恭喜！別客氣。

I had an initial look at the Hugo statistics. I’ll have more on them later, but what leaped out immediately was the fact that the Puppy vote tipped the balance in Best Novel, giving it to Cixin Liu’s very good hard SF novel instead of Katherine Addison’s SJW fantasy angst-fest.

2649 The Three Body Problem
2449 The Goblin Emperor

Considering that the Rabid Puppy vote averaged 565 across the various categories, that demonstrates that we have the ability to play kingmaker even when we’re outnumbered approximately 4.5 to one by the SJWs combined with the traditional WorldCon community.

I’m going to guess that other than Chaos Horizon, who confirmed my Best Novel analysis, we’re not going to see a lot of SJW commentary on that, as they are too busy celebrating their successful self-immolations.

Goblin Emperor lost the Best Novel to Three-Body Problem
by 200 votes. Since there seem to have been at least 500 Rabid Puppy
voters who followed VD’s suggestion to vote Liu first, this means Liu
won because of the Rabid Puppies. Take that as you will.

Based on Chaos Horizon’s numbers, it appears there are 2500 SJWs, up from 1,100 last year, plus 2,400 WorldCon voters who are naturally biased against the Puppies, mostly on the basis of our slates, but are not intrinsically opposed to us on ideological grounds. That’s pretty close to their maximum mobilization, whereas 565 RP and 450 SP is only a fraction of our own.

I also appreciated this email from a RA, a non-Puppy who is one of the many former fans unhappy with what the SJW gatekeepers have decided is sufficiently non-problematic fiction worthy of publishing:

I wanted to write to you to say thank you for your work demonstrating the toxicity of the social justice warriors that have invested science fiction.

Science fiction was the first community I ran screaming from when the SJWs appeared – the amount of anti-white racism, the group-think, and the identity politics was shocking and horrifying to me. Segregated anthologies, editors that saw no harm in ranting about how they despised an entire race of people, and reviewers who made a point of counting how many “coloureds” and “women” there were in anthologies so they could decide how good they were.

Looking back I can’t believe how bad it was, and I’m glad I no longer write or am involved in science fiction groups.

I am absolutely indebted to you for your work on the Hugo Awards which show so clearly their approach to people who do not “rightthink”. In a way it shows me that I wasn’t crazy, that they were abhorrent, and that this is a community I should never have been involved in, given the horrible things it endorses.

RA is quite welcome, of course. The current SF community is a deeply sick and twisted one, and their ridiculous preferences in literature are merely a symptom of the real issues that plague them. The five categories burned last night are only the first sparks of the cleansing conflagration that is coming.

Immigration hard line is a winner

Donald Trump increases his lead in the polls after releasing his anti-invasion plan:

Republican Donald Trump is pulling away from the pack in the race for the party’s U.S. presidential nomination, widening his lead over his closest rivals in the past week, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Friday.

Republican voters show no signs they are growing weary of the brash real estate mogul, who has dominated political headlines and the 17-strong Republican presidential field with his tough talk about immigration and insults directed at his political rivals. The candidates are vying to be nominated to represent their party in the November 2016 general election.

Nearly 32 percent of Republicans surveyed online said they backed Trump, up from 24 percent a week earlier, the opinion poll found. Trump had nearly double the support of his closest competitor, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who got 16 percent. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was third at 8 percent.

Some have theorized that Trump is a Clinton stalking horse. But in light of what appears to be happening to both Trump and Clinton in the polls, is it possible that they have it backwards?

Hugo 2015 results

We had 315 people celebrating the Rabid Puppy demolition of the 2015 Hugo Awards at the Brainstorm online party, but I have to confess, I am just a little disappointed. With the unwitting assistance of the SJWs, we managed to burn five categories, but after Chu won the Campbell, I was confident that we were going to get a historic seven. Sadly, Novelette and Graphic Novel both eluded us. It’s disappointing, because apparently only five had been awarded in the entire history of the award, and I would have liked to have exceeded that this year.

I understand that Toni Weisskopf of Baen Books walked out of the ceremony after hearing all the jokes about this being the year of the asterisk. It is just as well, because the no-awarding of her, John C. Wright, and Jim Butcher is conclusive proof that the Hugo Awards are no longer fit for purpose and need to be burned down in their entirety. That was my original position, but this year we Rabids followed the Sad Puppies lead and pursued the “fair play” approach.

