Patrick Sean Tomlinson / @stealthygeek / "Torque Wheeler" / @RealAutomanic / Kempesh / Padawan v2.5 - "Conservative" sci-fi author with TDS, armed "drunk with anger management issues" and terminated parental rights, actual tough guy, obese, paid Quasi, paid thousands to be repeatedly unbanned from Twitter

[Nod Flenders]

God bless pat trolls and the work they put into trolling him. They could be solving world hunger or curing cancer with the kind of effort they put in

His trolls are fucking hilarious.

 

[Mr Moonface]

Something like this, perhaps?

Haven't read this in ages. It really is the internet trolling equivalent of Carl Jung's 'The Red Book'. It's a wonderful collection of derangement and I thoroughly recommend anyone who enjoys high effort trolling to give it a read. But don't just listen to me, here are the reviews on the back cover:

For those who don't like to read, here are some of the best illustrations used between the chapters:



And for our friend @Boston Brand - 'Old Mary Three Names' also got one:

 

[JOE_CUMIA_FUCKS_KIDS]

Funniest part about Rick’s lawsuit is that his boogeyman Trump was the only person who could have helped him. If Trump got re-elected and had the chance to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as he intended to do, Quasi and Null would become liable for the content posted on their sites and they would immediately shut them down. But he decided to support the frontman for the Big Tech party instead. He shouldn’t be complaining one bit about his situation, he voted for it.

 

[Johnny Anal Beads]

Funniest part about Rick’s lawsuit is that his boogeyman Trump was the only person who could have helped him. If Trump got re-elected and had the chance to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as he intended to do, Quasi and Null would become liable for the content posted on their sites and they would immediately shut them down. But he decided to support the frontman for the Big Tech party instead. He shouldn’t be complaining one bit about his situation, he voted for it.

Trump would have raped me had he won in 2020.

I'm sorry you're so stupid, my sweet little apricot dumpling.

 

[instythot]

Something like this, perhaps?

I had something along those lines in mind, but set so explicitly in one of Pat's universes that it would get sorted into his Amazon search results. This is still plenty funny enough for me. I forgot how creative they got over on r/opieandanthony. Thanks!

 

[Euro Mongo]

I may be outing myself as a simpleton, but this one got me real good.

 

[NotFatChild]

Something like this, perhaps?

Through the smoky haze, a bulky figure slowly waddled. Dressed in a full-length black
leather duster and an inside out baseball cap, it was the dork lord, Darth Fatso.
Wheezing loudly, despite the minor exercise of walking, Fatso examined the scene.

“Get them, children,” he said to the nearest trooper. “Leave none standing.”

page 8 and im already enjoying myself

 

[Uncle Buck]

You can't reasonably distinguish between a person who legitimately read a book via another source (library, bookstore, loan from a friend, etc.) and just posted a review on Amazon when they saw it listed there, and somebody maliciously posting negative reviews everywhere they possibly can.

First and foremost, you make a lot of very good points.

Second, Fatrick's case is something of a mess of different issues, from alleged "defamation", coupled with the use of negative/"misleading" online reviews, the element of alleged "intentional" infliction of emotional distress and so-called "conspiracy"/"civil harassment" as well as other problems that make me wonder why - short of the fact that they knew their plaintiff was being bankrolled by someone else with an ax to grind - a lawyer of any true ethical standing actually took the case.

That said, aside from Resto, I don't actually know the lawyers involved, and it's possible that they made it clear to their client that they believed it was a long-shot. I'd like to think they also warned him of the potential for the court to award costs to potential defendants and that he chose to ignore their counsel to his own detriment - but I wasn't in the room.

As to your specific comments:

I don't think in this particular case it was so much about whether or not a person had actually bought the books as opposed to having pirated copies or having maybe not read the whole thing but gotten the gist of them from someone else; in this case the issue was people using the review function of [primarily] Goodreads to go after him for things largely unrelated to the content of his books.

Traction or not, you'll never get anywhere near the "preponderance of the evidence" threshold you'd need to score a win.

