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I’m a Three Time Loser
June 12, 2008 |
Wow. You know when you’re doing something right (or wrong) when you get bile thrown at you. After a long silence, the ever loving La Russophobe has once again made me the object of obsession. “Sean Guillory, Three Time Loser” is, well, what you would expect.
If I’m really all the things Miss Bliss says I am, then why waste the column space? If I’m so pathetic and insignificant, then why not just ignore me? I guess I’m a thorn in her side. The funny thing is that I didn’t even know it. I probably wouldn’t have found out about this latest tirade if someone didn’t email it to me. And she calls me a loser!?.
Kim is so obsessed with me that sometimes I really do think that she’s just in love. And that is the scariest thought of all.
Hey, Kim, if you’re reading, thanks for the laugh. And for the plug.
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LR said on the site:
”(the eXile, too, had been pathologically critical of Kim, essentially trying to put out a hit on her;”
Kim, its not hard to find you, and as you know, I have already. Fortunately enough for you I chose not to pass on the info; at the very least you’d be getting a lifetime Russian visa ban. Fear not, I dont think Lubyanka Square would be bothered wasting any ordinance on you. Any female who spends their life slagging off Masha Sharapova clearly has major self-esteem issues, and, to quote the marvellous band The Divine Comedy, has ”an arse the size of a small country” Get out the Veet Kim. Get down to the gym. Having an small bottom and smooth nether regions isnt just for tennis stars; its for anyone who bothers with personal care.
SEAN -I’d say you’ve passed out the freakshow in page views or site visits or something like that, hence this latest hissy fit.
I’d take it as a sign your are doing something right!
Ger, re your quoting of “had been pathologically critical of Kim”. I mean really. Only the insane and the stupid speak in third person. I only read people referring to themselves in third person in Hulk comics and or amongst athletes.
Sean, after reading LR’s post I certainly learned a lot about your personality–about who you really are deep down. Needless to say, it was an eye opener for me.
Now, what kind of person is Kim, if that is her real name? Is she a parody created by clever Putinistas?
Way to go, Sean! Clearly, I need to up my game if I’m to compete with you in the loser stakes…
“had been pathologically critical of Kim”.
”Only the insane and the stupid speak in third person.”
Sean, she’s completely off her tits, no doubt about it. Not only that, she claims to be part of a team, which she isnt - the same whining style of writing is used throughout the blog, leaving me to conclude its a one-person operation. She has her money made, Russia wronged her somehow, and she spends her entire day trying spewing caustic soda against it. Sad.
Congrats, I think it’s an honor. The only thing worse is to receive praise.
I believe that first and foremost she is an American ultra-conservative - pushing the McCain campaign seems eminently more important to her than any contribution to the discussion on Russia.
…which has got to become painfully hypocritical with all those Deripaska and Rick Davis-Viktor Yanukovych links.
Seen this one from the DNC?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGXIuNthJ7Q
I think La Russophobe is secretly in love with Sean.
You met Sean, Chris. Sean’s only real loser quality is Sean reads too many comic books. But Sean has mad thug appeal unlike puny La Russophobe! Just ask Sean’s many babies mommas around Los Angeles area. They know Sean as Great LA Pimp. Except in the Inland Empire. Sean unknown there. Inland Empire too hot and smoggy and too many trailer parks for Sean. Let La Russophobe show face. Sean smash puny La Russophobe!
No. Sean sad now. Feels mean to La Russophobe. Without La Russophobe Sean have no one to laugh at. Sean will have to return to watching pathetic freaks on Dr. Phil if La Russophobe gives no laughs. Sean go cry now.
Wait. Sean sees that porn addicted husband on Dr. Phil today. That makes Sean smile. Sean no need you anymore La Russophobe! Sean has porn addicted husband to make Sean laugh.
Oops. Sean forgot one thing. See Kolya now you know more about all Sean’s deep downs. Deep downs like thug appeal, babies’ mommas, LA pimping, smoggy Inland Empire full of trailer parks, Dr. Phil, and porn addicted husbands. Even puny La Russophobe did not know these deep downs.
Before LR has a chance with Sean, she’s going to have to lose some of that ass.
”Before LR has a chance with Sean, she’s going to have to lose some of that ass.”
