a black hole that sucks all the intelligence out of an institution. Racial gaps in achievement are the overwhelmingly dominant fact driving school performance, for instance, but nobody is allowed to mention the IQ gap among the races, so misbegotten nonsense rushes in.

Now, you might think that when the old majority becomes a minority, it would then get minority rights. But that’s not how it works. Whites can’t become a certified minority; they will always be the legacy majority. The closer we get to the future when whites are a minority, the more we hear about their ancestors’ sins, their ineradicable hereditary guilt, their corruption of blood.

The progressive stack is basically a measure of how much you aren’t like, say, James Watt, the developer of the modern steam engine, the key invention of the Industrial Revolution. Watt was white, male, Protestant, straight, rich, mechanically skilled, and a scientific genius, so you’d better not be.

To climb the career ladder in modern America, you are expected to lie: about race, about crime, about men in dresses.

Do American leaders still believe that they have the moral right to protect the territory of the American people by force? Or will we unilaterally disarm in the Scramble for America?

OK, maybe Wilde has come competition here after all. At this point I suspect that if you are looking for pithy quotes that haven’t already been collected on the web the best source is going to be Twitter (which I don’t follow).

This is one of your best:

https://www.takimag.com/article/strong_mutually_antagonistic_governments_everywhere_steve_sailer/

“In the spirit of Aristotelian moderation, allow me to suggest that an emerging danger of the 21st century is that the non-Western world could get overly right-wing. Ironically, a major cause would be that white Western liberals are focusing all of their firepower–using as cat’s paws flagrantly illiberal nonwhites such as Muslim immigrants–upon the second-most progressive group on earth, white Western conservatives.”

Not on the topic of iSteve one liners, but worth noting.

The “sadness” of teen girls as documented in these tweets, etc. is at least in part due to the acceptance of Greta Thunbergism’s core belief that “we are all doomed to die in 10 years.”

Thunberg is a mildly Asperger sufferer (so it is thought) who was elevated by the Woke Green Religion media as some child “truth speaker” to adults. What other young white female has gotten so much attention from adults and isn’t some mere entertainer?

As such this plain looking waif was lionized as some sort of Cassandra warning mankind of its evils.

Young teen girls are very susceptible to shallow messaging which allows them to think that they are possessed of Special Powers like the magic filled movies and cartoons they watch. There are entire TV series and movies based on this premise. Being very vulnerable to feelings of insecurity and being different, mainly as a consequence of the onset of puberty and the hormonal changes that brings.

In Thunberg’s’ global pessimism, they indulge in believing that their own subjective feelings of inadequacy and inferiority (not pretty enough, etc.) are hopeless and thus, life not worth living.

It is a silly childish view, but Instagram and TikTok are evidence of the herd mentality and superficiality of this audience.

Greta T is literally killing off young (nearly all White) teen girls with her gloom-and-doom.

Older adults, mostly emotionally inert males have a similar tendency about end-of-the-worldism, but this is due to exaggerated fears of economic collapse or sinister hidden hand group manipulations.

They don’t usually kill themselves however. (Some like to post on Unz!)

So Greta Thunberg, threat or menace?

“…what we think of as the Sixties didn’t really happen for most people until the Seventies.”

Your criticism of Sailer would resonate much more if it were funny or interesting. Try to write like Steve when you criticize him.

Jews should have no issue with a policy that American Jews must marry blacks. Any black they want, just 50%+ genetically SSA ancestry. This fusion adds diversity and Jewish culture/values will help lift blacks up.

Eh, it’s like that story with G.B. Shaw and Isadora Duncan (probably apocryphal) Isadora Duncan, the dancer, said to Bernard Shaw, “Would it not be wonderful if we could have a child who had your brains and my beauty?” His reply was, “Yes, but supposing it had your brains and my beauty!”

I’m not sure a much smarter criminal class is a desideratum.

I like the observation that all street dogs around the world sort of look the same.

Amusing, but prescient and ominous, too.

Also off topic, but…

The April 8-9 Wall St. Journal Exchange section had a four page section devoted to golf course architecture, design, current trends, playability, etc.

I don’t play golf but found it well done and educational.

I thought of Mr. Sailer when reading it. If you don’t get this paper let me know and I’ll mail this section to you…

Diversity means you have to have Title VII and a nuclear-armed bureaucracy to enforce it. Otherwise, people start drawing their own borders and if there’s anything that makes people like you purple with rage and screaming for the State to do something, it’s the thought that someone is at liberty to keep you out of their club.

Equality requires ethnic homogeneity, because human races and ethnicities are unequal by all sorts of metrics.

Liberty to associate or not associate with whom you will is the essential freedom.

‘My Dinner with Django’ could be good. They could film it at Sylvia’s.

Zeroth Amendment.

Favorite Steve line: ” Segregation now,segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
Wait,that was Sailer,right?🤔

I think the Age of Ideology is over. The classical liberals thought they’d worked out the Universal Principles that apply to every human being everywhere at all times. Then they blew it all up in World Wars One and Two. So much for all those high and mighty classical liberal principles.

It’s fundamentally about territory and always has been. If you want Libertopia, you have to ring it with concertina wire and machine guns to keep out the non-libertarians. And when your neighbor starts rabble-rousing the poor to vote in an income tax, you confiscate his property and kick him out. So libertarianism is kind of a non-starter. Libertarians try and get around this by elaborate contracts and charters and competing security services, hence the autist label.

Libertopia in practice would actually be warlordism (not that there’s anything wrong with that).

More to the point, the American founding and the Old Republic was fundamentally an Anglo-American phenomenon. As that great old commenter Baloo used to put it, everyone talks about the American proposition, but nobody talks about the only ethnic group in human history that dreamed up the proposition and fought for it.

Have you ever noticed that basically everything you are supposed to believe in these days — feminism, diversity, etc. — turns out in practice to just be another way for hot babes, rich guys, super salesmen, cunning financiers, telegenic self-promoters, and charismatic politicians to get even more money and power?

In case you are wondering, Young Kim is a Republican Korean lady, not a rapper.

