Warren Lynch Shitpost General - TRUE and HONEST (former) John Flynt for Congress campaign worker

[AnOminous]

As others have pointed out, we don't hate you or Brianna.

I very strongly dislike the latter.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Is Imran aware of John Walker Flynt’s history of referring to Muslims as “sand niggers”?

 

[Kosher Dill]

3 people out of a supposed staff of 40 (Frank doesn’t count). Only Imran is paid

We'll know the truth of this in a month, for now I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt that the campaign picked up a couple more (poorly) paid staffers since April 14.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Brianna Wu is a liar, a braggart, a narcissist, and a hateful person. She exploits people and situations for self gain which is why many anti-gamergate people quickly distanced themselves from her at the start and why you’re being paid peanuts while she primarily stays home to tweet and play video games. This is not someone I want near congress no matter what she claims to believe on issues. She can’t even be truthful and correct her past lies because it would end her online persona. I’d change my opinion of her if she ever issued a mea culls but we’ll never see it.

I know we’re not going to change your mind today @W person cow but someday soon you’ll figure it out. Until then we’re all counting the days for someone to write an expose on Brianna’s past which would crash the whole house of cards she built.

 

[W person cow]

Thank you for your replies. I will go over this piece by piece.
What makes a lolcow is hubris, not mere Autism, social awkwardness, or making mistakes.
Someone aware of their flaws who works at correcting those flaws cannot, by very definition, be a lolcow. Also important to note: Lolcowdom is not an end-point. Someone who is a Lolcow can reform, and in so doing, cease to be a Lolcow. It is one of the things that this site celebrates more than anything else, save perhaps when a child molester goes to jail.

K well Brianna admits mistakes more readily than any politician I've run into. How many politicians do you know who did a 180 on Bernie and then SAID THEY WERE WRONG in those words? Not many I've found. If I had GamerGate people trolling me and then Bernie people trolling me, I might mistake one for the other at first too. I mistook y'all for the far right at first too. The far right in Malden loves to fuck with me and say I am "in a conspiracy with the media" and "trying to start Sharia Law in Malden" etc lol. So I thought it was them again.

I wish you luck in that regard, you're already doing better than several local Progressives in my area.

Thanks, in what way?

(whether Brianna is transgender)
It doesn't seem very gentlemanly to discuss this topic. It seems low. If Michelle Obama or Eleanor Roosevelt or Britney Spears is transgender, I really don't care.
(Brianna's tech qualifications)
Brianna is better at tech than me, and helps me with tech. She knows a heck of a lot more about computers than me, than Stephen Lynch or Chris Voehl. I think she will genuinely bring more tech knowledge to the congress. Go look at the Zuckerberg hearings if you think I am wrong. These guys are no geniuses. If Brianna isn't some super-star programmer, I don't think she ever claimed she was. She's just more tech savvy than most of the rest of those yahoos.
(acting like an expert)
I hate to say it, but the job of a politician is to act like you are the expert about everything and browbeat your opponent with a stream of either facts or just words. Mostly which you got from a lobbyist pamphlet. Take away the pamphlets and they wouldn't sound like they could find their way out of a bathroom, let alone an expert on anything. Brianna doesn't have lobbyists, she has the Internet and a lot of curiosity. So yes, you hear her acting like the expert yet sometimes being wrong. I will have this same problem when I run for council. Because F lobbyists. I guess the Sierra Club and stuff might be okay but F corporate lobbyists and F Stephen Lynch's messy-ass "ten thousand foot view" classist BS.

Clearly, you've never seen her deer-in-headlight responses when she gets asked something outside her comfort zone. Unfortunately, there's a lot of those:

I have seen a truckload of questions she was not prepared for. People in 2018 are very angry and suspicious and they have a ton of questions about everything. She answered most of them shockingly well, and when she didn't know, she said "I don't know". You must have known her earlier in her career I guess, because from what I have seen, she relishes the open question period, and always has one.

* Our own @GethN7 could give you his own account of what happened when he dared to ask Wu several questions she found uncomfortable on Twitter, leading her to use her connections to Twitter's support staff to get him indefinitely suspended despite breaking no rules.

