I couldn’t stop laughing when I read this.

https://idiotsguide.org/bleaching-the-world/

Steve Sailer asks why scores on the NAEP (mid-childhood assessment tests) in the U.S. have been in steady decline, for most student-groups, since the mid-2010s:

WHY DID NAEP SCORES DECLINE DURING THE GREAT AWOKENING

When progressive ideas triumph, why do lower classes’ test scores crater?

by Steve Sailer
April 13, 2025

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Overall test scores on the federal National Assessment of Educational Progress rose from 2003 through 2013, then drifted down through 2019, dropped sharply during covid school closures, then continued to decline from 2022 to 2024.

On the other hand, these are not huge changes, just a small fraction of a standard deviation. (By the way, I look at NAEP scores by averaging four tests: math and reading scores for 4th graders and 8th graders.)

As I’ve mentioned before, most of the decline during covid was among the bottom half of test-takers. White collar kids do okay going to school on Zoom, but blue collar kids benefit from going to school in person and being talked at by middle class grown-ups.

Still, their decline began back around 2015. From the New York Times news section:

The Pandemic Is Not the Only Reason U.S. Students Are Losing Ground

For years, the country’s lowest-scoring students were steadily improving on national tests. Starting around 2013, something changed.

By Sarah Mervosh

April 7, 2025

There was once a time when America’s lowest-performing students were improving just as much as the country’s top students.

Despite their low scores, these students at the bottom made slow but steady gains on national tests for much of the 2000s. It was one sign that the U.S. education system was working, perhaps not spectacularly, but at least enough to help struggling students keep pace with the gains of the most privileged and successful.

Today, the country’s lowest-scoring students are in free fall.

[…] Researchers point to a number of educational and societal changes over the past decade, including a retrenchment in school accountability, the lasting effects of the Great Recession and the rise of smartphones, which has coincided with worsening cognitive abilities even among adults since the early 2010s. …

One possible explanation is the end of No Child Left Behind, the contentious school accountability law President George W. Bush signed in 2002.

The law is perhaps best known for its legacy of standardized testing, including annual exams in math and reading in third through eighth grade.

To me, it’s best known for insisting that by 2014, all public school students in the country would score at least Proficient on a scale of:

Advanced
Proficient
Basic
Below Basic

Lake Wobegon mandated by law!

But, at least it was a different era than the succeeding Great Awokening.

[Paywall.]

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/why-did-naep-scores-decline-during

These test-score declines are a story of the born-mid-2000s to born-mid-2010s cohorts. Whatever the phenomenon driving the decline, it’s a “Gen Z” story. Probably applicable to older Gen Z’er too, even if not showing up in these test-scores (NAEP for 4th & 8th graders only).

The when and the why: The graph doesn’t lie: the lion’s of the score-decline dates to the early-2020s. Applicable to everyone below the 75th percentile.

A focus on the apparent mid-2010s inflexion-point is probably preferred by those who were on the Pro-Panic side during the Corona-Panic of the early 2020s. And NOT a focus on the relatively sharp drop-off of the early-2020s.

To me, the early-2020s drop-off in test-scores is an “artifact,” a signal, a symbol of wider chaos, destruction, undermining of institutions and norms, and so on, that came with the Covid-Panic and the Panic-enforcement regimes that sprung up.

Looking back from the safe shores of the mid-2020s and over the breadth of the past 25 years, a usefully wider perspective can be had. The longer view can be so broad, though, as to overlook the Corona-Panic’s chaos and destruction. In this wider story, the drop-off of the early 2020s being attributable to the Corona-Panic risks slipping into an inane “Oh, isn’t that a Covid-Denial conspiracy theory?” territory. (Someone who supported the Panic regimes, Lockdownism, and the whole package; including indefinite school closures and other disruptions to children’s lives, may tend this way.)

On the other hand, the Corona-Panic itself was a product of many social forces and disruptions that were identifiable, already, in the 2010s (and certainly in retrospect). It was common to point out in 2020 that no such thing as the shameful collapse of societies to a CoronaPanic-like event would’ve been possible in the year 1990, or 2000, or probably even 2010. A confluence of factors, including the technological, made the Corona-Panic of 2020 possible. The same factors could also, well enough, be picked up in the relatively drops in test-scores, seen starting the mid-2010s for most score-cohorts.

Steve Sailer says the U.S. Naval Academy has been discriminating heavily against White-males for decades. What will the consequences be? Sailer says a White-male-dominated U.S. Naval Academy would be acceptable to sensible racial moderates:

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AT ANNAPOLIS

Can the U.S. Navy afford to be biased against the best cadet applicants?

by Steve Sailer
April 13, 2025

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America has had, on the whole, pretty good admirals, such as these guys:

Sure, the three on the left won the Battle of Midway. (The fourth admiral, Willis Lee, won the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, turning back the Japanese invasion fleet by sinking the enemy battleship flagship in a one-on-one fight. He also won five gold medals in shooting at the 1920 Olympics. And he was a distant relative of Robert E. You-Know-Who.)

But, as you may notice, Spruance, Mitscher, Nimitz, and Lee were the Wrong Race and Gender. Therefore, something must be done.

Zach Goldberg has a fascinating study of racial preferences at the Naval Academy. Not surprisingly, Goldberg writes:

USNA [United States Naval Academy] simultaneously claims to have no insight into what the racial composition of its classes would look like absent the consideration of race. By its own admission, it has never conducted modeling to explore this question and offers no clear explanation for why such an analysis has not been undertaken. At the same time, USNA argues that eliminating racial considerations would cause minority enrollment to “drop dramatically,” a claim that stands in tension with its characterization of race as a minor and non-determinative factor in admissions. …

Of course, selecting Naval Academy cadets has been a highly political issue since 1857, when nominating candidates for the military academies was assigned to members of Congress.

Also, Annapolis likes to let in a few enlisted personnel, as well as kids of Navy people.

And the admirals love football. Navy plays Notre Dame every year. Annapolis usually loses because it insists upon four years of service before turning pro. (Navy Heisman winner Roger Staubach might be a worthy rival to Tom Brady for the greatest quarterback of all time if he didn’t spend age 22-26 in Da Nang.) So it no longer gets NFL prospects. Still, Navy has beaten N.D. four times going back to 2007.

Given these distributions, a race-blind admissions system that selected all applicants from the top four WPM [Whole Person Multiple] deciles would yield a markedly different racial composition among admitted students. Under such a system, the share of non-BCA [Blue Chip Athlete] /non-prep admits would shift to 71.4% white (compared to 61.3% in actuality), 14.3% Asian (16.7%), 8.5% Hispanic (11.8%), and just 1.9% Black (6.1%). If applied to the entire qualified applicant pool–meaning BCAs [Blue Chip Athletes] and prep applicants would no longer be virtual admission shoo-ins–whites would constitute 70.4% of admits (compared to 58.7% in actuality), Asians 13.8% (14.3%), Hispanics 9.3% (12.5%), and Blacks 2.7% (10.5%).

Can America tolerate 2.7% of Naval Academy graduates being black?

I’d say so, but others may have more extremist opinions than a moderate like myself.

Annapolis is one of the few prestigious colleges that are more discriminatory against whites than against Asians.

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/racial-discrimination-at-annapolis

Shouldn’t this be Open Thread #4?

I am not certain how Zach Goldberg is calculating his non-discriminatory admission rates (as cited by Sailer). He gives either 1.9% Black or 2.7% Black as the supposed fair-rate (the higher rate including “the entire qualified applicant pool–meaning [Blue Chip Athletes] and prep applicants would no longer be virtual admission shoo-ins,” puzzling).

I’m also not certain what numbers Zach Goldberg is using for his “share of Blacks at[?] the U.S. Naval Academy”: He gives 6.1% as “the share of non-[Blue Chip Athlete]/non-prep admits” and 10.5% as the Black share of admissions [?] from the “entire qualified applicant pool”.

Relevant layers for these numbers are:
– people on the applicant-path (pre-application);
– people who applied;
– people who are accepted;
– people who actually enrolled;
– people who graduated (minus dropouts);
– share of all USNA students at any specific moment-in-time.

Here is what the Unz College-Demographics Tool says about the U.S. Naval Academy, 1980 to 2022:

Around the late 1980s, people in charge evidently instituted a higher soft-quota for Blacks. That above whatever the going defacto quota was between, when, the late 1960s and mid-1980s). The new Blacl-USNA quota ended up being 7% for a while, dropping to 6%, but more-or-less holding between and until 2022.

By 1980, they had a Black quota that was probably a 4x multiplier on number of Blacks. Around 1990 they nearly doubled this to a 7x multiplier, then reduced it slightly to around a 5.5x multiplier.

But that is just looking at Blacks. The erosion of the White-male share is a much-bigger story.

White-male share, U.S. Naval Academy (per the Unz College-Demographics Tool):
– ca. 1985: <80% threshold crossed.
– ca. 1994: <70% threshold crossed.
– ca. 2008: <60% threshold crossed.
– ca. 2014: <50% threshold crossed.
– mid-2020s: 40% threshold reached?

Between the early-1980s and late-2010s, the institution went from “obviously-White-male-centric” with a few extras for harmless-diversity purposes, to a place where White-males were a clear minority today.

The lion's share of this story may date to the recent-memory 2000s and 2010s.

I’d add that these kinds of numbers and data-sets are useful for the ongoing analysis of the History of Wokeness. You see these major losses in the White-male share pre-dating the 2010s, in a major-prestige institution of the United States.

At what point did the USNA’s White-male share drop below the natural-rate for an institution like the USNA? To me it was “there” already with the early-1990s push, and arguable already earlier, in the 1980s. The 1980s model of Diversity was “funny or quirky sidekick, color commentator”; this holds with USNA numbers at the time but was probably already under serious stress even in the 1980s.

There is little appetite for war with China among the American population. That doesn’t mean people think much of Chinese business practices or that we fail to understand they can be jerks . But there is no interest in going to war with them. Ain’t gonna happen.

Young white men know this country is busy stabbing them in the back. They want that fixed before we think about overseas adventures.

Steve Sailer remembers a great moment in golf history, Jack Nicklaus’ 1975 winning putt which bent laws of physics up to their breaking points:

THE MASTERS

Rory McIlroy vs. Bryson DeChambeau

by Steve Sailer
April 13, 2025

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The Masters’ Sunday pin positions at Augusta National look brutal:

Usually, the fairly short par 3 #16 is back left, which allows players to aim away from the lake on the left and let the big right-to-left slope funnel their tee shots down near the hole.

But back in 1975, 50 years ago, the three blonds, Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, and Tom Weiskopf battled it out, with Nicklaus deciding the championship on the #16 with the 40 foot uphill putt to the back right position.

There are a lot of jokes about this being the highest Nicklaus ever got off the ground.

Video Link

But he was actually a fine high school basketball player who set the Ohio state record with 26 consecutive free throws made. Although not recruited, he expected to walk on the basketball team at Ohio State. But it turned out that Buckeyes John Havlicek and Jerry Lucas were a whole lot better at basketball than Jack was.

You’ll notice that Augusta National’s greens were a lot slower in 1975 when they were Bermuda grass than before they were replanted with bent grass in the early 1980s.

Eleven years later, here’s the famous 15 and 16 of the final round of 46 year old Jack Nicklaus in 1986, 39 years ago. Nobody uses a one-iron anymore (lightning victim Lee Trevino famously advised golfers trapped on the golf course in a thunder storm to hold up a one-iron to the heavens “because not even God can hit a one-iron”), but Nicklaus psychologically intimidated his foes by hitting one-iron in key moments.

Video Link

Back then, TVs took a while to warm up. I turned the TV on in time to hear the loudest buzz I’d ever heard from a golf audience. Finally, the picture came into focus. It looked like a blond man walking to the 16th tee at Augusta. “Greg Norman?” I thought.

“No,” I realized, “It’s Nicklaus!”

As color commentator, Weiskopf, who’d come in second in four Masters without winning, was asked if he knew what was going through his fellow Buckeye’s mind on the 16th tee:

“If I knew the way he thought, I would’ve won this tournament. … Make the swing you are capable of making … Make a good golf swing. Your destiny is right here.”

Personally, I like the previous back left pin position where contenders could aim right and funnel the ball down toward the hole. The ANGC leadership had concluded that with that pin position, eventually some leader would make a hole in one on Sunday to win The Masters.

And, you know what? They could live with what would instantly become the most famous stroke in the history of golf.

But that probably won’t happen today.

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/the-masters

Steve Sailer identifies reasons to believe there is a trend towards White eugenic-fertility in the past decade:

BABIES: QUANTITY PLUMMETING, QUALITY…NOT SO BAD

Not quite all the numbers about birth trends are alarming.

by Steve Sailer
April 14, 2025

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Fertility is of course falling around much of the world, including in the U.S. Much of the decline in the U.S. came in the second half of the 2010s, before covid.

The CDC offers a Natality interface for looking up birth data in the U.S., but it’s a little more awkward than its Mortality interface.

Here are graphs I made for total number of births to white mothers and black mothers. I narrowed them down to non-Hispanic women born in the U.S. to reduce impact of immigration. For some reason, the CDC doesn’t make it easy to find fertility rates, so I’m looking just at two pretty stable traditional U.S. populations.

[Paywall.]

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/babies-quantity-plummeting-quality

Interesting.

https://twitter.com/pablogguz_/status/1911022468917080496

“since 2008, income growth for those aged 65+ has outpaced that of prime-age workers in many european countries. in spain, italy and cyprus, working-age incomes even declined in real terms while senior incomes rose

different demographic priorities are emerging in fiscal policy”

This is insane.

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1911032766004609211

“BREAKING:

150,000 young Pakistani workers will move to Belarus to alleviate labor shortages in agriculture and industry.

The agreement was reached today during a meeting in Minsk between Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko.”

How much of that is because seniors have good pensions, which they signed up for in the days before open borders?

Spain is an interesting one, it’s always being praised in Guardian comments because of its rising GDP, whereas we see here working wages are in decline. Immigration reducing wages?

In the UK there were until fairly recently two types of occupational pensions, Defined Benefit (DB), which was the majority offering, and Defined Contribution (DC) which is more like what you have in the States with your 401K.

DC schemes usually are funded 50/50 by employee (out of wages) and employer.

Defined Benefit schemes were usually “final salary” – if you made 40 years of contributions, say from 25 to 65, you’d get a pension of 2/3 your salary on your retirement date, plus annual increases, which sounds pretty good. All contributions were made by the employer. Gordon Brown killed them in 1997 with a tax raid on the funds which hasn’t been reversed, despite 14 years of Tory rule. So existing schemes continued, but no new entrants.

The only new DB entrants are those working for the government, because the taxpayer will pick up the tab.

DB schemes were impressively generous, especially when paternalistic employers would bump people up to the highest salary for their grade in the retirement year. I had a colleague who retired at 56 on a full pension (he’d joined at 16), and his father was still alive at 96!

My DB pension is higher than the median UK wage, my mortgage is long paid off, I took holidays abroad in February and March. Hence the Guardian commentariat moan about “rich pensioners”. What they don’t seem to have noticed is that this is a transient phenomenon – anyone going into employment or changing jobs after 1997, nearly 30 years ago, will only have a much less generous DC scheme.

I’m not a careful observer of this sort of phenomenon (or of anything, really) but it seems to me that it’s fairly clear that test-score declines kind of has to be linked to the ever-increasing reliance on the internet that younger and younger generations have. It also seems to me that there has been a general sea-change in overall world culture from the Real to the Virtual/Irreal: people don’t read books any more, music is made by computers not musicians, young people are wholly immersed in gaming and find cinema irrelevant (which means basically that they find the ancient human art of storytelling itself irrelevant).

Thanks to non-stop never-ending immigration, there aren’t really distinct nations and peoples any more, which means that most of human history and its lessons no longer apply to anything. The fading influence (or even existence) of white people worldwide means that the great ideological debates and struggles of the past few centuries are also rendered meaningless, which means that much or most of intellectual history can be tossed as well. The end of scarcity in the world as a constant of existence means economics no longer matters either.