This year, who know how long the count might go on, but there ‘s no guarantee Young Kim’s fate will be wrapped up by Thanksgiving this year.

Of course, countries like Paraguay don’t have mail ballots coming in by slow boat and migrant caravan from Honduras, Guatelombia, the Galapagos Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, Transnistria, Abbottabad, Abkhazia, Azkaban, Raqqa, Narnia, and The Republic of Pirates.

Nor do these Third World countries have to provide, by legislation or court order, ballots in English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Armenian, Navajo, Persian, Arabic, Syriac, Panjabi, Punjabi, Hmong, Mixtec, Esperanto, Hittite, Proto-Indo-European, Klingon, Linear B, Linear A, !San Clickspeak, Shavian Alphabet, Incan Knot Lingo, Runic, Voynich Manuscript, Semaphore, Canary Islands Whistle Speech, The Analytical Language of John Wilkins, American Sign Language, Thieves’ Argot, Pig Latin, Smoke Signals, Ouija Board, Enigma Encryption, Turing Machine, General Semantics, System Basic, Cityspeak, Telepathy, Dolphin, Assembler, COBOL, Coco Sign Language, HTML, PDF, Graffiti, Gang Signs, Tattoos, SMS, Bitcoin, and Emoji, plus certain languages spoken only by individual pairs of identical twins.

After I read that, I started noticing it everywhere!

The one about “rule by actresses.” Paraphrasing: whatever I feel right now is and always has been the universal truth.

The one about “above criticism but beneath agency…”

“White privilege and Jewish privilege would seem rather analogous: If you are enraged about white privilege it’d be logical to also be concerned about Jewish privilege. In contrast, if you find white privilege to be overblown, then Jewish privilege shouldn’t bother you much either”

“Conversely, if you would prefer that people not speak about the idea of Jewish privilege, it might make sense not to promote the idea of white privilege quite so assiduously.”

I get why you completely ignored the Christian angle I provided. It shatters your worldview.

“Diversity means you have to have Title VII and a nuclear-armed bureaucracy to enforce it.”

That’s liberty in action, not diversity. You can thank for your sordid southron ancestors why such legislation was put into place.

“Equality requires ethnic homogeneity”

Not according to God’s law. Normal people see right through your ruse.

“Liberty to associate or not associate with whom you will is the essential freedom.”

You have that liberty! But there are always restraints to liberty in a civilized nation by way of the social contract.

‘BTW, this strikes me as sound policy as well. Since Jews love diversity so much and are so appalled by racism, and Jewish intellectuals tell us that race doesn’t exist and all the race-IQ stuff is a big Nazi fraud … Jews should have no issue with a policy that American Jews must marry blacks. Any black they want, just 50%+ genetically SSA ancestry. This fusion adds diversity and Jewish culture/values will help lift blacks up…’

The assumption seems to be that this would produce Jews without brains — regrettable, but perhaps for the best.

However, what if it produces blacks with brains? Before anyone assumes that would be good, I’ll point out this was how I summed up Gypsies: blacks with brains.

Gypsies are not an ornament and an asset to the wider society.

There’s a one-liner waiting for someone with The Doran’s report on Ursula, Senior Witch of The European Union’s recent visit to China, apparently, in a world class slap in the face, when she left, she was forced to go through regular passport control, like the peasant she is. After all, She’s not the Head of State of a sovereign country nor elected to any high office.
It’ll be while before another of her ilk goes there.

https://theduran.locals.com/post/3824164/macron-china-panic-ursula-exits-china-passport-check-telegraph-putin-fantasy-et-tu-brute-u-1

Slavery is a Biblical practice. Anyway, Coronavirus, if we had time travel we could go back and burn down the plantations and sink the slave ships. Then you’d have to fly all the way to Africa to find some blacks and give them tongue-baths.

“Not according to God’s law. Normal people see right through your ruse.”

This is a stupid, typically meaningless statement.

“You have that liberty! But there are always restraints to liberty in a civilized nation by way of the social contract.”

The US in fact the whole world was civilized well before any concept of “civil rights.” The Israeli nation is civilized and does just fine discriminating against non-Jews. The Bhutanese love their garden nation, and don’t require your presence to civilize the place at all. Ethnically homogenous Japan is so safe that six-year olds take public transportation unsupervised. Very, what’s that term again, civilized.

Fistivus : the impromptu holiday for the inarticulate with grievances (real and imaginary .)

There used to be more references to Bonfire of the Vanities on iSteve. Maybe ChatGPT would be good at finding one-liners incorporating Tom Wolfe references.

Not a one-liner, but Mrs Sailer’s observation that you should oppose affirmative action for women because it would hurt your sons is one of the most important points I’ve seen made here in two decades plus.

Political and social opinions of the married may correlate less with the sex of the individual than with the sex of his children. Or her.

Slavery is a Biblical practice.

Slavery comes in various forms. Some are Biblically permissible. Others may not be.

The race gap gulf alone makes America’s version highly suspect. As Lincoln told that group of Negro visitors at 1600 Penn.

Unz did not port over all of it, however it is all on web.archive.org. There’s

isteve.com
isteve.blogspot.com, and
members.aol.com/steveslr

What America needs to do is treat blacks as human being with free will who, when they make good choices enjoy the benefits and when they make bad choices experience the consequences.

Instead, The Establishment views blacks as our Sacred Cows, above criticism, but beneath agency.

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) June 2, 2020

One thing that’s never examined is where did slavery get imported into America from? When last I looked it had been outlawed in England around 1204. (Might be be bit off on the timing, I was very young then).

No, it was “choose one.” There is no consistent two-choice option. Diverse societies require tons of laws and speech and behavioral codes enforced by centralized authority to keep inter-ethnic conflict from breaking out and hold the tax base together. A diverse society is also inherently unequal as racial groups differ on a number of metrics. Equality is also not compatible with liberty because that means confiscatory taxation and transfer payments. As Jerry Pournelle used to say, free men are not equal, equal men are not free.

Leapfrogging loyalties

“Modern liberals’ defining trait is making a public spectacle of how their loyalties leapfrog over some unworthy folks relatively close to them in favor of other people they barely know.”

