tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1297236697775327767..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: The typical opening line of a Christopher Hitchens tributeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4571746737320187522011-12-23T10:00:27.183-08:002011-12-23T10:00:27.183-08:00"This another one of these weird 21st century..."This another one of these weird 21st century trends, like female tattoos, that I'm truly puzzled by."<br /><br />It's not a recent custom, you're evidently too young and narrowly read to have seen it before.Udolpho.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976984423336975944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91506383395606237062011-12-21T14:10:53.132-08:002011-12-21T14:10:53.132-08:00" I am unfamiliar with this whole process of ..." I am unfamiliar with this whole process of posting and anonymous seems to be the best way to go."<br /><br />oh don't be such a narcissist. Nobody knows anybody anyway, whether there's a handle or not. Unless you give out your actual name and address (they could find you on Facebook maybe), no one will ever know who you are. Attaching a handle make reference easier. One of the pains in a long thread is getting confused over which anonymous said what. I know now why some bloggers forbid the use of "Anonymous."<br /><br />Call yourself 123 or ABC, but call yourself something.narcissusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45890751689730364472011-12-21T08:19:14.336-08:002011-12-21T08:19:14.336-08:0012/18/11 2:34 PM said
>I'd like to see Ste...12/18/11 2:34 PM said<br /><br />>I'd like to see Steve ever show the balls in standing up to the Tribe and their interests that a philo-Semitic Trotskyite did at one point in his life.<<br /><br />Maybe he isn't as obsessed with the Tribe as you are. By the way, what is this "G-d" you keep referring to?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42033961001047339502011-12-20T08:29:16.903-08:002011-12-20T08:29:16.903-08:00"His talents were considerable and his achiev...<a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/19/deaths_in_the_family" rel="nofollow">"His talents were considerable and his achievements worthy of note (and I'd give a fair bit to be as able and witty a writer as he was), but the outpouring of tributes this past week struck me as decidedly over-the-top." </a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71466434752923160232011-12-20T00:05:00.119-08:002011-12-20T00:05:00.119-08:00how could you leave Alberto Fujimori off your list...<i>how could you leave Alberto Fujimori off your list of non-Iberian South American potentates!</i>--MQ<br /><br />I couldn't. And didn't. It's like <i>Where's Waldo</i>: he's in there somewhere.<br /><br /><i>Jews, especially Ashkenazi Jews who form the majority in the U.S., aren't purely Semitic genetically.</i> --anon<br /><br />I know that. But 'Semite' allowed me to include a couple of Lebs. Gotta be inclusive!Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66383806272224419582011-12-19T16:25:01.574-08:002011-12-19T16:25:01.574-08:00"Oh, come on! He wasn't even the most bri..."Oh, come on! He wasn't even the most brilliant North American Semite born in 1941."<br /><br />Reg Caesar,<br />Jews, especially Ashkenazi Jews who form the majority in the U.S., aren't purely Semitic genetically. I know it's probably word-play riffing off of "anti-Semitism" (term coined by a German non-Jew) as a euphemism for the more specific Jew-hatred, but I feel obligated to point out the imprecision.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56642452480018010142011-12-19T10:00:06.838-08:002011-12-19T10:00:06.838-08:00Reg Caesar 11:33 -- how could you leave Alberto Fu...Reg Caesar 11:33 -- how could you leave Alberto Fujimori off your list of non-Iberian South American potentates!MQnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49262993697906421312011-12-19T09:06:30.499-08:002011-12-19T09:06:30.499-08:00This is not 21st century. More like 14th century B...<i>This is not 21st century. More like 14th century BC. It is done by Orthodox Jews to avoid the name of God being defaced or erased. </i><br />yeah but Christian zionists do it too, along with their blatant heresy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35685222551850357022011-12-19T08:37:28.088-08:002011-12-19T08:37:28.088-08:00alt right has a good take on him>
http://www.a...alt right has a good take on him><br /><br />http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/zeitgeist/the-conventional-contrarian/<br /><br /><a href="http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/zeitgeist/the-conventional-contrarian/" rel="nofollow">The Conventional Contrarian</a><br /><br />"He was a “contrarian” who told the cultural elite what they wanted to hear, and dissented within permissible limits. He jumped from the trendy left to the neoconservative right and back, but never into forbidden territory. He mocked the divine, but held equality as unchallengeable and sacred. He hammered leftists for not living up to their own standards, as he understood their ideology better than they did. He blasphemed a dead God but clung desperately to the orthodoxies of the modern world. While his unheralded and more subversive brother writes about "The Abolition of Britain," Hitchens was warning us about Mormons. He was passionate and prolific, but in the end, predictable. "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35935448927555584872011-12-19T07:58:42.735-08:002011-12-19T07:58:42.735-08:00"Hitchens was NOT a contrarian. His support f..."Hitchens was NOT a contrarian. His support for Bush's Mesopotamian adventure was in line with majority of elite and popular opinion, in the US at least. Atheism is not exactly a career ending move."