Young people born in this century are experiencing a radically different version of reality than anyone before them in history — if you can even call it reality at all. So why bother with tests and test scores, who needs that? To paraphrase a cynical old aristocrat: As for living, our AI can do that for us.

iSteve: Booooooringggg.

A certain regular commenter on the Peak Stupidity threads noted that there are better things around to watch than some pretty dudes trying to knock a little ball into a hole in the grass. Below is one.

Perhaps this very, very interesting and informative ZeroHedge-h0sted debate about the idea of tariffs in America and the coming financial crisis is too, dare I say it… HIGH BROW?

Seriously, I’m guessing REAL Conservatives, as many in these threads are, would be on Spencer Morrison’s side after his first 5 minute soliloquy. However, I dig Peter Schiff too. About gold, he ain’t wrong! (Different videos.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRjJRnXVBaA

C’mon, man! (Ron Unz). No 5-min EDIT window and video doesn’t look embedded.

2nd try, in case:

Video Link
Ha, not “pretty dudes”!. “Preppy dudes”!

Typo, Freudian slip, or spell chick there? You decide.

“Donald Trump’s Looney Tunes Trade Policy
The Unz Review • April 14, 2025 • 3,800 Words”

tl;dr:

The US must design its trade policy to benefit the Chinese, racists! To do other wise is looney tunes!

See also:

“A study on America’s demographic-national crisis — Early-2020s birth-data by race; and developments in the White birth-share in the USA, 1920s to 2020s,” Hail To You, July 2023.

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2023/07/11/americas-demographic-crisis-on-developments-in-births-in-the-usa-in-the-early-2020s-and-1920s-to-2022/

The trends, when incorporating the full-2023 and prelinary-2024 data, follow the same story as the one identifiable by mid-2023 already.

If these Trump-II people would actually succeed in removing a net of millions of recent-immigrant Nonwhite residents, there’d be an impetus towards a turn-around. That, at least, is the implicit basis of the original Trump coalitions (before it degenerated a bit into being more of a personality-cult).

The deportation numbers continue to be lackluster. The new-arrivals-of-illegals numbers are good but insufficient for the scope of the crisis. I don’t know of the status of plans to majorly restrict LEE-GULL immigration and naturalizations of non-Western Third Worlders. The status of Elon and Vivek’s H1b-mega-expansion plan, they have remained silent about.

Not jerks, LiTFLoM. The Chinese companies and Chinese government bureaucracies purposely delay and obfuscate to deter American companies from getting goods into their country. Trump knows this.

One thing I can say about Trump. He doesn’t like getting screwed, he doesn’t like Americans getting screwed, and he doesn’t like America getting screwed..

I agree that there is no appetite for a real war on either side. OTOH, if you win an economic war, that’s all you need to win. Watch that debate – it’s both illuminating and entertaining.

AnotherDad on the Masters golf tournament 2025 (from SteveSailer-dot-net):

I will admit it kept my attention…I was about ready to quit on it around 5pm and ask AnotherMom if she wanted a beach walk–even though a few hours past our usual low tide target–but then continued to work on my taxes for a bit longer, and sure enough Rory [McIlroy] f’d it up again with a ridiculously bad shot. […]

[The playoff round against Justin Rose] was a pretty lame ugly round for McIlroy to win this thing–hardly “champion” more like limping across the line.

Partly true I suppose, but my youngest daughter obtained the maximum score in both Math and English in her Florida competency tests in the final year of elementary school (and was actually awarded a medal because she was the only child in the school who did so.)

She is also the leader of the Middle School band.

She has had a cell phone or remote control in her hand since she was a toddler.

It is just the genes.

I don’t know how many of you read Donald Trump’s medical report over the weekend, but it seems like a commentary on the literacy and numeracy of contemporary America.

It said that he is 224 lbs and 6 ft 3″. It is difficult to judge somebody’s height from TV, but I am almost certain that his Dr got both these basic measurements wrong, even though they must have access to a set of scales and a height measuring device at the Walter Reed hospital.

What is even worse is that the report says that his right ear was ‘scared’ with a bullet wound. ‘Scared’ not ‘scarred’.

Any qualified doctor knows how to spell the word ‘scarred’. Even my middle school daughter can do this.

However anybody can make a typo when they are nervous. What is scary is that the White House with an enormous communications apparatus is not able to proofread and correct a document before it is released to the general public.

I guess with a pool of 300 million people to pull from, they just can’t find enough competent proofreaders (or economists for that matter.)

And I don’t know whether Ron’s grandchildren are now running this site, but historically the number four has followed immediately after three.

TOP-GOLFER DEMOGRAPHICS

The top-28 finishers of the 95 participants in the April 2025 Masters tournament of golf, which includes all who ended better than par:

– 18 full-White (4 UK, including winner Rory McIlroy; 10 USA, including Sailer-favorite Bryson DeChambeau, who finished 5th; 1 Canada; 1 Sweden; 1 Norway; 1 Spain);

– 2 Jewish (Max Homa, who has ties to Southern California; and Daniel Berger of Florida, who has pro-athlete family ties);

– 5 full-East-Asian (2 South Korean, 1 Japanese [Hideki Matsuyama], 1 mixed-East Asian raised in the USA [Collin Morikawa], 1 long resident in the USA but b.1993 in Seoul–he goes by Michael Kim–whose family brought him to California in year 2000);

– 2 half-White, half-East Asians (one raised in the USA [Xander Schauffele, Taiwan mother], one in Australia [Jason Day, half-Filipino]);

– 1 South Asian (Aaron Rai, who finished 27th. His -1 under par was far below winner McIlroy’s -11 but still respectable in the grand-scheme. Rai is said to be a UK citizen.)

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The top-28 (all under-par finishers) are, therefore:

– 64.25 % full-White individuals (almost all of this from the traditional NW-European core-audience and developers of golf);
– 7% Jewish;
– 18% East-Asian;
– 7.25% half-White-half-Asian;
– 3.5% South Asian.

By aggregate, with a few assumptions, it’ll be about this:
– ca. 62% White-NW-European?;
– ca. 7% White-Christian other than NW-European?;
– ca. 6.5% Jewish?;
– ca. 21% East-Asian;
– 3.5% South Asian;
– no Blacks;
– no Latin Americans;
– no Chinese (unless you count the partial ancestry, via U.S. golfer Collin Morikawa);
– no Arabs;
– no Southeast Asians (unless you count the Philippine-origin mother of Australian Jason Day–the mother arrived in Australia in the early 1980s).

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Why are Hindus succeeding in golf but Subsaharans are not?

It was not a fluke that a South Asian Hindu snuck into the the under-par-finishing top-28. The man who did, Aaron Rai (said to be a UK citizen), was accompanied not so far behind, by racial-brethren Sahith Theegala (apparently a U.S. citizen, finishing 29th, -1) and Akshay Bhatia (finishing 42nd, +4, also said to be U.S. citizen).

There were no Blacks in at least the top-fifty (I stopped checking). There was one African: Charl Schwartzel, of South Africa, finishing 36th (+2). Despite the continent on which his country sits, and his Black-associated surname in some languages, Charl The Golfer is White.

Professional golf is one of the few sports which, to this day in 2025, has not been Africanized at all. That, despite all the Tiger Woods hype around the late 1990s and early 2000s.

If we made a top-50 version of this list, it looks like South Asian Hindus would be at 6% (3 individuals of 50), while Blacks would still be at or near-0% (possibly I’ve missed a part-Black player here or there, but it can’t be above 1% aggregate and may be ~0%).

This is all the more remarkable given the global lack of talent in elite sports shown by South Asians (except in cricket), and the regular flow of Blacks into pro-sports. In other words, it’s notable to find a sport in which Hindus clearly and decisively outperform Blacks. Golf is now on the list.

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The attraction of pro-golf demographics; the allure of traditional Western prestige via golf

Incidentally —– It strikes me that these “top-golfer demographics” are what people in our time WANT an elite institution, such as a university, or a big-blue-metro-area social milieu to be. (U.S. race-ideology would, however, tend to demand one or two well-spoken Blacks in per fifty people).

The Whites who say they like Diversity; and the striver-Asian demographics and similar types from around the globe who want access to White institutions: Neither of these groups really want diversity.

What Asian strivers want is to sponge-up high-trust institutions via comfortable White-majorities (at least in terms of agenda-setting, norm-setting). What they really want is to be among a 15%-Asian, or 20%-Asian, element within a 70%+ White, 5-10% Jewish, and a scattering of Other Diversity milieu. They’d probably not even be attracted to the institution or milieu if it were 75%+ Asian to begin with. (The Ivy League dilemma.)

The USA has long passed the point of being able to produce these kinds of comfortable-White-majority demographics, at any large scale. Ironically, that’s in part because of competition from striver-Asians. Golf offers exactly that kind of classy, Western prestige that gave the West such a cultural super-power for so long. Women’s golf, however, has tipped over into being post-White; but men’s golf is still intact, more or less, along traditional lines.

Discipline is in the shitter too recently.

Open thread #3 today, open thread #3 tomorrow, open thread #3 forever!

But they’ll be slave labor, not gast-arbeiter moochs.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), under the quasi-supervision of Tom Homan for the past three months (since 12:01pm EST January 20th), recently released a new statement-of-purpose:

IF IT CROSSES THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY, IT’S OUR JOB TO

STOP IT.

– People
– Money
– Products
– Ideas

| U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement |

Ideas? Which ones?

Which ideas are illegal?

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There was much embarrassment about this inclusion of the word “Ideas.” Who did it?

Within a few hours, someone at ICE ordered the tweet deleted and replaced with the one now standing. The new one changes the list of illegal things ICE will be targeting to:

– People
– Money
– Products
– Intellectual Property

They don’t/can’t read.
https://archive.is/uZ2qr

I’m reminded of the world “outside the walls” in Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, where moving pictograms have replaced print.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2025/04/young-people-in-city-are-very-boring.html

In the Genesis story we are not told Adam and Eve’s skin colour. But from this pair came the diverse nations we see on earth today. It is clear the whole of creation was to be multi-coloured and diverse. For God loves diversity…

At this point a sperm donor who knew Mejier became a Whistleblower. Jonathan Mejier was not a lone wolf, he was part of a global group of mass donors who divide the world into territories with the aim of creating as many white children as possible. This is their method of bleaching the world. Their task is to rid the world of non-white nations by saturating it with white babies…

Mass donors like Jonathan Jacob Mejier are no better than Adolf Hitler. Here is a quote from serial donor Anthony Greenfield “So far, I donated sperm in the Netherlands, Belgium, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Kenya, Uganda. But soon more countries will be colonised by my glorious and mighty white seed.”

Author photo below the More fold..

These guys (heroes) are risking blindness to solve Africa’s iq problem.

And I don’t know whether Ron’s grandchildren are now running this site, but historically the number four has followed immediately after three.

How many does Ron have?

This anecdotal comment of mine was in a previous, but this is just one little example of what I’m talking about re: the Chinese:

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This goes back 15 years. A Chinese manufacture that I was familiar with had a whole container of goods rejected by the big German customer due to just too damn many defects. (Peak Stupidity has long discussed the problems with the Cheap China-made Crap.)

Well, this container got sent back across the oceans, getting stuck at the Suez Canal a while, then eventually making it back to the port at Guangdong, Shenzhen. The company could not get the container from the docks for 6 months. Why? The officials there treated it as imported goods! That’s just what they do.

This story has a funny addendum though: The container made it back to the factory finally. Around that time, the boss and saleswoman went to a trade show in downtown Guangzhou. A customer from Mexico was interested in their products, so they took him with him in the van back 40 miles to the plant. On the way, the boss told the saleswoman that she (the boss was a woman) was going to sell this Mexican customer that container of the rejected goods. (After all, it was already loaded.)

It turns out that said Mexican buyer understood Chinese! I mean, who does that? Needless to say, no deal!
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And Blueberries for Sal!

But, muh cute White girls in China on muh youtube videos!

– Ron Unz

Heh.

Too quick a cut-and-paste job by the proprietor, but thank you, Ron Unz, for the forum “platform”

The US must design its trade policy to benefit the Chinese

What are the best ideas explaining Ron Unz’s tendency towards pro-China views?

If you look back to his comments on the Sailer blog by RKU (Ron K. Unz) back to the 2000s, you see consistent pro-China views even back then. There are a few questions:

(1.) Why did Ron Unz take on pro-China / anti-U.S. views in (by) the late-2000s?

(2.) Why didn’t he change his views given changing conditions in China?

(3.) Does Ron Unz think the world would be better overall if White-Western people were disempowered and China took on post-1990-U.S.-style hegemonic power?

Of all the Sailer-critics out there, of which I have been one, at least Steve has never been a China Cheerleader. (Not even Corvinus does pro-China cheerleading, that I know of.)

Golf has become incredibly mathematical at the elite level, especially with laser distance measuring devices.

Witness Rory McIlroy explaining that in the playoff his drive was two yards closer to the hole than in the final round, enabling him to take a wedge and hit it at 3/4 power into the slope behind the hole and spin it back, whereas Rose, who was further back had to take a less spinny club and couldn’t get so close.

So the … Israeli normality of rape story … continues … the daughter of the minister [in charge of the terrorists who illegally attack civilians and render them homeless to steal real estate] has claimed that her parents raped her, filmed it, and sold the film.
https://qudsnen.co/daughter-of-israeli-settlement-minister-accuses-parents-of-sexual-assault/

It was a rushed production as Mr. Unz was multitasking producing his regular Sunday night masterpiece. I believe there is a relevant Daffy Duck cartoon episode.

BEGGARS CAN’T BE CHOOSERS.

“3.) Does Ron Unz think the world would be better overall if White-Western people were disempowered and China took on”

News flash: White-Western people are already disempowered. White people do not govern white countries. Haven’t for a long time.

Hell, they aren’t even “white” “countries” anymore.

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It’s almost as if flame retardants make children retarded.

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Adam and Eve were definitely White. As the old joke goes, you ever try taking a rib away from a black man?

Almost 30% of American Adults read below a fourth grade level.

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One of the early victims of the modern TDS-style officially sanctioned media lynch mobs – Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker.

In a story published in the December 27, 1999, issue of Sports Illustrated, Rocker made a number of allegations stemming from his experiences in New York City and answered a question about whether he would ever play for the New York Yankees or the New York Mets.

“I’d retire first. It’s the most hectic, nerve-wracking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you’re riding through Beirut-next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It’s depressing… The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians-and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?”

During the interview, he also spoke of his opinion of the New York Mets and their fans:

“Nowhere else in the country do people spit at you, throw bottles at you, throw quarters at you, throw batteries at you and say, “Hey, I did your mother last night—she’s a whore.” I talked about what degenerates they were and they proved me right.”

Trump should issue an EO directing that the giant MFK Buddha statue be removed from the Capital Mall and replaced by a statue of John Rocker.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-accused-sexually-abusing-corpse-201442495.html?guccounter=1
Man Accused of Sexually Abusing Corpse on N.Y.C. Subway Train
Police believe the man was dead when the suspect allegedly committed sexual acts on the body on an R train in Manhattan

why bother with tests and test scores, who needs that? To paraphrase a cynical old aristocrat: As for living, our AI can do that for us.

RELATED: “If some Woke meme causes the entire Internet-connected Woke world to die off for some stupid reason, don’t despair: the Earth will someday be repopulated by the Pygmy Negritos of North Sentinel Island.” — Steve Sailer

Ron Unz today announced that he fixed the problem of the New Comments feature (auto-jumping, blue border) malfunctioning in these Sailer Open Threads.

How many does Ron have?

3. Or is it 4?

300 trillion dollars is a lot to spend on advertising. No wonder Google stock is so high.

Theory: the site owner laid the former “Open Thread 3” in its grave and then resurrected an “Open Thread 3” in honor of this being Easter Week.

