Vox Day’s SJWs Always Lie, released today, is at this writing the #1 Amazon Best Seller in two categories.
Though why should you believe me? You know what SJWs always do.
The book is named after the First Law of SJW: SJWs always lie. SJWS ALWAYS LIE is a useful guide to understanding, anticipating, and surviving SJW attacks from the perspective of a man who has not only survived, but thrived, after experiencing multiple attempts by Social Justice Warriors to disqualify, discredit, and disemploy him in the same manner they have successfully attacked Nobel Laureates, technology CEOs, broadcasters, sports commentators, school principals, and policemen. It analyzes well-known SJW attacks as well as the two most successful examples of resistance to the SJW Narrative, #GamerGate and Sad Puppies.
I have a copy and will read it and report back.
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Scalzi’s blog post is up.
Kermit flail?
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/08/27/charity-drive-for-con-or-bust-an-audio-version-of-john-scalzi-is-not-a-very-popular-author-and-i-myself-am-quite-popular-read-by-me/
I love fandom. 🙂
I’m kind of leaning to the long con now. Hard to think of Owen and the old lie when someone mentions dulce et decorum est.
Also, Gibbon or P.J. O’Rourke?!
Re: Con or Bust
I donated to this worthy effort !
The three laws of SJW feel like they were each deliberately crafted to be as hilariously self-referential as possible. I feel amazed and grateful that they come from the genuine Vox Day piece and not from the parody.
LIES!
If not please update regularly, I’m worried for you.
Sigh. Looking at Erins book, I guess it’s good that my book budget and me have broken up…
Donation made!
(And you could do worse than to buy Alexandra Erin’s book as well, it is chucklesome)
I coughed up $20.
I kicked in some ducats. I feel especially grateful to be employed and healthy again.
I gave. This is worthy.
*SIGH* I would have to be broke at the moment! Oh well, I’ll just donate to COB anyway in a week or so, next Friday. I hope the goal is met.
@Robert: I can so relate. I spent months unemployed and busted this year. Hang in there. And don’t worry about whether the drive will make goal; I predict it’ll happen tonight.
Con Or Bust are pretty slick, I’ve already had a confirmation specifically noting it as for the John Scalzi donation drive. I hope they do very well out of this.
@Ann: That one was hilarious. The other one-star review is not as good, but decent.
The snowballing from Alexandra Erin’s tweets to her satirical ebook to charity fund-raising with a potential Scalzi audiobook is delighting me to no end.
@Scott Frazer That’s the finest use of DoNotLink I’ve seen in ages. I think you’re probably right and Occam’s Razor suggests that he really is what appears to be.
That’s the saddest thought I’ve had all day.
I am trying to decide if Skalzi is real. I watched video of at the Hugos and couldn’t help but be struck with his similarity to John Hodgeman.
My theory is Skalzi is a long term dramatic presentation by Hodgeman with either David Brin or Lawrence Lessig doing the voice.
I expect the charity drive could easily raise twice the amount, but $2,500 seems fitting: it looks right around the volume of sales Beale’s book will manage.
Chipped in some cash & picked up the ebook.
ETA: The intentionally funny one.
Amused to see that the first thing on VDs Amazon page is:
Three-time Hugo Award nominee Vox Day writes epic fantasy as well as non-fiction about religion, philosophy, and economics.
“Three-time Hugo Award nominee Vox Day ”
Nothing could discredit the Hugos more than a statement like that. When he finally reduces the award to rubble, will he still be boasting about them? (Hint, does a bear defecate among the trees?)
Stephen Granade –
Turning something obnoxious into something fun that benefits others? Fandom rocks.
Donated. Lovely idea for a lovely cause; Con or Bust are Good People.
I suggested that Scalzi should mispronounce “Scalzi” throughout.
“Turning something obnoxious into something fun that benefits others?”
$20
Simultaneously making VD’s head explode from pure jealousy?
Priceless 🙂
By the way, if anyone’s bored, the 1 star reviews (especially Ms Erin’s) at Amazon for VD’s book are being swamped with abusive comments, so reporting them would be a mitzvah.
Lol. Well done you hive of scum and villainy !
The Carl Brandon society has a Bay Area origin which I did not realize. Nice to make lemons out of lemonade. I hope the audio book ends with some discussion of this charity and possibly singing. There should always be singing.
ETA I got the lemons out of lemonade backwards ! I kinda like the term actually so I will keep it up there.
Donated and grabbed the book.
Donated and got the book. Such a lovely idea for the charity!
