Post: #1

Looks like this is breaking into the USA. Many cities have reported on it. Newsweek just dropped their article land more will come.

http://www.newsweek.com/roosh-v-return-k...ing-422724

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016...ead-rall/?

http://heavy.com/news/2016/02/return-of-...tter-page/

So far the US media is significantly more fair and balanced, though that doesn't say much.

Post: #2

This one has their eyes on Florida.
http://www.gossipextra.com/2016/02/03/da...rida-5630/

Homosexuals are keeping up with the events

http://southfloridagaynews.com/National/...lcome.html

A good source for all news articles against the meetups (All countries, not limited to just the US, should have over 300 sources at the time of this writing)

https://www.google.com/search?biw=320&bi...Rf1Q6fuCIk

Post: #3

SF Chronicle has a badly biased article:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/local/article...803824.php

Post: #4

Colorado:
http://kdvr.com/2016/02/03/pro-rape-blog...cross-u-s/

Illinois:
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160202...ogers-park

Post: #5

(02-03-2016 05:04 PM)General Stalin Wrote:  Colorado:
http://kdvr.com/2016/02/03/pro-rape-blog...cross-u-s/

Illinois:
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160202...ogers-park

I'm from Denver, although I am out of town and will attend a different meetup. It's funny how seeing this article in my own town makes me far angrier than I got reading articles from other places.

The way they state that Roosh and ROK advocate rape as if it is a fact is just maddening.

What's great is that this will come to the attention of millions around the world, and many will find out that this is plain, bald-faced lying on the part of the media. It's good for the media to expose themselves as liars like this, and to bring neomasculinity to the attention of so many men.

Post: #6

Utah: http://fox13now.com/2016/02/03/utahns-co...salt-lake/

Post: #7

Oklahoma City

http://kfor.com/2016/02/03/pro-rape-blog...homa-city/

http://newsok.com/article/5476584

Bit of a repost from another thread, remembered to include the links this time.

Post: #8

Chicago

WGN
http://wgntv.com/2016/02/03/pro-rape-blo...g-chicago/

WQAD
http://wqad.com/2016/02/03/pro-rape-blog...cross-u-s/

Fox32 has shared the event on Facebook

TheGatewayPundit
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/334627/

TheLibertyEagle
http://www.thelibertyeagle.com/chicago-v...ar-campus/

DNAinfo
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160203...ear-campus

Post: #9

Roosh or anyone else:

Is it worth suing all these news outlets for defamation?

You are clearly not "pro-rape" in any form but a TON of these media outlets are publishing just that; resulting in violent threats on your life and people who have any association with you. This isn't just one news source but a TON of them that are pushing this "pro-rape" lie. There has to be a decent legal payday somehow out of all of this non-sense.

Post: #10

http://wgno.com/2016/02/03/pro-rape-blog...cross-u-s/

Note this link has the exact format of the one for Denver. It is a syndicated post, but the Denver one lists the Denver meetup location, and this one lists the New Orleans location, including the picture of where to meet.

The author is not listed, but obviously somebody has taken it upon themselves to make specific pages for every location, then try to get local TV stations or newspapers to pick them up in syndication.

I'd call it a good money making scheme if they weren't our enemy.

Post: #11

What we are really seeing here is a real time manifestation of the Coordinated Narrative...WORLDWIDE.

Unreal. Remember how quickly the media coordinated the demonization of the Stars and Bars Flag?

Quote: "There is a deeper level to this. As you know the Mainstream Media (MSM) is primarily composed of six mega corporations. As the leaders of these organizations all belong to the same interconnected groups, they all take their marching orders from the same people if you go high enough.

The reason that an issue like the Confederate flag (actually, the flag of the Northern Virginia army) is suddenly everywhere is because it IS centrally coordinated. If things weren't centrally coordinated such things couldn't happen. Period. For all intents and purposes, MSM is one gigantic mega corporation. It only APPEARS to be different companies."

- paraphrased comment by RogerP77
The mainstream media is junk food for your brain

Looks like Roosh and RoK is the new "false flag" narrative being coordinated.

Post: #12

(02-03-2016 08:13 PM)K Galt Wrote:  What we are really seeing here is a real time manifestation of the Coordinated Narrative...WORLDWIDE....

Exactly - worldwide...

Last time I checked, ISIL / Daesh were still a real & present threat (whether CIA funded or otherwise).

The media also struggles to label an obvious ISIL attacker as being from ISIL & being Islamic.
They always take their time to acknowledge the ISIL link. Or attempt to obfuscate the matter.