Jesus was crucified on Friday of this week, 1,992 years ago (+/-): according to one reliable and astronomy-based reconstruction, the death of Jesus on the cross occurred in the 3pm hour of April 3rd, 33 AD. (That’s a lot of threes for you; cf.: “Open Thread 3.”)

The crucifixion, as we all know, came after a set-up by a group of scheming Jewish leaders in Jerusalem. These Jews felt threatened by Jesus’ ministry. They were bitter and seething after Jesus’ driving out the money-changers. (Pilate, the White-European official, who was puzzled by the Levantines all about the place, “washed his hands” of the matter. He let the Jewish chief priests and their mob take over. Still, some like to claim the Romans killed Jesus. The debate goes on.)

Jesus was crucified as one of three men on that Friday. (Three men — Open Thread 3.)

The resurrection occurred “on the third day,” which is Sunday and known to us as Easter. (Another “3” for you.)

Finally, 2025 is the third Easter following the end of the Corona-lockdowns. Celebrate!

Link to Zach Goldberg study (in iSteve original):
https://zachgoldberg.substack.com/p/after-harvard-the-fight-against-race

A great deal there and no paywall. Unfortunately I don’t have time to dig into it right now.

Figure 2.2c gives a good look at the degree of bias. Not sure if this will embed.

The birth rate is so low in Belarus (1.5) that the population is shrinking.

I understand that the one with “IDEAS” was a later fake.

1) If you’re talking the late ’00s, as a decade, I can’t fault him for that one. When I first saw China in ’07-’08, I was pretty impressed, that is, not so much with the gleaming infrastructure just starting to be built up, but the freedom and the people. We called it the “Wild, Wild East.” Crazy traffic, bicycles (still), motorcycle, cars, buses, and pedestrians all mixing it up – people would somehow safely merge in from a blind-view t-intersection into traffic – with no cop cars pulling everyone all over. I could pop a beer and spew it all over in the airport terminal (accidentally, of course), and nobody made any big deal. Chinese guys would just randomly light off some big fireworks outside the restaurant, and nobody made a deal of it. There was a lot of freedom at THAT level.

The place looked promising, and I even thought about how it’d be to live there.

2) Because he’s never been there! He should have gone in ’19, before the Flu Manchu mess, as I told him. You can only get so far reading on the internet, and you’ll regress in your learning if you confine yourself to a the same anti-American ten-centers and such.

3) He doesn’t seem to care either way. I don’t think he has mixed it up very much with regular Americans. Mr. Unz may rightly decry some of the plans of the Globalists, but he fits in with them better than with the MAGA crowd, personally, that is.

Agreed about Steve Sailer. He doesn’t know much about China, so he doesn’t write much about China… except for Chinese kids SAT scores, and well, if there were a big golf tournament held there.

Not even Corvinus does pro-China cheerleading, that I know of.

If he can get you to reply to him so he can argue back, he will.

“That’s an incredible way of putting it!” Was that not a perfect post for a blog called Peak Stupidity? Yet, it was still early, 5 years ago.

How many people involved, editors, the 2 “journalists” themselves (well, they don’t have to take math, so…), someone in the audience, another tweeter, etc., should have thought DIMS?, early on, Does It Make Sense?, before the stupidity of these legacy media people was on full display?

Corvinus, don’t tell us if you’re ahead of us on the math.

Thanks for that, Adam.

I noticed it’s working great now. I’m guessing something got “broken” (in software terms) when Mr. Unz made the changes to allow more people to comment (very close to) immediately here. Thank you, Ron Unz.

Can you say “thank you” to Ron Unz, Greta Handel, or is that a step too far for you?

Lots of people on Twitter quote-tweeted a now-deleted @ICEgov tweet, using the same language as the current one. These quote-tweets (“Illegal ideas?” and such) are timestamped several hours before the current one is timestamped.

The original:

No, Russia amd Belarus do it right: what’s insane is how we amd Europe have been dping it.
Specific numbers for specific purposes, often for a set time frame.
Demand respect for native culture and no tolerance of criminals or immigrant supremacists.

George Orwell gets the Nikolai Yezhov treatment.

But 150,000 is a huge number. I hope Belarus are up to speed on grooming gangs.

I guess with a pool of 300 million people to pull from, they just can’t find enough competent proofreaders (or economists for that matter.)

Proofreading is overkill man. Spellcheck catches everything. But it doesn’t catch when the typo turns out to be a word that spellcheck is cool with. Maybe ChatGPT76431 will have them covered in the year 2525.

My computer spell checker says that blockquote ain’t a word.

Despite the continent on which his country sits, and his Black-associated surname in some languages, Charl The Golfer is White.

LOL.

Tiger Woods is the only negro I ever heard of who claimed he wasn’t a negro since that New York Times Book Review guy who I have forgotten the name of.

I remember when Jack Nicklaus was the spokesman for my father’s company.

His golden hair was the perfect analogy for the company’s golden, fiberglas insulation, you see. So, the Golden Bear became the face of our products.

I was at lunch at the “Manor House” on the Rocky Mountain ranch the company owned. A research scientist had hired me, you see, to be his assistant — and this had nothing at all to do with nepotism, LOL! So, I was there when they rolled out the video, at lunch, of the commercial starring Jack Nicklaus.

Being the cad that I was, and a mere lab assistant known by all as the son of a headquarters exec, I blurted, “Ahh, [our company’s] golf balls!”

It was then that an engineer from the research team, the one who was hosting this corporate luncheon, stood up and made a little speech to the effect that:

“I heard some wag joking here about our having Jack Nicklaus representing our products. Well, Jack Nicklaus is a great golfer who represents excellence, and he is representing our products!”

Fortunately, nobody seemed to notice who originally made the shitty joke. I admit it was stupid of me, but it did give me this lifetime memory of corporate worship. Corporate people are mostly like religious worshipers, advancing up the ladder in good faith. How dare some young wag make fun of the fact that a great, blond golfer was simply being paid to speak on our behalf!

I still can’t ignore the joke that is almost everything…

Russians actually protect their children and their police aren’t woke.

All statistics on “American Adults” should always be broken down to repesent … you know.

A local malcontent called Truth Vigilante says this about Steve Sailer and U.S. GDP (writing under the latest Ron Unz article, referred to above by Mike Tre):

U.S. GDP is no different to a typical Steve Sailer article…in that it’s just about FLUFF. There’s nothing substantive about it.

The U.S economy/stock and bond markets are a House of Cards waiting to be toppled over.

That’s all fine and dandy, what with rangefinders and all, but it still comes down to your swing. All you are doing in golf is hitting a little ball with a little club face and trying your damndest to get that little ball to go where you want it to go.

Silly, really.

Okay, I will admit that there is some — rather boring — judgement that goes on at the green. You, the golfer, try your best to guess which way your little ball will roll on the short grass after you hit it with your putter. Wow.

As an avid and successful player of pool, I can tell you that it is much more exciting and even when the surface is perfect.

Golf gets really boring the better the golfer gets: It’s just down to the swing, or the putt, both of which tend to become more and more exactly the same as they approach perfection. Since there is zero back-and-forth, as there is in say, tennis, golf therefore becomes an incredibly boring activity at the higher levels.

Tennis, on the other hand, becomes even more exciting, simply because it is a combat, second-by-second, hit-by-hit, directly between competitors.

Golf is a fun game for amateurs on their local grass.

Tiger Woods is now dating Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Vanessa Trump, the mother of the president’s granddaughter, Kai Trump, who herself is a competitive golfer and social-media celebrity.

Golfcest is best.

I am probably the last person here qualified here to speak about economics, but it seems to me that the US is likely THE biggest recipient of Chinese exports. And in most cases, when a manufacturer loses its biggest customer, it experiences big problems. Like Uge.

So I’m not really convinced by this “China has the US by the balls” line being pushed here and across a lot of the MSM. We stop buying their junk, and I’m not sure how their entire economy doesn’t collapse.

As far as an actual war with guns and bombs, it will never happen.

“What are the best ideas explaining Ron Unz’s tendency towards pro-China views? ”

“What are the best ideas explaining Ron Unz’s tendency towards pro-China views? ”

We need more diversity in restaurants? Yellow fever? Doesn’t care for the home team?

Why are test scores down? Anyone who asks that question hasn’t stepped foot in a public school in a very long time, if ever. Chaos is great for learning! And having large numbers of students who don’t speak or understand English has to be good for test scores. Only a third of the students are on medications, and about as many are special education. Our elites are literally crushing it!

All statistics on “American Adults” should always be broken down to repesent … you know.

I was surprised to see that they actually do break the statistics down at the original source.
https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/2023/national_results.asp

For reference (helps put numbers at the page above into perspective), I got means and SDs (use edit report to get SDs) for US adults for literacy and numeracy in cycle 2. Both are on a 0-500 scale so in theory have substantial ceiling.
http://piaacdataexplorer.oecd.org/ide/idepiaac

Literacy mean 258, SD 65
Numeracy mean 249, SD 70

This PDF has some technical data (and was source of explorer link above).
https://web.archive.org/web/20231021060254/https://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/PIAAC%20Tech%20Report_Section%205_update%201SEP14.pdf

Looking at the sex and race breakdowns at the first link in light of the SDs we see the following (any other insights?).
– Sex differences were small. Women outscored men by 3 (about 0.05 SD) on literacy. Men outscored women by 8 (about 0.1 SD) on numeracy.
– W/B gap was 57 (0.88 SD) on literacy and 67 (0.96 SD) on numeracy.
– W/H gap was 52 (0.8 SD) on literacy and 57 (0.81 SD) on numeracy.
– Both blacks and Hispanic had significant declines from 2017 to 2023. W/H/B declines were 4/24/20 on literacy and -2/12/14 on numeracy.

Nothing surprising except the size of the 2023 drop for blacks and Hispanics, but not whites.

Chinese 2022 exports by country.
https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/CHN/Year/LTST/TradeFlow/Export/Partner/by-country/Product/Total

Those of us running Brave thank him!

https://twitter.com/MaxNordau/status/1911568071971451206

“A study of 1153 unmarried Palestinian Arab women, ages 16-28:
– 7.4% were sexually assaulted by their brothers at least once in the last year
– 5.2% were raped by brothers
– 4.3% raped by their fathers
– 13.2% know a girl who was raped by her father
– 20.6% know girls who were raped by their brothers at least once in the last year”

Study:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349739861_Sexual_abuse_in_Palestinian_children

Sexual abuse in Palestinian children
January 1999
Conference: 4th International conference “Women in Palestine”At: Gaza Strip
Authors:
Najah Mahmoud Al-Khatib
Al-Quds University

The Hong Kong exports have got to be mostly re-exported.

Minorities marginally benefit from even a public school because their moms aren’t tigresses, so the lockdown was especially cruel to them?

Or maybe Palo Alto has a stray dog problem?

“So I’m not really convinced by this “China has the US by the balls” line being pushed here and across a lot of the MSM. We stop buying their junk, and I’m not sure how their entire economy doesn’t collapse.”

A sudden cessation in trade between the US and China will be disruptive for both countries. The US can adjust by increasing domestic production. Conversely China can adjust by increasing domestic consumption.

Anatole Broyard is the name of the fellow I drew a blank on a couple hours ago.

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

“A sudden cessation in trade between the US and China will be disruptive for both countries. ”

No. Kidding. Really? Wow, you are really smart bro. I NEVER even considered that!

“Conversely China can adjust by increasing domestic consumption. ”

LOL, so like, their adjusted social credit system will require them to buy more earbuds, lawn chairs, and holiday decorations?

I can see it now: China orders a half billion people to convert to Christianity so they can move 100 million plastic Christmas trees rotting on the shelves! Fra-ra-ra-ra-ra!

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Thank you, Res. You come up with very handy sources. One can click/hover over that section of the brown square to see that the US accounted for 16.2% of Chinese exports in ’22. That is not peanuts! (Well, I mean, probably none of it is actual peanuts. They probably go the other way – the Chinese LUV to cook with that unhealthful peanut oil.)

I added up Euro zone countries incl. Poland, and their imports all together equal pretty close to that $580 Billion imported by the US. As opposed to that Eurozone, the US is one entity when it comes to pushing back on the Chinese.

I agree with commenter 123, so Mike Tre is right. We can and are causing them a lot of grief. I don’t relish it for the people, but for Xi and his CCP Orwellian assholes, keep at it, Mr. President.

…I agree with commenter 123, so Mike Tre is right. We can and are causing them a lot of grief. I don’t relish it for the people, but for Xi and his CCP Orwellian assholes, keep at it, Mr. President.

I’m all for hanging tough — but we very well may have to hang tough.

This is a regime that was welding people into their apartments or whatever during the Corona Virus hysteria. Back in the early Sixties, they starved thirty million of their own people to death.

Inshallah, they will fold — but I wouldn’t count on it.

Jeepers.

Maybe we should stop arming Palestine?

President Trump’s orders directed toward large law firms has triggered lawsuits and gun control-supporting organizations have been filing amicus briefs in support of the law firms. [Note that the Chicago firm of Jenner and Block was sending out anti-gun literature four decades ago, IIRC supporting the Committe For Handgun Control.]

The Trump Administration has been trying to deport various groups of people, including Green Card holders.

William Kirk discusses permit to purchase laws and how many of them are likely to be upheld based upon the wording of Bruen Footnote 9.

We have already discussed how just a small handful of rogue judges are hellbent on disrupting and if possible, ruining the Trump agenda. That is why we discuss HR 1526 today.

https://twitter.com/NatlGunRights/status/1911831022947500199
https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1911766460180861254

“LOL, so like, their adjusted social credit system will require them to buy more earbuds, lawn chairs, and holiday decorations?”

“I can see it now: China orders a half billion people to convert to Christianity so they can move 100 million plastic Christmas trees rotting on the shelves! Fra-ra-ra-ra-ra!”

I doubt a lot of coercion will be needed to get the Chinese people to increase consumption should that become government policy. To the extent that Chinese and American tastes differ production can be adjusted.

Typo, Freudian slip, or spell chick there? You decide.

Excellent touch there. Well done!

“What are the best ideas explaining Ron Unz’s tendency towards pro-China views?”

Giving that whoring out his site to Moscow never seemed to bother the readership around here, why is the fact that Ron has moved on to the Chinese (now that the Russians have acquired stooges in the White House to do their bidding, and therefore have no need to waste money on fringy alt-right sites) a sudden cause for concern?

It reminds me of that old Churchill joke: We’ve already established what Unz’s target audience is. Anything beyond that is just haggling over the price.

I think this is likely but obviously it will be a generation or more before we really see the effects. The other big impact is that black birth rates by income are more dysgenic relative to the other major demos, so things are going to get worse on that front, a reality that most blacks and their white allies don’t really seem to realize yet. The decline in economic and political power will be a bitter pill for them to swallow, and our changing demographics means there will probably be fewer sympathetic ears than today, although if the Dems retake power in 2029 I expect they’ll move to try to implement redistributive measures aimed at their base that will be very hard for others to undo.

Indeed, if the equivalent of Rotherham was going on in Belarus there would have been a bunch of fatal beatings of “Asian” men.

Steve Sailer wonders why his frenemy Matthew Yglesias is aghast at the prospect of studying racial differences (“Why are you so ‘unseemly and Inappropriate’?”).

Yglesias uses the NBA as his first strawman to beat up on. Sailer says “there are a lot fewer comments sections than there used to be” because of Yglesiasand co. got scared of people citing NBA race-statistics. But Yglesias is just getting started. He is working his way up to Auschwitz.

Yglesias then indirectly calls Sailer a “bigot with bad intentions” for studying race differences. Such study, and talk, says Yglesias, is an appalling mis-use of a human mind. Yglesias crescendoes to assertion of “the classic postwar observation”: Sailer-like writing leads to gas chambers. Yglesias says he has studied the matter and finds the Sailer–>Gas Chambers pipeline to be “pretty much correct.” (Sailer disagrees.)

