{"id":53895,"date":"2015-06-22T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53895"},"modified":"2015-06-19T17:40:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:40:35","slug":"fake-but-inaccurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53895","title":{"rendered":"Fake But Inaccurate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

Let’s talk about liars.<\/p>\n

Progressives claim they speak Truth to Power to effect Change.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 For these courageous soldiers in the war on Everything Traditional, no tactic is too extreme, not even the Fake Review.<\/p>\n

Suppose a Non-Progressive author has a new book on Amazon.\u00a0 Suppose it’s getting great reviews from customers who bought the book and actually read it.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Plainly, it is the duty of every good SJW to fight those high ratings by posting their own one-star reviews.\u00a0\u00a0 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!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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. \u00a0Dissent must be crushed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Joe:<\/p>\n

Of course, there’s a problem if the book was released only in Kindle e-book format.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Rating a book you haven’t read is lying.\u00a0 SJWs always lie.\u00a0 You don’t believe me?\u00a0\u00a0Read the reviews for Trulbert! on Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0 See if the reviews don’t fit the pattern.\u00a0 There are, in fact, lying liars in the world.\u00a0 And now we know who they are.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joe is right – although in the interest of fairness, I’ll point out that the sole negative review of\u00a0Trulbert\u00a0<\/em>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. \u00a0Devoting any attention to him – including this – is more than his flatulent crabbling deserves, and so he’ll get no more.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Let’s talk about liars. Progressives claim they speak Truth to Power to effect Change.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 For these courageous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,79,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-slander-files","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53898,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53895\/revisions\/53898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}