Hugely unpopular pickup artist Roosh V, now on the final leg of his “world tour” in Canada, is apparently feeling a bit cocky in the wake of what he sees as the success of “Operation Medusa” — his not-terribly-well-conceived plan to convince the world he’s not a promoter of hate … by promoting a hateful dirty tricks campaign to scare his most outspoken critics in Montreal (and elsewhere in Canada) into silence.
So now, with his Montreal event scheduled for later today, he has launched a new campaign aimed at the same protesters, urging his followers to dress like “homosexual hipster[s] (i.e. male feminist[s])” in order to infiltrate today’s Demonstration Against Rape Culture, scheduled for noon in Montreal’s Norman Bethune Square.
No, really.
As he explains it in a post on his Return of Kings blog
“Operation Revelation” is a defensive operation to infiltrate all feminist protests on Saturday afternoon, take video of the crowd under the guise of being a fellow protester, and then have videos analyzed to identify the key ringleaders of the protest who make statements or actions showing they intend to break Canadian law.
So very sneaky.
In order to better blend in, Roosh tells his Montreal fans to show up with iPhones charged in
an outfit that looks like a person who has nothing going on with his or her life. To fit in seamlessly if you’re a man, dress like a homosexual hipster (i.e. male feminist). If you’re a woman, gain 30 pounds, dye your hair red, get three cat tattoos, and wear ugly clothing (i.e. contract Lindy West disease).
(Lindy West? Ugly clothes? Uh, Lindy West was just featured on MTV News as an “Inspiring Bride Obliterating Wedding Dress Stereotypes.” But I digress.)
Pretend you’re a protester by sharing your hatred of patriarchy, “rape culture,” and masculinity while casually filming the proceedings with your phone.
And then you’re supposed to send the footage to Roosh via Dropbox.
Do not challenge the protesters because they are mentally unstable and in all likelihood ready to use violence. Fit in with them instead, gain their trust, and film the proceedings casually. Your raw footage will be edited and shared online to help identify potentially threatening individuals. Private investigators will likely be hired to help with the analysis.
While Roosh is obviously being a bit facetious about the clothes, he’s serious about the filming. And it’s pretty clear Roosh and his cronies aren’t simply interested in filming protesters in order to protect themselves from violence or other illegal acts; they’re doing it to get a database of pictures of people they can identify — and smear, using whatever shred of dubious “evidence” of wrongdoing or wrongthinking they can find.
Indeed Roosh has started doing this already with some of the protest organizers; a post up today on RoK tries to portray one of his critics as a supporter of violence against Roosh — on the basis of a single Facebook “like” of hers.
The commenters on Roosh’s post are even more blunt about their desire to intimidate Roosh’s enemies. Ashan writes,
Even if everything goes well, and there are no confrontations, still do record the faces of protesters. Why? you may ask. Protesting is a legal right, you may say. Yes it is, and so is free speech. Using one legal right of yours to sabotage another legal right of another person is bigoted, and you must break the anonymity of these bigots and expose them at any cost. Fight fire with a bigger fire. Bring a gun to a knife fight. When you enemies are even a little bit defeated, don’t have any mercy. Crush them down, hard, to destroy them fully. Kill their very souls.
A commenter calling himself Cat5krusher adds
Infiltrate, divide, conquer, destroy from within. Hey Its worked for the F.B.I an the C.I.A for the last 50 years and seems to work for them. If you’re really good as an imposter catch them on tape on what the sjw’s plan on doing. Entrap and give the footage to the authorities.
Daniel Ramos complements Roosh’s “excellent plan,” explaining
I myself have contacted a few ex military friends who live in canada for support. A few of them promised to go to this demonstration in full hipster camo so they can blend right in. I’ve even asked some of them to act like moronic leftists so the rest of the plants can catch it all on camera lol.
No one will suspect a thing when your totally real ex military friends totally show up at the event in “hipster camo,” because that is a thing that totally will happen.
Roosh’s fans aren’t battle-hardened super spies. They’re angry assholes who like to talk shit online but have probably never even been to a demonstration in their lives. If they can even be bothered to get their asses to Norman Bethune square in the first place, they have about as much chance of “blending right in” with the protesters as Roosh has of winning the Nobel prize for literature.
