Author: VD

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Vox Day @voxday
The fact outsiders are starting to accuse people of using GG for SELF-PROMOTION means #GamerGate has DESTROYED the SJW Narrative about it.

le kacho face :^) ‏@KachoArinoDesu
not really sure how that logic works, voxy

(´・ω・｀) ‏@_icze4r
@KachoArinoDesu that doesn’t make any fucking sense

le kacho face :^) ‏@KachoArinoDesu
@_icze4r it really doesn’t but that’s militant GG for you

Platinum ‏@PlatinumParagon
@KachoArinoDesu I’ve spent the past few minutes trying to figure this fucking shit out. My brain cells.

Tyler Valle ‏@TylerValleGG
@KachoArinoDesu RUN! DON’T GET SUCKED IN BY VOX! RUUUUUUUNNNN!!!!!!!!

le kacho face :^) ‏@KachoArinoDesu
@TylerValleGG >me
>agreeing with Vox Day
>ever

Vox Day ‏@voxday
It’s straightforward. No self-promoter advances himself by jumping on a bandwagon that everyone hates and thinks is awful.

It probably goes without saying, but it hurts me far more to have to explain something so patently obvious than to see ten thousand SJWs calling me names. But on the plus side, that’s a new one for the SJWs in science fiction to cower over and whisper fearfully about. I’m not just GG, I’m militant GG. To say nothing of:

Hugo Recommendations: Best Professional Artist

This is how I am voting in the Best Professional Artist category. Of course, I merely
offer this information regarding my individual ballot for no particular
reason at all, and the fact that I have done so should not be confused
in any way, shape, or form with a slate or a bloc vote, much less a
direct order by the Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil Legion of Evil to his
390 Vile Faceless Minions or anyone else.

  1. Kirk DouPonce
  2. Alan Polack
  3. Julie Dillon
  4. Nick Greenwood
  5. Carter Reid

Best Novel
Best Novella
Best Short Story
Best Fan Writer
Best Related Work 
Best Editor

I’ll put up my complete ballot tomorrow. But in the meantime, perhaps this will help explain why I believe Kirk DouPonce to be one of the best cover artists in the business.

#PPGate

Someone asked me at the Brainstorm session last night how abortion foes could utilize #GamerGate tactics to take down Planned Parenthood. I said I didn’t know, but that it would be tough if they were reliant upon government funding, because choking off government funding is difficult.

Well, Moe Lane just provided the answer.

“Here are the 41 companies that have directly funded Planned Parenthood.”

    Adobe
    American Cancer Society
    American Express
    AT&T
    Avon
    Bank of America
    Bath & Body Works
    Ben & Jerry’s
    Clorox
    Coca-Cola
    Converse
    Deutsche Bank
    Dockers

The rest of the 41 corporations are listed at the link. Start sending emails, complete with quotes from the Planned Parenthood people about selling organs from aborted infants, to the PR/Marketing departments of these corporations and asking them if they support those practices. Put all the relevant names and emails on a central site, complete with various draft emails, and then start sending emails. Recruit others to do so. Talk about your activities under the #PPGate hashtag.

Don’t threaten, don’t talk about boycotts, don’t quote Bible verses, just try to get a statement from them concerning whether they support Planned Parenthood’s sale of harvested human organs. Don’t whine, suck it up and recall that thousands of gamers did this for weeks before getting any results. Another important thing is to regularly push encouraging graphic memes on Twitter; this is only one of hundreds of examples of the images posted by #GamerGaters to keep the emails flowing.

Abject surrender is never easy

The tide of national opinion appears to be turning against the sovereignty sell-outs of Syrizia:

The Greek leader is fighting for political survival after abandoning his opposition to austerity earlier this month with his country on the brink of financial collapse. He’s trying to hold off elections long enough to steer the country through the bailout negotiations, Michaelides said.

The plenary debate began at about 9 a.m. in Athens with the vote in the Greek parliament scheduled for around midnight. The bill under consideration includes the transposition of the European Union’s Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive into national law, as well as an overhaul of Code of Civil Procedure.

“There is a risk of the number of rebels growing,” said Michael Michaelides, a fixed-income strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in London. “It will be a question of whether Tsipras can maintain the party under control to prevent unwanted political developments.”