* During one of her panel appearances, Ethan Ralph tweeted a picture of her out. Brianna Wu promptly lost her fucking mind and demanded he be ejected from the event by security. While Ethan Ralph is a gigantic asshole (and has a thread here), this doesn't change that her response to something comparatively minor was heavy-handed overreach.

* During her interview on the David Pakman show, she came across as unhinged. Relatively moderate questions that Wu wasn't prepared for left her completely flummoxed. She could not give actual answers beyond "forcing the issue" to why she had gone against the advice of law enforcement and publicized her own harassment on Twitter.

* She has systemically gone postal whenever asked about providing proof of Natalie O'Brien's existence. Even comparative neutrals like Game Objective got hostility from her for daring to even ask.

Now y'all are just getting all Alex Jones on me. Do you chase her around and ask her why she is making the frogs gay?

If Wu seems like she's been stable and handling criticism with aplomb, it's only because you have yet to see her get actual questions tossed her way.

You are just assuming that. I've probably seen her field more questions than any one other person except Frank.

My friend, I've done political work for the Democrats since 1998, so believe me, one former operative to one currently in the machine, I know they pay ass. What you might not be aware, however, is that not all campaigns are this threadbare on the ground. That a relatively new development, brought about mostly because the current batch of progressive politics are big on exploiting the true believers.
I speak no hyperbole when I say that the Wu campaign is solely for one person: Brianna herself.
As long as she gets hers, fuck everyone else.

That's just like, your opinion, man. Sounds more like Stephen Lynch's economic plan to me, lol.

I can understand why you might not want to dig too deeply into her background and you're willing to give her a grain of salt on her past business decisions - that's fine, but at the same time, Wu's been rattling on every single issue Lynch has ever had, to the point of calling the dude Alt-Right. You can't simply ignore the terrible leadership she's already shown - which includes complete giggling contempt for the people who kickstarted her, her very financiers - and then turn around and claim that terrible leadership on the part of her opponent is game to hammer away on. It's not only hypocritical, it completely undermines your own side and makes you seem like an ideologue.

I would not call Stephen Lynch "alt right" as there's nothing young, modern or "alt" about him. What I would call him though, is an Archie Bunker knee-jerk racist fuckface douchebag. Which is personal to me, whether or not you believe we are distant cousins, he has the same last name as me and is trying to exploit the same Irish-American community that I am a part of. Including the town of Hingham where I grew up when I was less poor, and also other more struggling towns which are more like Malden where I live now. That's personal to me. So I'll probably say even meaner things about Stephen than Brianna will. And it matters a lot more to me than somebody's opinion that Brianna's "whole life is made up".

There's a reason that multiple progressive groups and sites take serious issue with Wu's congressional run. She hated Bernie before she started pandering to his supporters, to the point where she bemoaned that Sanders' supporters were in league with Gamergate. And while pandering is a common behavior amongst politicians, we have a special bit of experience with Wu in this regard.

Could you please name one of these progressive groups? Because your link is to an article written by some loldrama person.

Again, I understand why you might not be willing to acknowledge this, but Wu's a pathological liar and a gigantic egomaniac.
There's a side to Wu you haven't seen, Warren, and for your sake, I hope to god you never see yourself. My first coverage of Wu began because of a friend of mine, who discussed their own experiences with Brianna and more importantly, the company she keeps. Brianna Wu is someone who will not hesitate to use every means at her disposal to destroy, deplatform, and disenfranchise those who offend her morality. The people who have talked to the Farms, mostly under condition of Anonymity, are, to put it simply, fucking terrified of her, because even to this day she has an enormous amount of reach and has shown a willingness to use her followerbase as a personal army.

That's just like, your opinion. Maybe you don't have a fan base of your own, but fan bases do what they want in a semi chaotic fashion, and are not anybody's army.

I'm not surprised that Lynch has an arsenal of problems all his own, including the fact that he is likely much more financially entwined with other interests than the Wu family. Where many, if not all of us, draw the line is that we've all seen the sort of thing she does when given even a scrap of power.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, but even a wafting scent of power is enough to corrupt Brianna Wu.

