Mike DiCenso wrote:Joking or not. I don't think naming the old site the "Victory Edition" is a good idea. As you pointed out already, we may have won a kind of victory with the Disneypocalypse, but we can never let our guard down with the Star Wars inflationists. They are only wounded and reeling, and they'll be back, rest assured. We know that one is still actively trying, albeit repackaged to be appear kinder, gentler, more reasonable while trying to portray any opposition as mean, evil fanatics for disagreeing with him.
So the price of our newly won victory is to be always on our guard and maintain our vigilance. Bring to bear the light of knowledge, logic, and truth always against the darkness of the intentional ignorance and groupthink of the inflationists.
-Mike
They're a far way from their past glory. They largely relied on the two main profiles of Saxton and Wong, and it turned out that even with these two lads, it didn't suffice.
They've largely been ridiculed and whoever would want to step in and reclaim the throne would have to fill no less than two massive pairs of shoes and also manage to prove that without the so called support of real science, he can still sell the same BS.
Brian is not up to the task. He does not have the skills nor the pedigree to even pretend being capable of obfuscating facts.
The inflationists did manage to win for half a decade because they were organized, they had strong profiles that were arguments from authority incarnate, and took the initiative while being violent and unrelenting. In other words, they were a military cult with a strong dogma and absolute extremists in their will to hammer their views down into the skulls of anyone disagreeing with them.
Their main weakness was that they relied on the disorganization on the other side, on a massive amount of vicious attacks which, on the long term, didn't paint them in a good light and they clearly went overboard with that (eg. Talifangate) and their entire dogma rested on a complete abstraction, a heap of blatant lies (they dodged the counter attacks because they behaved like an organized mob using superiority in numbers and violence against isolated dissenting elements) coupled to the hugest cherry picking I've ever seen in fandom. Basically for every nugget of pseudo truth they had, there were like ten to fifty times pieces of evidence literally shooting their hot air claims down.
Now their energy has totally abandoned them, it's leaked through a thousand cuts and whatever is left couldn't be described better than sadly, pathetically and utterly pretentious and delusional.
Plus without the EU which, oddly enough, they largely relied on when in fact it held much more against them than most people thought, whoever remains of this group gone astray has nothing left to fight with. There's
not even enough material left to work from for them to craft some new schemy web of lies with their usual highly selective and warping skills. Besides, the trick won't work twice, especially thanks to internet and access to information (
and illegal downloads to go quote mining)
BY is an arse-clown, his methods are so transparent and stupid that I deeply feel sorry for him (just before I laugh inside) and for the fact that his real life social prestige entirely relies on trying to sell the same pig shit. :)
If only some (soon to be?) ex-SDNers would see that they've largely been swallowed into some bullying cult of some sort, things would get even better for everybody, even for BY who wouldn't even hold the illusion that he can still find some fuckwit to drink the remaining stocks of kool-aid. He'd turn the page and breathe a new life. Or just go coil in a corner and shut up for good.