Considerable risk, I should think. But I think it’s cute that they call what is little more than an unconditional surrender veiled by a modicum of trivia to help the sell-outs save face “negotiations”.

The more interesting thing is the word that Tsipras had intended to go back to the drachma, but neither Russia nor China would come through with the $10 billion they needed to print drachmas. But I’m not sure I buy that, as they could have simply declared they were back on the drachma with or without the notes.

Conservatives begin to notice #GamerGate

Robert Stacy McCain salutes the downfall of #GamerGate enemy Max Read. It’s good to see that conservatives, who are also hated by SJWs, are finally beginning to grasp that #GamerGate is an important development in the cultural war. There is a lot they could learn from it, to be sure, and they would be wise to adopt its 4GW tactics. However, the neocons and GOP conservatives, and in particular, the self-serving famewhores among them, should be warned that any attempts to coopt #GamerGate like they did the Tea Party will fail in a brutally spectacular manner.

“Never underestimate your enemy,” is a maxim of military strategy. Before you decide to go to war on the Internet, first consider the fate of Max Read, who was riding high as editor of Gawker until he decided that insulting #GamerGate was a smart move. He chose poorly.

When a friend, Beth Haper, first alerted me to the cultural significance of #GamerGate, I was skeptical. Really? A bunch of gamers were going to expose the bias and corruption of the media? This seemed improbable, but the fact that #GamerGate was arrayed against feminists drew my interest because, of course, I was working on a book about radical feminism’s War on Human Nature. Let us stipulate that #GamerGate is not “political” in the usual Left/Right Democrat/Republican way that Americans typically think about politics. Nevertheless, as fate would have it, the exposure of the Zoe Quinn/Nathan Grayson connection made gamers aware how unscrupulous women could exploit feminist politics and how unprincipled journalists were willing to assist this tawdry little racket. (See “The #GamerGate vs. Gawker War.”)

In war, your allies are whoever is fighting your enemies, and the motives of your allies matter far less than their skill in battle. Say what you will about #GamerGate, they are skilled and determined fighters.

Operation Disrespectful Nod is making believers of anyone who ever made the mistake of underestimating them. Just ask Max Read.

Conservatives should absolutely learn from #GamerGate. Given their own troubles with the SJW-dominated mainstream media, they should study and adopt its tactics, even though many of those tactics, such as the rejection of Narrative and central leadership, and the devotion to truth rather than spin, will be anathema to some of them. What they should do is form their own groups and conduct their own operations; the brilliant exposure of Planned Parenthood is an example of the sort of thing they can do.

#GamerGate is a model, not a vehicle to be captured and steered in a new direction.

But these conservatives with a newfound respect for #GamerGate would do very well to stay out of GG proper, and the conservative media whores should absolutely refrain from following their usual practice of leaping in at the front of the parade and claiming to be leading it. I, for one, haven’t forgotten when shills like Dick Armey, Dana Loesch, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann began proclaiming themselves to be leaders of the Tea Party, or when Joseph Farah wrote The Tea Party Manifesto 18 months after the movement was in full effect. Even at the time, I remember thinking, “do you seriously think you’re going to get away with it?” Then CNN hired Loesch as its “senior Tea Party correspondent”…. The fast and furious entrance of shills was one of the reasons I refrained from ever doing anything more than expressing general sympathy for the Tea Party’s original goals; you may recall I predicted early on that it would end up amounting to nothing.

I’m skeptical that anything of note will come of it. But it’s nice to see the scope of American discontent even so. And anything that the mainstream media doesn’t want to cover can’t be all bad….I’d quite like to see a few Republican politicians punched in the face at these events. The damned whores did NOTHING when they were in power, so to see them attempt to coopt a popular movement in order to retrieve what they threw away is particularly disgusting.
– April 15, 2009

I don’t hear any powerful Republicans showing much concern of the Tea Party turning on them, and more to the point, I see a lot of signs that the Tea Party has already been co-opted. When establishment Republicans are talking about gradual change and bipartisan consolidation while neocons like Sarah Palin and Dana Loesch are hailed as Tea Party “leaders”, it doesn’t take a genius to see that what has happened time and time again to rebellious conservative grass roots organizations is already happening to the Tea Party.
– November 2, 2010

American media conservatives would be wise to understand that #GamerGate is transnational, apolitical, doesn’t support political parties, and won’t hesitate to do what we did to Gawker and turn a Disrespectful Nod in the direction of their advertisers if they try to coopt us or pull that lame sort of self-promoting shill shit.