They tried to muffle our titter 🤭

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 10, 2023

There’s a great Peter Fonda line in some movie I otherwise forget…

“The Sixties was really just 1965, and the first part of 1966.”

Not limited to girls. Real exotic. Like Mick Jagger.

“Okay!”

Full blooded gypsies generally have a cretinous 80IQ look.

The smartest blacks are Igbo, who seem pretty nice but are vulnerable to being over-promoted.

Who the living eff is that?

Jerry Keszka, who writes for Medium. His headlines are intriguing; whether they live up to the sign-up process I have no idea.

Even uglier, this is not your father’s DS, or grand-père’s CV2:

“In hoc to the world.”

Typo, or pun?

Ad hoc is one thing; a hock ad, quite another:

Stale pale male

Would that this were Steve’s. The source I’m familiar with was NASA Administrator Dan Goldin c0mplaining about NASA’s workforce in 1992.

Since then, NASA has become much more vibrant, leading to all of its tremendous accomplishments like the SLS, which is scheduled to repeat the Apollo 8 mission next year using scrap engines off the Space Shuttle, after a breakneck 13-year development program.

It was almost certainly a typo, but “Sometimes the glass is party empty” is memorable.

On a more serious note, I think you’re most memorable insight was “To solve woke problems, ask yourself ‘What would Stalin do?’”

Here’s some fodder

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230320102056.htm

“Among his other contributions to society, Tookie is the co-founder of the Crips.”

Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings.

You had all kinds of comedy gold in your “Haven Monaghan” posts.

Didn’t you coin the phrase “Magic Dirt”?

The one about the government having a fiduciary responsibility to not dilute the value of American citizenship with immigration, as it is one of the few assets poor Americans have.

“It took Democrats a while to figure out that their grand strategy ought to be to give up on persuading the American people to elect them and instead for them to elect a new people.”

https://www.takimag.com/article/rigging_elections_steve_sailer/

How about framing these in decorative fashion. Poor Richard’s Almanack style. Selling them on eBay, all profits to you know who.

Who among ye would dare to post one or two in his or her kitchen?

Over the fireplace in your wood-panelled study?

In your front yard? In your neighbor’s? 😉

I can make this happen. At some risk 🙂

One that I use all the time is regarding the attitude that liberals have towards blacks

“Above criticism but beneath agency”

It’s too hard to understand.

“More to the point, the American founding and the Old Republic was fundamentally an Anglo-American phenomenon. As that great old commenter Baloo used to put it, everyone talks about the American proposition, but nobody talks about the only ethnic group in human history that dreamed up the proposition and fought for it.”

Baloo needed a history lesson, as do you.

Posterity to the Founding Fathers meant the creation of an independent nation, with a vigorous and adaptable form of government, with a body of liberties that were malleable to the times. Thomas Jefferson bore witness to the new government as a unique combination of the freest elements of English law and political custom. While he was concerned that unrestricted immigration of peoples from lands unacquainted with the principle of representative government MIGHT undo the careful work of our Founding Fathers, he said prophetically, “from such we are to expect the greatest number of immigrants”.

Furthermore, posterity does NOT refer only to one’s own children, but as with the synonymous “legacy” also has the broader meaning of what we leave behind. The Founding Fathers were self-consciously leaving behind other than a genetic legacy. The motto “Novus Ordo Seclorum” reflects their legacy, setting up the mechanisms of government they invented to secure liberty against tyranny. Recall Article I, Section 8, Clause 4: “The Congress shall have Power To…establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization…” By definition, naturalization extends citizenship, and all the rights and duties related to it, to an outsider, that is, someone not the posterity of a signer of the document. The Founding Fathers clearly desired “to invite foreigners of merit and republican principles among us.” Indeed, the intention was whites and Europeans, but who imagined at that time non-whites and women would be able to embrace these principles? But there is no racial , ethnic, or gender criteria to adhering to republican ideals in the Constitution.

Even accepting “Our posterity,” means the descendants of those citizens only at the time of ratification, given the healthy dose of non-British in the United States who were among the ratifiers, the concept simply cannot be granted to the British exclusively. Moreover, the events leading up to the war, the war itself, and the failure of the Articles of Confederation constitute our early legislative history. In none of the seven uses of the word, therein, is posterity used in any obviously restrictive fashion during this time frame. And, of course there is the naturalization clause, which assuredly had no ethnocentric nor biological provision. One could argue the slave trade clause had such had such an ethnocentric nor biological provision, but it is clear it was not aimed at non-British or non-whites. And then there is the naturalization clause, which certainly had no ethnocentric nor biological provision to it.

Now, IF we assume the Founding Fathers intended the Constitution to be a limitation on the power of government, as to themselves and their posterity–defined as descendants in their own personal blood-lines–by intentionally excluding those other people from the protections of the Constitution, and by failing to make a different provision for their protection from government, THEN the Founding Fathers left them completely unprotected from government, granting the Founding Fathers even broader authority enjoyed by the British monarchy, which was restricted by the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights. In effect, the Founders and their blood-lines set themselves up as “nobility”, with unfettered rights, with all others designated as “peasants”, having no rights. The historical record clearly demonstrates that the Founding Fathers did NOT partake in such an endeavor.

Hence, the Founding Fathers enabled Congress to set the criteria for immigration with those newcomers blending in and articulating what is posterity from that new baseline. In other words, future generations of Americans were given the liberty to decide what is and what is not “an American”. At the time of the Founding Fathers, their worldview was European, which is other than surprising. However, as we have seen throughout the course of human history, perspectives change over time due to a host of factors. Of course, that does not mean foreigners have the right to enter our shores, as Congress sets the standards for immigration. But the proposition remains that there are hoops for newcomers to jump through.

Americans in the past and at present identify with American civilization, with its under-pinnings of representative democracy and capitalism. Certainly, political and economic concepts from Western Civilization played a major role in the development of American institutions, but the Founding Fathers granted liberty to its citizens to set the course for its own future. While posterity originally referred to those who founded the nation, the die was NOT set, as evident by the power of the people to set immigration criteria, which has noticeably changed since the inaugural 1790 law.