Yet with Roosh, the mainstream media narrative was clear & consistent across the globe & across varied platforms.

All this fuss for a few social events...

Post: #13

I thought the Washington Times was an ally against the battle with the liberal Washington Post.

Post: #14

Here's a more benign example of the mass media's coordination of a particular narrative...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl...M8L7bdwVaA

But this coordinated narrative of "Roosh and Return of Kings are a pro-rape movement that wants to legalize rape on private property!" shows us just how coordinated the print news and magazine media is around the entire world.

This is just the latest evidence that the media IS the matrix, and THEY will do everything possible to prevent more and more people from unplugging.

Post: #15

Some more local coverage: http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/02/03/pro-r...san-diego/ Mirror: https://archive.is/mA9qf

Some highlights:

Quote:Pro-rape blogger cancels worldwide meetings — including San Diego

SAN DIEGO -- A blogger who believes rape should be legalized has canceled an “International Meetup Day” where supporters had planned to gather in various locations throughout the world, including San Diego.

Daryush Valizadeh is known for his controversial books that advise men on the best methods to have sex with women and advocates that rape be made legal inside a private home.

[...]

Two meeting locations were right here in the San Diego, according to a removed post on Valizadeh's website. One was located at the "corner of 16th and Broadway, in parking lot of the Goodwill." The other was set for The Village at Pacific Highlands Ranch. Those interested were told to "meet in front of The Baked Bear Shop."

Shane Stanger, founder of The Baked Bear Shop, contacted FOX 5 to say that his business has no association with Valizadeh or the planned meetup and has no idea why people were told to show up in front of the shop. He said that he had contacted police, and they will be present Saturday to make sure the business and property are safe.

"I'm disgusted that a group like this exists and wish (police) could arrest anyone who had an inclination to attend this meeting," Stanger told FOX 5.

[...]

[The following is a Des Moines Iowa police Facebook posting which was put in this article, for no good reason]

Our Facebook page has received some inquiries about a website called Return Of Kings that is advertising an “International Meetup Date on February, 6 2016. Facebook friends have seen this on their Facebook pages and shared this information with us. Some believe this may be a potential lure to get young women and girls to come to the various listed “meet up” sites across the US and locations around the world. There is concern that this may be a ruse to commit rape

This article got over 8000 shares on Facebook, so I can see why there is no effort for this hit piece to be at all accurate...you get more clicks if you post hysterical click bait instead of an accurate article. See also: How people accepted the UVA campus gang rape story without question.

Edit: Some other San Diego coverage:

• http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/02/03/pro-rape-blogger-organizes-meetings-around-world-including-san-diego/ https://archive.is/zdNS6 "A man who believes rape should be legalized canceled meetups that were supposed to be held this weekend in dozens of cities around the world, including in San Diego."
• https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?s...6966350283 https://archive.is/JMTNF "We are disappointed that the Village at Pacific Highlands Ranch has been identified as a meeting spot for a vulgar blogger's event. We have nothing to do with the event and we don't want the group anywhere near our property."
• https://www.facebook.com/events/1679964318912597/ https://archive.is/LJJ1q "Protest Against "Return Of Kings" "Legal Rape""
  

Edit 2: None of the articles have named authors, so we can't call them out in the Operation Bullhorn thread

Post: #16

``"I'm disgusted that a group like this exists and wish (police) could arrest anyone who had an inclination to attend this meeting," Stanger told FOX 5.''

Hitler would be so proud of your eagerness to arrest people over their opinions, Mr. Stranger.

Post: #17

Los Angeles/OC
http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot...story.html

Post: #18

Dallas:
http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/victims-b...p/31944579

Post: #19

I'm rather baffled by the crippled Texas cuck hold governor and his response.

It's like someone handed him a paper and told him to read it for the media.

Post: #20

Washington Post - "Neo-masculinists’ cancel worldwide meetups over fears of feminist ‘mobs'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn...nist-mobs/

Post: #21

Roosh V Canceled His Male Pride Meetup But Still Got What He Wanted

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/r...-he-wanted

Post: #22

Phoenix:

"Group advocating legalized rape cancels Arizona meetups"
Published by Mormon church owned KTAR radio
http://ktar.com/story/887933/group-advoc...a-meetups/

Post: #23

I think I found a female journalist Roosh groupie at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-...roosh-won/

Quote:How Roosh won

By Caitlin Dewey
February 4 at 2:35 PM

It’s virtually impossible to take a census of an online subculture — even the academics who study them say it can’t be done. But by all accounts, the number of people who actually follow Daryish Valizadeh is smaller than it looks.