The Tea Party naively welcomed the conservative shills who coopted their movement and steered it right into the shoals of the Republican Party. #GamerGate hates shills with a passion second only to their hatred of SJWs and has been proactive about how to deal with them from the start. So don’t even think about it unless you want all your hashtags to belong to us and your Twitter feed full of porn courtesy of Mercedes.

To quote an influential #GamerGate document: “No leaders. – This is a 100% shill idea.”

I am the Leader of #GamerGate and so can you.

Don’t laugh, it will happen everywhere

Greeks don’t appear to be inclined to provide their banks with any more unsecured loans:

President of Greek Banks Association Louka Katseli appealed at the citizens to return their money to the banks. “Banks are absolutely trustworthy,” Katseli told Mega TV “as guaranteed by the ECB and the Bank Association, but they would have been even more powerful if 40 billion euros had not been withdrawn in the last months.

Katseli, a former PASOK Minister, appealed to citizens to return their deposits  to the banks “now that the banks are open” after a three-week holiday and capital controls.

“Let’s all help our economy,” Katseli urged Greeks and added “If you take your money out of your chests and houses – which are not safe in any case – and deposit at banks, this will enhance liquidity.”

Katseli’s appeal triggered laughter among Greeks and one stressed with hint to capital controls “Oh yes! I will bring my money back to the bank and get it back 60 by 60 euro.”

Another one noted “Ah sure! Banks will never see my money again, I prefer to buy tonnes of peanuts with it.”

A third commented “Certainly. And the banks will go bust after a while…”

A fourth reckoned a very unfortunate incident in 2010 and busted into tears and laughter. Back then Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos had appealed to the Greeks to buy Greek bonds. The man invested 10,000 euro to help Greece. Two years later, his investment underwent a 53%-Haircut due to the PSI. Now the nominal value of his investment is … “I don’t even open the envelopes coming from the bank anymore, too frustrating,” he told me.

We are witnessing the slow death of the global financial system. While the elites fantasize about the idea of electronic money that can be controlled at all times, everywhere, they had better remember that their whole plan depends upon keeping the masses fat and happy.

Because these days, no one is untouchable.

Brainstorm tonight

If you’re an Annual or Monthly member, don’t forget that we’ve got a member’s-only event tonight. I’ve slightly changed the topics, because writing SJWS ALWAYS LIE has got me thinking about some things I think need addressing.

The Brainstorm July session will be Tuesday, July 21st, from 7:30 to
9:00 PM EDT. The topics will be the idea of designing a superior
alternative to Wikipedia, how the lessons of #GamerGate apply to the anti-SJW war in science fiction, and updates on applied Life Design, the Tor
boycott, and the Hugo Awards. If you’d like to take part, you can
acquire either a monthly or an annual membership.

I have the transcript from last month’s event but I haven’t finished going through it yet. I should have it out to members by the end of the week. I’ve been a little occupied, as after six days, SJWS ALWAYS LIE is nearly half complete. Is this what it’s always like to be Jonathan Moeller?

NOTE: Please don’t sign up after 7 PM, as I won’t be able to get you the registration information.

Everyone hates Gawker

Because other than occasionally sending emails to their dwindling pool of advertisers, I pay no attention to Gawker, I completely missed the fact that the Gawker Review of Books addressed the Puppies and the Gallo attack in Gawker’s inimitable – and yes, libelous – style back in June.

The Sad Puppies are also closely associated with neoreactionary, Gamergater, and notorious white supremacist Vox Day (he says he’s not a white supremacist, but he also says “Racism is neither a sin nor is it a societal evil. Race-based self-segregation is not only the observably preferred human norm for all races throughout the entirety of recorded human history, it is inevitable,” so go ahead and draw your own conclusions) who both played a part in picking the Sad Puppies nominees and started his own Rabid Puppies slate. Coincidentally, a number of the Rabid Puppies nominees have been published by Day’s obscure, Finland-based publishing house, Castalia House.

“I don’t mind being linked to Vox, because I don’t hate and fear Vox like a little schoolgirl who’s been stung by a wasp,” Torgersen has written.