Word salad.

“Roy Disney’s Daughter promised me Goldfinger’s golf clubs for creeping out the citizens who see me walking the Shimmery but all I got was Sailer’s Law.”

“Slavery is a Biblical practice.”

It is a human phenomenon found in societies, past and present. Does not mean that it is moral or just in the least.

“Anyway, Coronavirus, if we had time travel we could go back and burn down the plantations and sink the slave ships.”

Your southron ancestors would have crucified you for such devilish talk.

Indeed, this is a stupid, typically meaningless statement–> “Equality requires ethnic homogeneity”

“The US in fact the whole world was civilized well before any concept of “civil rights.”

Slavery. Native American brutality. Colonization. You have an odd way of defining “civilized”.

Bhutan, Japan, Israel were not founded by the principles of land, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which are the underpinnings of our historic diverse society.

But keep punching at waterfalls.

“Word salad.”

You got intellectually bludgeoned with my post. Step away from the keyboard, regroup, and try to offer a cogent rebuttal.

Steve:

Include the one where you wrote something like the only way to know if an advance is wanted or unwanted is to make one.

“Full blooded gypsies generally have a cretinous 80IQ look.”

I thought you were trying to fix that in your laboratory.

You have to have an understanding of what is the best system to protect the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. Humans, being imperfect, will never totally get there but that way you at least know what direction you should be heading in. It’s pretty obvious we aren’t heading in that direction right now.

What system works best and what people are capable of adopting such a system are two separate questions. If you don’t understand the answer to the second question, you might spend time trying to turn Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy and ending up failing miserably. In addition to trying to spend time turning Afghanistan into a country that respects freedom and individual rights being a bad idea, inviting the people living there to move here in large numbers is also probably a bad idea. Some libertarians are overly optimistic in this area but then so are some neoconservatives and some liberals. Steve Sailer’s “invade the world, invite the world” phrase is a succinct description of the thinking of such people.

My favorite, laugh-out loud Sailer article is his review of David Maraniss’s tedious Barack Obama: The Story.

Personally, I couldn’t recall Obama ever saying anything memorably insightful on any subject other than himself.

Obama possesses an impressive understanding of the conventional wisdom. But he seems averse to original thought.

Yet, for the handful of readers well enough versed in the trivialities of Obama’s often trivial life, Maraniss reveals, no doubt inadvertantly, enough detail that this pro-Obama biography effectively becomes a subversive commentary on the supreme Obama puzzle: how this graceful nonentity ever achieved Presidential Timberhood.

Maraniss, having cut his teeth on Bill Clinton, a prodigious politician clearly destined from youth for a career in the public arena, intermittently reveals how baffling he finds the rise of Obama, whom he reports took up creative writing at Occidental to struggle against his basic nature as an “apathetic quasi-intellectual sports fan.”

Few readers made it all the way through Dreams from My Father, but before it slipped from their sleepy fingers, they took away the lesson that Obama, despite his crass job as a Chicago politician, had Class.

Perhaps Maraniss’s most striking revelation: virtually nobody who knew Obama in the first quarter of a century of his life ever thought of him as their leader in anything. When he got to Harvard Law School at age 27, he was instantly proclaimed The First Black President. But before then, those who knew him found his passivity and disengagement frustrating.

“He thought by virtue of his intellect and personality he could bring people together. He never had an edge, what we call a bias toward action …”

Or, consider Obama’s role in the “Choom Gang” of a dozen potheads at Punahou. You might think that a future Leader of the Free World would inevitably, through sheer force of charismatic personality, exert a disproportionate influence on his fellow teens in their debates over, say, which drug to take next.

Got that? Our President was among the most respected dudes in the Bong Brothers.

Granted, Barry was not the glue in the Choom Gang like Mark Bendix. But he was right up there with any of the non-Bendixian Maui Wowie tokers!

Yet, all the while, Obama himself was convinced that he wasn’t as boring as his friends assumed. Deep inside, he had a secret identity … President Man!

I’ve been writing about the remarkable number of “Cold War” coincidences in Obama’s background since 2009. Maraniss seems to have been reading my stuff (although I don’t see my name anywhere in his citations).

My last word: it’s easy to overthink Obama. Don’t overlook the largest element in his make-up—the “apathetic quasi-intellectual sports fan.”

I’m sure in your elderly brain that effortpost all hangs together somehow but it really is just ahistorical and illogical nonsense.

Any relative of a Supreme Court Justice with an IQ below 70 is a Funny Looking Kid, but among the criminal element, normal people with IQs below 70 are not rare.

But Labour is appealing in this ad to the funny-looking.

In many ways, the Great Awokening has been the revolt of the funny looking against the attractive.

When putting together the critically acclaimed but shortlived television series Undeclared (college students), he assembled a team of funny (but rather funny-looking) young men such as Apatow’s alter ego, actor Seth Rogen.

most of the white children who were declared to be suffering from intellectual disability because they had IQs below 70 were visibly suffering from Down Syndrome or some other Funny Looking Kid problem and were seen as retarded by their classmates on the playground.

Third, Gooding is kind of character actor funny looking, while O.J. was leading man handsome with a giant head.

They seem to have a look about them that suggests their beef with society has less to do with ideology and more to do with how they came out kind of funny-looking.

Plus, Brady is very handsome, while Manning is a bit funny-looking for such an outstanding athlete.

But there aren’t a lot of roles for funny-looking girls (other than as Danny Devito’s girlfriend in “Twins”), so her career never amounted to much.

Riz Ahmed, am almost as asymmetrically funny-looking as Adam Driver is, and we were both on Girls.

I didn’t see Turturro in the Moses movie, but I’ve seen him in a million other movies, and there are very good reasons why somebody that funny-looking keeps getting hired by top directors.

Funny-looking character actors tend to have longer careers than lovely actresses.

Assume the story worked and that Barry Soetoro, along with everybody at Punahou, believed he was just some kind of a funny looking white-East Asian-Melanesian mixed race kid.

By the way, in Old Master paintings, most girls are a little funny-looking.

They are what doctors abbreviate in their notes as FLKs — Funny Looking Kids.