Now we know the result of that. This is a cultural war, not a literary sport. They are practicing a scorched earth strategy, and we can certainly assist them in that since we do not value their territory. I still think it was worth trying to take Berlin and end the war in one fell swoop, but even though our attempt break them once and for all failed, that only means that the victory was less than complete. What the Puppies accomplished was incredible when you look at the numbers involved and clearly indicates that the Rabid strategy, not the Sad one, is the only viable strategy. There will be no reconciliation.

Some SJWs are already trying to claim that they only rejected Toni Weisskopf because she was “part of a slate”, but the fact that they had no problem voting for Guardians of the Galaxy, which was on the same slate, demonstrates very clearly that they have no such principle, it’s all about the politics for them.

No doubt George Martin, John Scalzi, David Gerrold, The Guardian, and the rest of the SJWs will try to portray this as a resounding defeat for us, but keep this in mind: the side that resorts to a scorched earth strategy is the one that is losing and in retreat. All they have accomplished is to convert many Sad Puppies into Rabid Puppies.

They have talked about sending us a message, and we have heard it. I don’t know about you, but the message I heard was “bring more Puppies.”

UPDATE: This is amusing. The SJWs are so pleased with what they are claiming was a “victory” that they have vanished the categories that were No Awarded. “Those categories in which there were Awards presented are listed below.”

UPDATE 2: The vote totals are here. With 525 Rabid Puppies, we definitely face an uphill climb, but keep in mind that this represents their fully mobilized forces, up from their anti-Puppy vote of 1,100 last year. I’ll analyze this and share some of my thoughts in a future post.

Below are the results, along with my personal vote and how I voted the winner:

Best Novel

    The Three-Body Problem (1)

 Best Novella

    No Award
    “One Bright Star to Guide Them”

Best Novelette

    “The Day the World Turned Upside Down” (5)

Best Short Story

    No Award
    “Turncoat”, Steve Rzasa (Riding the Red Horse, Castalia House)

Best Related Work

    No Award
    “The Hot Equations: Thermodynamics and Military SF”

Best Graphic Story

    Ms Marvel
    No Award

 Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)

    Guardians of the Galaxy (1)

 Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)

    Orphan Black: “By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried” (4)

 Best Editor, Short Form

    No Award
    Vox Day

Best Editor, Long Form

    No Award
    Toni Weisskopf

Best Professional Artist

    Julie Dillon (3)

Best Semiprozine

    Lightspeed Magazine (4)

Best Fanzine

    Journey Planet (4)

Best Fancast

    Galactic Suburbia Podcast (3)

Best Fan Writer

    Laura J. Mixon (5)

Best Fan Artist

    Elizabeth Leggett (1)

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

    Wesley Chu (2)

Brainstorm Hugo Party

Whether it’s a Sad Puppy sweep or we burned down the house, you are invited to celebrate the 2015 Hugo Awards online
with the Rabid Puppies, the Dread Ilk, the Vile Faceless Minions, and
two-time 2015 Hugo nominee Vox Day on August 22nd at 11 PM EST.

The Ustream video doesn’t work all that well through the webinar, so you’ll probably want to run it on your own machine. But there are 243 folks registered already, so come by and bring your own prosecco. Or champagne, if you swing that way.

Europe awakens

Even the Swedes, Europe’s most limp-wristed and ideologically supine nationality, are beginning to defend themselves against the third-world invaders:

The Sweden Democrat party has been gradually rising in popularity since it scored 12.9 percent in the country’s last general election in September 2014. But a survey by pollsters YouGov published in Sweden’s Metro newspaper on Thursday suggested that 25.2 percent of those questioned would now vote for the nationalists, who are calling for dramatic cuts in immigration to Sweden.

Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s Social Democrat party – which remains in favour of helping large numbers of refugees from war torn nations – scored 23.4 percent in the poll. The centre-right Moderates, led by Anna Kinberg Batra who took over from the country’s former Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt earlier this year, saw their share cut to just 21.0, having previously scored higher than their ruling rivals in recent surveys.

The Sweden Democrats, with roots in the country’s most radical extreme right, entered parliament in 2010 with the ambition of curbing Sweden’s immigration and refugee policy.

We’re already seeing borders closed. The deportations should begin within two years. Meanwhile, in Germany, the violence is picking up steam:

Up to 1,000 protesters have clashed with police in eastern Germany in riots reportedly sparked by the arrival of 250 migrants.

