Steve Sailer

What do you make of all of this?

Yeah, so, uh, there's a lot here, and actually, uh, Steve Sailer of all people, of course, the great Steve Sailer, had a really good thread on this yesterday that I would refer back to, where he was talking about how this was kind of commonplace for a lot of the Cold War policies that took place in the decolonial era, decolonization era post-World War II, and sort of this power vacuum of shifting alliances and shifting US, uh, partnerships with various groups in Africa and other places around that world in, in terms of a sort of, you know, which si- which, which group is the US behind, which group is, are the Soviets behind.

And he had a tweet saying that, uh, they were originally high-ranking supporters of the Somali dictator, um, uh, Said Barre, who had been a Soviet ally.

But after the invasion of Ethiopia, uh, Moscow switched to backing Ethiopia, and then so the US switched to the Somali side.

Um, so that's why he says that.

There's a good Steve Sailer article about that, actually.

I'd have to give you the, uh, uh, link to that.

Mm-hmm.

You wanna send your kids to, quote-unquote, "good schools." You want to live in a place where you have a reasonable expectation of public safety and can build value in your house.

Uh, Steve Sailer often jokes that when they talk about equity, what they really mean is going after the equity in your house, because that's how most Americans build wealth.

And we all ...

I wasn't trying to be flippant or coy by saying this.

There is going to be a conference, uh, this month, uh, happening fairly soon.

Uh, you can email Lydia Brimelow if you wanna come to that.

Uh, Steve Sailer will also be speaking at that.

That's gonna be a really big event because, you know, Steve Sailer doesn't do speaking engagements all that often, so that's gonna be a very significant one.

here?Yeah, I was actually listening to your show, was it yesterday? Um, where...

And I was like, "Oh, he's, he's like, he's, he's tripping into noticing." Like, if anyone follows Steve Sailer on the-

Oh yeah, of course

... [laughs] audience.

Yes.

Whatever we're trying is not optimized.

And by the way, all the Steve Sailer stuff is, which like, you know, we're kind of doing right now, is just saying that there are, like, cultures, um, have tendencies for certain things and, and because of underlying beliefs about the way things work.

Um, and like, you know, you're always kind of doing this big throat-clearing exercise or hedging what you're saying so much that y- you've diluted yourself to the point of saying nothing.

He was the greatest athlete in the world, as a dude, and I'm supposed to pretend he's a pretty woman now that he's in his 60s? No.

You know, Steve Sailer had that, uh, had that, like, nailed, oh, 20 years ago, and he was like, "No, this guy's just a narcissist," and he had a, a whole taxonomy of these people.

But because, you know, even knowing the name Steve Sailer is enough to get you in trouble these days, let alone, you know, the, you know, you don't wanna talk about somebody that should be more widely respected.

You mentioned Jared Taylor, there's Jared and-

And it's, a- a- and Steve Sailer is just one of the nicest people.

He's gonna have...

I- if, if you're debating him, he's gonna be polite.

But, but basically, right, we had this completely artificial bubble created, the, the everything bubble, right? There was the 2008, you know, totally government-induced and, and I believe Tom Woods did the best job, um, on, in, I think it was Meltdown, what caused that.

Um, and, and for all the same reasons, right? The reason people drive, you know, three hours a day outside of Atlanta or outside of Houston, everyone knows why.

It's, it's, it's Steve Sailer month for a reason.

Um, and, and that's why, right? So, you know, th- these have been problems in Texas for, as, you know, Jose said, you know, years.

Like, Chronicles magazine, um, is, you know, a venerable institution.

I, I was thinking about this this morning w- in preparation for the show, like, you know, I'm- I've been around for a while and I was a, a reader of, you know, kind of Moldbug and Sailer and Vdare and all that other stuff.

There were...

And back in the day, Steve Sailer's blog roll was like, you know, the place to be.

Like, if you wanted to find something out, you could just go to Steve's blog and, and, like, click on the right-hand sidebar and you'd find something.