A quarter of a century ago, Jared Diamond wrote a memorable magazine article, “Blitzkrieg and Thanksgiving in the New World,” about how awesome it must have been for proto-Indians who had crossed the Bering Strait from Siberia to finally find a corridor through the receding icefields of the Canadian Rockies and emerge, throwing spears in hand, onto the relatively warm Great Plains, with guileless megafauna stretching to the southern horizon, unaware of how dangerous these funny-looking newcomers were.

A high fraction of white students with, say, 70 IQs are Funny Looking Kids with organic syndromes that are clearly visible to the other students on the playground.

Any grandchild or nephew that a Supreme Court Justice has with an IQ below 70 is almost certainly organically retarded, with Down’s Syndrome or other impairment that makes him what cynical obstetricians call an FLK — Funny Looking Kid.

One theory that has been floating around is that Cheney is a “pump head,” which is one of those vicious M.D. terms — like Gomer (Get out of my Emergency Room), banana (a jaundice victim), and FLK (funny-looking kid, i.e., retarded due to an organic syndrome).

She’s a little funny looking to be a
leading lady, especially when matched with Kidman (who is far better
cast here as a genteel damsel than in The Human Stain, where she
was supposed to play a farm worker).

Not exactly what Thomas Jefferson had in mind.

It’s not like anyone has a portrait of Alexander Hamilton in their pocket.

But who can remember…

“‘Most of America’s problems would be solved if we could take 15 IQ points off our Jewish population and add 15 IQ points to our blacks.”

Are Steve and Pixo working on this at the lab? Do you remember when Steve suggested pygmy caddies to the management at the Noah Cross Country Club and they dosed his Tom Collins? Steve also recommended firing the Scots-Irish kitchen staff because they were nicking the silver, but then was told the Scots-Irish came in handy with the Filipino manservant disposal problem. Did Steve ever tell you that are actually Seven Steves, and they all meet for lunch at Art’s Deli in Studio City every Thursday? Are you aware that Steve was a stand-in for Clint Howard during the filming of the Star Trek episode The Corbomite Maneuver? Steve has had a lot of interesting adventures, but his book will primarily cover the war for black lady’s hair and my War Against Pants.

OT — By way of Red Ice — Tranny registers as woman, smashes female weightlifting record — BUT THEN righteous bearded Jewish Canadian asks that someone hold his Moosehead. Tranny is now crying that this is unfair.
https://www.unilad.com/news/bearded-powerlifter-who-identified-as-woman-enters-wins-female-event-096324-20230331

Where we’re going, we won’t need aerodynamism.

Privatize the profits; socialize the losses.

It happens so often that it should be discussed in political textbooks.

I already brought it up a couple of months ago, but it surely should be the subtitle of your first anthology book:

“Political correctness is a war on noticing.” – https://www.unz.com/isteve/what-should-go-in-a-hard-cover-best-of-steve-sailer-anthology/?showcomments#comment-5671775

My personal favorite of yours:

“The Republican Brain Trust is notoriously innumerate,” – https://archive.is/ANaNx#selection-4894.1-4897.55 or https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/22/the-race-realist-theory-of-how-trump-can-win-explained/

I always liked “The Billionaire Liberation Front”

Hate Hoax. I think you coined that one.

Control F for immigrat
upside down NYT articles

Indeed

the first casualty in war is truth; in world war hair, it so often are [hair] roots.

The great philosopher David Lewis pointed out that he could not refute “an incredulous stare” when people said they rejected his argument because it felt impossible to them

Affirmative action for women also hurts your daughters. Colleges are now short males , and this makes it more difficult for girls to find husbands and have children. Discrimination against males is one of the reasons 30% of millennial females are unmarried and childless. American women are getting laid less than any other generation in history. 25% of millennial women have not gotten laid in the past year. The result is that 30% of millennial females are on psych drugs today because they cannot find a suitable male partner.

‘Full blooded gypsies generally have a cretinous 80IQ look.’

Don’t worship IQ test results; Nepalis have dismal IQ test scores as well.

…but there’s nothing in particular wrong with them. As with any other measure, IQ test scores have to be taken in conjunction with the other available evidence.

I would guess Gypsy IQ scores are depressed by a total indifference to pleasing the tester; just as I suspect Jewish test scores are slightly inflated by an obsession with demonstrating how intelligent one is.

Privatize the profits; socialize the losses.

This is good but it’s not Steve’s. “Privatize the gains” has been around for decades. Just as Patton’s making the “poor dumb bastard die for his country” was a recycled grunt joke from the previous war.

Indeed, the intention was whites and Europeans, but who imagined at that time non-whites and women would be able to embrace these principles?

Ha, who really imagines it now?

I’m fond of this one. I’ve seen you repost it a few times so I think you are too.

“Nurture trumps Nature in school tests scores. When I started following test scores in 1972, rankings were

1. Oriental
2. Caucasian
3. Chicano
4. Black

But today:
1. Asian
2. White
3. Latinx
4. African-American

So everything has changed! Which must be due to Nurture, not Nature”

All Greta Thunberg does is yell at the UN. When she snarls “How dare you!” at a group of oil company executives, then I’ll take her seriously.

The title said “one-liner”, but then, if you read down further:

So, in the comments, please let me know what you find my most memorable short notions, from one word to a paragraph.

We’re the commenters anyway, and Steve is the poster. There’s another definition for you.

What goes unsaid eventually goes unthought.

That was the explicit purpose of Newspeak.

Older adults, mostly emotionally inert males have a similar tendency about end-of-the-worldism, but this is due to exaggerated fears of economic collapse or sinister hidden hand group manipulations.

They don’t usually kill themselves however. (Some like to post on Unz!)

We’re too busy prepping, yeah, and commenting on Unz, for what it OBVIOUSLY coming, to kill ourselves.

That’s quite different a situation from the deluded young people that are getting depressed and freaked out by people like Greta Thunberg and the AlGore rhythm (goes “The Oceans are boiling!”) I agree with all the first part of your comment though, Muggles. People like Greta, Al Gore, etc, are indeed causing Deaths of Alarmism – there’s one Steve.