It depends on the facts and circumstances; in this case there were many reviews published that had little, if anything, to do with his books. Also, I know that at the very least Goodreads was reluctant to take any action at Fatrick's urging over the negative reviews - which might have been a factor in the SFWA chosing to bankroll the case.

My Fatrick lore knowledge has lapsed a bit, but doesn't that allegation (of his pedophilia) actually have a bit of meat on its bones?

To my knowledge he's neither been charged with a crime, nor do I recall him ever admitting to engaging in untoward behavior with a minor. I can only speak for myself, but I'd need at least one or the other before I ever published a comment suggesting a person was a pedophile.

That isn't to say Fatrick isn't a piece of shit who constantly, as a public figure, makes inflammatory comments on numerous subjects, personally attacks numerous people, threatens people and otherwise says lots of dumb things. He's brought the vast majority of criticism he's faced on himself, and his highly negative way of engaging with people has made all of his problems worse.

I thought he'd at least made some very questionable comments (at best) or actually been accused of something (at worst). Truth is a defense against defamation claims.

I'm not going to say he hasn't said things that lead me to believe he's, at best, someone with a very screwy view of sexuality and morality and, at worst, highly sexually dysfunctional - and very likely at least half a subhuman faggot - but that wouldn't be enough for me to brand him a "pedophile".

There's also the herculean task of proving actual damages, and this dipshit has done so much damage to his own reputation and career it's damn near impossible to point to any single factor as the main contributing cause of his undoing.

Quantifying damage is always problematic in such cases, though while "defamation per se" has really ceased to mean anything given the Second Restatement of Torts, courts tend to still ascribe some - even if minimal - value to a person's reputation, at least in defamation cases that involve negative/"misleading" online business reviews.

You don't get to point to someone calling you names and say they're the reason your shitty books aren't selling, especially if they already weren't selling prior to the name-calling. If you've been punching yourself in the face for an hour straight, you can't really blame the guy who slaps you across the face to get you to stop for the massive black eye you gave yourself.

All true. That said, there was more to him bringing the case than merely the negative reviews. I'm sure he believed - and his SFWA bankrollers agreed - that the negative reviews might be the thing that helped push the case forward where it otherwise would have failed harder than it did.

In Fatrick's twisted mind, not only were these negative reviews invalid because he believed most of the posters didn't actually read/buy his books, but [and this, based on nothing but his own self-serving claims] they were highly co-ordinated by members of OnA et al with the specific purpose of destroying his career as a writer and otherwise making his life hell.

As with most cows, he's entirely lacking in self-awareness; you and I know the truth is that he's just not a very good writer [the "release-to-date" numbers show that in and of themselves], he's a jerk who uses the bully-pulpit of the internet to smear and ridicule people he doesn't like, he threatens people, beats his chest and otherwise behaves like the quintessential basement-dwelling keyboard warrior and generally thinks much more highly of himself than he has any right to while otherwise being obnoxious in every possible way a person can be obnoxious. But in his mind he's a trendsetter and the only way anyone could possibly not like him is if they were a "Nazi" - and he beats "Nazi's" down [or so he imagines]. So any and all criticism just has to be "unlawful" or "harassment" or something along those lines.

As @AnOminous rightly pointed out, it's the court's job to see through all of his nonsense and throw out frivolous cases like the one he brought and we're fortunate that at least the courts involved in this case did their job perfectly - but that they ultimately did surely doesn't make up for the terror evidenced in comments by @Caverlock at the prospect of having his identity revealed for "harassing" Fatrick by republishing, among other things, what Fatrick himself had already published on his own Twitter profile [his birthday].

I do understand your point -- calling someone a pedophile is potentially very devastating and could well be actionable in a lot of circumstances -- but I think Fatrick might be one of the rare exceptions where his own absurd behavior practically indemnifies anyone mocking or insulting him.

Sure, that he had a bad reputation already given his long and demonstrable history of saying patently stupid and inflammatory things, as well as his numerous threatening comments could have helped illustrate that he was "libel-proof". I suppose my overall point is that there are already so many things the buffoon could have been legitimately ridiculed for it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to toss out an unsubstantiated allegation of sexual misconduct toward minors and give him, if only in his own mind, a legal leg to stand on.