<br /><br />But he was neocontrarian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74282567032267810892011-12-19T07:56:21.574-08:002011-12-19T07:56:21.574-08:00Goofy Gaffy and Kim Jong the witch are dead, but c...Goofy Gaffy and Kim Jong the witch are dead, but cult of personality and infantilism live on. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1HxdxRc9UY&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Oprah cult</a><br /><br /><br />And never forget the Obamessiah cult in 2008. <br /><br />Worse, the media, which is supposed to be free and critical, gave Obama the Kim Jong Il treatment in 2008 and even now in a way. <br /><br />But then, we don't have a democratic media but oligarchic media controlled by a certain small elite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11123656887362549132011-12-19T07:37:05.940-08:002011-12-19T07:37:05.940-08:00"Hitchens first came to the attention of me a..."Hitchens first came to the attention of me and a lot of other folks when he starting brutally attacking the clintons. Hatred of the clintons was a big industry on the right, but to see a man of the left, of such wit, eloquence and education attack the clintons was novel, especially after years of the mainstream media gushing about how brilliant and charismatic Clinton was."<br /><br /><br />Clinton was a NEW Democrat and all of NATION magazine hated him. I recall NATION bashed him harder than NATIONAL REVIEW.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9909812195927000972011-12-19T07:09:27.698-08:002011-12-19T07:09:27.698-08:00Best ever analysis of a single sentence.Best ever analysis of a single sentence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41972940634256437102011-12-19T01:34:26.070-08:002011-12-19T01:34:26.070-08:00"BTW, what's with all this "G_D"..."BTW, what's with all this "G_D" stuff?<br /><br />What kinda freak doesn't spell the word God? Leaving out the "o" accomplishes what exactly?<br /><br />This another one of these weird 21st century trends, like female tattoos, that I'm truly puzzled by."<br /><br />This is not 21st century. More like 14th century BC. It is done by Orthodox Jews to avoid the name of God being defaced or erased. This is why euphemisms are used instead of the tetragrammaton, such as Adonai and HaShem. See: http://www.quora.com/What-do-Orthodox-Jews-think-when-they-see-the-word-G-d<br /><br />BTW, this is a pseudonym. Easy, isn't it?Antioco Dascalonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10617669156986603638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11169643491146627062011-12-19T00:24:13.387-08:002011-12-19T00:24:13.387-08:00Face it, the guy could write like he was turning o...<i>Face it, the guy could write like he was turning on a faucet (even when sozzled) and for some reason it's bugging you. Either come clean about your beef or let it go.</i><br /><br />When Sailer's cooking he throws off the sort of novel ideas weekly that never seem to occur to people like Hitchens in their whole miserable careers.<br />Hitchens never seemed to be honestly engaging a question, but assigning blame for something or other, always hacking away at someone else's reputation. Always the braying moralist, he even had it in for God. <br />I know there's plenty to be outraged about at any given time, but what sort of asshole is <i>outraged all the time?</i><br /><br />It's worth noting the absence of a lot of quotation from Hitchens' work in all the thumb-suckers out there.Dennis Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03233729780363740881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85298463709311796602011-12-19T00:13:40.200-08:002011-12-19T00:13:40.200-08:00No one has mentioned brother Peter, who I think is...No one has mentioned brother Peter, who I think is better. Even if, in <i>The Abolition of Britain</i>, he was guilty of the Christian sin of despair.<br /><br /><i>Dylan was... the most brilliant musical talent of his generation...</i> --anonymous <br /><br />Oh, come on! He wasn't even the most brilliant North American Semite born in 1941. There's Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, Cass Elliot, Paul Anka*, Linda McCartney. And not far off in age were <a href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2002/07/25/QA-Mann-Weil-on-surving-as-songwriters/UPI-20091027616073/" rel="nofollow">Mann & Weil</a>, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Neil Sedaka, Jeff Barry, Andy Kim*, Zal Yanovsky...<br /><br />If you think Dylan is better than these (OK, I'm kidding about Mrs Macca), go read Auster's blog!<br /><br />*I said "Semite".Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90710568385707562062011-12-18T23:33:35.578-08:002011-12-18T23:33:35.578-08:00...and likely some corrupt bargain with Lula's...<i> ...and likely some corrupt bargain with Lula's successor in Brazil (Dina whatsername?)</i> --Whiskey<br /><br />It's <i>Dilma</i>. (And that's pronounced "Jew-ma", so get ready to pounce, guys!) She's Bulgarian, which makes her the second or third Slav to lead Brazil. <br /><br />You can add <b>Rousseff</b> to the long list of non-Iberian names to rise to the top on the sugar-cone continent: <br /><br /><b>Kirchner, Aylwin, Bachelet, Pinochet, Menem, Bignone, Galtieri, Lastiri, Frondizi, Lonardi Doucet, Farrell, Rawson, Pellegrini Bevans, Stroessner, Schaerer, Wasmosy, Guggiari, Gill, Fujimori, Lindley, Humala Tasso, Ponce Brousset, Billinghurst, Kubitschek, Goulart, Mahuad Witt, Bucaram, Lusinchi, Herzog, Banzer, Sanguinetti, Bordaberry, Demicheli, </b>Duncan<b> Stewart,</b> and-- my favorite-- Bernardo <b>O'Higgins</b>.