Police said protesters shouting “foreigners out” and carrying banners against the “asylum flood” threw bottles and stones at busloads of asylum seekers arriving in Heidenau, near Dresden.

At least 31 officers were hurt in violent scuffles as police used tear gas to disperse crowds.

If the government will not resist invasion, the people will.

The Leader of SP3 speaks

Brad Torgersen shares his “reaction” statement to the Wall Street Journal:

Because people will be gloating and/or gnashing their teeth (alternately) I’ve not been much inclined to make any after-the-fact statements. My “job” with this thing, finished the minute the door shut on the voting.

But I want to re-emphasize something I told WIRED magazine’s Amy Wallace: it doesn’t necessarily matter who wins or loses a Hugo award this year, as much as it matters that participation keeps increasing.

This year there were a record number of memberships, and a record number of ballots cast. This is very, very good. A democracy (any democracy) is only as worthwhile as those who keep their end up by actively participating. Past Hugo voting has tended to be remarkably anemic. Sad Puppies has changed this significantly — for two years running. If the participation (beyond 2015) declines, the Hugos are diminished. If participation grows, the Hugos mean more. That’s the real bottom line (in my book) and it goes way beyond which “side” can construct victory narratives.

A fine and noble sentiment. I applaud him for it. And I don’t disagree; a larger electorate means 40 Tor-affiliated SJWs can’t continue to hand Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Charles Stross and John Scalzi more Hugos to go with the 39 they’ve already collected.

Meanwhile, Mark Judge of CNS sets the historical record straight:

There is controversy surrounding this year’s Hugo Awards, the prestigious science fiction prize which will be handed out this Saturday and whose previous winners have included Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Robert Heinlein. This year’s ballot has many names on it that liberals and the media have denounced as racist and reactionary white men.

The group in question counter that they are not reactionary, racist, or even white, and that the reporting on the entire episode has been atrocious.

The group of writers, calling themselves the “Sad Puppies” – a satire on liberalism’s penchant for appealing to emotion over logic – successfully got themselves on the Hugo ballot, and then nominated, by appealing to the fans who vote for the award. The Sad Puppies unofficial leader is Brad Torgerson, author of “The Chaplain’s War” and other works and a U.S. Army Reserve Warrant Officer. Torgerson, who has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula, another prestigious sci-fi prize, told one interviewer, “It became plainly obvious, especially after 2010, that a lot of the classic works of the old days – there’s no way they could possibly make it in the current climate because the current climate was all about affirmative action.”

In which tonight’s events are contemplated

Aaron sent over this cheerful meme of the Supreme Dark Lord at his ease. I just wish he’d sent it sooner, so I could have sent it in as my picture for the Awards ceremony. C’est la vie. I’m feeling more than a little optimistic today, although about what exactly I can’t say. Perhaps it is because I finished the final draft of SJWS ALWAYS LIE: Taking Down the Thought Police last night and will be able to deliver it on August 27th, the first anniversary of #GamerGate, as planned. Or perhaps because Art of Sword is coming along nicely, as we’ve finally got some of the powerups in and working. Or perhaps because we’ve got our gargantuan new project server coming on line this weekend.

I’m looking forward to tonight no matter what happens. Several media outlets have asked me for my take on the situation after the awards are announced, as there is considerably more interest in the outcome than usual, but the fact of the matter is that we achieved our objectives back in April. The Rabid Puppies outperformed my expectations, and if they do so again tonight, it won’t be for the first time. Regardless, we have broken the perceived power of the SJWs in science fiction once and for all; they are not frantically debating the best way to mitigate our growing influence in science fiction because they believe they are still in control of it.

I had to laugh when I read that some of the people at the business meeting wanted to postpone the vote on EPH until after the awards were announced because they wanted to see what the results were before taking a position on it. This indicates that they still have no idea what motivates us or what we expect to accomplish. They are too solipsistic to understand our goals even when we tell them straight out what they are. So to be clear, WorldCon, be informed that He Who Shall Only Be Named In Fearful Whispers supports E Pluribus Hugo 100 percent. As for the other anti-slate plan, X of Y, I am totally indifferent because it is structurally futile. Contra the purpose of its designers, it provides an even bigger advantage to disciplined slates than the current rules do. It’s irrelevant.

