Tag: freakshow

You can’t ban love

It should be absolutely fascinating to see John Scalzi trying to talk Amazon into banning another book, this one called JOHN SCALZI BANNED THIS BOOK and published by “451 Publishing”.

The quote cracked me up: “I obviously reported it to Amazon as inappropriate.” Popehat, can we get a verdict on this one too? Is it parody or libel?

In any event, if you missed your opportunity to buy the banned John Scalzi Is A Rapist: Why SJWs Always Lie In Bed Waiting For His Gentle Touch; A Pretty, Pretty Girl Dreams of Her Beloved One While Pondering Gender Identity, Social Justice, and Body Dysmorphia before it was banned, don’t worry, you can still buy John Scalzi Banned This Book But He Can Never Ban My Burning Love: A Pretty, Pretty Girl Dreams of Her Beloved While Pondering Gender Identity, Social Justice, and Body Dysmorphia. I’m told it has just as many Chapter Fives.

A blazingly inventive parody that was banned by John Scalzi, despite Ms.
Eren being a huge Scalzi fan and an unemployed transgendered
up-and-coming romance author who needed the money so xe could one day
buy xerself a big, beautiful lawn of xer own. Soon to be nominated for
the Hugo, don’t miss the story of a love so bold it broke the Internet!”

As you might expect, the SJWs are back on their fainting couches. From File 770:

Gabriel F. on September 2, 2015 at 9:05 pm said:
The fact that John Scalzi is a Rapist was even briefly a bestseller is horrifying.

But wait, there’s more! SJWs Never Lie: Censorship is Tolerance! Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength!

Despite the claims of evil bigots, those who fight for social justice
never lie. And if they did, it would be for the right cause. The
once-proud title of Social Justice Warrior has been dragged through the
dirt of prejudice and hate long enough. Now, three prominent writers
speak out in its defense and on the public battles of our time:

“I, like, totally, don’t pay any attention to that racist, sexist,
homophobic douchevelociraptor Vox Day! Like, whatever, girl! Ten years
don’t… mean… nothing! Sashay, snap!”

-Brianna Scalzi, 147-time Hugo-nominated author of ‘Old Trope’s War’

Adventures in rhetoric

It’s intriguing to see how a simple mention of an easily verified observation brings, shall we say, the medicated, out of the woodwork:

Vox Day ‏@voxday
It’s impossible to balance constant SJW claims of “laughing” and “hilarity” with how many of them are on anti-depressants and psychotropics.

Popehat ‏@Popehat
well, the world’s a meritocracy, innit? We can’t all be as sane as you and the other WorldNetDaily writers.

Vox Day ‏@voxday
And here I thought you believed in equality, Popey. Are you “laughing so hard” all the time too?

Popehat ‏@Popehat
Nah. Definitely sometimes though. Thanks!

Vox Day ‏@voxday
Are you trying to claim that people who need to take drugs to be mentally stable are more sane than those who don’t?

Popehat ‏@Popehat
I would never throw shade at your mental stability Vox. How can a crazy person like me question someone so sane?

Vox Day ‏@voxday
You didn’t answer the question. Are those who require drugs to be mentally stable more or less sane than those who don’t?

Popehat ‏@Popehat
Less, by most definitions. And that’s important. How can we aspire to your clarity of thought without getting sane first?

Vox Day ‏@voxday
By correctly applying sound logic to observed facts. Don’t you understand yet that your rhetorical antics accomplish nothing?

Popehat ‏@Popehat
How could they against an intellect like yours? I’m crazy, your sane. Let people value sanity accordingly.

Vox Day ‏@voxday
They would accomplish nothing against a stone  as well. You might as reasonably attempt to achieve your goals here by juggling.

Popehat ‏@Popehat
never! Juggling is part of the gutter culture of carnies and non-Europeans

Vox Day ‏@voxday
You’re doing a fine job of demonstrating the pointlessness of speaking dialectic to a rhetoric speaker. Please continue.

Popehat ‏@Popehat
I’ll agree you’re operating on an entirely different plane than I am.

Vox Day ‏@voxday 
I’m delighted to hear we can reach an accord on something.