Opinion lol

Wu doesn't have "blind spots" for the working class.
Wu is completely encapsulated within a bubble on Twitter and refuses to engage beyond it. When she engages outside this bubble, she fails. She has no empathy towards other people, and that is a major reason so many people on this board take issue with her

Incorrect. She makes immediate connections with especially left wing older ladies and older men very easily now. The young kids also love her. She did have some trouble connecting with the working class at first, but she has learned a lot, and she was amazing at Abington Democrats, Norwood Democrats, East Bridgewater Democrats, Progressive Norwood, Indivisible Canton, and at the pubs in Whitman.
Whereas Stephen Lynch shows up to stuff and older ladies throw stuff at him.

There is a reason she never goes on any program where she can be interviewed by someone who will do anything but pitch her softball questions that, ideally, she's pre-scripted. You will never see her engage in a debate or discussion if she can help it.

I already said above that the first time I met Brianna was in an unscripted attack interview. There were no softball questions. I'm sure New York Times and folks like that love to do fluff pieces, but those don't fly on talk radio. People want a fight.
And you know I said that. Maybe I'm not the only one who's "in a cult" lol.

Tell us how that goes, a friend of mine is convinced he's the Mothman and you'd settle a bet.

I will! Did you know that the Hockamock Triangle is in the 8th district?

 

[smackpops]

HOLY SHIT PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS WARREN JFC.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

What would you call someone who spent a over year praying to Hillary Clinton, travelled to her “victory” party in NYC, and trashed Bernie and his supporters then conveniently deleted all those tweets and issued an apology right after progressive sentiment started rising across the country because of Trump?

Don’t actions speak louder than words? So far, Brianna’s actions indicate she flip flops on issues when it’s convenient for her brand. She’s done nothing to indicate she suppprts progressive causes vs tweet a ton of platitudes.

Bernie dedicated his life to progressive causes. Brianna Wu pales in comparison because all she has done is dedicate her life to being a leach on others. What has she done the last 40 years to prove she’s progressive compared to Bernie?

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

@W person cow - thank you for answering. Also, just so you know, lolcow.wiki is @Jaimas 's site. He's not just some "random lol drama dude"

K well Brianna admits mistakes more readily than any politician I've run into. How many politicians do you know who did a 180 on Bernie and then SAID THEY WERE WRONG in those words? Not many I've found. If I had GamerGate people trolling me and then Bernie people trolling me, I might mistake one for the other at first too. I mistook y'all for the far right at first too. The far right in Malden loves to fuck with me and say I am "in a conspiracy with the media" and "trying to start Sharia Law in Malden" etc lol. So I thought it was them again.

It's called flip-flopping and it's common with Wu. If she totally flips herself from hating Berniecrats and thinking they are the end of the Democratic party to embracing them to try to earn their vote.... don't you see that as disingenuous? If she flip-flopped so easily, what's to say she won't again tomorrow?

It shows that she doesn't actually have any solid plans and just follows what she things other people want to hear. That she could flip overnight between Bernie literally destroying the Democratic party to trying to appropriate his voters.

(whether Brianna is transgender)
It doesn't seem very gentlemanly to discuss this topic. It seems low. If Michelle Obama or Eleanor Roosevelt or Britney Spears is transgender, I really don't care.

As stated, we don't care that Brianna is transgender. It's that she lies about it and pretends to have lived a full life as a girl. She speaks on women's issues as if she's a real woman and had to live them... She spend > 30 years as a man.

There's also documented evidence where she brags post-op about fucking men and not telling them she's trans. In many states this is considered rape. She brags about this as if she is super awesome for fooling people into a sexual situation that they may not otherwise be comfortable with. That is the very definition of sexual assault.

(Brianna's tech qualifications)
Brianna is better at tech than me, and helps me with tech. She knows a heck of a lot more about computers than me, than Stephen Lynch or Chris Voehl. I think she will genuinely bring more tech knowledge to the congress. Go look at the Zuckerberg hearings if you think I am wrong. These guys are no geniuses. If Brianna isn't some super-star programmer, I don't think she ever claimed she was. She's just more tech savvy than most of the rest of those yahoos.
(acting like an expert)
I hate to say it, but the job of a politician is to act like you are the expert about everything and browbeat your opponent with a stream of either facts or just words. Mostly which you got from a lobbyist pamphlet. Take away the pamphlets and they wouldn't sound like they could find their way out of a bathroom, let alone an expert on anything. Brianna doesn't have lobbyists, she has the Internet and a lot of curiosity. So yes, you hear her acting like the expert yet sometimes being wrong. I will have this same problem when I run for council. Because F lobbyists. I guess the Sierra Club and stuff might be okay but F corporate lobbyists and F Stephen Lynch's messy-ass "ten thousand foot view" classist BS.