And if you don’t believe me I have some tickets to a totally real feminist conference to sell you.
Real feminists are a lot smarter than these dudes think they are. And they have cameras too.
Well the fact he tried to organise a campaign to disrupt the protests demonstrates that would be option 1.
What do I win?
Yeah, because
deferring toquietly ignoring Doosh has worked out for so well for all the women he’s raped.Don’t make me break out the dancing again.
Had to be said
3) Roosh speaks, hundreds of thousands of men show up to learn his amazing game technique, he makes tons of money… Roosh doesn’t like the protesting, he had to change his location, he’d rather his abusive hate speech be accepted by all so he’d have a bigger fanbase.
No no, I’m sure Had To Be Said is really a card-carrying feminist who just happens to spend 100% of his time defending antifeminists and/or attacking feminists. But he really does agree with us about almost everything!
SFHC,
To David’s credit, he does not consider “person who disagrees with the established consensus” to be the definition of “troll.”
And disagreeing with the consensus is all I’m doing here. I think it was a major strategic error to amplify Roosh’s message and massively increase awareness of his previously obscure little cult. Roosh, who is in fact a troll extraordinaire, successfully manipulated his enemies into giving him more publicity than he has ever received. He won. Roosh is a significantly bigger public figure today than he was just a few weeks ago, and it is not because of his lecture tour — it’s because of the oxygen given to it by his enemies.
Yeah, I don’t know why David thought this chap would be less of a wankstain if he just took a break from the site.
Why is it a bad thing that more people now know Roosh is a rapist?
I don’t care what he wants. What I want is for the average person to hear or see his name mentioned and go, “Oh- you mean that cr***y guy who raped a drunk Icelandic woman, and doesn’t want to wipe his ass?”
It the first page of the troll playbook it instructs trolls to claim that disagreeing with the group doesn’t make one a troll.
Disagreeing isn’t being a troll. Being a tedious asshole is.
*sigh* Being a hateful ass stain is not a mental illness.
SFHC: I’m sorry, that was meant to be a facetious take on “creepy”.
Oh, shit, sorry! My bad. ^^;;
@Had to be said:
That’s such an old and stupid argument. Of course he would prefer that there’s no spotlight shone on his horrible ideas and actions, because then he can lure people into buying his books and coming to his talks who believe his shit about how he’s just helping shy men to get into relationships. Nobody buys his version of events except for his followers. The protests were largely peaceful, and no one (except see above) will think bad of the woman who poured beer over him, because that’s exactly what he had coming. Also, although there might be (in theory) a legal case for assault, I find that a non-violent and perfectly legitimate action.
I remember that argument was brought forth by a mayor of a German city, when Neonazis started doing rallies every year to commemorate Rudolf Hess’ death (because they had been thrown out by the small town where his grave is). He called upon people in the city to stay indoors and close the window shutters and in all earnestness called this “the strategy of dedicated ignorance”. Thus he proposed to give over the whole city to a few hundred Neonazis, and on a Saturday during summer in a city on the shores of a big lake in Southern Germany (Friedrichshafen, by Lake Constance). That’s a level of idiocy that is beyond me. Of course, for him it was mainly an excuse to not do anything himself and set Police on the counterprotests (to be fair, they had tried to ban the nazi demonstration, but lost in court).
In your case, it’s just bad trolling.
Lol, here comes the beer-throwing hipster vigilante squad, hide your white male cishet privilege in your pants guys!
But seriously, I can’t imagine any reasonable state letting this kind of behavior happen without batting an eye. Can you imagine how disempowering and rape-culturish it would be to suggest to a dozen of angry white males full of bitter mangriness which burns in them like a patriarchal flame eager to trigger feminists that it might be legal to, for example, find this particular loud beer thrower of a lady in the street, at night, shout names at her while following her on her way to her house and recording the whole performance to show to the rest of the world how easy it is to harrass people?
I’m sure the québécian government place the safety of its citizens above the need of some immature young adults to have the permission to fight the patriarchy by harrasing people in the Streets. Oh wait…
SFHC: No worries! I should have taken that into account (it’s embarrassingly obvious now, augh.)