As predicted in SJWs Always Lie, speaking in dialectic to a rhetoric speaker is totally pointless. The information content is irrelevant. Popehat will continue in this vein, seeking to provoke an emotional response, or at least one that will permit him to play the victim, as long as he thinks there is a chance he can provoke something.

Another example. Notice how every comment is an attempt to provoke some kind of emotional reaction, combined with an amount of posturing.

Vox Day ‏@voxday
It’s impossible to balance constant SJW
claims of “laughing” and “hilarity” with how many of them are on
anti-depressants and psychotropics.

Jeff Fecke ‏@jkfecke
That is not how depression works, T. Pratt.

Vox Day @voxday
Are you the expert, then, Feckless? How many anti-depressants and psychotropics have you been on?

Jeff Fecke ‏@jkfecke
Oh, I do love when Ted “Theodore” Beale tweets me. How’s your dad doing?

Vox Day ‏@voxday
You didn’t answer the question, Jeff. How many anti-depressants and psychotropics have you been on?

Jeff Fecke ‏@jkfecke
I am currently on fluoxetine. I have also used Lexapro.

Vox Day ‏@voxday
I acknowledge your superior expertise on the subject. In answer to your question, my father is very well. Got an email 2 days ago.

SJWs and parody

What is it with SJW parodies and long titles anyhow?

The Angel Vox Day and the War for the Heavenly Gamergate Puppies (Give Me a Hugo!): Chapter 1: The Wicked Victory of Shoeless John! (The Chronicles of … Angel Vox Day and His Flaming Sword!!!!!!) by Tim Lieder

John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular: How SJWs Always Lie About Our Comparative Popularity Levels by Theophilus Pratt aka Rainbow Brite Boy

My favorite aspect of this is the way in which they’ve now roped in John Scalzi to read a parody that draws attention to the fact that he lies about his traffic and jokes about being a rapist. Nearly 30 pages of audio of Rapey McRaperson talking about himself? The Pink Rabbit Posse is practically beside itself with anticipation.

It’s also amusing how some SJWs are frantically insisting that they are totally LAUGHING and they find the whole thing HILARIOUS even as others talk about how depressed and upset and hurt they are. Remember, McRapey went with the whole “ha ha ha, this is SO ADORABLE” line for 26 months until he cracked and began angrily denouncing the “obvious lies” I was supposedly spreading about him.

SJWs always lie.

UPDATE: Apparently Peddy Phil didn’t read Chapter 10.


23m23 minutes ago

Vox’s claim that SJWs aren’t really laughing at him is shrill and desperate even by his standards:

The basic idea is that if you can make the other person feel small or angry, you are winning at SJW rhetoric. This is why SJWs are constantly accusing other people of being mad or upset; it’s just another way of them claiming to be winning the conversation.

Is it not fascinating how they repeatedly prove the truth of my words as they seek to undermine them?

The entertainment apocalypse


Allum Bokhari ‏@LibertarianBlue
@Nero asked me to get him some Skittles and then refused to eat them until I did this. Send help.

Space Bunny ‏@Spacebunnyday
Stop enabling him.

Milo Yiannopoulos ‏@Nero
shut up woman

I have to admit, Milo probably would make for a pretty damn entertaining reality show. He already has cameras and bomb threats following him around everywhere he goes. The problem is that I have this horrible suspicion that Spacebunny’s cameos and the two of them sniping at each other would turn out to be some of the most popular parts of the show, leading to a producer give her more air time and get on my case to do something other than sit on my scarlet throne and plot the demise of my enemies.


This week on “The Fabulous”, Allum is sent out on an emergency condom run at 4 AM in the red light district of Caracas that goes hilariously awry, Spacebunny and Milo spend an afternoon drinking margaritas and making cruel comments about women who really shouldn’t be wearing bikinis on Barra da Tijuca Beach, and after running out of Ristretto capsules, the Supreme Dark Lord is forced to dip into his emergency supply… that turn out to be Vanilla! 

Speaking of entertainment, we have 150 people registered for the Rabid Puppy Hugo Party where we’ll be celebrating the Awards ceremony online in an Open Brainstorm event. If you want to join us, you can register here.