No, the job of a politician is to represent the people and work with others. When it comes to tech issues, she should be consulting people with actual tech experience and some "skin in the game." Instead she ignores all of them and constantly shows she has no idea what she is doing. Her template site had an error for months wherein she kept tweeting at customer support instead of spending 5 seconds googling the fix and implementing it. It was literally a single setting she had to change.

She also claims to be a software engineer but has neither a degree nor job experience in such a realm. Again, she is lying. She flips out at anyone who tries to correct or help her with anything tech. Imagine when she's in office and a tech issue comes up that she doesn't understand, and she spend 2 minutes reading the wikipedia article on it and bases a decision off of that because she's already "A software engineer" (again, false) and don't need nobody elses help.

She should be seeking actual experts in policy decisions and not pretending (poorly) to be an expert in everything.

Nobody is an expert in everything, that's why we have many people in government committees, subcommittees, etc. A politician needs to be able to solicit input from actual experts.

Almost every single time Brianna speaks about tech it's uninformed and/or wrong. This is documented all over her thread.

I have seen a truckload of questions she was not prepared for. People in 2018 are very angry and suspicious and they have a ton of questions about everything. She answered most of them shockingly well, and when she didn't know, she said "I don't know". You must have known her earlier in her career I guess, because from what I have seen, she relishes the open question period, and always has one.

So... did she actually have any plans to implement anything? Like how it would be paid for, organized, etc? Or she just parroted what you wanted to hear?

She has literally advocated for the FBI to track every person in America and put back doors into things like twitter that allow folks like her to delete things she finds offensive. This is in direct opposition to the first amendment.

I can run for office in the position of erasing all debt -- if you vote Dimethyl Ketone then I will erase all student loans and give everyone a house. Sounds great doesn't it? I have no plans to pay for it and no idea how it will be implemented (probably with nanomachines), but it sounds good! See the problem?

Now y'all are just getting all Alex Jones on me. Do you chase her around and ask her why she is making the frogs gay?

Come on. We are trying to focus on facts here. I don't even know what htis means other than an attempt to derail.

That's just like, your opinion, man. Sounds more like Stephen Lynch's economic plan to me, lol.

We don't care about Stephen Lynch. Just because someone murders 5 babies does not make someone who murders 2 babies good. Both parties are bad in that xample.

I would not call Stephen Lynch "alt right" as there's nothing young, modern or "alt" about him. What I would call him though, is an Archie Bunker knee-jerk racist fuckface douchebag. Which is personal to me, whether or not you believe we are distant cousins, he has the same last name as me and is trying to exploit the same Irish-American community that I am a part of. Including the town of Hingham where I grew up when I was less poor, and also other more struggling towns which are more like Malden where I live now. That's personal to me. So I'll probably say even meaner things about Stephen than Brianna will. And it matters a lot more to me than somebody's opinion that Brianna's "whole life is made up".

You're drifting off facts again and into hyperbole and nonsense.

Also, it is not "somebody's" opinion. We've sent you pages and pages and pages of proof. Why are you still choosing to ignore them? If Brianna's a good person than her actions should speak for that. Not just your imagination and all facts are "somebody's opinion."


The remainder of your post I don't feel like has any substance. I really encourage you to look through all the references @Jaimas provided. If you want to disprove any of it, please provide references yourself which show otherwise.

Pretend you are not Warren Lynch but an investigative journalist. You don't report the news based on your opinions and faith, that's unethical. You report the truth which is supplemented with documented evidence. We continue to provide you documented evidence but I have seen no counter-evidence provided from you, and not much indication that you're even willing to look through anything we provide. Are you that scared of the truth? The truth is not scary. It will set you free.


EDIT: Expanded a little bit

 

[W person cow]

A progressive compared to Bernie? Lol. I would vote for Bernie over Brianna any day. She's more progressive than STEPHEN LYNCH and CHRIS VOEHL. By a lot. Whatever else you may think of her.