Sailer then issues a demand. He wants “a formal apology by a respected leader of the left-of-center to straight white men” for decades of anti-White racism (Yglesias has declined to respond, so far). Sailer concludes by naming the man who he believes should issue this Grand Apology to Whites:

YGLESIAS: WHY ARE YOU SO “UNSEEMLY AND INAPPROPRIATE?”

Matt explains how mentioning NBA racial patterns leads to Hitlerism.

by Steve Sailer
April 14, 2025

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Matthew Yglesias writes on his Slow Boring substack about how, even though he is an NBA fan, he favors ignorance and lack of curiosity about the demographic patterns he sees with his own eyes when he watches the NBA on TV.

Taboos can be good

I have noticed that Black people are significantly overrepresented in the top ranks of professional basketball, and my guess is that you have noticed this as well. You need to be more of an NBA fan, though, to have noticed that residents of the former Yugoslavia are also overrepresented. I’m not sure why people from the Balkans outperform other people experiencing a lack of melanin. I am also not sure why Black Americans outperform white ones.

Because scientists have found that people from the Dinaric Alps are among the tallest in the world on average, and they tend to be more ruggedly built than other currently particularly tall people like the Dutch and the Dinkas (e.g., the Bols, father and son).

Another tall and skilled group are Baltics (e.g., the Sabonises, father and son).

You could imagine these dual outperformances having similar underlying causes or very different ones. I have not looked into it, and frankly I don’t intend to, because I am happy living in a society where it is considered unseemly and inappropriate to preoccupy oneself with such questions.

After all, think about how much less anti-black racist violence there would be if the NBA was only broadcast on the radio, but not on TV. Then, white racists wouldn’t notice the racial gaps, and there would be so many fewer lynchings of NBA players.

Oh, wait … now that I think about it, that doesn’t actually happen.

In fact, just about everybody seems to be totally cool about the huge racial discrepancies in the NBA.

Maybe, just maybe, if it weren’t “considered unseemly and inappropriate” to study other racial discrepancies, that also actually wouldn’t lead to Hitler’s brain being revivified and elected President, which Yglesias seems to be worried about.

Panic in Bishkek: Why were Pakistani students attacked in Kyrgyzstan?
More than 300 Pakistani students have returned home after violent clashes that left some wounded in a city whose medical colleges are popular with South Asian students.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/20/panic-in-bishkek-why-were-pakistani-students-attacked-in-kyrgyzstan

(3.) Does Ron Unz think the world would be better overall if White-Western people were disempowered and China took on post-1990-U.S.-style hegemonic power?

I think a certain degree of realism is called for here. 1800-2000 was a bit of a blip; China is normally either a great power or the great power. 800 ad: Tang China or…. 1400 ad: Ming China or… Place your bets for 2200 ad.

So with 20% percent of the world’s population, and probably 50% of its technically literate population (how many Americans can read a blueprint? How many Indonesians?) China is going to be a big dog.

Accept that, and decide how to respond.

Yes! In 2014, Arne Duncan, secretary of education under the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama,” sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to schools all over the country. Duncan asserted that his directives were “non-binding,” but he lied. He threatened to cut off billions of dollars in federal tax money, if school authorities didn’t stop enforcing discipline against black classroom thugs. (And when a black supremacist president cuts off funds, he endures no conspiracy of federal district judges to sabotage his policy.) New York City’s communist/racial socialist, kleptocrat mayor, Bill de Blahblahblah, went “Obama” one better, and eliminated all classroom discipline (e.g., against “defiance”), except against White and asian students. Thus, blacks could curse out White teachers all day long, without punishment.

https://manhattan.institute/article/safe-and-orderly-schools-updated-guidance-on-school-discipline

I believe that Matthew Yglesias is the voice of the DNC.

He wrote a book a few years ago, promoting the dream/nightmare of having one billion people in America, which the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama” and illegal president Joe Biden did everything in their power to bring about, and he has supported racist black criminals, and racism and sexism against White men, since forever.

Robotization and automatization. Then, you won’t need all those 3rd worlders.

Let it shrink. It is madness to think any problem is bad enough that importing Pakistanis is better. Unless one’s profit$ might decline.

“Robotization and automatization. Then, you won’t need all those 3rd worlders.”

But the evil ruling classes want BOTH! They want both job destruction and a billion, mostly low-IQ, low-VQ people in America. That is their demonic, genocidal dream, and they’ve had it for generations.

In 2014, Arne Duncan, secretary of education under the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama,”

(And when a black supremacist president cuts off funds, he endures no conspiracy of federal district judges to sabotage his policy.)

You don’t do your cause any good by such exaggerations. Barack Obama was raised by and surrounded by Whites his whole life including a fair number of do-gooders. He knew virtually no Blacks before he was an adult but was transfixed by his Black father’s stature in Africa. He came to internalize his father’s family’s notion of themselves as royalty. Obama viewed himself as a royalist not as a Black supremacist. So much more inspiring to a young lad than that of gramps who was a salesman. This is very much in keeping with the Oligarch culture of Punahou School.

The royalist party in the US has made Black uplift in the US an in group cause and moral identifier. Obama was the perfect emblem for such a movement and their ambitions consistent with his upbringing. He views Blacks in general as many Punahou grads do, and as his father’s family does, as lower order pets to be coddled and protected by their superiors. He’s an elitist not a supremacist.

South Asians would make up 90+% of the worldwide cricket community so it’s not surprising that they are well represented in this sport. While Indian money dominates cricket India is really just another cricketing country.
Regarding golf: it’s a sport which has historically been largely controlled by Americans so it’s not surprising that Americans have dominated the sport much more than if say the sport was organised like tennis. (Not to say that America wouldn’t still be No 1 but perhaps by not so much)

“Inshallah, they will fold — but I wouldn’t count on it.”

What would constitute folding? As far as I can tell the US isn’t offering them a deal.

And the situation is asymmetric in that China would be happy enough to replace sales to the US with sales elsewhere. But the US doesn’t want to just replace purchases from China with purchases from other countries. The US wants to increase domestic production but seems to have unrealistic expectations about quickly and easily this can be done.

According to those graphs, the two worst things to happen to America were: 1) winning WWII, and 2) getting involved in Vietnam—or maybe Woodstock.

Surprisingly, the second best thing to happen to America was the 2008 crash.

OT but iStevey:

Ozempic arrives – “plus size” aka grossly overweight models losing work:

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/apr/15/ozempic-arrived-and-everything-changed-plus-size-models-on-the-body-positivity-backlash

Models, activists and those of us who had hoped that fashion’s embrace of a range of sizes signified a genuine culture change are left wondering how it could have reversed so quickly. “I think you’re seeing the separation between people that were doing it because there was a movement at the time,” says Standley, “and the people who are truly passionate about it.”

When fashion did embrace larger bodies, “it kind of felt like the Renaissance,” says the model Tess Holliday, “like we were going into this beautiful period where we were at a new awakening. I don’t want to say it’s plateaued – it hasn’t. It’s really gone downhill so quickly. A shift that has left me and so many of my colleagues just feeling really disheartened.” Holliday, who has modelled for labels such as Chromat and appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan, has noticed her work dropping off, but says she was moving away from modelling anyway (her book for young people, Take Up Space Y’all, is out later this year). “To see such a drastic slide back, it really does make you feel like the progress didn’t matter, but I know that’s just what society wants me to say and feel, and I refuse to give in to that. But do I have moments where I sit around and feel like perhaps I was one of a handful of people that were used to make it seem like people cared? Yeah, maybe sometimes.”

Felicity Hayward, a model and activist, thinks 2023 was a turning point. “Ozempic arrived into our industry, and there was a definite change,” she says.

“Barack Obama was raised by and surrounded by Whites his whole life including a fair number of do-gooders.”

Which is one of the best ways to become a race fantasist/race fabulist, wholly divorced from reality and flawed humanity. And Ayers and Dohrne and J. Wright were anything but do-gooders. They were and are servants of Satan — and they know it and revel in it.

“He knew virtually no Blacks before he was an adult”

Another way to become a True Believer; Jesse Jackson and Sharpton and their ilk know their people, and know they’re just working a grift to bring home some dosh for their team, like the Tammany crooks of old. Barack you will recall wanted to “fundamentally transform America” — into what, exactly? He wanted to destroy the country he hated, and put the bruthas in charge, not realizing that this move always results in total failure. Jackson and Sharpton know but don’t care; Obama plain old didn’t even know. He was and is part white-hating racist, part America-wrecking fantasist, and full-time shield-maiden for his Jewish creators/masters.

“but was transfixed by his Black father’s stature in Africa.”

Maybe he was just transfixed by his father’s status as a negro with no felonies, who knew how to read.

“He came to internalize his father’s family’s notion of themselves as royalty.”

In other words, he was a Kang. This is the everyday shared fantasy of all negroes, who all view themselve as kangz who invented everything then mysteriously forgot it all. It’s really just the half-arsed codification of… Black Supremacy.

“Obama viewed himself as a royalist not as a Black supremacist.”

He was a royalist only insofar as he views all blacks as de facto royalty.

Actually though both of us are over-thinking all this in different ways. I’ll meet you half-way: Obama is far too muddled-headed and full of comical self-regard to actually have coherent, consistent, intelligible views and workable plans for the world: Jews do all that stuff, and then he just nods sagely and approves. He’s just another stage negro in a top hat, clutching a fake diploma and spouting fancy words he doesn’t really understand.

Kristi Noem doesn’t want to be the administrator of effective policy.

She wants to be the center of attention:

Kristi Noem’s Made-for-TV Approach to Homeland Security

https://archive.is/6izzv#selection-1955.0-1955.55

Israel continues it’s policy of making Gaza uninhabitable.

On Palm Sunday, Israel Bombs The Only Christian Hospital In Gaza

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/palm-sunday-israel-bombs-only-christian-hospital-gaza

What will Reverend Hagee say about that? Oh, never mind, we know what he will say about that. Nothing. Nor will it ever be mentioned by the professional propagandists on FOX News.

☮

Was anything interesting going on at 4chan when it went down?

Pam Bondi has already been on Fox News 76 times in these few months

Pam Bondi has already been on Fox News 76 times in these few months

FOX News…………….Trump Administration…………….is there a difference?

Noem has been referred to as “ICE Barbie”. Perhaps Bondi could be “DoJ Barbie”.

I’m going to continue to disagree. My assessment of him is informed by, among other things, his father’s very real stature in Kenya, and the assessments of people who know the son personally. He represented the hopes of childish but rich Whites who were numerous in the 60/70s particularly in places like HI. And he almost certainly reflected the beliefs of the mother who abandoned him. Think on it, both parents abandoned him. Obama knew how to reflect back to Whites their deepest desires.

black birth rates by income are more dysgenic relative to the other major demos, so things are going to get worse on that front, a reality that most blacks and their white allies don’t really seem to realize yet.

Good point. Here is an extended look at fertility which addresses your point (as well as many others).
https://medium.com/@lymanstone/fertility-and-income-some-notes-581e1a6db3c7

On Palm Sunday, Israel Bombs The Only Christian Hospital In Gaza

What would Steve Sailer say?

I don’t think China will fold.

Fingleton, yet again, 2007:

Two bets are on the table. One has been placed by the Washington establishment, the other by the Chinese Communist Party.

Analyzing China’s prospects in terms of fashionable globalist ideology, Washington is betting that a rich China will be a free one. The theory is that the only way China can continue to grow is by embracing Western democracy and capitalism. Moreover, the very process of China’s enrichment is supposedly undermining the Beijing government’s authoritarianism. More wealth means more freedom means more wealth.

Here is how President George W Bush put it: “As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed. As the people of China grow in prosperity, their demands for political freedom will grow as well.”

Similar optimism pours forth from the American press. The Wall Street Journal commented, “Sooner or later China’s economic progress will create the internal conditions for a more democratic regime that will be more stable, and less of a potential global rival.”

Abroad too the Washington view is increasingly prevalent. After visiting Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair cited the rise of a Chinese middle class and the spread of the Internet as factors that had produced “an unstoppable momentum … towards greater political freedom [and] progress on human rights.”

The Washington view has become so widely accepted that almost no one has noticed that there is second bet on the table–that of the Chinese leadership. It has been placed on a disturbingly different outcome: that a future China can be both rich and authoritarian.

If Washington is right, the future is unclouded, and a fast-rising China can readily be accommodated within the existing Western-defined world order. But what if China’s leaders turn out to understand the Chinese character better than anyone in Washington? What if in 2025 or 2030 the United States finds itself facing off against a China so rich that it has surpassed all other nations in military technology yet remains resolutely opposed to Western values? The implications are hard to exaggerate.

Well, we seem to be here.

As Mr Fingleton’s pointed out elsewhere, it’s because they’re authoritarian that they’re rich. Doesn’t work for everyone, not the Congo, nor Russia. But a bright, disciplined population with no (or very few) malcontents?

We should definitely stop importing them.

There may be a faint glimmer of hope for this world:

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/article/2024/jun/05/pubic-hair-grooming

Only 15% of women polled go completely hairless, and 60% do no hair removal at all around the anus.

That graph would work a lot better as five graphs. It’s hard, at a glance, to tell what’s going on.

(I’m always amazed that when people go through all the hours of time in collecting data, they make such an unintuitive, poorly labeled graph and call it a day.)

The idea of that graph looks to be the following:

– Upward-sloping line: This group has a tendency towards eugenic fertility;

– Downward-sloping line: This group has tendency towards dysgenic fertility.

The yellow line is not really valid for comparison as it tosses in lots of disparate groups. (“Other/Asian/Multi”? Whose idea is that?) The yellow line’s strange “bimodal” pattern of a peak at the lower-end and another at the higher-end, suggests, to me, different groups within this Other Race and Asians big-tent category have majorly different patterns in fertility.

The general consensus is that a sustained dysgenic fertility-trend has been with us since sometime in the 19th century. It can vary a lot by group.

Richard Lynn, and others, tried to make “genotypic-IQ-point-loss-per-decade estimates” for different racial groups over recent decades. Blacks were losing genotypic-IQ at a far-higher rate than Whites, per their data. It was something like 2.5x the White rate, but applicable to the late-20th century. This confusing jumble of a graph you posted here, res, points in the same direction.

Surprisingly, the second best thing to happen to America was the 2008 crash.

What is the best thing?

The implications are hard to exaggerate.

I am curious to know. As far as I can imagine, they have no interest in lands or seas beyond Asia/Western Pacific except for trading. They do not seem to be interested in proselytizing either communism or Chinese values. What is anyone’s problem? If we don’t want to trade, we can just keep quiet. We can erect an Iron Curtain sans hegemony.

International diplomacy is becoming like professional wrestling.

It is now the Washington Hillbillies vs the Peking Peasants in a tag-team cage fight. Thank heavens it is all carefully rehearsed.

I think those are 2019 results. Things have gotten worse since then. Especially at the low end.

I have been unable to find the source for their numbers, but here is what an AI summary says. Supposedly the 12th grade scores won’t be released until this summer.

In 2024, 12th-grade NAEP scores in both math and reading declined compared to 2019. Specifically, the share of students meeting proficiency standards dropped from 35% in 2019 to 30% in 2024. The 2024 NAEP scores for 12th grade math and reading are scheduled to be released in summer 2025, according to the National Assessment Governing Board.

Here are the 2024 NAEP results for 4th and 8th grade reading.
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reports/reading/2024/g4_8/?grade=8

This report claims NAEP proficient exceeds grade level ability. I am skeptical. Though I suppose it follows if you define grade level as the median score for students of that grade (as seems to be the common definition).
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-naep-proficiency-myth/

Barack Obama was raised by and surrounded by Whites his whole life including a fair number of do-gooders. He knew virtually no Blacks before he was an adult but was transfixed by his Black father’s stature in Africa.

Hardly surprising considering that the population of Hawai is only about 3% Afro-American and most of those families live on military bases.

If American was ever going to elect a black president, the chances were that always that he/she would not be a descendant of slaves.

