Larry Correia, Baen Books author of the Monster Hunter International Series, bragged on Facebook about getting into fights with other authors and billionaires online.
"Earlier this year, he picked on science fiction author Yakov Merkin, who made a comment on a post that didn’t even tag Correia saying, “If Larry really cared about new authors (outside his immediate friend group) "getting a chance", he'd help signal boost people via his large platform.”
I think Mr. Merkin got stepped on because "If you REALLY [x] , you would/wouldn't do [Y] is a basic verbal attack pattern.
If you attack a man out of the blue, expect a counter-attack. Especially, since VAPs like this are pure quill weasel/mean girl tactics: Verbal subterfuge, hiding the subterfuge in misdirection.
The goal is, in fact, to get a blow up, which then allows the weasel to say, "Why is it, you [Bad Category of Person] that whenever we try to have a reasonable discussion of an issue, you turn it into fight." Nasty. In this particular construction, it includes a 2ndary hidden assumption: You should feel guilty because you're doing/not doing [Y] the which our SJW AWFLs applied relentless to us during the Covid Panic.
"You don't care about [X], Mr. Correia!" is honest. But still, we all know if you walk up to a stranger and drop an accusation on them, you have to expect a bad reaction. Sneak attacks? Hiroshima time.
The charitable responses by the way are to address the hidden attack neutrally.
1. It's interesting that so many new authors feel unsupported by a writing community.
2. Have you always believed that more prosperous authors should support less prosperous ones they don't know?
3. You're having a bad day. I know it's tough out there. I don't have the bandwidth to help everyone, but here's a link to the Based Book Sale.
"What you feed will grow", and one can either respond as a Christian peacemaker (very hard when someone sneaks up and hits you), or use the pagan method of overwhelmingly violent response, "pour encourager les autres".
YMMV. Mind the gap.
Mr. Correia chooses the latter, in part because it's hilarious. And his fans like it because this verbal attack pattern is one that our SJW pals use on us relentlessly. And sometimes the old Adam rises,
and we enjoy watching one of these pests getting pummeled.
I think he can do whatever he wants, and find your lecturing about he should act ridiculous. Apparently, he doesn’t think you, or anyone else, is in charge of regulating his conduct. And I am fine with that.
Eh. Sometimes his online presence is a bit cringe, and sometimes he goes too hard, but that's just him. But granted, if he wants us to make these allowances for him, then in fairness we have to make them for the raging woke leftists he often tears apart.
I suppose the difference is that Correia is right, and standing up for real ethics and a kind of morality, as opposed to the ideological madness the left embraces. Still, if we're caring about optics, a little more savoir-faire might help.
Oh, I get it. He's just a generally punchy fellow, and those of us on the right -- or even just right-of-center -- are having to work some things out now as we try in our various ways, large and small, to fix as much damage as we can while hoping the destroyers don't find their way back into power. In that environment, culture warriors with Correia's no-nonsense attitude find that the combativeness that won them acclaim against the left, is pushing away potential friends on the right.
My main point in that regard is just that we cheered on Correia and those like him when they tore down the left, and part of what we cheered was this combative attitude. We encouraged him, and bear some responsibility for that if it's now coming back to hurt him, or us.
Not that I entirely agree that it *is* hurting him or us. Internecine squabbles come and go; that's something the left learned when theirs was the bigger tent. Now that it's us, we need to learn that same lesson. None of these relatively small things are worth losing allies over.
IMO there's way too much punching among the right. Not that we need to toe a party line (Heaven keep us from that!), but I've gotten to the point, while listening or reading someone I heartily agree with, that I just drop out when they feel the need to snipe at someone who only 80% agrees (let alone the snipes for stupid matters of taste, ethnicity, or style).
Prediction: Larry Correia is going to eventually devolve into the same dramafaggot tier "content" that Ethan Van Sciver is guilty of now. On one hand, it's becoming clear to the oaf that this gains him attention, like a lower middle class bully version of John Scalzi would act in an upper middle class private school.
On the other hand, his subconscious smells what's in the wind and knows that AI is going to beat him up and steal his lunch. Writing like a fantasy or romance big name in the 90s or 2000s under a tradpub arrangement of a book or two every year and being in it only for the money (His words, not mine) while avoiding anything that that is beyond Mainstream Conservatism™'s red lines is not going to be viable for making a full time living due to how easily the robots can mimic your style.
So what do? Do the one things the robots can't do, the thing allowed you to get big in the first place. Market and network. And while dramafaggot blistering buffoonery is garbage, as some of the replies here and in other places confirm, it's still a form of publicity building and it does work for those guys. Whether you want them as an audience is a different matter altogether.
"Larry Correia has shown he likes to pick fights with people online to further his ego...." That's a bold, confident statement, based on...? My obervation, over the past almost decade, is that Mr. Correia does not pick fights, but he will return a punch...or defend somebody else. As far as "to further his ego" goes? That's aiming pretty low. Anything he would do to "further his ego" would be a lot higher grade than casually practicing internet zoology by hosing down the occasional CISG. As far as the crack about only boosting people in his particular "tribe", I believe he has helped many people jump start book sales, and not just people in his personal or professional circles.
I'll make a promise right now. If I ever become as famous as these infants, I'll keep my mouth shut and write for my fans.
"Earlier this year, he picked on science fiction author Yakov Merkin, who made a comment on a post that didn’t even tag Correia saying, “If Larry really cared about new authors (outside his immediate friend group) "getting a chance", he'd help signal boost people via his large platform.”