 

[Puck]

Pat picks Thursday as the day to start his working week. Gotta finish that 'A Christmas Carol' ripoff.

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1k words, what is that like 2 pages, a real author could bang that out in half an hour, more evidence that pats a fat lazy hack.

 

[geodestro]

I may be outing myself as a simpleton, but this one got me real good.

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Cbanks is an all timer from the o&a reddit, if he's on pats case expect the laughs to keep coming until something happens he can get banned (again) for.

 

[JY's Tampon]

I may be outing myself as a simpleton, but this one got me real good.

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I never noticed the arm band tattoo. What a faggot.

 

[peckaface]

Cbanks is an all timer from the o&a reddit, if he's on pats case expect the laughs to keep coming until something happens he can get banned (again) for.

Just for reference

 

[Josterman]

Tara Dublin is one stupid bitch. Her teenage son begged her to stop embarrassing him on Twitter and she said, "Sorry, sweetie. Mommy's tweets are preventing the Trumpocalyps." Dumb twat.

She is living TDS and thank god she has a thread

 

[Ophelia]

Would anyone like to explain the “he grinds up black children” thing?

 

[RCR]

Would anyone like to explain the “he grinds up black children” thing?

Its not a reference to anything if that's what you're asking

One of the OnA rascals created a craigslist ad where "Patrick" was offering to give away sausage meat he had made in his basement from black babies he had grinded up. Patrick claims he was swatted from this event (he wasn't).

To my knowledge, nobody on the OnA site ever fessed up to doing it so we only know it happened because Patrick complained about it to Josiah and on the Strictly Stalking podcast he did.

Makes you wonder about what other hilarious stuff happened behind the scenes that we have no idea about.

 

[NotFatChild]

Page 47 of short fatrick stories has another gem

"His second, better wife Nikki hadn’t gone to the grocery store and the fridge was barren.
With no beer to start the day, nor food, he once again ventured to the liquor store for
pepperoni pretzel Combos™ and more Busch™.

He was winded by the time he got out of the house, because he’d run several marathons
and was a real athlete, child."

 

[Somerville Dan]

Would anyone like to explain the “he grinds up black children” thing?

It was some OnA rascal acting independently. He/she made up a story so ridiculous no one in their right mind would believe it. There's a lot of random shit like this, but this one just stuck because of how silly/awful it was.

 

[Patrick X Tomlinson]

Pepperoni Pat

 

[ImportantOpinions]

Would anyone like to explain the “he grinds up black children” thing?

There was a notorious O&A guest named Diana Orbani, or Lady Di for short. She was an unemployed alcoholic who spent all day watching TV reruns, and the show would make fun of how terrible her life is. Eventually the hosts stumbled upon a little game: Lady Di would answer any accusation literally.

Lady Di, do you own a spaceship? No I don't own a spaceship! But Lady Di, you apartment is on the moon! No it's not on the moon, it's in New Jersey! They'd have a producer write down all the things she denied, and then he'd read them back when she hung up.

But she always had a pleasant demeanor despite all her issues. Years later, the pests found out they could do the same thing with Patrick, but he'd legitimately get upset. While Lady Di always had a "oh the boys are just teasing me again" attitude, Patrick faces every ridiculous accusation seriously, if he doesn't correct the record he thinks people will actually believe it.

No child, I do not rape black babies and grind them into pepperoni.
No child, you did not fart in my wife's vagina.
No child, I did not purposely sit on my lizard to kill it.
No child, I did not doody my pants at a Brewers game.
No child, I have never performed oral sex to Donald Trump.

 

[Mr Moonface]

Pat's victim meltdown is quote tweeted by Lincoln Project creep Rick Wilson:

Yes, he is hocking his books on the exposure. But he also spam answers everyone's questions, some interesting points:

- Pat states that he has been a victim of vandalism from the pests more than once. Seems he is amplifying his victim narrative like a good little narc...
- States "We don't care about KiwiFarms and never did", despite calling the whole site terrorists a few days ago and paying for a subpoena to get info on Null.
- He ends up being a jerk to people who tell him to stop feeding the trolls.
- Count the likes.