I’m just back from voting candidates for the majority and minority parties.
I also vote for TROLL in the WHTM polls about You Know Who Said.
I also have yet to read something from him that in fact had to be said.
@Auntie Alias
Thanks! Now I have to excercise all of my patience for tonight’s results ????
This. Bullshit at the idea that negative attention was what Roosh wanted. He and his ilk hate being called out on their rapey antics and held accountable, which is what the negative press is doing. As was said, he can’t lure people in when he’s exposed like this. It’s not making his name bigger, it’s attaching it to the label it deserves, which is “hate-mongering rapist”.
I’ve been in a number of demonstrations, and it’s always a problem to maintain discipline to keep from giving your target a reasonable cause to complain. You need to be careful to insult and ridicule without threatening, and if you follow someone you need to not get close enough to make a reasonable person think they might be in danger. The glass of beer was probably a mistake. People who organize demonstrations need to be aware of the possible problems; steps like having official monitors to caution people who are getting out of line, and making sure that demonstraters are aware of the principles of non-violent protest, are policies that often work well.
On the other hand, I think this demo was a good thing. People like Roosh prosper in dark, dank corners like some kind of mold, and bringing them out into the light may not always work but is a good general policy. Undoubtedly there will be a few doodz who hear about him and think he’s cool, but most people (including most men) will be repelled. And making sure that more women are aware of turds like Roosh and his PUA “game” can’t hurt. The legal system failed to get him for his rapes, but making Roosh = rapist in the public eye is worth doing.
The beer throwing was a bad idea, but not the negative attention. The press can only mean more women know to stay away from him and anyone who follows him. That’s what I care about. So what if manospherians revel in the attention like the man babies they are? Just imagine how many women would have been saved from Bill Cosby if there weren’t a decades long press blackout about him being a sexual predator?
The negative media attention is warning women to stay away from Roosh and men like him. I care way more about the safety of the women he and his ilk are trying to hurt than worrying about how he feels about the protests.
Funny how the “stop giving him attention, that’s what he wants” troll doesn’t give a shit about helping women avoid the rapist.
If my years of collecting trading cards has taught me anything, it’s that everyone, no matter their gender, loves shiny things.
You know, some people on the thread have pointed out that the beer-throwing and the yelling was a bad idea, and I’m going to chime in in agreement on that.
However, what you’re suggesting is we forget about the context of the situation in order to shame the woman and her friends.
Roosh V going to a bar he’s been banned from because he’s an admitted rapist and wants to teach other men how to rape and manipulate and abuse women and getting beer thrown on him and yelled at because of it is vastly different than the scenario you’re describing.
You’re describing men hunting down and harassing a woman because she threw a beer on one of their buddies. The situation that happened is a group of people showing Roosh V, an admitted rapist, that he’s not welcome in their city because of the hate speech he spouts and tries to spout to other men who are vulnerable and will likely try to do these terrible things to women themselves.
You’re trying to say that being a rapist who teaches other men how to rape and threatens women who try to stop him from speaking or call him out on his bullshit with violence or ruining their careers is the same as throwing a beer on someone who is a shitty person. And that’s bullshit.
Without context, what the girl and her friends did wasn’t the best idea, and there were better ways to handle it. But, let’s face it, Roosh doesn’t know the meaning of the word “no”, nor the meaning of the phrases “we don’t want you here” or “go away”.
With context, it couldn’t have happened to a better human being.
@Sunnysombrera,
his London gig came and went without a murmur. No one really knows or cares about him in the U.K. I think his Berlin gig went equally unnoticed.
I think he will see the protests in Montreal as a victory, because it garnered him lots of attention and for someone like him there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Though in actual fact it will have done him a lot of harm as his vindictive reaction has exposed him to the general public for what he is. He can kiss the mainstream good bye, he’ll only ever be a fringe figure with a dwindling fan base.
In short, he’s machine gunned himself in the foot.
“Do you want this beer in your face?”
“No”
“Ooh, you tease” *Sploosh*
“And they shall know him by…the overpowering scent of beer, and drenched clothing.”