Don’t kill yourselves over The Climate, people. Get your money out of the dollar, get some land, prep up, and tune out, or you may die a Death of Protuberance(?) (Getting screwed up the wazoo by Globalist Totalitarians with bad Pharma, bad food, and bad things in syringes.

I don’t agree. Steve’s got too much integrity for something like that. He’s got plenty of great ones, as I’ve seen here in this thread. I’m not very good at recall, obviously. (I looked up “barbecue” to get to posts about blacks shooting up backyard BBQ’s and got to that one 2-liner I put in up top.

That line from In Bruges, though – it was classic – if Steve were writing and HBD/noticing screenplay, he’d have put that in first.

Affirmative action for women also hurts your daughters. Colleges are now short males

…which is why affirmative action in admissions offices has shifted (very quietly!) toward males men. According to a professor at U of St Thomas, when schools get too female, they become seriously unattractive to young women, threatening to send them– the schools, not the women– into a “death spiral”.

This fellow and his wife, also a professor, have six children. I’d love to hear what they have to report in a decade or two.

So Greta Thunberg, threat or menace?

BPD poster girl and general attention whore, as a pubescent girls are.

Isn’t Mr. Sailer a Christian man? Not really certain about you, however.

Not really certain you are a man.

Evidence leans against.

All time favorites:

-“Coalition of the fringes” vs. “Core Americans”

-“KKKrazy Glue”

Marxism is about class, while Wokeness is about biological categories such as…

Bah. Both of them have never been about anything but power. The party’s. Two sides of the same Hydrox, with the all-encompassing and unanswerable state the creamy middle.

…with Catholics soon reducing their birthrates toward Protestant levels, which had been a major WASP concern.

The most dramatic drop in fertility came in Quebec, which almost overnight went from the Caucasian) world’s highest to the lowest. Canada had had two Catholic PMs by 1900.

Sailer is quite the choir boy when it comes to language. A prude in fact.

Through all these years, it seems he never used the word ‘ass’. That’s almost incredible.

https://www.unz.com/?s=ass&Action=Search&authors=steve-sailer&ptype=isteve&postid=522716

He only used ‘dong’ as an Asian name or ‘ding-dong’.

https://www.unz.com/?s=ass&Action=Search&authors=steve-sailer&ptype=isteve&postid=522716

Not even ‘pud’. All you get is ‘pudding’.

https://www.unz.com/?s=pud&Action=Search&authors=steve-sailer&ptype=isteve&postid=522716

And when it comes to F-word and shi*, it’s just quotes from other folks.

https://www.unz.com/?s=fuck&Action=Search&authors=steve-sailer&ptype=isteve&postid=522716

https://www.unz.com/?s=shit&Action=Search&authors=steve-sailer&ptype=isteve&postid=522716

Was it something like “You only know whether or not an advance was wanted is in retrospect”?

Personally, I couldn’t recall Obama ever saying anything memorably insightful on any subject other than himself.

What about “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up”?

Perhaps this is already well known in this comment section, but I will state it anyway. If there is a word or phrase that you can’t quite remember, you can do a site specific search like this in google (and other browsers presumably) which will search Steve’s unz archives for the word “gladwell” (I use that example because I am pretty sure there was some gold from the Gladwell days–that guy seemed to be like a bowling pin for Steve)

site:https://www.unz.com/author/steve-sailer/ gladwell

I liked a Steve tweet which I can only paraphrase: something to the effect that, “The plural of anecdote is anecdata; the plural of anecdata is data.”

Thank you so much for the recommendation, Auld Alliance. The movie is on its way!

Do you remember the scenes in In Bruges that make fun of the fat Americans? What was really clever was the later part where the guy explained why the bell tower was closed early. Then, you think back on those 2 fat and 1 obese Americans from early on. Freaking fantastic!

First scene:

Here is a somewhat on topic thought: who have been the main idea people whose works Steve has engaged with over the years?

These come to mind:
Gladwell
Frum
Yglesias
Douthat
Ta-Nehisi Coates
the Indian guy with the IRS records

It might be easier to organize one-liners in the context of specific and sequential “thought leaders”

“How about framing these in decorative fashion. Poor Richard’s Almanack style. Selling them on eBay, all profits to you know who.”

That is a rather brilliant idea, except for… why on earth would Steve give all his profits to the Jews?

Larry Fink. Chairman and CEO of BlackRock with $10 trillion in assets under management. On the board of the WEF. Owns oil pipelines, mining operations, factories, banks, ships, machines, weapon manufacturers. Also launched the band Maroon 5.

Arguably controls more capital than… pic.twitter.com/p9xQZSkngd

— Disgraced Propagandist (@DisgracedProp) April 10, 2023

The observation that America or America’s schools are running out of White children.

Your likely correct; I could have been more creative about phrasing the question. I described my ChatGPT session in a follow-up reply to on this thread.

I don’t know much about Nepalis, however their per capita GDP is well below Haiti, India, Pakistan and most of Africa. Their intelligence is likely very low too.

Full Eastern European gypsies just look like very low caste Indians. Nepalis are relatively attractive for South Asians.

“Bhutan, Japan, Israel were not founded by the principles of land, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which are the underpinnings of our historic diverse society.”

But you seem to enjoy all these three principles, soiboi. Otherwise you wouldn’t be alive.

You’re definitely the white version of that negro Ebony Obelisk or Tiny Duckie. Both of you are getting replaced

The racial test-score hierarchy changes frequently. For example, it used to be Orientals on top, followed by Caucasians, then Hispanics, then Negroes. Now it’s Asians on top, followed by whites, then Latinos, then blacks.

One of my favorites.

“Everybody except Tucker Carlson knows that demographic change through mass immigration is the one thing in the world that is NOT a social construct. The Emerging Democratic Majority is a purely natural phenomenon, like the swallows returning to Capistrano.

The reason Democratic politicians and journalists support mass immigration is not because they want to unethically win elections by importing ringers. Instead, it’s because, like immigration, they are Good. It’s the Republicans who are Bad.