 

[W person cow]

@W person cow - thank you for answering. Also, just so you know, lolcow.wiki is @Jaimas 's site. He's not just some "random lol drama dude"
.

Isn't that a definition of what would make him the ultimate random loldrama dude?

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

Isn't that a definition of what would make him the ultimate random loldrama dude?

It's his website and it's where he arranges the documentation on the lolcows we follow. He's not random and puts a shit ton of his own personal time into this so folks like you don't have to dig through 3000 pages of threads to get the "10,000 foot view" as your buddy Stephen Lynch would say.

Just because you don't like the domain name doesn't mean anything towards the veracity of the things contained therein.

Hell, I've been to "yahoo.com" and never expected to be greeted by a long-bearded cartoony prospector with a pickaxe. It's just a name.

EDIT: Yaaaahhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Eli Whitney]

Y'all might not hate me per se, but that feels only temporary. This is after all, a troll and hater site. I get the feeling that as soon as I stop being a novelty, I will turn into a lolcow myself. I am, after all, defensive, short tempered, and have poor impulse control. And I have the kind of optimism y'all love to poke fun at. Yes I will be running for local office myself next year, here is my crappy no-money beginnings of a campaign page:

https://www.facebook.com/WarrenLynchForWard2/

As you can see, I'm pretty silly and "unprofessional". Before Brianna, I made campaign commercials for Vermin Supreme. But deep down, I really do care about the issues.

It's been mentioned by others but honestly Warren, and I hate to break it to you, but you are just not that LOLwotrhy. Sure, you're kind of a weird guy, but at the end of the day, you are just some loveable, goofball, do-gooder, local yokel, political organizer who fell in with the wrong crowd. We know about you only by proxy of Brianna's infamy. Otherwise, for better or worse, you are just not that interesting to us. A lot of the threads here serve as a way to shine a light on some real pieces of work. Your LOL worthiness cant even been measured on the same scale.

I’ll also echo some of the others here in saying to you Warren that I wish you the best on the run for office yourself. It’s clear that you really give a shit about what’s going on in your community, have some actual understanding of local issues and really want to help people, unlike the candidate you are helping now. As a token of good-faith, I would be willing to put my money where my mouth is and make a donation to in some way support your own aspirations -- assuming of course there was a way I could legally do so anonymously and without running afoul of the FEC. The only string attached being that you agree to taking a hard, honest, and objective look at the facts we have brought to your attention.

To the regulars here, this whole thing has been a whirlwind. The rapid-fire summarization of all the relevant facts to get Warren up to speed on things reminds me of how TV shows used to do clip shows to catch everyone up before a new season came out. It's been a walk down memory lane showcasing years... Wait, strike that. Decades of John's treachery.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

A progressive compared to Bernie? Lol. I would vote for Bernie over Brianna any day. She's more progressive than STEPHEN LYNCH and CHRIS VOEHL. By a lot. Whatever else you may think of her.

At least we’re getting somewhere with you, Warren. So your skin in the game is just to push Stephen Lynch farther to the left while supporting someone who’s an opportunist and clearly being disingenuous about supporting progressive causes?

Doesn’t this only work if the candidate has a chance of winning greater than 1%?

 

[Particle Bored]

Isn't that a definition of what would make him the ultimate random loldrama dude?

Is Patreon a "random loldrama dude?"
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=439829
http://archive.is/lx2cB

"Brianna Wu is creating video games." Is that not a straight-up lie? One that Wu is leveraging to collect money? More money than you're being paid?

 

[spiritofamermaid]

At least we’re getting somewhere with you, Warren. So your skin in the game is just to push Stephen Lynch farther to the left while supporting someone who’s an opportunist and clearly being disingenuous about supporting progressive causes?

Doesn’t this only work if the candidate has a chance of winning greater than 1%?

That thought isn't very uncommon; apparently many local voters (before realizing what little chance Brianna has) had that thought, as well as my friend's parents who had the fundraiser. @Kroster can correct me, of course.

 

[W person cow]

At least we’re getting somewhere with you, Warren. So your skin in the game is just to push Stephen Lynch farther to the left while supporting someone who’s an opportunist and clearly being disingenuous about supporting progressive causes?