But then Hillary Clinton was a woman and must have known other women, yet she adopted a big swinging dick foreign policy perspective.

I think America has learned its lesson now and people will be less inclined to vote for “someone who looks a bit like me”, which was always a silly idea.

TOP-GOLFER DEMOGRAPHICS

The top-28 (all under-par finishers) are:

– 64.25 % full-White individuals (almost all of this from the traditional NW-European core-audience and developers of golf);
– 7% Jewish;
– 18% East-Asian;
– 7.25% half-White-half-Asian;
– 3.5% South Asian.

Why are Hindus succeeding in golf but Subsaharans are not?

The attraction of pro-golf demographics; the allure of traditional Western prestige via golf

Steve Sailer responds:

It’s not uncommon to see star golfers from America or Australia who are half or a quarter East Asian.

South Asian-Americans have only recently showed up on the leaderboards, but they are doing fairly well.

Of course, the demographics of star women golfers are far more East Asian.

Let’s assume, for sake of argument, that it is common to “see star golfers from America or Australia who are half or a quarter East Asian.” Common, as in: More than in other sports; more than in the relevant-age cohorts of the general population. ——> Why?

I think he’s just pointing out that US global hegemony is at great risk.

That may not seem so shocking now, but in 2007, pre-crash, not so long after the crushing of Iraq, with former Comintern states joining the EU, the possibility of Belorussia and Georgia leaving the Russian orbit, the US was monarch of all it surveyed, even if the economic foundations of US power showed signs of dry rot, so that was a pretty radical thesis.

“We can erect an Iron Curtain sans hegemony.”

But where? Maybe over the Americas, but would the US be able, say, to keep China out of Africa?

And as a Brit, what of Australia, mostly empty of people but full of lovely and desirable minerals? I’ve mentioned a trip to Melbourne Central Library a year or two back. On a sunny Saturday the large reading room was 100% Chinese students, all working.

There’s a species of crab we can no longer fish for in our waters because the Chinese overfished them. Once a Chinese fishing flotilla was expelled from a territory, so they dumped bleach into the water. Generally, they’re hard to expel, because they rely on military escorts.
The DC swamp creature case against China (eg, the hysteria over tiktok) is a convenient nonsense to return to Cold War practices. But the Chinese are often as obnoxious as they can be and there’s no reason to let them expand that.

Freedom is only necessary for wealth if you are relying (as America did at its height) on innovation. There are many prosperous authoritarian countries that rely on commodities, not innovation. It’s actually a norm. Tldr our leadership (especially that particular set) are dumb.

Well fair enough. It’s almost certainly the case that there is more than one reasonable assessment of the guy; the problem for us all is that there aren’t really any reasonable favorable ones.

Just think, if white politicians of the 15 years or so before he came on the scene had been able to produce even one honest statesman of actual solid respectable stature, the entire storm of nonsense that called Obama into being could and would have been avoided. In a nation of >300 million we can’t even cough up one white statesman who we could all have voted for president with a straight face.

Matthew Yglesias is the voice of the DNC

Yglesias is also alleged to have lifting material directly from Sailer for years, unattributed. Some cases are hard to deny. If Yglesias gained prominence by plagiarizing Sailer, that explains one reason Sailer continues to be interested in the man.

In March 2023, Yglesias finally blocked Sailer on twitter. That, after a long run of Sailer derailing Yglesias’ tweets. Sailer gain considerable support from Yglesias’ own readers. Here is an artist’s re-creation of a typical such interaction:

Five graphs would take much more space and lose the ease of comparing absolute levels between groups. I think this version is better, but YMMV.

The idea of that graph looks to be the following:

Could add “U shaped” to that. A common idea the author is seeking to rebut.

Regarding the lumping of groups in other (the ACS is finer grained) I would guess the following possible reasons.
– Not wanting to make the graph even more complex.
– Small sample noise for at least some of the smaller groups.
– Other is the only group showing a U shape. Which the author wanted to highlight.

A discussion of one estimate of the overall rate of decline for IQ.
https://www.unz.com/jthompson/intelligence-lost-at-123-iq-points-per/

I am not finding genotypic IQ loss by race numbers? Can you point me to that work?

Why?

Seems an obvious answer is they excel in domains needing better hand eye co-ordination than muscle strength or body mass (they are underrepresented in basketball, baseball, football). Just as more of them are chip and software designers but not construction workers.

Somewhat related:

World Chess Champions

# Name Country Years
14 Vladimir Kramnik Russia 2006–2007
15 Viswanathan Anand India 2007–2013
16 Magnus Carlsen Norway 2013–2023
17 Ding Liren China 2023–2024
18 Gukesh Dommaraju India 2024–present

No, I am observing Washington Hillbillies vs the Beijing Mandarins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_(bureaucrat)

Steve Sailer today follows up on his latest clash with Matthew Yglesias:

Yglesias feigns non-interest in racial-anthropology (or HBD) applied to sports. Sailer reveals that a figure whom Yglesias admires was a mega-fan of the sports-HBD book The Sports Gene, so what’s Yglesias’ big hang-up:

YOU KNOW WHO ELSE IS AN HBD SPORTS OBSESSIVE?

One of the most fanatical fans of David Epstein’s Human Bio-Diversity-aware book “The Sports Gene” is…

by Steve Sailer
April 15, 2025

____________

With Matthew Yglesias demanding ignorance and lack of curiosity about why blacks and Balkans tend to be the best NBA basketball players, it’s worth pointing out who became a sports and Human BioDiversity obsessive after treating himself to Sports Illustrated reporter David Epstein’s fine book The Sports Gene.

Following the recently-concluded golf Masters tournament-extravaganza, Steve Sailer has a question:

WHO ARE THE BEST CROWDS IN SPORTS?

Here in America, is it classy Masters’ fans, vicious Philadelphia rooters, or St. Louis Cardinals traditionalists?

by Steve Sailer
April 15, 2025

_____________

Who are the best crowds in sports?

Watching another dramatics Masters golf tournament on TV, the Augusta National crowd seemed once again like America’s best for knowledge of their sport, understanding of tradition, and fairness of discernment.

I’d say this graph strongly supports the idea of a major white rebound given the higher TFR at the 50th percentile and above and you are starting with a larger overall population as well. The “Other” category is probably be too muddy to draw any real conclusions from, especially NE Asians. At any rate, hopefully it also portends a less race-obsessed future since that has really always been a black v. white thing and the former group is heading towards decreased relevancy in the future, other than probably a damage limitation perspective from everyone else.

The Hong Kong exports have got to be mostly re-exported.

my thought exactly. but to where?

i think its point was that the izzies raping palestinians is not so bad, cause they’re used to it. or some other equally stupid gloss on the chosen people.

Alexander Turok, a Sailer reader and former commenter here, published this today:

Peaks And Troughs of White Nationalist Meetings

Alexander Turok
April 15, 2025

The negative evaluation of the Liberation Day Tariffs was shared by the bulk of the attendees at the May meeting of the Robinson Crusoe Society [of] young Rightists […]

“What’s happening,” said Ishwar Bharadwaj, a Bengali-American computer programmer, “is simple. Y’all are getting Brexited. Everyone knew Brexit was a vote against immigration, but Boris and Co. decided to honor the letter rather than the spirit of the vote by withdrawing from the E.U. and sharply increasing non-European immigration. Now, the same thing is happening in America. You thought you voted for mass deportations, instead you’re gonna get amnesty for illegals and one man’s weird trade theories. The Great Replacement will keep marching on. And rightoids will keep supporting Trump, why? Because the rightoid mindset values loyalty more than anything else. You declared your loyalty to Trump and that became your supreme value such that you forget why you chose to declare loyalty in the first place…”

I wish people had told me when I was a young, very active-but-careful bachelor about birth rates! I could have sired, oh, you know… Yes, for two decades!

Really, the birth rate thing should be shoved aside. A PEOPLE can be, and can marry, and can fuck, and can birth however they want. It is YOU ALL who are presumptuous enough to deign to tell US how to reproduce!

I submit to y’all here that there are massive, enormous factors determining what people like me decide to do! Why don’t you look at those factors? (Well, maybe you are.)

Birth rate, LOL, being discussed here by unknown nerds. Fucking LOL.

I just enjoyed the lunch my wife prepared for us: wild salmon baked on top of fennel; farro salad, Honor cava.

Plus my own, personal aperitif: Starlight Cigar Batch Whisky, 113 Proof, Single Barrel, Aged 4 Years in Indiana, in numbered barrels, for my local dispenser (who happens to be one of my neighbors.) Strong notes of vanilla on the nose.

Have moar babies!

We all came from there.

OT – livestream of the migration of moose in Sweden. Cameras including IR are set up where they have to ford a river. Stream will run for 3 weeks, it started yesterday. Public information post.

Darkness is falling in Sweden.

https://www.svtplay.se/video/8rQo4Rz/den-stora-algvandringen/idag-00-00?video=visa

many teachers i know are retiring as quickly as economically feasible because of the hostility they face from students, and the lack of support they get from the administration. a friend of the family, a PhD biologist, left high tech to become a teacher through a state program that authorized STEM professionals to skip much of accrediting BS a budding teacher goes through. By the time she left 15 or so years later, the students were regularly threatening to assault or even rape teachers, without consequence. my daughter-in-law’s sister got throttled by a student with a school banner. she left not just the school but the profession. it is f*cking insane. on the other hand, my daughter made regular trips to the guidance counselor for getting into it with the pronoun people in high school.

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I have been here more than a decade, and I have never seen Steve Sailer say much about tennis. That is because, unlike his personal hobby, golf, tennis is a sport that demands athleticism from its top players. Furthermore, tennis holds a place among those “high brow” people that Steve can only aspire to join.

My wife and I regularly attend the US Open in New York. That is tennis, I mean.

None of this should really matter, of course, but it is wannabe jerks like Steve who necessarily make it matter!

Golf is great. Golf is a game. Steve loves Golf. Okay. Oh, and test scores continue to show what we have known approximately forever: different groups of people score differently. Wow. How many fucking times can Steve repeat the same fucking thing?

We get it already.

… but was transfixed by his father’s very real stature in Kenya. [e.a.] He came to internalize his father’s family’s notion of themselves as royalty.

LOL. What does the bold buy the father’s (abandoned) son in Hawaii, Indonesia, or CONUS? Barack Jr., at whatever age, was likely smart enough to realize, wherever he went, that no cared who his father was.

Barack Jr.’s father was a nobody, but Barry, like many Blacks, had (has) an inordinate amount of ‘defiant self-esteem’: Wounded-pride “tragic mulatto” is the Occam’s razor explanation for Jr.’s (rather common for Blacks) attitude, perhaps refined and toned-down by his ‘higher education’. There’s no mystery or pseudo-royalty angle.

What drove Obama’s stated discontent with America, shared with almost all Blacks in a country they didn’t invent, is that they know that wherever they go in America, there they are, and that others often negatively notice. Also, Obama is a semi-closeted homo or ‘bisexual’ (as revealed in his early personal letters), which adds to his negative psychology.

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their womens …”

Obama knew how to reflect back to Whites their deepest desires.

Some Whites, not all. Certainly not Tea Party Whites or Donald Trump.

Obama’s mother and maternal grandparents were CIA assets.

Hard to believe that golf could become even more eye-wateringly dull.

For a good laugh check out Ed Boland’s Battle For Room 304. An out homosexual with a lisp leaves the charity coordinator racket to teach in a ghetto school. It’s a peek into some of the “fake charities” I’ve complained about for years and which Elon Musk recently talked about.

These people are sloppy idiots and objectively wrong about more than half their claims: suffice it to say direct uncredentialed judicial appointment was how we got the catastrophe that was the Warren Court.

I’m not sure China are relying on commodities, indeed I’m pretty sure they’re not.

One counterfactual is the number of innovations stimulated by war. Societies at war tend to be pretty authoritarian.

WW2 started with cavalry and biplanes, finished with rocket missiles, jet planes, bazookas, digital computers, proximity fuses and atomic bombs.

Alexander Turok, a Sailer reader and former commenter here, published this today:

It appears Mr. Turok is fond of telling “shaggy-dog stories”.

One time on the old Lion of the Blogosphere site, Alexander Turok called me a Clevis. I think he may have meant Cletus, intending an offhand insult to what he believed to be an inferior type of White (as opposed to an enlightened inhabitant of an urban dystopia), but if not, I would like to state for the record that I do not in any way resemble the item of hardware shown below.

But then, as Yglesias would attest, I’m an “unseemly and inconsiderate” person who is interested in the intersection of the human sciences with sports.

Then again, certain other people find the subject interesting too.

One who became preoccupied with Epstein’s HBD sports book was:

[Paywall.]

https://www.unz.com/isteve/obama-on-human-biodiversity-once-again/

Obama on Human Biodiversity Once Again
Steve Sailer • January 18, 2017
[…]
Obama bought David Epstein’s HBD-intensive book The Sports Gene (which I reviewed in Taki’s) as a Christmas present for himself a few years ago and now he can’t stop talking about genetic diversity in sports.

Yes. I’m thinking of rarified Whites. The kind whose parents made fortunes in the ‘20’s to ‘50s or earlier and decamped to paradise. The kind who don’t get talked about because they live there instead of NYC. I’m thinking of one family in particular with two heirs (at the time) who combined clicked in at #20 wealthiest in US in the ‘90s. And then there are tech guys you don’t know are from there. Pierre Omidyar. I think Zuckerberg hangs out there now.

“What’s happening,” said Ishwar Bharadwaj, a Bengali-American computer programmer, “is simple. Y’all are getting Brexited. Everyone knew Brexit was a vote against immigration, but Boris and Co. decided to honor the letter rather than the spirit of the vote by withdrawing from the E.U. and sharply increasing non-European immigration.

Fair play, he’s got that spot-on, which is why the Tories are unlikely to get my vote again. Brexit was a vote against mass Eastern European immigration, so Boris went for mass African immigration.

It’s not as if rank and file Tory MPs protested as one when Boris opened the borders.

Spanish aficionados of the bullfights might be in a whole different league than even Scottish golf fans

They might get to see the bull win.

“I doubt a lot of coercion will be needed to get the Chinese people to increase consumption”

Well, coercion seems to be a staple of their culture.

That is a finer view, but everyone is familiar with the oil despots. In fact, technically, all communist countries are legally on a war footing, going back to 1919. It’s how they legally justify the authoritarianism. The point stands that expecting what they expected was totally unjustifiable.
Their own point, which you are wrong to try to attack, that innovation and freedom are linked, is actually a much more complex relationship because it has to do with religion and a citizen’s view of himself in a society. It suffices that they themselves cannot make this point.

Masters tickets are underpriced and thus hard to get, and therefore they tend to be hoarded by Georgia gentry and national CEOs (as shown by the vast number of private jets that fly into Augusta in the first half of April).

Indeed, this is the demographics of golfers and their fans:

The east end of closed runway 8/26, a mile, has jets parked wing-to-wing, and it looks like others are parked in the grass to the south of them, then the large ramp at the FBO is full, Daniel Field downtown is full of planes, and also Aiken, S. Carolina, ~ 20 miles NE on the I-20 and Thompson-McDuffie County along I-2o about the same distance to the west are full of planes.

It’s not the most carbon-neutral crowd in all sports, and more (jet-A) power to ’em!

Golf is boring, but I’ve driven the buggy around twice. I’ve never bought a shirt with an alligator on it, though, so I wouldn’t fit in.

Great, now you’ve gone and triggered prosa123 with that hairless Georgia O’Keefe!

LOL

Slight pedantry here, but maybe Mr. Turok sees you as a clevis joint which cuts the max. shear stress on you that clevis pin in half (compared to a simple pin joint). [/Reg Caesar]

Alex Turok (sorry, Mr. Hail) has not said much to make me think he’s anything but as stupid as Cletus – who he indeed meant – of Simpsons and Idiocracy notoriety.

Misnaming hardware while accusing someone of being able to work with his hands is a special kind of petard by which to be hoisted.

