Ah. So it's just a fascistic demand not only that everyone has to agree with you, but that they have to actively denounce everyone else as loudly as possible or they're not really agreeing with you.
... I love that you think that's actually better.
That's seriously the best counterpoint you've got? God you suck.
Not everyone has to agree with me. For example, you're a worthless nonentity, so who gives a fuck what you think?
But people in a position of actual influence, who appear to be connected to a certain group, can be assumed to be endorsing said group. If Bernie Sanders started hanging out at a bunch of KKK barbeques (to use an completely absurd argument), and had know KKK Imperial Grand Wizards coming and going from his place every Saturday night, and KKK magazines started writing about how wonderful and amazing Bernie Sanders is, then Bernie Sanders would have some legitimate questions to answer: like "You sure are hanging out with the KKK pretty often lately, Bernie... don't you think their views are a problem?" and "The KKK has endorsed you as an example of good leadership, don't you think that's weird? Are you endorsing them too?"
So, same thing with Vince Baker. He's regularly hanging around (online) with terrible, terrible people; and those terrible people are regularly talking about how awesome he and his games are. With him, it matters that he say if he doesn't actually approve of those terrible people and the terrible things they do.
With you, no one would give a shit. Because you're literally no one and your opinions are worthless.
... says the guy who periodically lambastes James Maliszewski because he's failed your OSR purity test.
I lambaste him because he was a fraud who stole tens of thousands of dollars from gamers, while severely damaging the reputation of a game company that made the mistake of trusting him, and all because he'd used highly deceptive self-promotion to try to place himself as the Pope of the OSR, in spite of not having had the slightest bit of interest in Old-school until very recently when it became profitable.
If anything, he was the one trying to apply Swine tactics to the OSR, just like Ron Edwards is now by turning himself into the Al Gore of the OSR and trying to pretend he invented it.
But hey, if you're one of the rubes that Maliszewski fleeced, you maybe want to think differently so you don't feel like such a moron. And if you weren't, then why the fuck are you defending him now?
He was a piece of shit. He STOLE PEOPLE'S MONEY, while trying to be the guy who gate-kept the OSR. In spite of having had nothing to do with old-school D&D until the moment he realized he could steal people's money from it, he set himself up as the guy who got to tell others of us, who had been old-schoolers since forever, that we weren't being real OSR gamers, because he knew that if he set up the OSR to be a little Taliban of 'talmudic scholars' arguing about Gary Gygax's dental bills instead of a broader imaginative enterprise, it would let him be in control while hiding his complete lack of talent.
So fuck that and fuck you, you sad little shit. I know it must be really hard to see me win again and again at every thing I do, but frankly, I couldn't give a fuck anymore about whatever issues you have with me. I don't need to anymore, because I won. D&D has become what I said it should become. The OSR has become what I said it should become. And nothing you say is going to change any of that. They're mine now. You're all living in Pundit's world, and it's working, and it's beautiful.