Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Let’s talk about liars.
Progressives claim they speak Truth to Power to effect Change. They view themselves as warriors for social justice, all members of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists, bravely pounding out their messages of hate in the service of a Higher Calling: Hope and Change. For these courageous soldiers in the war on Everything Traditional, no tactic is too extreme, not even the Fake Review.
Suppose a Non-Progressive author has a new book on Amazon. Suppose it’s getting great reviews from customers who bought the book and actually read it. That can’t be allowed to continue . . . innocent readers might believe the high ratings, purchase the book and have their minds polluted with Non-Progressive Thinking. Plainly, it is the duty of every good SJW to fight those high ratings by posting their own one-star reviews. That will bring down the average rating to the point where innocents will conclude the book sucks and they won’t buy it, which will not only preserve blank minds to be filled with Progressive indoctrination, but also will hurt the Non-Progressive author’s wallet in the form of lost sales – a two-fer!
We saw that last spring, with the controversy over the River Oasis Cafe in Stillwater posting a “minimum wage fee” on its receipts; Yelp readers from all over the country who couldn’t possibly have ever visited the place left scathing, often disgusting and scatological, reviews on the online restaurant review site. Dissent must be crushed.
Joe:
Of course, there’s a problem if the book was released only in Kindle e-book format. The Fake Reviewer isn’t going to buy a copy and thereby put money in the non-Progressive author’s pocket, not for the sake of posting a Fake Review. So when SJWs post their Fake Reviews, they haven’t actually read the book and can’t point to any specific flaw, they must speak in generalities, throw in red herrings, raise straw men and attack the author rather than his work.
Rating a book you haven’t read is lying. SJWs always lie. You don’t believe me? Read the reviews for Trulbert! on Amazon. See if the reviews don’t fit the pattern. There are, in fact, lying liars in the world. And now we know who they are.
Joe Doakes
Joe is right – although in the interest of fairness, I’ll point out that the sole negative review of Trulbert so far is not from a “social justice warrior” so much as an old duffer who’s been stalking me online for six years now. Devoting any attention to him – including this – is more than his flatulent crabbling deserves, and so he’ll get no more.
But the larger point – to the cultural left, “the ends justify the means” is gospel – stands unchallenged, and is one of the prime motivators to making this past 100 years such an awful time.
The reviews seem to be in on Gleason:
Nobody likes a whiner Joe. I thought every parent drilled that message home.
Interestingly enough, Amazon started rolling out a new review system that’s going to punish that kind of behavior. Basically, it lowers the weights of folks who haven’t purchased the item, as well as those who don’t have a history of giving good reviews. It will take a while to percolate through the Amazon ecosystem (pun intended), but the effects should be interesting.
I remember when Ann Coulter would release a new book. Now, I’m not a big Coulter fan….she’s a bit over the top for me, but……there would be dozens and dozens of bad reviews on her books the day they came out. So, lets see if I got this right. Many people rushed to a book store to purchase book by Coulter on its release date, hated the book hugely, but still sat all morning to read the entire book, and then by noon put up a bad review of it on Amazon.
And none of the bad reviews discussed any points in the book. It was just personal slander.
There he is; can’t you just picture him laying atop a hoard of rotting trash bags, feces and #deadcats? Furiously banging away at his filthy, encrusted keyboard, muttering and giggling…what else does he have to fill his dreary, remaining days? As I understand it, even Gleason’s wife ran screaming from him.
Maybe Emery could drop by and comfort the old kook; share notes…make some Smores, maybe.
What douchey internet presence for a “doctor.”
About a quarter of the time, Bill-E-The-Psycho rants on his twitter about beliefs I don’t even have.
He cross posts all kinds of vulgar stuff from me about him that I don’t hashtag. All it does is get him blocked.
F’ing lunatic.
Who is Tom Rosner? That’s not “two putt” Tommy, right? I thought he had a different last name, but I tend to keep him out of mind so I don’t remember his last name.