Doesn’t this only work if the candidate has a chance of winning greater than 1%?

If she gets more than that, do I win a prize? I predict she gets at least 5% or 10% and if she gets 15%, 20% or even 25% or 30% I should win some kind of lolcow prize. And if she gets 51%, y'all should make a lolcow forum out of Neil Kinnon from Malden. That guy sucks.

I’ll also echo some of the others here in saying to you Warren that I wish you the best on the run for office yourself. It’s clear that you really give a shit about what’s going on in your community, have some actual understanding of local issues and really want to help people, unlike the candidate you are helping now. As a token of good-faith, I would be willing to put my money where my mouth is and make a donation to in some way support your own aspirations -- assuming of course there was a way I could legally do so anonymously and without running afoul of the FEC. The only string attached being that you agree to taking a hard, honest, and objective look at the facts we have brought to your attention.

You can give to my patreon. I checked with the OCPF, and non tax deductible gifts and donations to my art career, video game hobby or personal non-group-affiliated political activism, before I officially declare and announce a campaign, can be done anonymously in any amount. Seems ripe for abuse but that's the law currently. I probably can't spend it on campaign materials but I can live off it while prepping to campaign.
But I am not a very objective person, and I'm not sure I can look at anything objectively.

 

[Richard Stabone]

While we're talking Wu's progressive cred, here are some tweets. She stated numerous times that she wants to cut funding to any state that doesn't vote for her ideas. So all the poor people can lose their food stamps, Medicaid, and other social services if they happen to be inside the borders of a state that didn't vote for a Democrat.

Stephen Lynch might be a moderate, but he's not that cruel. Maybe my idea of "progressive" is different but that sounds more like an Ayn Rand disciple than a Berniecrat.

Source: https://twitter.com/commietantric/status/818117585753567233

 

[Kosher Dill]

The young kids also love her.

Tell us more about this. With pictures if possible.

 

[Jaimas]

K well Brianna admits mistakes more readily than any politician I've run into. How many politicians do you know who did a 180 on Bernie and then SAID THEY WERE WRONG in those words? Not many I've found. If I had GamerGate people trolling me and then Bernie people trolling me, I might mistake one for the other at first too. I mistook y'all for the far right at first too. The far right in Malden loves to fuck with me and say I am "in a conspiracy with the media" and "trying to start Sharia Law in Malden" etc lol. So I thought it was them again.

Holy shit, they can be assholes. You have my sympathies.

I have seen a truckload of questions she was not prepared for. People in 2018 are very angry and suspicious and they have a ton of questions about everything. She answered most of them shockingly well, and when she didn't know, she said "I don't know". You must have known her earlier in her career I guess, because from what I have seen, she relishes the open question period, and always has one.

See, I think this is one of the areas we're running the hardest into inability to understand one another, because we're operating from completely different knowledge-bases as far as our own experiences with Miss Wu. You've had the fortune to see her at her best.

We, on the other hand, since we started covering her (roughly since 2014) have had a very different picture here unfold before us, especially as we've covered her conference appearances, events, and general practices.

I'm genuinely not surprised if she's been doing better in more recent years at it (we've come a long way from her earlier appearances where she could barely string together coherent sentences), but we've seen her at her worst and frankly, most ridiculous, and while a lot of things have undoubtedly changed in regards to Miss Wu, she was still claiming Jace was legit a year ago and less than a month ago, laughed at the death of one of her critics who she helped organize a harassment campaign against, so you'll need to forgive if us we don't come across as quite so willing to divorce the Wu of the past from the Wu of the present.

We've seen her do some truly despicable things over the last few years - things that you haven't. I'm willing to respect your own current experience, so do us a solid and give us the same courtesy. You seem a decent fellow all things considered.

Now y'all are just getting all Alex Jones on me. Do you chase her around and ask her why she is making the frogs gay?

Listen, I know it's a natural inclination of Progressivism over the last few years to lump any criticism of a given candidate in with the most batshit of conspiracy theories - ideological purity and all, I understad that - but you need to realize that all of the incidents I listed in that list are ones that actually happened and were documented. More critically, they're also only a handful of fucking thousands we've covered on this website, and far from the most deranged ones she's been engaged in.