I said that big ass was an issue above, and I have no doubt thats the case. She’d could probably lose the bum-fluff moustache too and get her roots done. Reading her bile at the website, she has just got be manky, minging, a dog, or as the Kiwis say ‘a total munter’. Whats her problem? The rants against Sharapova can only mean one thing - she’s a mutt. And she’s very like MAA in the sense that she wont even listen to other arguments, however logical they are. She had a big post one day about a Russian unmanned rocket explosion, insinuating the Russian space programme was shoddy. I asked her did she want her head examined -in the light of fatal US disasters, if you had a choice, who would you go to space with? Rossiya, konechno. She didnt want to know. She is MAA in reverse, only much more abusive and without even a heartfelt interest, which at least Mike has.
Chrisius Maximus on June 12, 2008 11:28 am
I think La Russophobe is secretly in love with Sean.
And that makes ivanov worry about Sean. Ivanov knows that mad secret love is very bad for man :))
Congrats with independence, Rossiya!
http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/c/u/cupol/89b63eb785dc05a51b1d7e3cad8e37fb.jpg
Kim IS the Valentina Tereshkova of crazy “Russian-oriented” bloggers, hands down. We need to get her in a little rubber room (if she isn’t in one already.)
I have a theory that LR and Averko are actually the same person, the product of a massive psychotic breakdown resulting in multiple personality disorder. Both personalities are busy blogging from their cell in some psychiatric institution (which unfortunately for us provides its patients with Internet access), neither aware of what the other is doing.
Maybe one is a time traveler from the future who is trapped in our time trying to wreak havoc. I would say that LR is the future Averko. Kinda like Immortus and Kang the Conquerer.
Chris Doss (Chrisius Maximus) could be a writer at LR. He reveals a whore aspect to himself by trying to disingenuously demean people who’ve accomplished more than himself. Manner that shouldn’t be confused with legitimate critiques.
The Irishman is in the same class by saying that I’m LR in reverse.
Guillory is regretfully carrying on like a disingenuous shit; by playing to the pathetic peanut gallery here. It contrasts from what he has said to me in other instances.
Using the displayed “logic” here, I must be doing something right.
“Wow. You know when you’re doing something right (or wrong) when you get bile thrown at you.”
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So true.
“If I’m really all the things Miss Bliss says I am, then why waste the column space? If I’m so pathetic and insignificant, then why not just ignore me? I guess I’m a thorn in her side. The funny thing is that I didn’t even know it. I probably wouldn’t have found out about this latest tirade if someone didn’t email it to me. And she calls me a loser!?.
Kim is so obsessed with me that sometimes I really do think that she’s just in love. And that is the scariest thought of all.
Hey, Kim, if you’re reading, thanks for the laugh. And for the plug.’
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Really?
Just consider the number of times I give myself a break from checking this site. Only to then see how I’m referenced (for a good part, incorrectly)
As for Oliver Bronsen/La Russophobe, it konked out of an hour long BBC panel, which resulted in a better discussion.
Care to fill us in on which illustrious newspapers Des Grant publishes in Ireland Mike?
”The Irishman is in the same class by saying that I’m LR in reverse.”
Mike, you arent as bad as her, but your utter failure to accept logical arguments and ignore facts, as well as make up your own, puts you not a million miles away from LR.
Mike, when you feel the “change” coming upon you, can you feel your ass actually swelling to gargantuan proportions?
“Just consider the number of times I give myself a break from checking this site. ”
No.
“Maybe one is a time traveler from the future who is trapped in our time trying to wreak havoc. I would say that LR is the future Averko.”
If LR were to travel back in time and kill Averko, would LR cease to exist?
“If LR were to travel back in time and kill Averko, would LR cease to exist?”
I think it would depend on whether they existed on the same time line.
“I’m a Three Time Loser”
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More like three individuals (Guillory, Doss and troll) carrying on like losers.
Folks who seem to have a good deal in common with LR.
This could be a Days of Future Past thing. LR comes from a dystopian future world in which Russia pundits are hunted down and killed by giant robots. She goes back int ime and starts La Russophobe as a way to avert this horrific future. However, forgetting that in the past she was not a woman with an enormous ass, but a middle-aged balding man, she accidentally kills Averko after a one-night-stand gone horribly wrong. This results in a temporal paradox with repercussions all up and down the time stream, effectively making it so the Big Bang never happened and the universe as we know it ceases to exist.
Des Grant has a previous media background with TTT regularly making some big time newswires.
Not the same as trolling in the comments section of a blog.