Valizadeh, known online as “Roosh V,” is the self-styled prophet of a strain of radical misogynist pick-up artistry. He’s also the proprietor of an obscure virtual empire that spans three websites, a forum and 17 self-published books. (According to analyses conducted for The Washington Post by the firms Tweetsmap and SimilarWeb, Valizadeh’s international “hordes” can be mapped to a few clusters of readers in the United States, Canada and Western Europe.)

And yet, when Valizadeh proclaimed the objectively impossible — that his cult would emerge from the shadows on Feb. 6 and mass at 165 prominent public locations from Phoenix to Phnom Penh — millions of people, and hundreds of journalists, took his word for it.

The ensuing global uproar has manufactured publicity on a scale that few fringe Internet movements have ever dreamed of. By the time he “canceled” the faux-revolution Wednesday afternoon, Valizadeh had become a household name in places as far-flung as Winnipeg and Sydney — never mind that even social justice activists hadn’t taken him seriously.

“We only count real organizations as hate groups,” said Heidi Beirich, the director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks domestic extremists online and off. Valizadeh’s rhetoric has all the markings of hate speech, she said; but at the end of the day, “he’s a guy with a blog.”

Unfortunately for Beirich and others like her, the line between “real” movements and mere Internet grumbling is becoming increasingly hard to see. For one thing, the Internet makes it virtually impossible to quantify groups like Valizadeh’s, which claim to command — but rarely produce — untold hordes of followers. Much like Anonymous, with whom Valizadeh has sparred, and Gamergate, with whom he’s sympathized, the “neomasculines” could hypothetically number in the tens of thousands … or consist of a few hundred keyboard warriors with a legion of sock puppets.

Valizadeh seems to fall in the latter camp: The last time he attempted something like Saturday’s canceled meet-up — a well-publicized, eight-city lecture series last summer — his largest crowd maxed out at 77 in New York City.

And while his flagship website, Return of Kings, is well-trafficked — averaging slightly less than 2 million views per month, according to Similar Web — that number is not necessarily indicative of the size of Valizadeh’s following. On both Twitter and Facebook, Return of Kings has fewer than 13,000 followers. The site’s accompanying forums have registered 19,600 accounts, but half have never posted.

Nevertheless, giving the impression that the “movement” is massive — or that it is a coherent movement at all — has immeasurable benefits for Valizadeh and Co. For one thing, it foments outrage proportional to the false front (thousands of pro-rape women-haters are massing in public squares around the world), but disproportional to what is actually happening (a handful of readers of a misogynist blog grabbing beers and grumbling). That lends critical credibility to Valizadeh’s claim that men like him are persecuted by a culture of feminist shrills. It also draws more eyeballs to Return of Kings, where he hopes to sell new books and find new converts.

“When extremists draw attention to themselves, it artificially increases their numbers,” said Thomas Holt, a professor of criminal justice at Michigan State University who studies fringe online groups. “These communities see a bump as people read the news and check it out. … And while we don’t know know how acceptance of belief happens online, exposure definitely matters.”

Valizadeh and his followers are certainly aware of that fact: In the past 72 hours, the blogger has bragged repeatedly about the growing traffic to his blog and the spiking number of Google searches for his name. On his forum, one adherent advocated more media participation: “Even negative publicity gets more men to join the cause,” he claimed.

But most telling, perhaps, is a Wednesday tweet sent by the prominent manosphere blogger behind “The Rational Male”: “ ‘Tribe’ meetings are more about inciting the protests for Roosh’s notoriety,” he complained, “than any real connections among men.”

While that suggests that neomasculines are far from gathering allies together in a city near you, it still concerns analysts like Beirich, who sees a growing trend toward virtualization among U.S. hate groups. More and more organizations are moving online, she said, and maintaining no trace in the physical world. Without protests, there can be no counter-protests. Without clear leaders, there can be no arrests or lawsuits.

“We are way concerned with hate groups operating online, much like we are with Islamic extremists,” Beirich said. “There’s always this potential for online radicalization.”

In the case of Valizadeh and the great global meet-up, the media only seems to have helped: For a brief period Wednesday, so many new people were on Return of Kings that the site actually crashed.

Post: #24

Except she refers to it as a "cult" - secret groupie?

Post: #25

Edit - removed link