UPDATE: And speaking of Sasquan, Hugo Nominee and Riding the Red Horse contributor Ken Burnside gives his “Physics and Space Combat” talk at 8 PM on Thursday.  Strongly recommended. Ken will be hosting an informal get together after the talk that may be of interest to Puppies, Ilk, Minions et al.

Apparently the schools were closed today

Phil Sandifer found himself free to continue our previous debate, with about the same level of success as last time:

Phil Sandifer @PhilSandifer
Just because I feel like some issues have been unfortunately muddied in a debate about lines being crossed, some reiterated points.

Phil Sandifer @PhilSandifer
Lou Antonelli is a fascist dickbag and loathsome human being.

Phil Sandifer @PhilSandifer
John C. Wright is a fascist dickbag and loathsome human being.

Phil Sandifer @PhilSandifer
Vox Day is a fascist mega-dickbag and less a human being than one long sequence of junk DNA.

Phil Sandifer @PhilSandifer
Any other Sad/Rabid Puppies are at best fascist collaborators, and while loathsome might be too strong, definitely kinda suck as people.

Vox Day @voxday
That’s so meaningful coming from a pagan paedophile who really likes books about child abuse and gender confusion.

Vox Day @voxday
Phil Sandifer’s idea of “fascism” is “standing in opposition to the child molesters in science fiction”.

Vox Day @voxday
I have no doubt that one day Phil Sandifer’s name will be ranked among the big names in SF: Asimov, Bradley, Breen, Delaney, and Kramer.

I’m sure all the Sad and Rabid Puppies will be as deeply concerned about what this creepy piece of human flotsam thinks about them as I am. However, of all his increasingly furious subsequent tweets, I think this one was my favorite:

Phil Sandifer ‏@PhilSandifer
Honestly, I still have deeply mixed feelings about having been as courteous as I was. No platforming may well have been wiser. 

Now, I know SJWs always lie, but even so, I continue to find it remarkable that they are willing to strike such ludicrously unconvincing poses in public. Do they seriously believe anyone finds them even remotely believable? Sandifer talking about “no platforming” me is about as credible as the free newspaper in Des Moines debating whether it should “no platform” Donald Trump or not. It’s simply not an option; Sandifer contacted me, he actively pushed for the interview with me, and as has so often been the case in the past, I had no idea who he was until he started attacking me.

Being an SJW, Phil “Lollipop” Sandifer couldn’t help doubling down:

Phil Sandifer ‏@PhilSandifer
Just like his pathetic father, who probably abused him.

Vox Day @voxday
No, Phil, my father loved me and treated me well. SJWs always project. Is that why you look like a creepy child molester?

Phil Sandifer ‏@PhilSandifer
To be clear, when I say Vox Day has the Innsmouth Look, I’m not saying he’s subhuman. Although we are not equally homo sapiens sapiens.

Vox Day ‏@voxday now
Better an aquatic heritage than the “there are four little boys buried in my garden” look that you’re sporting, Phil.

Little skeletons in the closet

As Sasquan approaches, more of the File 770 SJWs are starting to lose it.

Patrick May: There is, however, a group within the non-Puppy set that has been making broad accusations of racism, misogyny, and homophobia against all Sad and Rabid Puppy supporters.

Matt Y: Eh, if you’re a supporter of a movement with a mission statement about how previous recent award winners only won because of affirmative action instead of quality work, without citation or evidence to back up that claim, I don’t think that’s a broad statement. There might be Puppy supporters that aren’t, but what they’re supporting certainly is.

Shao Ping: I would also add some of the works the Puppies supported add a great deal of credibility to charges of racism, misogyny, and homophobia.

That makes no sense. Whether you have supported someone who has made a broad statement or not, it is still, by definition, a broad statement to accuse you and every other supporter of racism, misogyny, and homophobia. This attempt to create a distinction about Person X’s action on the basis of Person Y’s action isn’t logically valid; Person X’s action exists in its own right. And I would also add that by Shao Ping’s standard, many of the works supported by the science fiction SJWs add a great deal of credibility to charges of child molestation, child abuse, rape, sexual deviance, and pedophilia.