As the International Lord of Hate observed concerning EPH: “So it rewards coordination between a group that is willing to focus
votes for one item per category. Did Vox write that proposal for them?”

George Martin is already frantically pre-spinning the Narrative, declaring that no awards being given out means the truefen win and the Puppies lose, except of course when it doesn’t because he’s totally against slates except when a slate nominates something he likes. It’s the usual SJW incoherence. But we don’t care if I win Best Editor or No Award does, we don’t care if Tom Kratman wins best novella or No Award does, the objective was to ensure that none of the usual SJWs did. And in that, we have already succeeded brilliantly. Sure, it would be amusing to see Jim or John or Rolf or Eric win a plastic rocket, but only because that would, somewhat to my surprise, upset the SJWs even more than the demise of the awards.

John C. Wright is one of science fiction’s greatest authors, Jim Butcher is one of fantasy’s most popular, and I truly did not expect that the SJWs would rather burn the awards to the ground than permit one of them to be recognized for their contributions to the field. But that is certainly an acceptable outcome.

What Martin and the other SJWs are hoping is that by establishing false objectives for us (and then praying that we don’t achieve them), we will be demoralized and go away with our tails tucked between our legs, chastened by the disapproval of the empty-handed, but victorious truefen. This is amusing, because it is not us, but them, who are demoralized. Consider the despairing lament of one SJW at io9.

I’m so WEARY of these assholes. This is supposed to be FUN. It
isn’t supposed to be a long, bitter war. I hope the Puppies are
fucking trounced in disgrace at the Hugo’s. I hope “no award”
wins for most of the categories they flooded. As wonderful as that
will be it will just make them more bloodthirsty, bigoted and
pigheaded. This drama won’t end with the Hugo’s.

No, it won’t. They’re weary and in despair because they thought they’d already won the cultural war. They didn’t realize that we were still mobilizing, that we were gearing up to blow them off the battlefield with weapons and dark forces they didn’t know existed. What demoralized us was seeing SJW crap fill the bookstore shelves. What demoralized us was seeing utterly forgettable romance novels in space being declared the best that science fiction had to offer. If that mediocre SJW-infested nonsense was the best that could make it past the publishing gatekeepers, then what was the point of reading it or writing it?

Compared to nearly three decades of that, what is one more year of not winning awards? We never won any before, so what the hell do we care?

Tonight will tell us one very important thing. It will give us the opportunity to see what their true numbers are and reveal the true extent of their fully mobilized strength. Last year, the maximum No Award vote was 1,100. This year it will be more, somewhere between 1,100 and 4,000.

Being SJWs, they doubled-down as per the Second Law, giving us the chance to break them once and for all. But even if we don’t, even if we only burn Munich instead of taking Berlin, even if they are successful in “sending a message”, what we hear will not be what they wish for us to hear. Because what we will hear is this: Next year, bring more puppies.

Worldcon Minions

They’re not likely to be confused with the Vile Faceless Minions of the Evil Legion of Evil.

Too much faces. Not enough slavering jaws, black talons, or gnawed and splintered bones in the background.

In any event, this is your open WorldCon thread. Stay safe out there, Puppies, we have word of someone in a manatee t-shirt distributing unauthorized material that may be insensitive, problematic, offensive, exclusive, or otherwise dangerous. OpSec has been informed and has issued this warning:

Suspect is wearing a manatee t-shirt and has
placed a satirical flyer in the freebie area! Stay alert! If you see
something, say something!

Say what you will, but I think the Puppies have really gone too far this time! “US president Obama declares state of emergency in Washington State….”

    To: Carol Wilson Re: SFWA Membership

    Dear Carol,

    First, congratulations on your recent sales! We here at SFWA are always happy to see the professional success of authors.

    It should be noted, however, that one or more of the markets you listed are under review for desirability issues.

    However, if the sales are validated, I’d appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to answer a few questions to help us properly determine the true quality and merits of your work.

    1. What does your genitalia look like?

    2. How do you feel about what your genitalia looks like?

    3. Have you ever changed your genitalia?

    4. If you responded “No” to question 3, are you planning, or have you ever planned to change your genitalia?

    5. When you are naked in bed with another person, what does their genitalia look like?

    6. Of the major characters in your stories, how many have genitalia different than yours?

    7. Have you ever represented a character of the LGBTQQIAPHDBDSMBFDVIPRSVPRESPECTEIEIO groups as an antagonist/villain or as having any negative traits?