Talking of births, I came across this chart:

When Barack Obama was elected in 2008 the vast majority of America and the world was behind him 100%. He got the Nobel Peace Prize for the accomplishment of being the first negro to win the American president election. There was an enormous amount of hope and optimism in spite of the bank food fight which was in high gear.

It is a real pity that he proceeded to piss it all away at the speed of sound. Whoever put that package together for the Democrat party has got to wonder what in the hell happened.

When Barack Obama was elected in 2008 the vast majority of America and the world was behind him 100%.

You misspelt “virtue-signaling retards”, but otherwise, yeah.

I wonder what accounts for that one-year rise in the late 70’s with a big dropoff immediately following.

It is interesting that there is no real drop (I mean significant and sustained, kids) behind the 60-plus boomer crowd. So much for the boom. How much is immigration? Does anyone have that information? Bueller? Bueller?

Since it corresponds to sharp rise from 1947 to 1948, it may be a sum of two events: a bump in baby boom in 1948 (over 1947) and a bump in immigration in the 1970’s. The bump in immigrants may be a secondary event after a bump in baby boom in native countries.

That was never my point. I’ve never been particularly pro-Israel.

My point was about the high frequency of sexual abuse in Muslim populations.

I’ve explored this topic in the past.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/westminster-city-council-in-london-declares-that-nonwhites-w/#comment-5679110

https://twitter.com/monitoringbias/status/1590006018981122048

Father-daughter incest is 600,000% more common among Scottish Muslims (predominately Pakistani).

These populations aren’t as chaste as you might think.

With all that said, Israel has no right to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

https://twitter.com/IvanIvanovichC2/status/1912180077548179478

4chan got hacked and they got the stats from /pol/.. Most of the posts are from Israel.

LOL.

Very funny.

My boss, my girlfriend, my tennis doubles partner, most of my relatives all thought it was great. I did not but I am not in the habit of explaining the red pill to blue pilled people. Our world has billions of them. Do you find it useful to go around pissing in their cheerios?

(Maybe don’t eat at restaurants because they can spit in yours.)

William Kirk discuses a suggestion from Alan Gottlieb, of the Citizens Commitee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, directly to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Specifically, he identifies the dirty dozen, 12 states which have made it their mission to disarm as many citizens as humanly possible.

https://twitter.com/BearingArmsCom/status/1912219484254879870
https://twitter.com/FenixAmmunition/status/1912191998955487573
https://twitter.com/NatlGunRights/status/1912298590845755752
https://twitter.com/2Aupdates/status/1912148514928283980
https://twitter.com/opensrcdefense/status/1910709037789749323

I’m trying to remember if I knew anyone close in ’08 or ’12 who voted for Øb☭ma – my Mom may have, but I didn’t talk to her about elections, and much less, people behind him 100%. It sounds like a different world from yours, though.

IMO, if the GOP had not had the lamest, worthless candidates like Juan McAmnesty and the cuck Romney, most of us would not even remember the Communist-raised light giver Shining Path adherent called Øb☭ma. Ron Paul would have trounced him – Constitutionalist v Communist – still an easy call back in ’12.

Maybe don’t eat at restaurants because they can spit in yours [Cheerios].

It can get a lot worse than that:

Literally, “if I don’t rape these kids, someone else will!” [From the settler on tape attempting zero sum logic about stealing land.]

They were behind the image he projected. I dropped him while still a leftist as soon as he cucked to the neocons.

LOL indeed! Makes one wonder about a lot of the shit we’ve seen around here for a long time. It’s enough to make one wonder…

Nah. That would be a Conspiracy Theory™.

With all that said, Israel has no right to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

You got that right. But that would be a Conspiracy Theory™.

Ok, but that’s not my logic.

My logic is that we shouldn’t import Muslim immigrants because they have a high propensity to rape people, including both relatives and total strangers.

This does not imply that I support what Israel is doing in Gaza.

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1912210226297860176

‘Top Chinese official calls Americans “peasants,” says Trump’s tariffs will backfire and Americans will be “wailing.”

The comments were made by the director of China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office Xia Baolong.

“The U.S. isn’t after our tariffs but our very survival. The US has repeatedly contained and suppressed Hong Kong … and this will eventually backfire on itself.”

“Let those peasants in the United States wail in front of the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.”‘

‘…These populations aren’t as chaste as you might think.

With all that said, Israel has no right to ethnically cleanse Gaza.’

Aside from that, Jews don’t seem to be in any position to criticize on the incest front.

Comb issues of Haaretz from about 2000-2010 if you care enough.

The Americans are peasants and are nothing when compared to our 5,000 year old* people, but those tariffs may kill us.

– Xia BaoLong

Can’t we all just get Ai Long?!

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(Yeah, it’s a real car and a real brand. In fact, we saw a dealer in Peking.)

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* 3,600 really, but Hu’s counting.

“Let those peasants in the United States wail in front of the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.”

LOL. That really sounds like an insecure people trying way-too-hard to make themselves feel better about being an inferior civilization in the face of those who actually created the modern world they just live in.

Okay, they’re really fucking big, and they pollute more than the rest of us combined, and they didn’t much do anything for all those 5,000 years [3,600, thank you Achmed] until they copied us, with our money. Great. Now, because of their big, fat size, they can overtake. Good for them, I suppose. I’ll be dead. Fuck’em.

… does this guy really need to be reminded why a Chinese Communist official dismissing people as “peasants” is just the slightest bit …

“Let those peasants in the United States wail in front of the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.”‘

The Wailing Wall:

‘My logic is that we shouldn’t import Muslim immigrants because they have a high propensity to rape people, including both relatives and total strangers.’

I doubt it. Aside from everything else, you’re assuming all Muslims behave the same. Having been in several Muslim countries, I can assure you that’s not remotely the case. Moroccans are not at all like Turks, and neither are like Iranians. God knows what Malaysians are like — but I wouldn’t count on them acting like Turks.

Do you feel the behavior of Filipinos describes you? After all, you presumably come from a Christian culture of some time. So do Filipinos. Ergo, you like to eat fertilized duck eggs.

‘Top Chinese official calls Americans ‘peasants,’”

Wasn’t that only in response to some top American official doing much the same to the Chinese?

(See also Chen Weihua’s 2022 reply to Elise Stefanik.)

‘We should definitely stop importing them.’

There you go. Pull the plug on Israel, let Palestine come into being, and demand that they go back to it.

After all, as matters stand, the Jews won’t let the Palestinians return.

coercion seems to be a staple of [Chinese] culture

Also: deception.

“Americans…are nothing when compared to our 5,000 year old* people…”

– Xia BaoLong

* 3,600 really, but Hu’s counting.

“Western Civilization is about 4500 years old. Our origins date back to the blending event of the Indo-Europeans with the Paleolithic-European survivals. The new Western Man has, since then, been at the very fore of the progress of Mankind virtually always since then.”

How often do you see a White man (or woman) toss a trope like that in someone’s face? Rarely. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard it, in quite the way the Chinese and others do (in the way you’re parodying). Why?

Why do Asians shove at people this “5000-year history” trope with such great abandon?

—— What would Steve Sailer say, if he were still among us?

The US Open (of tennis) crowds are full of NY riff raff.

Steve Sailer solicits ideas on why Blacks and Balkan-people are more successful in basketball:

LET’S GO THERE!

What are your answers to the question Matthew Yglesias has declared too “unseemly” to ask: Are Balkans good at basketball for the same reasons blacks are?

by Steve Sailer
April 16, 2025

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Yesterday, Matthew Yglesias, NBA fan, notoriously declared:

I’m not sure why people from the Balkans outperform [in basketball] other people experiencing a lack of melanin. I am also not sure why Black Americans outperform white ones. You could imagine these dual outperformances having similar underlying causes or very different ones. I have not looked into it, and frankly I don’t intend to, because I am happy living in a society where it is considered unseemly and inappropriate to preoccupy oneself with such questions.

But, this being SteveSailer.Net, I’d be happy to hear your theories on why blacks and Balkans do so well in the NBA.

My take: one reason is because Balkans, especially those with mountaineer ancestry, tend to be a couple of inches taller than white Americans. And tall Balkans don’t seem terribly spindly. They tend to look more well-proportioned than elongated.

In contrast, the federal NHANES project that measures Americans for the convenience of the clothing industry, finds African-American men to be a fraction of an inch shorter at the median than white American men. On the other hand, black variance is slightly greater, so African-Americans seem to have more very tall men as a percentage, but, in general, black and white Americans are pretty similar in height.

My response:

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Another useful question: “Why is basketball POPULAR in the Balkans”? Yes, that may be a version of the ancient chicken-and-egg riddle, but it may be a useful re-framing.

Null hypothesis: “Scandinavians and Balkan-ians having equal innate talent at basketball.” If basketball has had an average of 60 units of popularity in the Balkans over the past seventy-five years and 20 units of popularity in Scandinavia in the same period (on a 0-100 scale), we’d assume many more people in the Balkans have gone onto a basketball track. Self-reinforcing feedback loops would set in.

There are Reddit threads asking variants of this question. One, from r/AskBalkans:

https://www(dot)reddit(dot)com/r/AskBalkans/comments/12rnl2o/why_is_basketball_so_popular_in_balkans/

One typical response:

“[Basketball is popular in the Balkans] because it’s more accessible than football. It doesn’t require anywhere near as big and extensive infrastructure as football to play. The playing field is smaller, equipment relatively cheap, and you can even play it more or less “properly” it in an empty concrete lot with a makeshift hoop, which the Balkans have plenty of.”

Another:

“I think Yugoslav basketball might be the biggest reason. Yugoslav basketball was at a good level, which had an impact on neighboring countries. Many Yugoslav coaches, Yugoslav immigrant athletes and Yugoslav basketball players played in Turkey.”

—–> When and why did Yugoslavia start promoting basketball?

This article has some clues:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroBasket#Results

Yugoslavia begins placing highly in basketball tournaments in the early 1960s. (also, first Olympic medal in basketball: 1968; regular medals thereafter).

In the “Rise of Yugoslavia” section of the “EuroBasket” article, there is commentary to the effect that throughout the 1960s-1980s, there was a major rivalry in basketball between the USSR and Yugoslavia. Naturally, there are geopolitical implications: The leader of the Warsaw Pact vs the independent-socialist, non-Warsaw-Pact Yugoslavia.

Given this 1960s-1980s Yugoslavia-Soviet basketball rivalry, it makes sense that Yugoslavia — and its successor states (and, to some extent, some of its socialist-bloc neighbors) — would have made a push towards basketball. This push could have maximized their potential, in a way that others didn’t do as much.

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TorontoLLB makes five points on why White-Americans have disappeared from pro-basketball:

(1.) We need good, pre-1945-style, physical-anthropology data for different sorts of White people (especially on relative wingspan);

(2.) The youth-to-pro pipeline for basketball in the USA has long been “black nonsense on steroids” (meaning far lower effective per-capita talent-pool for Whites);

(3.) The USA’s Black Moral Superiority doctrine means most U.S.-raised Whites will tend NOT to push back on petty Black bullying (discrimination from below, inducing a high drop-out rate on the youth-to-pro pipeline). Europeans don’t have that “cultural baggage”;

(4.) “The NBA’s style of black athletic basketball becomes a self fulfilling prophecy,” in which teams will tend to disregard Whites (Whites actively discriminated against from above);

(5.) The World’s Most Important Graph may push out U.S.-ghetto Black predominance in basketball.

Here is what TorontoLLB says:

BLACK-MALE COMMUNITY LEADER KILLED DURING ENCOUNTER WITH WHITE POLICE OFFICER

A dramatic one, this week. The kind which, back in the 2014-2021 period, was sufficient to trigger moral-panics. Probably nothing will come of this one. No Ferguson-2014, none of the others.

A freeze-frame from the bodycam video:

Michigan Community Leader Shot And Killed By Pennsylvania State Police

Deshawn Dante Leeth, 30, died following an altercation with Pennsylvania State Police

April 15, 2025

A Michigan community leader was shot and killed by Pennsylvania State Troopers following an April 4 chase in a stolen Ohio State Highway Patrol vehicle.

Deshawn Dante Leeth, 30, crashed the stolen vehicle during a pursuit by Pennsylvania State Troopers as he turned onto the Ohio Turnpike. According to a police report obtained by Mlive, the chase began after Leeth assaulted an Ohio State Trooper, stealing his car to flee the scene.

Leeth was known in his Ypsilanti neighborhood for his advocacy work. He founded the Underdawg Nation, a nonprofit dedicated to serving children impacted by community violence in Washtenaw County and beyond. According to its website, he founded the organization following his own release from prison to spark positive change in the community he once hurt with his own actions.

Steve Sailer has, so far, not commented.

The video:

(The man was, I think, undergoing a mental-health breakdown after commiting some crimes. Some people just don’t “get it” that physically attacking a police officer is a bad, bad idea. It’s fortunate for the White police involved — naturally — that there is body-cam footage. And that Peak Wokeness has passed. The mid-2020s is not, for now, an era of anti-White digital lynch-mobs.)

I’m not proposing a Grand Unified Field Theory, but what seems to be always neglected in the vitally important national question of “Why Do Useless Pointless Negroes Dominate in the NBA,” the great issue which is never examined and made part of the equation is a simple one…

Due to their catastrophic underperformance, mal-performance, and non-performance in pretty much every avenue of intellectual culture and cultural culture which does not involve complaining, shrieking incoherently about nonsense, and/or leaping about like trained animals, negroes basically have nothing better to do than play bakkaball. And so they spend a LOT of time playing bakkaball and not, say, studying biochemistry — which of course we all know they literally *cannot* do, and their conceptual shield from this fact is that everybody else *cannot* admit it out loud.

Lots of seemingly mysterious things in American life get suddenly fully explained when someone finally says, “It’s because y’all just a buncha dumb n!__ers.”

Leaping about and throwing a rubber ball through a hoop is literally one of only about six things that negroes are capable of getting good at; and so they spend a yuge amount of time practicing at it, and through sheer statistical probability, put forward a large number of skilled bakkaball players, and close-to-zero of anything or everything else.

The graph could do with some smoothing. That would help legibility.
The high foreign-born rate bothers me most.

Going back to the 19th century, Aiken SC was a winter playground for rich Yankees, mostly hunters and horsemen. I hadn’t realized it was so close to Augusta, but it makes sense.

The baby bust after 1964 was real and significant, so it must be immigration keeping that under 60 y.o. cohort high. It would be interesting to see the US birth numbers on the same chart to get an approximation of what percentage of us old farts are still living, and where the ferriners concentrate. Even better to see births to US born.

Without 60 years of immigration, would SS and Medicare already be “broke”?

Ozempic arrives – “plus size” aka grossly overweight models losing work:

• Thanks, Big Pharma

Huge UK news:

https://www.theguardian.com/law/live/2025/apr/16/uk-supreme-court-to-rule-on-legal-definition-of-a-woman-gender-recognition-certificates

Supreme Court rules definition of woman in Equality Act refers to ‘biological women’.

The definition of a woman and sex in the Equality Act relates to “a biological woman and biological sex”, the supreme court has ruled as it unanimously allowed an appeal from gender critical campaign group For Women Scotland.

Now it seems pretty damn sad that this is big news, but it’s been the case in the UK lately that women have had to share their changing rooms with any male who decides he’s really a woman.

Hell, we’ve had men in charge of rape crisis centres.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13846947/transgender-rape-crisis-centre-edinburgh-scotland-mridul-wadhwa.html

In an 88-page ruling, Lord Hodge, Lady Rose and Lady Simler said:

The definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 makes clear that the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man.

Persons who share that protected characteristic for the purposes of the group-based rights and protections are persons of the same sex and provisions that refer to protection for women necessarily exclude men.

Although the word ‘biological’ does not appear in this definition, the ordinary meaning of those plain and unambiguous words corresponds with the biological characteristics that make an individual a man or a woman.