For example, there is considerably more solid evidence indicating that SFWA Grand Master and NAMBLA supporter Samuel Delaney is a criminal child molester than there is to indicate that any Sad or Rabid Puppy nominee, much less supporter, is racist, misogynistic, or homophobic, much less a Fascist, a neo-Nazi or a Nazi. I have repeatedly denied all of those charges myself and no one has ever been able to prove otherwise because they are all false. Whereas, to the best of my knowledge, Mr. Delaney has never once denied having had sex with a minor as an adult… and gay sex with minors, both voluntary and involuntary, is a frequent feature of his books. Among various and sundry other unpleasantries.

We know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that many Puppy Kickers have direct personal ties to “Chip” Delaney, to convicted child molester and SFWA member Ed Kramer, and to the late child molester, Marion Zimmer Bradley, whose estate is listed in the SFWA directory. And they were not, they are not, the only child molesters in science fiction.

Listening to these criminal sex deviants and psychological train wrecks whine for months about what terrible people the Puppies are to steal their awards is surreal. It’s going to be amusing to see how they react when the media attention they have so assiduously courted starts looking in their direction and begins finding the many child-sized skeletons in their closets.

Why everyone hates McRapey

It looks like John Scalzi is back in the depressive phase of his cycle, as he offers ten theories about why he is so disliked by so many people. You know, he simply could have asked us. We would have told him. But let’s see how many he gets right. Without having looked at them yet, I’m going to guess 3 out of 10:

Over on Facebook at the moment, and as a subset of a larger discussion, there’s a conversational thread about why so many dudes (and it is largely dudes, and dudes of a certain sort and political persuasion) have such a rabid dislike of me, both as a writer and as a human being.

Naturally, I have thoughts on this, based on years of personal observation, so below you’ll find my hypotheses on why I am so widely disliked by a certain type of dude. These hypotheses are mix and match: Not all will apply to everyone.

1. Because I’m an asshole. TRUE

2. Because they’re assholes. FALSE. No one dislikes Scalzi due to them being an asshole. Some would certainly put me in that category and that’s not why I dislike Scalzi; vastly more non-assholes dislike Scalzi than the sum total of everyone who can even remotely be described as one. As for the idea of “an unpleasant variation of starfucking”, I would point out that most of the people who dislike him here disliked him back in 2005, long before he was a Tor-made SF star.

3. Because of my politics. FALSE. I live in Europe. I have plenty of friends who are far to the left of Scalzi; the Socialist Party is the #2 party in my region. I would guess that most of my friends outside the USA are to his left. It’s entirely possible to be of the political left and not be an obnoxious fraud.

4. Because I should be with them and I’m not. FALSE. We most certainly do not want McRapey with us in any way, shape, or form. That’s just insulting.

5. Because I’m successful: FALSE. We live in a world where Britney Spears is a music star, Katie Price is a bestselling author, and there are probably any number of Hollywood stars who would serve as an example of acting success without talent. Scalzi may be a mediocre stunt author, but is not entirely without talent and his level of success is minimal compared to some egregiously less talented writers. Scalzi simply can’t seem to grasp that not everyone is as driven by envy as he is.

6. Because I’m not a real man. TRUE. He’s a prime example of a gamma male, a parody of a real man, which is why he inspires disgust in men and women alike.

7. Because they can’t actually do anything to me. FALSE. If nothing else, I’ve exposed him as a fraud who repeatedly lies about his success.

8. Because of envy. FALSE See the Third Law of SJW: SJWs Always Project.

9. Because I refused to recognize that they were right about something that one time, or several times. FALSE.

10. Because of tribal identification. TRUE. He is a proud SJW. He is anti-GG.  Both of those identifications are sufficient reason for tens of thousands of #GamerGaters alone to legitimately hate him.

What do you know, 3 out of 10. Do I know the little freakshow or what? And notice how he keeps trying to tie everything back to envy, because people envy him, because he is successful, which he obviously needs to remind himself on a regular basis. Now let’s list the eight primary reasons he is hated; only two of which he managed to identify, in the order of most to least hateful.

