So Roosh Valizadeh’s websites — Return of Kings, the Roosh V Forum, and his own blog — have been hit with DDOS attacks this week.
Roosh isn’t sure who’s to blame, but he has a few ideas. In a note on the DDOS attacks he posted to his site, he wrote:
I have so many enemies that it could have been organized by Canadian SJW’s, the American homosexual lobby, the Israeli Defense Force, or the nation of Denmark.
Denmark, huh? I always thought there was something sneaky about that country.
But I can’t imagine that many Danes are actually pissed at Roosh, really. After all, his Don’t Bang Denmark book explicitly suggested that his fans NOT visit the country. And generally speaking, the fewer Roosh fans in your country, the better.
I don’t think it’s Denmark, or any of the other suspects on Roosh’s little list.
There’s a much more obvious possibility: Toilet paper manufacturers.
@Alan, Penny:
He might mean the JIDF (Jewish Internet Defence Force). They’re a horrible little hacktivist group who have been known to attack pro-Palestinian and anti-settler websites using similar methods.
That said, while this is certainly their modus operandi, the target is somewhat puzzling. JIDF are, apart from being religious fanatics, also extremely reactionary (they opposed Obama becoming president, for example) and thus may well have approved of a lot of Valizadeh’s positions. You’d expect the two to be allies, or if not allies at least recognise that they have enemies in common.
On the other hand, right-wing extremists seem to have a knack for hating one another worse than they hate their supposed allies.
*worse than they hate their supposed enemies.
@EJ (The Other One)
It might be because of this:
http://www.returnofkings.com/62716/the-damaging-effects-of-jewish-intellectualism-and-activism-on-western-culture
Of course, we’re talking right wing Jews not left wing Jews. Extremists, not intellectuals. Still it’s all one big conspiracy to take over the world so it probably was them.
Either that or it’s Obama, the Socialist, Communist, Muslim, gay Jew from Kenya with the fake birth cert.
Apparently, Roosh got accosted by some Polish nationalists in Poznan recently, who were harassing him for the color of his skin. He posted this on his forum:
The schaden is especially freudey on this one. That momentary dread he felt in the pit of his stomach…it’s the same dread he gets off on inflicting on his rape victims.
Wonder if his accosters were RoK followers?
Oh Roosh, fuck off. It’s not an entire country mad at you, it’s just the women you keep pestering for what you know they ain’t gonna give you willingly. The country isn’t mad; the country is merely showing the good sense it takes to bar a scumbag and an admitted rapist. All countries should do the same, until you are relegated to a desert island with lots of venomous critters, at least one active volcano, and no contact with the outside world.
COOL STORY, BRO. But everybody knows that gringo accents are neither beautiful nor popular in any part of the world other than the US of A. I don’t think you’re actually in Poland anymore.
Marginally unrelated, but I really love Hark a Vagrant. It’s the work of a particularly Canadian comic artist, Kate Beaton. She’s really been on point lately.
http://www.harkavagrant.com/nonsense/cheshirecat.png
… I now realize how terrible that comic might seem for using the term “mad”, and I apologize. Five seconds too late. Really points out how unconscious ableist language can be. Mea culpa.
She really is an excellent artist, though.
I think Carroll quotes would be tolerated under a grandfather clause. If I had reason to quote certain parts of Huckleberry Finn, people would– I hope!– understand that I do not typically use racial epithets.
Wow, that older entry would almost make me pity Roosh, if he wasn’t, you know, a serial rapist. Apparently the only reason he’s not walking around with rotting teeth and a shit-encrusted taint is because it would make it marginally more difficult to rape inebriated young women. Not because he thinks he deserves a base level of personal hygiene.
“…or the nation of Denmark.”
There’s something rotten in the state of Denmark, or hadn’t you heard?
Slightly off-topic: The audio book of John Scalzi is not a Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular is finally up!
Librarians?
No! Not the Librarians!
Wait, I think I misread that…Lithuanians really did look like Librarians on the first read!
Jessica1963: Welcome!
Dear Roosh V
You’re not important, beside shuting you up is almost granting you a service.
Now fuck off.
Unrelated to anything: Did anybody else hear the rumour that Samus might be trans (or originally written as trans)? Because that’s just the coolest thing I’ve heard all year. Headcanon accepted.
@SFHC
I think that’s actually a hoax the last time I checked. The original Japanese text was a slur or something? IDK. But she’s not, unfortunately. I think Paradoxical would know more about the sitch than me.
@Pandapool
While I haven’t looked into it too far, there haven’t been any concrete refutations of Matsuoka’s statement by people who might actually know what they’re talking about. All the “Samus isn’t trans” articles I find are laden with phrases and misconceptions that lead me to believe the people that wrote them are
a)transphobic
b) completely uninformed on what it means to be trans
@Drezden
Okay, I found where I read that:
http://thetacriterion.tumblr.com/post/124882777911/people-who-dont-think-samus-is-trans
And here’s an article that talks about it more:
http://femhype.com/2015/08/03/video-games-are-utterly-failing-trans-gamers-its-time-we-did-something-about-it/
I have a massive hangover today as I was out celebrating last night.
Who knew that reading about Roosh’s misfortunes was a hangover cure?
The IDF is his enemy? What?
Did he rape enough Israelis to be declared a national enemy or something?
@pandapool I agree that the word choice is problematic in itself, but despite what people are saying, it doesn’t automatically invalidate the idea that Samus is trans. This point is actually addressed in Brianna’s article.
That being said, I’m a misanthropic cynic, so I believe that Matsuoka was a bigot making a callous “joke.” However, I’m also all for seeing said joke backfire, so unless we see some credible past interview from the the designers stating that it is explicitly not the case, Samus is and always will be trans.
@Drezden
I’m not a fan of Metroid, so, I mean, I don’t really have anything to say about Samus. I don’t really have the right to say, ya know what I mean? I remember reading the article a few weeks back so I just thought I’d bring it up.
But I really fucking hate it when creators do this. They bring people’s hopes up for stupid, insensitive jokes or they completely misconstrue shit, ya know? We don’t even know if he was just being an asshole or if he was just being ignorant.
Can we just, for once, not dance around something like this shit?
No, it really wouldn’t.
I’ve read the Metroid manga. Samus Aran was a young girl who was adopted by the chozo (a dying race of giant alien bird-people) after her colony was slaughtered by Ridley. Because humans can’t survive in environment suited to the chozo, they made her half-human half-chozo, and as a side effect, she grew extremely strong and tall. If we assume that it’s canonical, it’s definitely reasonable to call her a haafu (“half” or mixed-race person) but not a nyuhaafu (“newhalf” or pre-op transwoman). This was probably just a bad joke that got lost in the translation – nyuhaafu is meant to imply “new kind of haafu”, only they meant that in a different sense – an artificially altered mixed-species being.
Why is everyone so reliant on Word of God? Who says the creator’s opinion is the last word on whether Samus is trans or not?