These are assumed to be self-explanatory and to require no further explanation.

Men and women are on the face of the definition only differentiated as a grouping by the biology they share with their group.

Not saying that immigration isn’t a big issue in Australia and that there is far too much of it especially non-white immigration, but I bet all those Chinese you viewed in the Melbourne Library are on student visas who will leave Australia. The Chinese just love living in the inner city -unlike Australians who like a bit of space and greenery
The students who try hardest to stay are the Indians who will do anything in order to stay. (My advice would be to study for a nursing qualification) They live outside the Centre where rents are less and really crowd their accommodation.

I’m told that at citizenship ceremonies there are still a lot of white faces, but I guess that depends where you go.

Are capable of being anything but obtuse? I mean, besides a self loathing anti-white?

What happens in Palestine and Israel has no bearing on eliminating immigration from those places.

Chinese and Asians in general are remarkably insecure.

A perfect example is this new full time propagandist Unz has been smearing his front page with recently: Hua Bin.

The first three Boston Celtics off the bench:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payton_Pritchard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Kornet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hauser

Three white guys from Oregon, Green Bay, WI, and Argyle, TX. All three are valuable, given the NBA’s latest craze of shooting threes; Kornet holds the NCAA record for threes made by a player over 7 feet. All three got their games together in areas a bit light on blacks.

Pritchard just set the record for most threes in a season by a 6th man.

In keeping with Steve’s thesis, though, here’s the Celtics’ starting white player:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristaps_Porzi%C5%86%C4%A3is

Whatever put white births at 85% in the first place.

And what CT said.

So …

racism?

white supremacy?

whatever the left hates?

I think Turks and Iranians exhibit many similarities. Both have a top echelon of people with a cosmopolitan, Western-oriented mentality (I know many self-hating Turks and Iranians), but the masses are generally coarse, pugnacious, corrupt, and pious. The experience (including the odor) on the Istanbul and Tehran metro trains is very similar. Erdogan won fair elections with his heartland support, and I bet the mullahs would win a fair election in Iran.

Turks and Iranians are more resourceful and pragmatic than the generally hapless Arab Muslims, and they share the woe-is-me, everything-is-a-conspiracy West Asian mentality that Steve talks about often. Both groups lament the decline from their accomplished civilizations in bygone centuries but don’t really know its cause. As for their propensities to rape relatives, I don’t know.

I don’t have much experience with Malaysians, but they seem similar.

“Why Do Useless Pointless Negroes Dominate in the NBA?”

While also not a Grand Unified Theory I’ve noticed that the NBA is a very jewish organization.

Could jewish domination of the organization be part of the riddle?

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This is interesting. We see some speculation in the media about how Ozempic and similar products may result in major changes to a lot of our culture, but what is the mechanism by which increased prevalence of Ozempic causes a reduction in brands’ use of fat models?

— There are fewer fat people for the job? Women selected to be fat models have some innate attractiveness that would emerge if they weren’t fat?

I doubt it, there are still plenty of loud-and-proud heifers out there.

— The target audience no longer sees a fat model as aspirational because they have hope that they can overcome their weight problem? Clothing companies think that there will soon no longer be any fat people?

I don’t think so. Fat models were never about appealing to the clothes-buying public, but rather solely about virtue-signaling. (Target uses fat mannequins; I think that this is a good strategy, not virtue-signaling, but rather because that is in fact representative of its customer base.)

— I think the simpler explanation is that using fat models was a fad and we are seeing a small recession in the woke tide. Nothing to do with weight-loss drugs.

Dear El Salvador, please arrest Senator Van Holland on the slightest of pretexts and imprison him in Superjail forever.

a love for basketball in the Jewish community

the students were regularly threatening to assault or even rape teachers, without consequence. my daughter-in-law’s sister got throttled by a student with a school banner

Students in general?

Or certain students?

Since I, and probably most commenters, are not going to read a whole additional book, can you divulge some highlights?

As further proof that stock market investors are ignorant schmucks, consider their demented, monomaniacal, even quasi-erotic obsession with Nvidia.

Porzingis is Baltic not Balkan but who’s counting.

I have been reading his columns to know how China may be thinking. From his bio:

Oliver came to Booking.com from eBay, where he had worked for over eight years. There, he held a number of senior positions including Managing Director for Southeast Asia, Japan, and Israel; Chief Operating Officer for Greater China, Japan, and Southeast Asia; and Senior Director of Trust and Safety for the Asia-Pacific region.

Before joining eBay in 2005, Oliver worked for seven years as a senior executive with a number of global management and strategy consultants, including McKinsey & Co. in Shanghai and Houston; Booz Allen Hamilton; and Stern Stewart & Co., where he worked with local and global clients in Asia, Europe and the United States.

https://news.booking.com/oliver-hua/

How much is immigration?

Probably all it.

By which I mean that native birth rates never reached Boomer level again, so everything in the chart above the downward trendline (hitting the Y-axis at, say, 2.5m) is immigrants and their kids.

Corresponding data for NFL:

Several NFL owners have publicly known Jewish heritage. Some prominent examples include Arthur Blank (Atlanta Falcons), Robert Kraft (New England Patriots), Jeffrey Lurie (Philadelphia Eagles), Malcolm Glazer (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, deceased), and Al Davis (Oakland Raiders, deceased).
Here’s a more detailed look:

Arthur Blank:
Co-founder of The Home Depot, Blank has been the owner of the Atlanta Falcons since 2002.

Robert Kraft:
Owns the New England Patriots. He is a prominent figure in the NFL and has a Jewish background.

Jeffrey Lurie:
Has owned the Philadelphia Eagles since 1994. He is also a successful film producer and has won multiple Academy Awards.
Malcolm Glazer:
A former owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Manchester United. He passed away in 2017, but his family still owns a portion of the Buccaneers.
Al Davis:
The long-time owner of the Oakland Raiders, passed away in 2011, but his family still owns the Raiders.
Other NFL owners with known Jewish heritage include:
Mark Davis: (Las Vegas Raiders)
Stephen Ross: (Miami Dolphins)
Leonard Tose: (Philadelphia Eagles)
Bob Tisch: and Steve Tisch (New York Giants)
Zygi Wilf: (Minnesota Vikings)
Jerry Wolman: (Philadelphia Eagles)

MLB:

Several MLB teams have had Jewish ownership at various points, including current owners like Steve Cohen (New York Mets) and Jerry Reinsdorf (Chicago White Sox). Other notable Jewish owners throughout baseball history include Barney Dreyfuss (Pittsburgh Pirates), Andrew Freedman (New York Giants), and Emil Fuchs (Boston Braves).
Here’s a more detailed look:
Current Jewish Owners:
Steve Cohen (New York Mets): He purchased the Mets in 2020.
Jerry Reinsdorf (Chicago White Sox): He has owned the White Sox since 1981.
Larry Baer (San Francisco Giants): He is the CEO of the Giants.
Paul Godfrey (Toronto Blue Jays): He is the CEO of the Blue Jays.
Stuart Sternberg (Tampa Bay Rays): He is the owner of the Rays.
Historical Jewish Owners:
Barney Dreyfuss (Pittsburgh Pirates): He was part owner of the Louisville Colonels and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Andrew Freedman (New York Giants): He owned the Giants from 1895 to 1902.
Emil Fuchs (Boston Braves): He was an owner of the Braves from 1922 to 1935.
Charles Bronfman (Montreal Expos): He was a part owner of the Expos.
Ted Bonda (Cleveland Indians): He was part owner of the Indians.
Lewis Wolff (Oakland A’s): He is the owner of the A’s.
Fred Wilpon (New York Mets): He was a minority owner of the Mets.
The Lerner family (Washington Nationals): They are the owners of the Nationals.
Jamie McCourt (Los Angeles Dodgers): She was the former owner of the Dodgers.
Other Jewish Figures in MLB:
Bud Selig: Former Commissioner of Baseball.
Marvin Miller: MLBPA Director.
Andrew Friedman: President of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Theo Epstein: General Manager of the Chicago Cubs.

This is the best I could find:

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/08/PHGMD_2020.08.15_US-Immigrant-Stat-Portraits_key-charts-02.png?resize=640,481

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/08/PHGMD_2020.08.15_US-Immigrant-Stat-Portraits_key-charts-01.png?resize=640,481

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s-immigrants/

one-year rise in the late 70’s with a big dropoff immediately following

In most time series data, a one-period spike followed by a one-period drop-off (or the reverse) is usually some kind of accounting artifact—change in method, change in period, plain old mistake, etc.: something that undercounts/overcounts one period, resulting in the difference showing up in the next period, so they otherwise average into the trendline neatly.

A more anomalous feature is the strange multiyear spike of 51-56 year-olds interrupting the post-boomer decline. Something to do with the 1986 amnesty? Vietnamese boat people? An epically bad batch of birth control pills?

The problem with looking at total population is it conflates three things: births, deaths, and immigration. epebble linked a Pew piece with immigrant age demographics. This page has absolute births and fertility rates for the US from 1909-2018.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data-visualization/natality-trends/index.htm

I find it interesting how much the birth rate (AND absolute births) dropped from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Followed by a remarkably steady low birth rate. But with absolute births increasing (almost back to the late 1950s peak!) as the Boomers moved through their child bearing years.

Wow. Apparently that goes back to 2014, before VPNs were common. I imagine if there were a way to screen out the increasingly common VPN IP addresses, the numbers would be even more skewed.

Also, around 2017-2018, after the first Trump election, /pol/ instituted massive censorship and never let up. That censorship almost certainly was not geographically evenly distributed.

You think NVDA (P/E = 35) is crazy? Try TSLA P/E = 121; Most of the Tesla investors are going to lose their shirt. It is Bitcoin with battery and wheels. NVDA is genuinely a monopoly in very high performance (single instruction, multiple data) parallel processors. Many supercomputers are built using NVDA processors.

The man was, I think, undergoing a mental-health breakdown

AKA, he was crazy as a snail.

It’s fortunate for the White police involved — naturally — that there is body-cam footage.

Although the cams show that Deshawn was completely out of his gourd, they don’t actually show the fatal shooting.

I certainly understand why the officers were amped up, angry, and desperate to detain menace-to-the-pubic Deshawn, but unless he drew a weapon at the last minute, the video doesn’t actually demonstrate the necessity of deadly force.

(Though the early video demonstrates the uselessness of sub-deadly Tasers.)

I was speaking to Steve’s “European basketball players grow up not competing against crazy blacks” theory. The listed Celtics bench players come from white areas and white schools.

Without 60 years of immigration, would SS and Medicare already be “broke”?

Yes, that is a good question, and thank you for your reply.

I kind of knew where this leads: The only thing that possibly supported the numbers after the baby boom was immigration.

I would say that if we cannot support things like Social Security and Medicare without immigration then those programs should not exist.

I am at the age now when I have begun to receive Social Security deposits into one of my accounts. Hilariously, those deposits are so absolutely, fucking TINY that they are essentially worthless. I contributed my whole working life, and I get back a fucking JOKE.

Now, I know there are American “baby boomers” who now rely on their Social Security, monthly payments. I want those people to live happily. Such happiness was basically promised to them — all my life and before! It is a promissary note to which they are entitled. For me, it is a minor detail.

My father and his father called FDR’s Social Security a Ponzi scheme. They were right.

1. The 51–56 year-olds (1968 – 73 born) spike may represent the birth of firstborns of 1946-50 cohort.

2. It may also include the first generation of U.S. born from the post 1965 immigration surge.

The “one-year rise in the late 70’s with a big dropoff immediately following” is likely the ‘explosion’ of births starting in 1947. It may also include the Indochinese migration in 1970s, Cuban migration, and 1986 amnesty.

Without 60 years of immigration, would SS and Medicare already be “broke”?

That’s certainly the snake oil that immigration enthusiasts want to sell us. But all the data show that immigrants in aggregate have been a fiscal drag not a fiscal boon, and that’s before getting onto the deleterious effects of chain migration, aka “family reunification”.

those deposits are so absolutely, fucking TINY that they are essentially worthless.

Can you reveal the numbers? I am not receiving SS, but my statement says something like $4,000 per month.

I accidentally came across a re-listening to The B-52s “Planet Claire” the other night when a DJ played it to introduce a friend who was going onstage, and who hadn’t requested it.

Was reminded of how truly surprising it was at the time (it opens with a walkie-talkie solo) and since it was the opening track of their debut record, I started to think of the virtues of various debut records. Not whole career arcs, just the debuts.

I believe many serious critical rock people would agree that the greatest and also most influential debut album of all time was, The Clash (UK cut). So we can put it sort of hors-de-combat, so to speak, and suggest the five other top contenders, probably no hierarchical order, just inter pares….

— The B-52s: we definitely did not see THAT coming. Suffers slightly from one or two weak tracks. But the one-two punch of Planet Claire and 52 Girls, topped by the masterful comedic surprise of Rock Lobster (Ricky Wilson: I think maybe I just wrote the stupidest song of all time), overcomes even its shortcomings.

— Public Enemy, “Yo! Bum Rush the Show!” Best hip-hop debut ever. You weren’t expecting Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, but there ya go. Bonus: they dissed Duke Ellington himself by calling a track Sophisticated Bitch.

— New York Dolls. Slightly edges out “Ramones” and “Never Mind the Bollocks” because after New York Dolls, you could sort of see the Ramones and the Pistols coming. But NOBODY saw NYD coming. Only problem was, the tragic lack of a credible follow-up.

— Eno, Here Come the Warm Jets. The most influential soundscape sculptor of the past 70 years launches his opening salvo. Worth it just for the historic value.

— The Feelies, Crazy Rhythms. “You remind me of a TV show, but that’s all right, I’ll watch it anyway. I don’t talk much cuz it gets in my way. Don’t let it get in the way.”

Okay now: fight!

It was years ago, but I’ve quoted it before. There was a smart-alecky Puerto Rican kid who wasn’t in the class but would visit to skip his own class and mock Boland. “Boland? Who you bonin’? It ain’t no chick.”

Good point, bad example. Try Boeing, which let McKinsey Rumpelstilskin up their stocks temporarily by destroying the company. I tried telling people about Boeing before they were falling out of the sky (had they listened, they would’ve made money) and their response was (at that time, correctly) but look at all this gold which is definitely not straw!

What something is to you is not necessarily what it is to me or to others, Mr. pebble. I think that many people, at least, who are trying to live exclusively on SS are just sad. It was, and is, a bad promise. Why can’t we just take good care of our elders?

Funny thing about the shills, they are self-announcing and self-defeating, zero effort, easy to spot. It’s a parallel to the USAID mockingbird media: they tried persuasion, they tried lying, and finally they resorted to just suppression by flooding the zone, but at the cost of their credibility. The zero effort shills never persuaded one person of anything, so they would just spam incoherent nonsense. 4chan’s boards are finite, so a bad actor spamming 43 zero effort spamthreads does have a suppressive effect at little cost to the spammer. The single biggest tell of a shill up to the Final Day was a one-post Original Poster post (not a reply — an OP post creates a thread, replies increase that thread’s size but do not affect the board) which sought to act as a writing prompt by asking a question, deliberately misstating an easily checked fact, and/or emotionally provoke. Newfags would reply to 2+2=4 and not 5, but nobody’s hearing this, the spammer left his one-post thread and is already spamming more. Good content slides off the board for lack of space. So you start at catalog view, identify and ignore the shills, seek out the three to six actual legitimate threads which are not in clear violation of posted rules and have interesting news and discussion in them, participate, at least bump them (keep them from sliding off), or what I resorted to was saging (cancels bump) spamthreads but always with an explanation for the benefit of newfags. I started lonely and hopeless and in recent years I had the great pleasure of seeing such sage explanations as shared my criteria, but not posted by me — others saw what I was doing and helped.
I wonder if the “Israeli normality of rape” story had anything to do with 4chan finally suffering a happening or if this was just lol so random.

The B-52s were part of the soundtrack of my young adulthood. Danced down to the floor with Rock Lobster. Had a crush on Kate. It was all silly, and that was the point.