And that’s who the most powerful publisher in sci-fi apparently decided to appease at the expense of one of its own employees.

But why?

Puppy supporters have been talking shit about Tor from the beginning of their campaign, largely because Tor editors Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden have been openly critical, and were among the first to note that Gamergate and the Puppies were making common cause. In April, Larry Correia, who started and named the original Sad Puppies campaign two years ago, had to tell Puppies supporters to chill out with their attacks on the publisher, because—as Tom Doherty also pointed out—Tor has published Puppy favorites like John C. Wright. Wright rode the Puppies slates to a record-breaking six Hugo nominations this year.

The frenzy started again last week, though, when Vox Day reignited it with a screencap of Irene Gallo’s Facebook comments, calling them “libel.” (He calls a lot of things libel.)

I don’t call “a lot of things libel”. I simply happen to be libeled on a regular basis by liars in the media at places like Gawker and The Guardian. For example, I’m not a “white supremacist”, I am a “red reservationist” who supports the right of my tribe and others to keep our racially segregated reservations established by treaty with the U.S. Federal Government.

If Jay Hathaway opposes the right of Native Americans to retain their racially segregated reservations, then he should come right out and say it. And he should also apologize for libeling me and correct his piece. But I won’t hold my breath; Gawker may well be history once Hulk Hogan gets through with them.

And notice classic SJW inversion at work. The Puppy supporters have been “talking shit about Tor” because Tor editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden and FORMER Tor editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden, to say nothing of various Torlings, have been “talking shit” about various Puppies for more than ten years now.

GG acquires two more SJW scalps

Chicago rules. They disemployed one of ours, we disemployed two of theirs:

Tommy Craggs, the executive editor of Gawker Media, and Max Read, the editor-in-chief of Gawker.com, are resigning from the company. In letters sent today, Craggs and Read informed staff members that the managing partnership’s vote to remove a controversial post about the CFO of Condé Nast—a unprecedented act endorsed by zero editorial employees—represented an indefensible breach of the notoriously strong firewall between Gawker’s business interests and the independence of its editorial staff. Under those conditions, Craggs and Read wrote, they could not possibly guarantee Gawker’s editorial integrity.

Yeah, I’m sure that’s the reason they resigned. The inability to “guarantee Gawker’s editorial integrity.”

See: The First Law of SJW. SJWs always lie.

A successful SJW attack

This is exactly why I am taking time out from A SEA OF SKULLS to write SJWS ALWAYS LIE. This guy was fired one week into his new job because he supports #GamerGate:

My first week of work was beyond magical. Everyone there was nice. They had great benefits and really cared about my input. My only complaint was that my emails regarding work were never gotten back to — eager to impress, any and every idea I had, I fired off. Podcasts, interviews, events…I was desperate to show them I was right and ready and fit for the job.

At some point on the seventh day, I was called into an office, where I was sat down and informed by my boss that he’d made a couple of calls and he’d found out that my ‘reputation was bad’. I was stunned — I’d known that I’d disagreed with my peers in the past, but to the point where my reputation was bad? What had happened that had affected my quality of work so much that my rep was bad?

I was informed that a few (from what I gather from the way he was speaking two or three) people in the industry had taken issue with me, and I quote, ‘specifically citing your stance on Gamergate. As you know, it’s seen as a hate group against women’. My emphasis added — they had always declared themselves to be neutral on these issues. While he said they had no problem with me or the quality of my work, specific individuals had said they would not read my work or attend any events I hosted, meaning I could not do my job as PR.

My whole world fell apart — I pleaded with them to tell me who it was so I could make amends, or at the very least, open a line of dialogue. I was told ‘I understand this is is a tough position for you, but I can’t’. Given notice, I was sent home and asked to come back the following morning with a plan to make things right.

Strike back harder. If you find out someone in your company opposes #GamerGate, fire them. Their reputation is bad and they clearly cannot do their job. Do not show mercy. Do not accept excuses. If they’re anti-GG, they do not pass Go, they do not collect $200, they go directly to the unemployment line.

The SJWs successfully applied Stage Six of the SJW Attack Sequence: Appeal to Amenable Authority. The guy’s boss wasn’t neutral, he’s an SJW, which is why the guy didn’t even get the benefit of a Stage Seven Show Trial.