  1. He is a liar. John Scalzi repeatedly lies, and when caught lying, he does not admit it and repent, but keeps lying and then lies about those who caught him out. He lies about himself. He lies about others. He’s reliably dishonest and even when he isn’t blatantly lying, he’s deceptive. I doubt it will surprise anyone in the least if it eventually turns out there is some funny business concerning his book contract not exactly being what it was described as being.
  2. He is a con artist. Almost everything he does, from his writing to getting published by Tor to campaigning for awards to laying claim to be a popular blogger, is a calculated, self-promoting scam. I know from multiple sources that in public he pretends to be better friends with people than he in fact is, particularly when those people are better known than he is.
  3. He’s a coward. He’d also be a bully, but he’s too cowardly for that. He runs away from any challenge he can’t simply ban.
  4. He is obnoxious. I think he covered that with #1 above.
  5. He is pathologically narcissistic. All those silly Photoshop-edited
    selfies are indicative of a narcissist who absolutely loathes his own
    physical appearance. The combination of his pathological narcissism with
    his physical ugliness is literally repulsive and goes well beyond the
    usual gamma issues. Although he is disgusted by himself, he resents us for being disgusted by him. Hence the constant “look at me, love me” antics. His incessant need for attention would be pitiful if it didn’t manifest in such obnoxious ways.
  6. He is pretentious. Look at how he tried to call himself a game developer and talked about the game he was working on when he was
    nothing but a lowly writer on the failed project. (It was a ridiculous rail-shooter for mobile; I knew it would fail from the moment I read the description.) Some things never change; I caught him exaggerating the number and nature of his publications in our very first meeting back
    in 2005.
  7. He is a gamma male. All gammas are secret kings ruling over their delusion bubble with majesty and sly, smooth charm, but Scalzi is a particularly virulent example of the species, as he’s somehow able to convince others of low socio-sexual rank that they, too, can be winners like him. But he more or less nailed this in #6. He’s not a real man.
  8. He significantly overrates his intelligence. He’s not stupid. Far from it. But he’s more than a standard deviation below me, and I’m not the smartest guy around. He’s a high midwit with delusions of brilliance, and like all midwits, assumes that if he can’t understand something, that must be because it’s stupid. This is more annoying than hateful, though.

Did I miss anything? Why do you hate John Scalzi? Apparently he wants to know. But if I had a single piece of advice for him if he genuinely wanted to be less hated, it would be this: stop lying. Stop lying to yourself, stop lying to your readers, and stop lying to your enemies. You’re not fooling ANYONE anymore.

Yes, lying has worked for him in the past. He would not be where he is today without repeatedly lying to lots of people. But the seeds of failure are often sown in the mindless repetition of what made us successful.

Correction

Edd Jobs does not know whereof he speaks. He’s also banned and spammed, for SJW-level ignorance and dishonesty.

Danby: It’s sludge. Sewerage with cotton candy floating on top. It’s badly written, extremely poorly thought out, and boring.

The N.K. Jemisin school of literary review.

No.

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This is the N.K. Jemisin school of literary review.

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Stranger in a Strange Land is racist as *fuck*.

…

So is science fiction fandom.

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So are you.

Yeah, that’s about right

Always a pleasure to see Japan hasn’t gotten any more sane since I last visited. Clearly K-Pop is history and Kawaiicore now represents the high point in pop music evolution. I love the morning calisthenic lyrics.

While doing our best
We will surpass our seniors, elders, and everyone else.

It’s genuinely hard to look away. And just in case you thought it was a one-off, well, not so much. It’s practically nuclear fusion. I’ll admit it, I would absolutely go and see Babymetal in concert. The Kami band is epic and the musical genius of the superficially ridiculous concept is that the high-pitched voices cut right through the heavy guitars.

Apple enforces SJW thought-policing

It’s hardly a surprise, really, is it now?

I find it informative that the same people who insist that Bruce Jenner’s real and only name is “Caitlyn” are those who insist on calling me by my given name even though I’ve been publicly going by Vox for 25 years now.

It’s funny, too, how the names chosen by these autogynophiliac freaks is never Mary or Sue, but always something they think is more glamorous. It reminds me of the way women with past lives were always either Cleopatra or Marie Antoinette, and never some random street prostitute who died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.