If you want the truly loony ones, we have the Trans Samus Incident. Or the Sonic the Hedgehog Incident. Or the Moon Rocks incident. All are incidents in which Brianna proceeded to say something outlandish, got called on it, and then proceeded to claim she had been harassed. They're all on Lolcow Wiki to boot.

If this was an isolated incident, Wu would not have an ongoing thread here. She's done this with clockwork regularity. You don't need to take my word for it - go look at the links provided on Lolcow Wiki, go look at the reports of other Kiwis who have covered this crap.

In this same vein, one reason we keep bringing Natalie up is because Brianna Wu has done this shit with a staffer that does not actually exist before (with Lauren Milovy). Not a single person who works for Wu could verify her existence, and Wu couldn't even verify her existence to Patreon backers who were demanding to know where their money was going.

You are just assuming that. I've probably seen her field more questions than any one other person except Frank.

That is not a simple assumption.

I understand that, as someone who knows and works for her IRL, you feel that gives you a better perspective of where she's at than we have, but like my mom always was fond of saying, familarity breeds blindness to danger, and similarly, people don't usually realize someone's got issues while you've got a vested interest in them.

I reiterate: We've seen her at her worst. We've seen her take incidents where she jumped on a known-to-be-false incident, and claimed, years after publicly acknowledging it to be a hoax, that it was a continual and ongoing threat to her life. We've seen her waste police and FBI time and resources going after her harassers, and subsequently undermining efforts to fight said harassers by publicizing her harassment. and then, when the FOIA requests showed just what a disaster her investigations were turning into, she turned around and declared that the FBI was involved with Gamergate.

That's just like, your opinion, man. Sounds more like Stephen Lynch's economic plan to me, lol.

Amusing slam on Lynch, but Wu caring only about herself? That's pretty well-documented.

We've followed her activities online for years, simply looking to laugh at the slow-moving trainwreck that is her public online persona. We've watched her pettiness and vindictive streaks manifest in real-time, often to hilarious degrees. There's too many incidents where Wu has talked over other people, treated random people like shit, raised an absolute shitstorm or stoked controversy just to get herself in the public eye a bit longer.

She's been caught more than a few times false-flagging herself.

I would not call Stephen Lynch "alt right" as there's nothing young, modern or "alt" about him. What I would call him though, is an Archie Bunker knee-jerk racist fuckface douchebag. Which is personal to me, whether or not you believe we are distant cousins, he has the same last name as me and is trying to exploit the same Irish-American community that I am a part of. Including the town of Hingham where I grew up when I was less poor, and also other more struggling towns which are more like Malden where I live now. That's personal to me. So I'll probably say even meaner things about Stephen than Brianna will. And it matters a lot more to me than somebody's opinion that Brianna's "whole life is made up".

I know little about Lynch, but I do know where your concerns are coming from, since in general he has a history of being more than a bit centrist (with some arguably right-leaning policies to boot). You're free, and encouraged, to use your own perogatives with what you do and how you do poliically. Side with who you want.

But do it honestly. Be armed with all the facts, not just the ones that are convenient. You're not a stupid guy.

Could you please name one of these progressive groups? Because your link is to an article written by some loldrama person.

This one's my fault. While Wu had multiple articles covering her congressional run at launch a number of them seem to have been memory holed,. This struck me as odd, so I looked into it, since one of the groups that had made statements included the likes of the Mass Alliance. Unfortunately, this is a case where Social Media screwed up the story a tad: The articles didn't come from them at all, instead being redirects to the Pastemagazine Article (likely courtesy of people discussing it).

So yes, I will admit that I was legitimately in the wrong on this one. I can admit that.

However, I did find something of interest when I was looking into this. Since her announcement to run, there hasn't been a hell of a lot heard from official channels about her, good or bad. All the positive coverage she's gotten has been from outlets she has connections to (par the course really), but the lack of negative coverage is anomalous. Usually there's at least a few political shitposts by this point in time, but in this case, there's not a goddamned thing. Wu's gone negative since the campaign started, of course, but there's been hardly a thing from Lynch - like he barely even acknowledges her existence.

I can only assume this is because the Lynch campaign does not see Brianna Wu as a legitimate threat.

That's just like, your opinion. Maybe you don't have a fan base of your own, but fan bases do what they want in a semi chaotic fashion, and are not anybody's army.