Unfortunately, Republicans are too low IQ to understand sophisticated Democratic concepts like We’re Good, You’re Bad, so they make up outlandish conspiracy theories about how Democrats promote immigration policies that are in the Democrats’ electoral self-interest.”

– https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-great-replacement/

Isn’t “freeze peach” what people say to mock people who support free speech?

the very good movie I just saw titled In Bruges.

“The Banshees of Inisherin is a return to familiar territory for writer-director Martin McDonagh: It plays like a spiritual sequel to his pitch-black 2008 comedy-thriller In Bruges. That film, McDonagh’s feature debut, stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hitmen hiding out in a version of Bruges designed to feel like Catholic purgatory. Farrell and Gleeson also lead Banshees, another whip-smart, wryly amusing tale driven by existential dread. This time around, they play much simpler men — a farmer and a musician, respectively — but they have the same anguish as their assassin counterparts, resulting in a film that maintains a spiritual vice grip over its audience, in spite of the charming setting.”

Both are free online:

https://flixhq.pro/movie/the-banshees-of-inisherin-2085l/1-full

https://flixhq.pro/movie/in-bruges-1nrjq/1-full

Sometimes a second tab will pop up. Just close it and go back to the movie’s page.

OK, my contribution was a bit too long, but yours Corvinus is certainly not a one liner.

Aren’t you tired of this one-way relationship? Where’s Steve’s list of his favorite one-liners written by us?

I believe I have located an image of our good friend Corvinus. Behold:

That’s not really THAT insightful, though.

So, in the comments, please let me know what you find my most memorable short notions, from one word to a paragraph.

Ahoy ahoy!

Steve, I finally compiled my extensive research for your request. Feel free to make my reply a featured iSteve post of its own. 🙂

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WE BUILT THIS CITY:

After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?

Essays on the civilizational outcomes of Human Biodiversity

A Steve Sailer anthology, Vol. I

Bio and blurbs for the dust jacket(s):

The boy Steve fell to Earth in Southern California at the beginning of the 1960s, his small spaceship leaving a gash in an orange grove. He was sent here as an antidote to a growing cultural disease.

It is said the only thing that can weaken him and reduce his prolificacy is kitsch from his home planet — a green, golf course-like world that can only be seen from the Hale Telescope on Mt. Palomar on alternate Thursdays.

Buzz Mohawk, iSteve commenter

EXT. VALLEY VILLAGE – NIGHT:

STEVE SAILER, trivia whiz and diversity apostate, listens to his footsteps echo through the quiet streets. Up ahead glow the lights of the 7-Eleven, where he will purchase an apple from a silent West African clerk. I’m not sure if you’ll be picked up by Harry Dean Stanton in a repossessed car, quietly observed on behalf of Pritzker-esque gangsters by Ryan Gosling in his Malibu from Drive, or run over by Bronze Age Pervert’s jet-powered, monkey-navigated DeLorean before it heads to its first stop on its journey into the artifice of antiquity: Turin, 1889.

Cline felt her song dumb, iSteve commenter

Steve Sailer is the most honest, informative, and entertainingly racist motherfucker I have ever had the pleasure to read.

Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve and Coming Apart

Plus ça change, plus Sailer même chose.

Jenner Ickham Errican, iSteve commenter

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Random Steve quotes culled from Agrees, LOLs, and Thanks in my comments history:

I really like getting money, so thanks in advance.

Not enough to get a job…

Maybe if the dipshit knew how to slide…

“The point of Sixties was not to demolish power structures forever but to create a new power structure,”
“I don’t want to live in a Mearsheimer World in which the powers talk like the Athenians do in Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue. I want politicians to feel a little shame and foreboding.”
Steve Sailer’s First Law of Female Journalism is that the most heartfelt journalistic extrusions will be demands for how society must be re-engineered so that, come the Revolution, the writer herself will be considered hotter-looking.
Richard Nixon and his chief domestic policy adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan had conjured neoconservatism into existence in 1969 by pointing out to Moynihan’s friends among Jewish intellectuals that American support for Israel was contingent upon America not losing the Cold War to the Soviet Union.
After all, the saintliest man of all time, Barack Obama, was a Chicago politician. Indeed, he moved to Chicago in 1985 with the intent of someday becoming mayor of Chicago, so if that’s not proof of how honest 1980s elections in Chicago were, I don’t know what is.
Is it unreasonable to call on African-Americans to lower their murder rate to the Mexican-American level? Or are blacks just genetically fated to have a vastly higher murder rate?
Access journalism is a key concept: journalists who know more than they tell are rewarded with carrots like interviews with stars, book deals, and film options, while those who tell the public too much are cut off from their access to the oxygen of stars to appear on their magazine covers
The main use of college, by Steve Sailer: “Knowing that the average person is wrong about everything is what makes you better than people who didn’t learn that at college.”
What happens, though, when mass immigration transforms our society so everyone is a minority? If you don’t want whites to act like a 21st century American minority group—e.g., racially conscious, bloc voting, biased, prickly, and led by racial racketeers quick to proclaim their group’s victimization—then don’t make whites a minority.
Kael Conundrum, as defined by Steve Sailer, might be explained as the puzzled, wilfully ignorant attitude adopted by prominent leftists when facing the existence of the Other. After Richard Nixon’s landslide victory in 1972, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael lectured: ”I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.”
Bill Gates didn’t become the richest man in America by being a great programmer. In reality, he bought his strategically pivotal Disk Operating System from a Seattle programmer named Tim Paterson and then licensed it to IBM. No, Gates got rich by being a great monopolist—which is a more difficult career to practice far ahead of time. Gladwell, the unofficial Minister of Propaganda for Multi-Culti Capitalism, seldom says anything negative about capitalists. For example, if you are looking for the deep roots of Gates’s unerring cunning at acquiring a monopoly at such a young age, it’s perhaps interesting that Gates’s father was a defense attorney for firms accused of antitrust violations.
That the empire abroad can be used to tip elections at home would hardly have been surprising to ancient Romans. Eugene McCarthy, the independent-minded Democratic senator, pointed out in 1992 that globalism was making America “a colony of the world.” But this is not the kind of concept that modern Americans are supposed to think about.
At dinner last night, we were discussing a well known popular political philosopher. Steve Sailer said “If he hadn’t spent so much time studying Hegel, he’d be a lot more sound.” To which Greg Cochran remarked, “That’s true of everyone.” (this was quoted by Jerry Pournelle in his blog in 2005)
Bright Jewish women such as Betty Friedan, Shulamith Firestone, Rosalyn Baxandall, Susan Brownmiller, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bella Abzug, and Andrea Dworkin tended to be the leaders in the feminist revolution of a half century ago. Also not surprisingly, however, their intra-Jewish resentments of their parents’ Jewish patriarchalism have largely been hushed up, with men or society in general being blamed instead.
Why was Susan Sontag so famous in the 1960s, other than for saying “the white race is the cancer of human history”? As far as I can tell, it was because Sontag was smart, ambitious, egomaniacal, humorless, pedantic, snobbish, Jewish, sexy, and lesbian
In 2014, Steven Sailer wrote that he “remain (ed) troubled that my few publications were restricted to reporting findings, not proposing useful theories.”
The thing to keep in mind about Star Wars movies is that they are WWII being re-enacted by eight year old boys playing in their backyard. For example, the bad guys shoot at you with rayguns, but the rays only travel about as fast as a dodgeball, so you can jump out of the way if you are nimble enough. And the bad guys wear armor, but it’s completely useless. This kind of thing can be irritating, but if you assume you are little George Lucas in Modesto and you just got home from a triple feature of The Sands of Iwo Jima, The War of the Worlds, and The Bridges at Toko-Ri where you ate four boxes of Milk-Duds, it all makes sense.