I think Mr. Merkin got stepped on because "If you REALLY [x] , you would/wouldn't do [Y] is a basic verbal attack pattern.
If you attack a man out of the blue, expect a counter-attack. Especially, since VAPs like this are pure quill weasel/mean girl tactics: Verbal subterfuge, hiding the subterfuge in misdirection.
The goal is, in fact, to get a blow up, which then allows the weasel to say, "Why is it, you [Bad Category of Person] that whenever we try to have a reasonable discussion of an issue, you turn it into fight." Nasty. In this particular construction, it includes a 2ndary hidden assumption: You should feel guilty because you're doing/not doing [Y] the which our SJW AWFLs applied relentless to us during the Covid Panic.
"You don't care about [X], Mr. Correia!" is honest. But still, we all know if you walk up to a stranger and drop an accusation on them, you have to expect a bad reaction. Sneak attacks? Hiroshima time.
The charitable responses by the way are to address the hidden attack neutrally.
1. It's interesting that so many new authors feel unsupported by a writing community.
2. Have you always believed that more prosperous authors should support less prosperous ones they don't know?
3. You're having a bad day. I know it's tough out there. I don't have the bandwidth to help everyone, but here's a link to the Based Book Sale.
"What you feed will grow", and one can either respond as a Christian peacemaker (very hard when someone sneaks up and hits you), or use the pagan method of overwhelmingly violent response, "pour encourager les autres".
YMMV. Mind the gap.
Mr. Correia chooses the latter, in part because it's hilarious. And his fans like it because this verbal attack pattern is one that our SJW pals use on us relentlessly. And sometimes the old Adam rises,
and we enjoy watching one of these pests getting pummeled.
I think he can do whatever he wants, and find your lecturing about he should act ridiculous. Apparently, he doesn’t think you, or anyone else, is in charge of regulating his conduct. And I am fine with that.
I'm afraid I don't consider "being a dick" to be an admirable habit, nor a public performance to be applauded.
Eh. Sometimes his online presence is a bit cringe, and sometimes he goes too hard, but that's just him. But granted, if he wants us to make these allowances for him, then in fairness we have to make them for the raging woke leftists he often tears apart.
I suppose the difference is that Correia is right, and standing up for real ethics and a kind of morality, as opposed to the ideological madness the left embraces. Still, if we're caring about optics, a little more savoir-faire might help.
Leftists we do not have to tolerate. Our goal here is to stop him from punching right, which he does a lot.
Oh, I get it. He's just a generally punchy fellow, and those of us on the right -- or even just right-of-center -- are having to work some things out now as we try in our various ways, large and small, to fix as much damage as we can while hoping the destroyers don't find their way back into power. In that environment, culture warriors with Correia's no-nonsense attitude find that the combativeness that won them acclaim against the left, is pushing away potential friends on the right.
My main point in that regard is just that we cheered on Correia and those like him when they tore down the left, and part of what we cheered was this combative attitude. We encouraged him, and bear some responsibility for that if it's now coming back to hurt him, or us.
Not that I entirely agree that it *is* hurting him or us. Internecine squabbles come and go; that's something the left learned when theirs was the bigger tent. Now that it's us, we need to learn that same lesson. None of these relatively small things are worth losing allies over.
IMO there's way too much punching among the right. Not that we need to toe a party line (Heaven keep us from that!), but I've gotten to the point, while listening or reading someone I heartily agree with, that I just drop out when they feel the need to snipe at someone who only 80% agrees (let alone the snipes for stupid matters of taste, ethnicity, or style).
Take a guess what the second order effects of that will be?
Never a fan of the obscenity or profanity. Always "tells."
Social media is 5 large sites sharing screen shots of the other 4
Prediction: Larry Correia is going to eventually devolve into the same dramafaggot tier "content" that Ethan Van Sciver is guilty of now. On one hand, it's becoming clear to the oaf that this gains him attention, like a lower middle class bully version of John Scalzi would act in an upper middle class private school.
On the other hand, his subconscious smells what's in the wind and knows that AI is going to beat him up and steal his lunch. Writing like a fantasy or romance big name in the 90s or 2000s under a tradpub arrangement of a book or two every year and being in it only for the money (His words, not mine) while avoiding anything that that is beyond Mainstream Conservatism™'s red lines is not going to be viable for making a full time living due to how easily the robots can mimic your style.
So what do? Do the one things the robots can't do, the thing allowed you to get big in the first place. Market and network. And while dramafaggot blistering buffoonery is garbage, as some of the replies here and in other places confirm, it's still a form of publicity building and it does work for those guys. Whether you want them as an audience is a different matter altogether.
"Larry Correia has shown he likes to pick fights with people online to further his ego...." That's a bold, confident statement, based on...? My obervation, over the past almost decade, is that Mr. Correia does not pick fights, but he will return a punch...or defend somebody else. As far as "to further his ego" goes? That's aiming pretty low. Anything he would do to "further his ego" would be a lot higher grade than casually practicing internet zoology by hosing down the occasional CISG. As far as the crack about only boosting people in his particular "tribe", I believe he has helped many people jump start book sales, and not just people in his personal or professional circles.
Nah, he's been picking fights for no apparent reason for the past 5 years
I dont think so. https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Mark-Pierce-ebook/dp/B0F7G1BXZ8