{"id":7974,"date":"2015-08-27T21:28:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T04:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=7974"},"modified":"2015-08-27T21:28:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T04:28:14","slug":"this-is-some-serious-street-preacher-stupid-right-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/this-is-some-serious-street-preacher-stupid-right-here\/","title":{"rendered":"this is some serious street-preacher stupid right here"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned elsewhere, recently, that I’ve spent my share of time arguing with street preachers and the like. There’s a special kind of determined antagonism towards reality they carry with them – I call it street-preacher stupid – and the best you can do at any point is to argue for the crowd, and let the preachers make themselves look like… themselves, really.<\/p>\n

In that spirit, I present the following:<\/p>\n

Sci-Fi Pundant insists that Worldcon defrauded its membership via the “asterisk” joke\/charitable fundraiser<\/a>, declaring the asterisks to be awards given outside the rules.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, on the Puppies losing their captured categories to No Award:<\/p>\n

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And again, on the Puppies losing to No Award:<\/p>\n

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There is not a big enough facepalming gif in the world for this, so I will not bother appending one. h\/t to Jim C. Hines for the unicorn-iconed claimant<\/a>. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

eta<\/b>: Wait, on second thought, I came up with something:<\/p>\n

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There we go.<\/p>\n

eta2:<\/b> I’ve added a rather long quote in comments here<\/a>. You may find it worthy as a fourth example.<\/p>\n

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This part of a series of posts<\/a> on the Sad\/Rabid Puppy candidate slate-based capture of the Hugo Awards, and resulting fallout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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