No troll, I successfully address facts and counter the bullshit being spewed out on a regular basis.
Something that Doss, yourself and others have failed to do in a number of instances
How does Des Grant have a previous media background with TTT if he is currently working for TTT? Unless he was writing for the Team Troll Tribune.
What prompted Guillory to go off like this?
In another instance, he expressed the desire to stay away from such manner.
That’s your “change” Doss.
“Something that Doss, yourself and others have failed to do in a number of instances”
Still haven’t mastered use of “yourself,” I see.
No Chris, he wasnit writing for UT.
Wasn’t
Doss still hasn’t made much of himself.
What the Hell does poor Sean have to do with the subjective sense of ass-swelling Averko perceives when his Dark Other takes control?
Selective grammar Nazi barbs, as he overlooks those of others, while being less than perfect himself.
Loser Doss and hypocrite Guillory.
Lster with this shithole of dumbassed misfits.
“Dumbass” is not a verb.
Using total post count again to judge value. How mature.
First she calls Nimstov courageous to criticize with his writing, but then is rather happy for the eXile’s demise.
Chrisius Maximus: “He reveals a whore aspect to himself by trying to disingenuously demean people who’ve accomplished more than himself. Manner that shouldn’t be confused with legitimate critiques.”
Sounds like the Nimstov article. Nimstov was backhandedly defending himself and Yeltsin by attacking Putin’s record. Yeltsin did not have many accomplishments after temporarily holding back communist authoritarianism.
Of course, the eXile was not a great paper, but anyone who publishes should be worried and speak out against a paper being audited for content — even professional journalists should be speaking out in its support. Unfortunately, Mark made too many enemies, so I imagine that there are lots of people including journalists and politicians in Russia and the West celebrating his paper’s fall.
Des Grant has a previous media background with TTT regularly making some big time newswires.
Not the same as trolling in the comments section of a blog.
He has also previously been known as Bonaparte.
Oops, sorry, messed up the tags.
Des Grant has a previous media background with TTT regularly making some big time newswires.
Not the same as trolling in the comments section of a blog.
He has also previously been known as Bonaparte.
Sean, I think you should cite LR’s latest ramblings on your CV. Her estimation of your “scholarship and liberalism” is a priceless endorsement of you, actually.
Oh, and your conclusion that she is most definitely and disturbingly obsessed with you? I completely agree.
Holy Crap! Des Grant has 147 Wikipedia sockpuppets!
“Holy Crap! Des Grant has 147 Wikipedia sockpuppets!”
Chris, to the utterly ignorant, can you please explain? Sockpuppets? After so many years, I should know, but I don’t.
A sockpuppet is a fake identity someone uses online. For instance, say that someone, let’s call him Matt Alberky, is having an argument on somone’s blog. Alberky is losing the argument. So, he registers an alternate identity — say, Alexandra — and posts under that name, something like “Alberky was right, he’s the greatest ever,” in an attempt to fool people.
According to Wiki, it appears that this “Grant” person was using sockpuppets all over the place to change Wiki’s content on material dealing with Moldova. I would post a link but Sean’s blog won’t let me.
Thanks, Chris. Kolya is a great guy, btw.
”Thanks, Chris. Kolya is a great guy, btw.”
Never a truer word said Nick. Kolya is, as we say in Ireland, a ”Legend”:-) Doss isnt too bad either, when he’s not cheerleading for the CARFs (Court Appointed Russia Friendlies).
”He has also previously been known as Bonaparte.”
”Holy Crap! Des Grant has 147 Wikipedia sockpuppets!”
Listening to Mike Averko and TTT spin, I though the obviously eminent Des had been editior of The Irish Times and decided to take a sabbatical in the PMR, as you do. Clearly the guy is another propagandist/troll. The big question is , what’s a Paddy doing in the PMR? Now I know we can be found anywhere, even now that we can actually feed ourselves, but, unless he’s got a bit of skirt there, I’m baffled as to why he’d be in Tiraspol - even if he wanted an Eastern Europe buzz, there’s always somewhere decent like Moskva or Petes or Kiev. So Mike, what’s the story? Why is an Irishman leading the PMR propoganda effort? And where are your heroes Mark Street and the other guy Jason? Sockpuppetting for the Myanmar government?
I Googled and saw that same sock-puppet business on Wikipedia. It makes you wonder what is going through someone’s head to be that obsessive and having such a desire to be RIGHT, even to the extent of shoving it down someone else’s throat.