Ah, yes, Steve’s observations about how the true voter divide is neither by party nor sex, but rather by marital status.

(The same genre of observation as The Bell Curve’s point that IQ is more important than (or what underlies) the sociologist’s gold standard, SES, socioeconomic status).

“It’s a stereotype that the Eurasian Steppe tends to be violent, so therefore it can’t be true. The real reason Eastern Europe is called The Bloodlands is because of the beautiful red sunsets. ”

To be fair, most of the flat lands of Eastern Europe aren’t strictly Steppe, flattish though they be. Too cultivated. It’s said (why whom? as wiki would say) that if you travel due East from West Bromwich Albion’s football ground, the next highest ground to the east is the Urals.

But the Bloodlands as defined by neocon Tim Snyder should be extended west to the North German Plain and a few hundred years back in time – the Thirty Years War killed about a third of the population, something both Hitler and Stalin failed to do. Flat lands make it a LOT easier to invade your neighbour.

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

In physical geography, a steppe is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees except near rivers and lakes

(back on topic, impressed with the ChatGPT list!)

“On women, tattoos often seem to imply: “Pay attention to me because I, obviously, make poor choices, so you might get lucky.”
Younguns don’t know ’bout cigarrettes.

> Your criticism of Sailer would resonate much more if it were funny or interesting.

A minor theme of the iSteve comments is contributed by those who explain that Sailer isn’t worth reading, and that the threads after each post should be ignored and thus devoid of content.

Those scolds who contribute this cancel-culture insight on an ongoing basis are the most amusing, on a meta level. It’s a thankless job, but somebody’s gotta do it!

See https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=Quotations#Sailer.2C_Steve

Unfortunately, Republicans are too low IQ to understand sophisticated Democratic concepts like We’re Good, You’re Bad, so they make up outlandish conspiracy theories about how Democrats promote immigration policies that are in the Democrats’ electoral self-interest.”

Paragraph doesn’t make any sense.

Smug Pepe is genius.

Why did Steve consider it to be genius?

I don’t remember the words exactly, but it was about marijuana, how it was middle-age in a can or something like that.

The main use of college, by Steve Sailer: “Knowing that the average person is wrong about everything is what makes you better than people who didn’t learn that at college.”

Was Steve implying that people who didn’t go to college also know that the average person is wrong about everything?

The real reason Eastern Europe is called The Bloodlands is because of the beautiful red sunsets.

Well, the Russian, Czech, Slovak, and Slovene flags place their red stripe at the bottom, beneath the blue, as does the Polish minus the blue. I was told this represented the lives lost in centuries of battles, but maybe it does refer to sunsets. However, the sun sets in the west, which to these countries is over the mountains. Indeed, the Slovak and Slovene coats both feature peaks. (If you think those demonyms are confusing enough in English, check them out in their own languages.)

Croatia, Serbia, and Hungary place their red at the top, and Austria does both.

I asked BingAI to give your best one-liners. Not sure you actually said all of these of course…

In this context, a human might say: “The next social justice struggle will be to win full rights of return and warranty service for all retail goods looted within 168 hours of a black criminal being killed by the police.”1
In this context, a human might say: “The growing struggle between gay men and transgender ex-men appears to be largely pitting artists vs. autists.”1
In this context, a human might say: “Would Derek Chauvin and the other three Minneapolis police officers who had so much trouble subduing 223 pound George Floyd have weighed enough to be cops in 1965?”1
In this context, a human might say: “These days, in the Fight Against White, a “white supremacist” appears to be defined as anybody who is not a white submissionist.”1
In this context, a human might say: “When Joe Biden say that America is is “backsliding into the days of Jim Crow when black people had to count jelly beans to get the vote,” what he is saying is that, statistically, blacks are less competent than whites, so secure voting systems tend to have disparate impact on blacks, but that’s not racist because lax voting procedures are good for the Democrats.”1
In this context, a human might say: “Take my wife. Please.”2
In this context, a human might say: “I remember Patton Oswalt’s one-liner about Steve Sailer: ‘He’s like if Ann Coulter was funny.’”3

Ethnically homogenous Japan is so safe that six-year olds take public transportation unsupervised.

The United States used to be civilized. I started taking public transportation to school when I was 6 years old in NEW YORK CITY. Of course that was in 1962.

Aren’t you tired of this one-way relationship? Where’s Steve’s list of his favorite one-liners written by us?

Hear, hear!

After all, Steve isn’t the only one Tucker steals from. And not just Tucker.