<br /><br />Lists of heads of state will also throw up a large number of Basque and Catalan names-- paging Mrs Andreessen!-- and the odd aboriginal as well.Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90969308522568747072011-12-18T22:51:17.438-08:002011-12-18T22:51:17.438-08:00Kim Jong the witch is dead the wicked witch the wi...Kim Jong the witch is dead the wicked witch the wicked witch, Kim Jong the witch is dead today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84761132110053616122011-12-18T20:05:00.413-08:002011-12-18T20:05:00.413-08:00Rough change for Vaclav Havel, he gets to be the 3...Rough change for Vaclav Havel, he gets to be the 3rd wheel between the journo-socialite extraordinaire and the bonkers Nork-in-Chief.Alcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29677537854318908622011-12-18T19:28:19.656-08:002011-12-18T19:28:19.656-08:00BTW, what's with all this "G_D" stuf...BTW, what's with all this "G_D" stuff?<br /><br />What kinda freak doesn't spell the word God? Leaving out the "o" accomplishes what exactly?<br /><br />This another one of these weird 21st century trends, like female tattoos, that I'm truly puzzled by.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82701054995317004392011-12-18T18:12:32.019-08:002011-12-18T18:12:32.019-08:00"edgy gurl, maybe you need to first learn wha..."edgy gurl, maybe you need to first learn what "atheist" means. It means "without god". Simple as that. No sane atheist ever claimed any proof of nonexistence of any god."<br /><br />The term generally applied to those who are neutral about god is "agnostic". Atheists tend to proselytize for abandoning all trappings of religion rather than accepting manifestations of a belief in god. That we even know Hitchens is an atheist means he, a non theologian, was shooting his mouth off about the existence of God and claiming that holding a belief in such an existence is harmful. <br /><br />What happened to Sailer, btw. Did he kick the bucket earlier this year like old Hitch?edgy gurlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64391185923016168632011-12-18T17:59:06.803-08:002011-12-18T17:59:06.803-08:00Where is the real courage in defending Irving on b...Where is the real courage in defending Irving on bloodless, universalist, moralising, free speech grounds; knowing you'll get a pass from TPTB for good works past, present and future in service of the cherished cause; and always qualifying your support with the usual ooga-booga rhetoric including the notorious anecdote, in which we are asked to believe that some avuncular, old-fashioned advice proffered to the mother of Hitchen's child had the tough guy dry retching in his corn flakes at the horror, the horror...<br /><br />G PinfoldAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14643917182339665242011-12-18T16:56:07.194-08:002011-12-18T16:56:07.194-08:00"They are internationalists who instead of us..."They are internationalists who instead of using the Soviet Union as the base for their world revolution use the USA. Instead of using Communist rhetoric they use Capitalist rhetoric but its all about them having power not about economic ideology."<br /><br />Using this logic, British Imperialists and Spanish Conquistadores were Trotskyites too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89917500272345667822011-12-18T16:54:09.499-08:002011-12-18T16:54:09.499-08:00"but this is almost pure sophistry as the neo..."but this is almost pure sophistry as the neocons, for those old enough or with the right heritage, are simply Trotskyites with a new brand-name."<br /><br />They are still Trotskyites in style, not in substance. Ideologically, their brand of permanent revolution is more along the line of Schumpeterian 'creative destruction' than radical Marxist class warfare. <br />So, Trotskyitism for neocons is more a mental habit than an ideological agenda.<br /><br />Also, we need to draw a distinction between the older generation neocons who really had been genuine Trotskyites--in both ideology and style--and those who came later who adopted the Trotskyite style but never the ideology(since their parents had dropped Marxism). Irving Kristol was a real Trotskyite who turned away from Marxism but kept the Trotskyite style. His son William grew up without Trotskyite content but only the style. <br />Hitchens is something of an oddball because he came to Trotskyitism in the 60s and mainly to jump on the radical bandwagon. And even to the end, he didn't ideologically let go of certain tenets of Trotskyitism. But then, I think he was more into the style than the substance of anything. It's no wonder that he got a gig at Vanity Fair, a magazine of cultural fashion. Hitchen's Marxism was about as genuine as Bertolucci's. <br /><br />What the neocons really are are Tribeskyites.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63779096075874971182011-12-18T16:37:44.744-08:002011-12-18T16:37:44.744-08:00Anonymojus @2:34 PM:
Steve Sailer is a Catholic, ...Anonymojus @2:34 PM:<br /><br />Steve Sailer is a Catholic, not an atheist, as I recall.<br /><br />On the "gadfly" issue: The more profusely one is praised in one's own time as a gadfly, the less likely that he is an actual gadfly.Glaivesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16867323638154972101noreply@blogger.com