”I Googled and saw that same sock-puppet business on Wikipedia.”
I did too Wally. I found this absolutely hilarious:
http://www.debatableland.com/the_debatable_land/2007/05/transdniestrian.html
The funniest thing is Mike’s unwavering support for this propoganda!:-)
It makes you wonder what is going through someone’s head to be that obsessive and having such a desire to be RIGHT, even to the extent of shoving it down someone else’s throat.
I think it’s actually quite simple. Anyone who is that systematic and persistent but is also competent enough to not appear completely loco is probably a professional. People are paid to promote a certain point of view online and they use all available tools to do so.
Corporations pay individuals and PR firms to engage in Wikipedia trickery all the time; why shouldn’t secessionist governments and/or corporate interests which rely on the perpetuation of secessionist conflicts do exactly the same thing?
I think the sockpuppetry is a for-pay thing. You know what those Irish will do for whiskey.
OK, let us assume that the TT is in fact a Transdniestr government propaganda outlet (which is not certain, but seems likely). Why wouldn’t they just shill out the extra cash and get an actual print version and staff? I know Trandniestr is a pretty poor place, but this doesn’t cost that much money. Maybe it’s actually put out by independent people (or one person) who are/is just obsessed with the subject for some reason, like family ties or whatever.
”You know what those Irish will do for whiskey.”
Girls, Chris, girls. I will do anything for girls!:-)
”Why wouldn’t they just shill out the extra cash and get an actual print version and staff?”
I have no doubt they’re paying MAA and others. But who is going to be reading an English language paper like that in the PMR? Surely they get enough propoganda in Russian.
Why wouldn’t they just shill out the extra cash and get an actual print version and staff? I know Trandniestr is a pretty poor place, but this doesn’t cost that much money.
That’s a good question, but I think it has a simple answer, which Ger alluded to: the TT’s target audience is not people in Transdniester or in any other discrete geographic area (which is what a print edition would be best at reaching).
As an online-only “newspaper,” it serves pretty much all of the functions needed - it looks legit to the casual observer who might arrive there based on a Google search or a context-placed Google Ad (TT definitely pays to advertise on Gmail, for example) and allows astroturfed blogs like “Deciphering Transdniestria” to link back to it and increase their own credibility. The entire project - including websites like VisitPMR and pridnestrovie.net - has been memorably and probably correctly described as “a circle-jerk of English-language disinformatsiya.”
Perhaps more importantly, given that there seems to have been a concerted effort to influence Wikipedia entries, an online “newspaper” such as TT provides a source to cite as “authority” when editing Wikipedia articles (apologies for all the scare-quotes, but in this context I think they are appropriate). I am not a Wiki-expert, but from looking at some of the discussion pages I gather this is important and people who disagree with the TT team’s point of view might remove their edits in the absence of citations to external websites.
Given that an online presence accomplishes so much in terms of PR, why bother with a print edition? Since TT’s mission in simplest terms seems to be influencing English-speaking internet users worldwide, a print edition would add little value.
But who knows, I agree with Chris that there is a vanishingly minuscule possibility this is all organized by some true believer in the PMR’s cause. One would expect such an individual to not shy away from publicity, since someone is clearly spending some cash to keep these websites going and for any private individual (as opposed to a government or corporation) the expense might be substantial. I’m going to be visiting Moldova this summer and will see whether it’s possible to arrange a meeting with “Jason Cooper” or anyone else at TT - i.e., whether they actually have anyone in Tiraspol at all.
One of us (probably Lyndon, seeing as he knows both Romanian and Russian) should go to the Tiraspol online server and ask Transdniestrians if they have ever heard of the TT. (This might be problematic since I don’t know how much Internet access there is there and who is on it, but such a server does exist.)
“a circle-jerk of English-language disinformatsiya.”
This would be all very well, and we can all laugh away because we all have some knowledge of the place or at least the circumstances there (and quite clearly Lyndon has actually been on-site and speaks the lingos, for which there is no substitute, in spite of protestations from Long Island). But people who know nothing about the place may actually be conned by this stuff. Only yesterday I got into a row at work with some women over the Lisbon Treaty and by the time the conversation ended, they were onto how the USA wants to colonise the world, Roswell and Freemasons controlling banking from behind the curtains in Brussels. You’d be AMAZED what even educated people believe - and bearing that in mind I have no doubt that TTT has fooled some people, which is its obvious aim.