@Ann Somerville
Into the valley of Derp/Rode the six houndred…
Today, in all modesty, my happiness level reached through the roof. There is just so much love I have for fandom and you right now.
Hugs and kisses! <3
@Hampus Eckerman
So we can now say that you are in all modesty one of the finest happiers happying today?
Happy happenings happen to be my forté. In all modesty, that is.
@Shao Ping: He. Is taking. The piss.
Or.
I’m beginning to think Mr Beale might not be the devious hugo-nominated genius we took him for…
@Nigel
Thats unpossible! He’s Vox E. Beale, sooooper genius. We’ve just not parsed his 5th generation warfare (he’s ahead of all of us you see)
his 5th
generationchapter warfareFixed it for you 😉
@Ann
I can’t wait for his Appendix A skirmishing to start.
You know, he’s shown enough of an ability to write stuff that’s transparent and deniable in such a way as to provide fodder for his ilk, puppies and even right-wing culture warriors beyond, that I was worried he’d produce a whole book of them, and rise as an Ann Coulterish figure, feeding that audience with various trollish tactics and techniques to employ. But a book retreading his expulsion from SFWA and his feud with Scalzi and his groundbreaking work on comparative blog figure controversies? Guess he peaked with the Wall Street Journal, and now it’s back to the minor leagues. Gaming a genre award is no longer a stepping stone for him, it’s the height of his ambition. Having a bunch of elk doesn’t make you a big bull moose, it turns out.
But the elks are so dreadful!
…
I just want to thank everyone for helping to make John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular: How SJWs Always Lie About Our Comparative Popularity Levels number one in Parodies, and number 2 in Political Philosphy, which puts it right behind its inspiration.
And I’d like to point out that if anyone is planning on blogging about it or mentioning it about the interwebs, using the full title with sub-title or mentioning the phrase “SJWs always lie” in close proximity with it might accomplish something interesting when people search for that phrase.
@Alexandra,
Bought the book last night, and spent 30 mins laughing my head off in bed.
Fantastic stuff.
Well if Alexandra Erin hadn’t already placed herself in serious contention for best fan writer and/or best related work with her brilliant parody reviews during the Hugo run-up, I think she put at least one nomination on lockdown with this.
Read it last night, smothering giggles so as not to awaken my best beloved. The whole “audio version read by John Scalzi and p.s. money to a good cause” is the brilliant cherry on top. Fans make me so happy.
You don’t even need to think of Owen. It’s followed by ‘pro patria mori’ in Horace’s original — meant unironically there, but still making it an odd thing to quote in simple praise.
How long is John Scalzi Is Not…? Mr Pratt must have written it very fast.
@Andrew M
I believe it was written within the day of the other book coming out, but Alexandra Erin will be able to tell us for sure.
@Alexandra Erin
Win.
Did Fox Noise ever chime in on Puppygate? Voxy would seem to be tailor made for appearances on Faux News.
“I am in all modesty one of the most popular literary authors working today and Sodom Justice Warriors always lie and will end up burning in hell because I have love in my blessed heart especially for that wretched hive of scum and villainy File 770?.
Great, now go say it to the Balrog…
He was HOPING! He said it right here! Next week the WSJ and after that maybe Fox News, he said, or words to that effect! He was going to parlay this into talking head status! This book must be some sort of effort in that direction, but it sounds feeble even for US Right Wing culture war agitprop, and most of their books are gamed onto the bestseller lists by the publishers anyway, but he doesn’t have that reach. Maybe he hopes someone will snap it up in the US, but next year is an election year, so who gives a shit about the Hugos? It’ll be wall-to-wall diatribes about the Democrat nominee, who the hell wants to hear about rocket ships?
He can nobble the nominations, sure, but he was counting on international exposure to rally the kooks so he could glom the awards as well, and now he has no hope of that and the blowback from the slates and puppy belligerence was overwhelming, so there’s every chance a larger pool of voters will nobble his nobbling of the noms. Not a sure thing, given the comparative power of slates, but it’s a crack in his confidence.
Um, I’ve run away from my original point, but, barring just the right outrage played just the right way because you never bloody know, do you, he’s not likely to get onto Fox News this year or next year, and after that, it won’t matter so much for the Hugos if he does.
You know he’s going to make s fortune from this. Wing nut welfare at its finest.
There’s a reason Sarah Palin is now multimillionaire.
Scalzi says his fundraiser is up to $6800 — https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/637320326951604224
@Mike Glyer
Excellent! I shall stop feeling guilty about not having the funds to contribute this month.
How are you, er, enjoying the original book?