    Finally, please provide an evaluation of the melanin content of your skin. If you do not have a medical result available, please go to your local Sherwin-Williams store and obtain a copy of Palette Card #17 – Earth Tones and enter the color number of the swatch which most closely resembles your skin. If your skin is lighter than the faintest color swatch on Palette Card #17 – Earth Tones, please enter “Oppressor White”.

    Again, congratulations on your sales and I hope we can process your membership in time for you to participate in our annual Shunning and Denouncement Survey. It’s great fun.

    Sincerely yours,

    S. J. Woreeahr

    President, Socialist Fiction Writers of America

This is, of course, crimethink and wrongsatire, an unspeakable horror worse than the Holocaust, the Holodomor, Hiroshima, and the Great Leap Forward combined. Our thoughts and prayers go out on behalf of all the wounded victims of WorldCon.

40 years

That’s how long it took African-Americans to transform excellent, oversized, newly constructed suburban housing into a community that became infamous worldwide for gangs, crime, and violence:

As late as 1948, fewer than fifty African Americans lived in among
Compton’s forty-five thousand residents. … Yet during the 1950s, Compton
underwent the most profound racial change of any city in Southern
California. Responding to the great demand for African American housing
outside the ghetto, a new group of tract home developers and real estate
brokers found a niche in the unrestricted housing market. … This
undeveloped property became a fertile area for the growth of the city’s
black population. Davenport builders, a large developer, quickly built
unrestricted tract homes on the western edge of Compton. … This was one
of the few places in Los Angeles County where blacks could buy new tract
housing. … “For once, the Negro did not move into slums; for once he
came into good housing.” Indeed, the 1960 census revealed that 93
percent of blacks in Compton lived in homes built since 1940, with more
than half residing in homes built since 1950. Compton’s houses were also
large: almost 75 percent of black households in Compton had four to
five rooms.

From Wikipedia: “For many years, Compton was a much sought after neighborhood for the black middle class of Los Angeles. Now, only some areas of Compton are still middle class communities. This past affluence is reflected in the area’s appearance—Compton’s streets are lined with relatively spacious and attractive single family houses. However, several factors have contributed to Compton’s decline. One of the most significant factors was a steady erosion of its tax base.”

How shocking it is to discover that despite the magic of geography and high quality infrastructure, African-Americans did not magically transform into 1950s-style tax-paying, economically sufficient white people. Interestingly enough, it has only taken my ruthless Aztec cousins 27 years to ethnically cleanse Compton of most of its African-Americans. What was a white city in 1948 and a black city in 1988 is now 65 percent La Raza, 32.9 percent black, and 0.8 percent white.

That’s what diversity in future America looks like, cuckservatives. One without white people. Good luck with that. It’s also why I think it is spectacularly funny that white SJWs believe one has to be a white supremacist in order to hate blacks. You’d think they never met an Arab, an Asian, or a Mexican.

SJW drama queens

Apparently it is very exciting for the little rabbits to claim that they have ventured forth from the warren and dared the wrath of the terrible Elil lurking outside. Even when they haven’t.

Larry Felton Johnson @larryfeltonj
I’ve been visited and tagged by everyone from Adam Baldwin to Vox Day since I sent those tweets.

Max Waters @rmaxwaters
I doubt that @voxday can be bothered to notice you exist.

Vox Day @voxday
I don’t know who he is and I have never visited or tagged him.

Larry Felton Johnson @larryfeltonj
I’ve achieved a hat trick. Vox Day, Adam Baldwin, and Mike Cernovich have dropped by to chat with a guy who writes about SPLOST projects

Vox Day@voxday
.@larryfeltonj Who are you, what is SPLOST, and what “chat” are you talking about? Twitter shows “from:voxday to:larryfeltonj = No results”

Larry Felton Johnson ‏@larryfeltonj
You left me tagged in this crazy convo.  SPLOST is a GA specific taxation method.  You have no need to wonder who I am.  My tag

Vox Day @voxday
.@larryfeltonj I have not been involved in this conversation. I neither know nor care you who are. But I’m sure you’re very brave and all.

It’s harmless enough and I don’t mind. I just find it amusing that I have become this mythic icon of terror among the lesser SJWs looking to make a name for themselves. I suppose it must be the mounds of skulls or something.

And it’s not as if we didn’t already know that SJWS ALWAYS LIE.