Enjoyed them at Red Rocks.

The Beatles Played Here in 1964

U.S. household median income is about $80,000. SS was never meant to be exclusive source of income for retirement. That is why there are pensions, IRA, 401(k) etc. Even then, if a two-income couple (which is the norm) get $80,000 per year by SS, that sounds like a very good deal for them. I think most seniors nowadays are quite happy, at least compared to those in their 30’s and younger. The younger ones can sense they can’t match their parents and grandparents living standards.

Why do Asians shove at people this “5000-year history” trope with such great abandon?

I don’t know about the rest of Asians, a diverse group on the biggest continent – to me it’s a Chinese thing particularly. That “Middle Kingdom” title they use for their country is not really a geographical term.

I just looked at the globe for 5 minutes, Mr. Hail, and if we’re talking the center of Asia (maybe all the ancient Chinese knew about as the world), then one of the Stans, Tajikstan or Kyrgykstan fit the bill. Yeah, shitholes that they are, they are centralized shitholes, which is something you want generally. Or the city of Urumqui, allegedly part of China now, is in the middle of Asia. (I read somewhere that it’s the farthest place from an ocean anywhere – in the world, I think? Get out your globes, Bitchez!)

To claim being in the middle of the whole big Eurasian land mass, I’d say Egypt, Turkey, and Iran are a few well known long standing countries that could claim this.

So, what I conjecture is that that term for China should read more as The Central Kingdom, not so much geographic as civilizational. They did have a good run in claiming that. Then about 500-600 years ago, they had competition and then got wildly surpassed for a couple of centuries. That’s just a blip though, when you deal in Millennia.

Your people can learn a whole lot in 3,600 years, hence the great cultural wealth inherent in those ancient Chinese secrets.

ePebble, Socialist scumbag FDR introduced SS at a time when the American life expectancy averaged about 65 years. It could stay in the black pretty easily if that were (thankfully not) still the case.

I have never counted on SS. There’s no nice tidy account with all your 13% (6 1/2 from you and 6 1/2 from your employer) money stashed away in it. I just did my taxes and after the Fed money paid, I add on SS and Medicaid/cair to see what I paid as tax to the Feral Gov’t – no difference between income tax and “payroll” tax, in my mind.

I am at the age now when I have begun to receive Social Security deposits into one of my accounts. Hilariously, those deposits are so absolutely, fucking TINY that they are essentially worthless. I contributed my whole working life, and I get back a fucking JOKE.

Depends on the individual. I receive less than maximum Social Security retirement and I live very well indeed on less than half of it. I also receive three other pensions.

Your source missed the current owner of the Baltimore Orioles, Jewish hedge fund manager David Rubenstein.

” . . . the video doesn’t actually demonstrate the necessity of deadly force.”

I am not so sure about that. The perp was fighting with the cop and easily could have taken the cop’s service weapon. And the taser failed to subdue the perp. All at very close range.

I am not saying for sure the cop should have shot the guy, but there certainly is a case that could be made.

I believe many serious critical rock people would agree that the greatest and also most influential debut album of all time was, The Clash (UK cut).

I prefer the US version as an album.

Agree. TSLA p/e 125, Ford p/e 5.

Result: misery.

Most stock prices are based on estimates of increased future earnings. A recession or a gradual loss of earnings year by year due to obsolete technology or competition can quickly make expensive stocks almost worthless.

The problem is that TSLA is priced like a tech stock and not like an auto manufacturer. BYD(DY) is probably a better buy. Also pays a dividend.

That’s interesting, because I’ve noticed a fair number of errors/lacunae in “Hua Bin’s” accounts of Western history. With a CV like that, those errors or lacunae are obviously shared by the Chinese elite.

(I tended to assume he was some kind of Chinese BAP-style shitposter, obviously not)

That list is a joke from years ago

There is Western history and then there is alternative Western history. That is how it is taught in China (and many other places).

The perp was fighting with the cop and easily could have taken the cop’s service weapon.

But he didn’t. And that was at least 18 minutes before he was shot.

By the time he actually was shot, he was stuck in an overturned car, surrounded by multiple police. Unless he was brandishing a weapon upside-down, the “justifiable” part of justifiable homicide is looking weak.

I don’t say this out of any misplaced sympathy for Mr. Leeth, who likely was a complete waste of existence. I’m just anticipating what the law says. If the police expected that releasing that video would be exculpatory for them, they may have been deluded.

Strongly disagree. Joe Strummer, the public school educated diplomat’s son and former hippy, was perhaps the biggest poser in an age of posers. And White Man In The Hammersmith Palais is the worst white reggae in a very competitive field.

Julien Temple:

“I was born the same year as Joe Strummer, so in a funny way I couldn’t help but go through some of the same moves as him. I didn’t go to a public school, but I guess you could say that my parents were middle-class. We shared certain things, like that pivotal moment in the mid-’60s when we were at school. The Kinks and the Stones and that whole London thing affected both of us. Then, later in the 60s, there was the hippy thing, although I don’t think I was ever as much of a hippy as Joe, who went the whole way. Then the squatting. We shared things in common.”

Public-school hippy ? You amaze me.

I first became aware of Joe when I was squatting in Notting Hill, just as he was … then I got involved in the punk thing by meeting the Sex Pistols by chance. I was completely amazed to see Joe at the 100 Club, with his blonde hair, all punked out, totally unlike this hippy from before. It was an amazing transformation … Joe was harder to get to know because he was always covering up his middle-class background. He was such a different person from before. He was wary of anyone who shared his past.

Full-on urban rebel, up and dahn the Westway, eh ? Trouble was, a lot of people who should have known better took it all seriously. I wonder when exactly the officer class started to feel the need to hide their origins – early 60s I’d presume, about the same time that nice middle class Mr Jagger invented mockney.

I first met Joe in the seventies, but then didn’t see him again for about 25 years! Then one day he appeared in my garden. It turned out that his wife Lucinda was an old school friend of my wife …

Asbo Comprehensive, perhaps ? I wonder which school that would be.

Later he said that he wanted to live here – and he did. He bought a farm up the road and we spent a lot of time together.

By the way, almost nothing that you ever read online regarding advice about buying stocks on websites like MarketWatch or Yahoo! Finance is worth following.

The reason for this is that nearly everybody is “talking their book”–for example an “analyst” who works for a certain bank will write articles that indicate the stock is likely to move in the direction that favors whatever position the bank holds in that stock.

For example if that bank would like to buy more of the stock, it would like to see the price go down.

Another factor is that financial writers are wary of writing something like “this stock is absolutely worthless, and I would get rid of it as soon as possible”, because they are fearful of legal ramifications.

And thirdly, anything that you read will already have been read and acted on by numerous Wall Street sharks long before you saw it.

“My logic is that we shouldn’t import Muslim immigrants because they have a high propensity to rape people, including both relatives and total strangers. ”

I would go further and say that we shouldn’t import Muslim immigrants because… they’re Muslim immigrants. Their primordial sexual urges aside, they simply aren’t compatible with the West.

I don’t care about the pose. I like the pop hooks of the song substitutions on the US version.

Now.. how many jewish NHL owners or NASCAR/NHRA team owners?

Takeaways from the chart:

• Black fertility is radically dysgenic.

• White fertility is moderately eugenic.

• Hispanic fertility is moderately dysgenic.

• Asian fertility is mildly eugenic.

Said another way: Hispanics are less dysgenic blacks, and Asians are less eugenic whites.

• Foreign-born women’s fertility is dysgenic.

• All groups seem to have a pronouncedly dysgenic underclass, but in the case of whites and Asians it is offset by the fertility of the higher SES.

One wonders if this apparently universal pronounced underclass fertility is an artifact of the welfare state. Maybe somewhere there is a fertility comparison of similar populations with/without a welfare state?

“but unless he drew a weapon at the last minute, the video doesn’t actually demonstrate the necessity of deadly force. ”

I disagree. If you’re being bullrushed by a crazed individual who is amped up on adrenaline following that car chase, are you going to leave your life to chance that that individual cannot cause you serious bodily harm or death without the use of a weapon?

St. George (the other one) was found to be justified in shooting an individual who was in the process of bashing his head against the concrete.

Unarmed does not automatically = nonlethal.

I’ve never listened to the B-52s debut, so I can’t speak to that, but the rest of your list has got to be intentionally ridiculous. Led Zeppelin, Boston, The Cars, Guns and Roses, REM, Violent Femmes, Velvet Underground–this is just off the top of my head–all had far superior first albums. If you like punk, The Ramones is obviously superior to The Clash.

EDIT: Aren’t you the guy always going on about shitty contemporary female singers? Top notch trolling, really. Public Enemy AND Taylor Swift.

If playing basketball is a negative for developing white players, just imagine what going to school and working with blacks does to white potential in other areas.

Three white guys from Oregon, Green Bay, WI, and Argyle, TX. All three are valuable,

Tyler Hansbrugh may have had the best college basketball career ever. But was never given a real chance in the NBA.

I’m going to leave this here:

https://vidmax.com/video/232616-a-chinese-man-living-in-china-explains-perfectly-why-china-can-t-win-a-trade-war-with-the-us

A Chinese Man Living In China Explains Perfectly Why China Can’t Win A Trade War With The US

I don’t know your age, but I hope you’re not assuming you’ll collect that much. Despite Trump’s promise of tax-free, it’s pretty obvious future net SS and Medicare benefits and premiums will be slanted toward low-income people and against the well off even more than they already are.

China is normally either a great power or the great power.
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China has never before been notably influential outside its immediate vicinity.

I sampled bits of the 18 minutes on X. Dude did not stop talking, even after crashing. Drugs or manic episode, or both? The cops were still wise to release what they did quickly, so people can see he was nuts before Benjamin Crump takes the case.

Here’s my little poem based on Eno’s “The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch”:
https://twitter.com/oneDesanex/status/1904160431935045908

What happens in Palestine and Israel has no bearing on eliminating immigration from those places.

That is a genuinely fatuous statement. I mean, it really is. You might as well assert that the Mexican economy has no effect on illegal immigration from Mexico.

“What something is to you is not necessarily what it is to me or to others, Mr. pebble. …”

What are you saying here? That you are so well off that $4,000 a month is an insignificant amount to you? But you still find it reasonable to complain that your Social Security benefit is too small.

‘…but the masses are generally coarse, pugnacious, corrupt, and pious. ‘

In my experience, the average Turk is a pretty nice guy (or gal). What’s been your experience?

Are capable of being anything but obtuse? I mean, besides a self loathing anti-white?

The conversation with the barking dog continues. I suppose barking dogs at least don’t have any notions that they’re some more elevated life form.

“I disagree. If you’re being bullrushed by a crazed individual who is amped up on adrenaline following that car chase, are you going to leave your life to chance that that individual cannot cause you serious bodily harm or death without the use of a weapon?”

Timing can be critical in self-defense cases. There can be a period when it is too soon to use deadly force as the threat is not yet imminent, a window of time when it is legal to use deadly force and a period of time when it is too late to use deadly force as the threat has passed. Even if the officer would have been justified in using deadly force at an earlier point (but didn’t) doesn’t mean they were legally justified in using it when they did. But of course it does make it more plausible.

First day of cop training: hands can kill. Also Bruce Lee movies. : )

I already posted this once before. It is Hoover Institution but this isn’t any Trumptard saying this. He is a Dutchman with long experience in country of China.

A federal judge has decided to hold the Trump Team in contempt of court.

A bill being proposed by Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) which would strip the IRS of its armament and would then transfer the criminal investigations to the DOJ and away from the IRS.

William Kirk discusses today three separate bills kicking around in Oregon that if enacted into law, would forever change the 2A landscape in Oregon.

This document was previously classified as “SECRET//NOFORN” and given that it’s now been declassified by the OCA (Tulsi), it’s up for discussion. Opinions follow.

Notably, “Pillar 4” describes the efforts to ‘Confront Long-Term Contributors to Domestic Terrorism’. Action 4.1.1a specifically states that a goal was to rein in the proliferation of “ghost guns”. Further, it goes on to argue for banning “assault weapons” (no) and “high-capacity magazines” (whatever those are).

https://twitter.com/RonnieAdkins_/status/1912665593456558366
https://twitter.com/JohnRLottJr/status/1912587233548464312
https://twitter.com/FenixAmmunition/status/1912596165306040351
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1912383094839296378

Does the video even show when he was shot? I watched on a computer without sound.

What I am saying is that I am not getting back what I would have if I had simply invested myself (which I did otherwise.)

I also can’t see how anyone could live as I do after paying into SS. It is simply too small. It doesn’t work so well. I am sorry if I overstated it. More importantly, I know there are very many Americans who depend on it, and as I said it doesn’t work so well. It simply does not figure into my financial plans, okay? (But they stole the money from me for many years, and they are now stealing from young people just to pay into the Ponzi scheme.)

Charles Ponzi

Agree with you about The Cars, but I just thought the Feelies record is its equal, is stranger, more interesting, more deeply-felt and less well known, so deserved a nod. (“I think it’s time for you to face it. You never felt right in our world. You never felt right about yourself.” is way deeper than anything Ric ever did.)

Boston — very well done, just too plasticky radio-friendly, too much “product” for my blood. It’s sort of like nominating the first Foreigner record.

Violent Femmes — good but too coterie, too much of the way too affected hipster guy with the black lipstick living across the hall in your dorm.

GnR — live by the sword, die by the sword.

REM — not their debut, they didn’t really bloom until later.

Led Zep — merely promising at the time; also didn’t really bloom until later.

Velvet Underground — agree but it’s so iconic I think they can survive being left off this one. Plus (I love it too, but) it’s sort of an acquired taste — how many people besides us two actually sit through ALL of “European Son”?

I left off Queen’s debut, which is quite extraordinary and plus most of those songs are not a well known part of their catalogue. But again, they were so yuge they’ll survive the slight.

Whether you prefer Ramones to The Clash is sort of a matter of taste, I’ll just say Ramones is kind of a concept album based on a single idea, whereas The Clash is more involved with more dimensions of real life, and is a bit more musically varied.

The B-52s is great because it was just so unexpected, its sound and substance were so unfamiliar and out-there. There are lots of “better” albums, but they don’t quite stick in your ear the same way.

I believe that if you sit down for a mo and have a cuppa, you’re actually being more smartypants than smart.

I agree wholeheartedly.

There exists this illusion that simply by importing random, interchangeable human units we will cover whatever negative void exists in economists’ minds.

You see, one of our big problems, apparently, is that economists perceive humans as interchangeable parts. Whether we are “consumers” or “producers” or whatever, they see us as identical units. This, of course, is a fallacy.

Oh, and then, of course, there is one of their favorite, globalist idols: The Division of Labor! Yes, we can all just employ whichever billions of poor, un-free servants we can anywhere on Earth to do our stuff! (Sounds a bit like old slavery, don’t it?)

I personally know some Ph.D. economists. Some since high school. Some went to the hallowed “Ivy League.” They are guys who couldn’t actually become real scientists, so they got their Ph.D.s in fucking economics. It’s a pseudoscience, and they are a rung below real scientists.

You cannot import foreign solutions to domestic problems. Period.

… its immediate vicinity being freaking Asia.

I also receive three other pensions.

Yes! And good for you! Those are probably private. If not, then they were at least negotiated in some way, not handed down by FDR.

I had two pensions too. I cashed both out and bought more fucking gold!

$3,330.30 per ounce at this moment. I just looked, even though I don’t recommend looking like that at your long-term hedges of real money. It’s real money, so just keep it.

That again is my point. SS by itself does not work very well, and it does not make very good use of the money invested into it. People now are depending on it, and so it behooves our — cough — “leaders” to eventually find a way to free Americans from it without harming those who depend on it in the present. I think it can be done.

Any decent culture takes good care of its elders. Why don’t we? We are the same people who got snookered into eating bowls of carbs and drinking glasses of sugar every morning… So, I wonder…