Anyway hope you’re keeping well Lyndon and not too hot in heatwave USA:-)
One of us (probably Lyndon, seeing as he knows both Romanian and Russian) should go to the Tiraspol online server and ask Transdniestrians if they have ever heard of the TT.
Chris, actually just about all of the online signs of life I’ve seen from the PMR (official, of course, but unofficial as well) are in Russian. It’s just speculation, but I would guess that folks who are young and educated enough to be online and who want to use Romanian will gravitate toward the right bank of the Dnestr and move there if possible.
Anyway, the nerve center (IMHO) of Russophone online user-generated content is Livejournal, and sure enough there is a Tiraspol-oriented forum on that system, which had one none too flattering mention of TTT back in Dec. 2006 when it had just appeared. There don’t seem to be any other mentions of TTT on LiveJournal.
Incidentally, there used to be a LJ community called Foto_PMR (I reposted one cool photo from that forum here), but within a couple of months after I discovered it that forum disappeared, replaced by a LJ error message which reads “This journal has been deleted and purged.”
I checked out a couple of other online forums to see what locals online are saying about the Tiraspol Times. Here is a rather dismissive remark suggesting it’s a “PR project of [Dmitry] Soin” (a top PMR polittechnologist and youth movement organizer who also holds a position in the state security services). Here is an online discussion of one of TTT’s sillier articles (comparing Transdniester’s supposed liberal attitude toward gay pride parades with Moldova’s attitude), a discussion titled “PROPAGANDA: who spreads it and why?” in which TTT features prominently and another discussion of TTT’s merits from the same forum.
It’s impossible to tell who the participants are in such online discussions; one of them in some of the threads linked above is a woman named Marisha who organizes tours in Moldova and Transdniester. She also has her own English-language online forum, in which she made the following observation:
I never seen a printed copy of Tiraspol Times neither in Moldova, nor in Tiraspol. I think its main target group is the western reader and not the one in Chisinau or Tiraspol.
On that forum, there’s also a comment from a guy who once ran a column in TTT but a little over a year later wrote:
…when reading Tiraspol Times its hard to believe what I can read there, according to their opinion PMR is a rosegarden and on the other side of the Nistru there is hell.
So thanks, Chris, I appreciated the excuse to root around on the internet for a bit.
Ger:
But people who know nothing about the place may actually be conned by this stuff.
This has been what bothered me about TTT from the very beginning. Good production values and native-level English make the message easier to swallow.
Anyway hope you’re keeping well Lyndon and not too hot in heatwave USA:-)
Thanks, one gets used to 90-something degrees and 90-something per cent humidity in DC (though not usually this early in the summer), so it’s not the end of the world for me. I felt bad, though, for a couple of friends we had visiting from Moscow last week who were walking around downtown on some of the sweatiest days of the year!
Goddamn DC not so Russia friendly heat and humidity!
”Goddamn DC not so Russia friendly heat and humidity!”
There’s one discovered every minute. I never knew Amy Winehouse was a non-Court Appointed Russia Friendly. What with you being a Cheerleader for the CARFs Chris, how does that make you feel? Can you actually be attracted to a non-CARF?:-)
Lyndon I’d just like to say congratulations on your recent graduation, well done!! You’re due a lot of credit -family, bills, blog, defending the world against Mike Averko and his spin, and yet you still manage to find time to get your law degree from GEORGETOWN NO LESS!! Brilliant!:-)
Any chance, you know, if any of us ‘contributors’ here ever get busted, that you could, maybe (cough cough) em, give us free legal aid?:-) Times are tough for ordinary guys visiting Russia blogs too you know!
But, realistically, lets not get too excited. You only speak Russian and Romanian fluently, have spent years in the USSR/Russia and then loads of time in Moldova and the PMR.
How would you know anything about the FSU?:-)?
BTW Happy Bloomsday Chris!!
I completely forgot about Bloomsday.
“O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and the pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
God that’s achingly beautiful. Mike, are you listening? That’s how writing is meant to be done! And look, he didn’t even use punctuation, albeit without any employment of “there’re.” That’s shorthand for you!
Wait a second guys.
“Good production values and native-level English make the message easier to swallow.”
The TT publishes Averko, unedited, complete with his idiosyncratic English. This is not “good production values.”