That's not opinion: She's been caught doing it. Repeatedly. Look at her article if you want dozens of cases of her doing it.

While I will not hold Wu responsible for the actions of her fanbase, including the ones spoiling for a quite literal fight, I will absolutely hold her responsible for shit like the PAX East incident (where she blatantly fearmongered over a disproven hoax), the YSU Incident, or the numerous incidents in which she knowingly tried to exploit her userbase to harass, threaten, or deplatform people and leveraged her fanbase to make that happen. She's done it more than a few times, including trying to shut down channels of her critics (Vee for instance).

Opinion lol

Again. Wu's misbehavior is not a matter of debate. It's all shit she's done. If you think she's better now, cool, but some of us remember further back than her congressional campaign and the litany of terrible behavior that got her covered here in the first place.

Incorrect. She makes immediate connections with especially left wing older ladies and older men very easily now. The young kids also love her. She did have some trouble connecting with the working class at first, but she has learned a lot, and she was amazing at Abington Democrats, Norwood Democrats, East Bridgewater Democrats, Progressive Norwood, Indivisible Canton, and at the pubs in Whitman.

Whereas Stephen Lynch shows up to stuff and older ladies throw stuff at him.

I'm not surprised Wu has her supporters, and that's cool, but Wu is fundamentally not able to reach across the aisle in that regard. Even if you ignore Wu's constant whining about how "Working class" is code for "white working class," or nonsense like what @Richard Stabone brought up, Wu's own work history shows she's completely divorced from the concerns of an average voter. In a time when the voterbase is more concerned about economics than ever before, Wu is the one continuing to insist we need to keep discussing identity politics and bringing them into everything, despite the fact that poll after poll shows that angle to be about as popular as a flatulating polar bear.

I already said above that the first time I met Brianna was in an unscripted attack interview. There were no softball questions. I'm sure New York Times and folks like that love to do fluff pieces, but those don't fly on talk radio. People want a fight.
And you know I said that. Maybe I'm not the only one who's "in a cult" lol.

Common misconception: We Kiwis aren't a monolith. Conservatives bump elbows with Liberals here, and we all get along, united by our love of shitposting and desire to mock people acting like idiots on the internet.

Many of us dislike Brianna, but that is mostly for reasons best left to the individual, and entirely due to her own behavior.

I will! Did you know that the Hockamock Triangle is in the 8th district?

I KNEW IT

 

[Sissy Galvez]

If she gets more than that, do I win a prize? I predict she gets at least 5% or 10% and if she gets 15%, 20% or even 25% or 30% I should win some kind of lolcow prize. And if she gets 51%, y'all should make a lolcow forum out of Neil Kinnon from Malden. That guy sucks.

You can give to my patreon. I checked with the OCPF, and non tax deductible gifts and donations to my art career, video game hobby or personal non-group-affiliated political activism, before I officially declare and announce a campaign, can be done anonymously in any amount. Seems ripe for abuse but that's the law currently. I probably can't spend it on campaign materials but I can live off it while prepping to campaign.
But I am not a very objective person, and I'm not sure I can look at anything objectively. https://youtube.com/watch?v=nSXyZ75lnuU

You know what I meant, Warren. My point was that Brianna Wu has a snowball’s chance in hell of ever winning this race or a future one. So why use her when she’s obviously, even by your own admission, not a serious threat to Congressman Lynch? Is Brianna in on the game? If so, how does she feel taking $50k from rubes around the country for a fake campaign? Oh wait, she’s used to it because she relies on Frank’s income.

She probably will get around 5% because there are morons everywhere that buy into her lies.

Edit: Warren, did you know that Briann Wu received $250k from her parents to start up an animation studio (she’s made several tweets about this) that subsequently failed? Her parents were wealthy, maybe still are, but they completely cut her off because it quickly became apparent to them she had no intention of being self sufficient. With Giant Spacekat, Frank fronted all the money and by best guesses they lost around $500k when the game didn’t sell....at all. It nearly bankrupted them, Frank took out loans from his 401k and probably had to rely on his stock/bonuses to save them. What qualifies Brianna Wu to be a “business leader” after two major losses? Note, I don’t consider Trump to have strong business acumen either.