Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

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LoverofPi said:
You know. That episode of SVU, and.... was there a second one?
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The Internet Ruined My Life, which actually was about Wu. The SVU one was a mashup of Anita Sarkessian and Zoe Quinn. Alas, SyFy has gone round DMCA'ing all the videos of it on the interwebs, it was hilarious.
 
I think he's pointing out the grammar mistake.

Like I said, it seems like the site was thrown together in 10 minutes. No talk about her platform, not talk of all these events that are supposedly happening, no photos from previous events.

Funny thing is that their con could have made much more money if they put an ounce of effort into it.
 
I didn't see this mentioned yet so:

Time magazine ran a cover story about first-time female candidates running for office. Needleass to say, Brianna didn't make the cover:

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Nor did she garner a mention in the story (http://time.com/5107499/record-number-of-women-are-running-for-office/).
 
Norvic said:
The Internet Ruined My Life, which actually was about Wu. The SVU one was a mashup of Anita Sarkessian and Zoe Quinn. Alas, SyFy has gone round DMCA'ing all the videos of it on the interwebs, it was hilarious.
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I'll have to look for it then.
Regardless, one episode in two different series is a far cry from two entire television shows about her. Even when vaguely true, Flyanna Wualker still can't help but aggradize, eh?
 
Richard Stabone said:
I think he's pointing out the grammar mistake.

Like I said, it seems like the site was thrown together in 10 minutes. No talk about her platform, not talk of all these events that are supposedly happening, no photos from previous events.

Funny thing is that their con could have made much more money if they put an ounce of effort into it.
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The hubris of what she wrote plus the spelling error. The implication that she inspired two shows; it reads as if she inspired a whole series of episodes, not just two throwaway episodes, one of which was a documentary.
 
All I remember about the SyFy show was the horrible monster mask they put on the actress portraying Brianna. I'm all for taking digs at her appearance but this was uncalled for.

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As we approach the election, you can probably expect Wu to feature less and less in media discussions of women in politics. Last year she had the advantage of singularity, because no one else was "campaigning" in the off year. Now the landscape is flooded with qualified women with public service pedigrees, where does that leave Wu? She has no employment history she can cite, or any great success in fundraising to show credibility. She's a joke candidate compared to all these other people.
 
Norvic said:
As we approach the election, you can probably expect Wu to feature less and less in media discussions of women in politics. Last year she had the advantage of singularity, because no one else was "campaigning" in the off year. Now the landscape is flooded with qualified women with public service pedigrees, where does that leave Wu? She has no employment history she can cite, or any great success in fundraising to show credibility. She's a joke candidate compared to all these other people.
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It's like when they called Rand Paul the future Republican presidential nominee in 2015.
 
Norvic said:
As we approach the election, you can probably expect Wu to feature less and less in media discussions of women in politics. Last year she had the advantage of singularity, because no one else was "campaigning" in the off year. Now the landscape is flooded with qualified women with public service pedigrees, where does that leave Wu? She has no employment history she can cite, or any great success in fundraising to show credibility. She's a joke candidate compared to all these other people.
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I don't know. Remember that these articles are being written by people looking to show how "woke" they are to their friends. Yes there are more qualified people, but they have real jobs and real credentials and don't spend their lives in the social justice circles.

Do you get woke points for writing about some teacher running for office in Michigan? Or for writing about the motorcycle riding, software engineering, video game playing tranny who battled Gamergate and the Alt-Right and WON!

There's a reason people still write about Zoe Quinn instead of the thousands of more qualified women who actually work in the industry.
 
TheMonkeyMan said:
A while ago, Wu posted this campaign logo as a joke:

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I get that it's supposed to look like the Aliens logo, but my first guess was that the I was meant as a poorly constructed vaginal opening
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REGENDarySumanai said:
Well, Wu does look like an alien.
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...actually, you both make it sound like it is the perfect logo for Wu.

Peace and Harmony said:
You would know a lot about traps, wouldn't you, John?

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"Successful people are honest with themselves about their strengths are, and surround themselves with people that make up for their weaknesses."
 
I'm getting a "insecure connection" message when I try to look at Wu's site, anyone else getting that?
 
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on February 23, 2013 at 2:44 PM, updated February 23, 2013 at 3:10 PM



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U.S. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, D-South Boston, left, is shown here in Springfield on Jan. 31 as he campaigned for the U.S. Senate seat now vacant in Massachusetts. He talks with reporters during a stop at O'Brien's Corner.Mark M. Murray, The Republican
BOSTON - Stephen Lynchgrew up in the public housing projects of South Boston and spent 18 years as an ironworker.

Lynch is not a typical Democratic congressman, and he wants voters to know it.

“Some people have said I won’t fit in in the U.S. Senate. I think they’re absolutely right,” Lynch told The Republican and MassLive.com. “But, I also think that’s a good thing. I’m not saying rich people can’t be good senators. I’m just saying that all senators don’t need to be real rich people.”

Lynch, a U.S. representative since 2001, is challenging U.S. Rep. Edward Markey in the Democratic primary to win the U.S. Senate seat relinquished by John F. Kerry when he became U.S. secretary of state. While Markey has sewn up support from much of the state’s Democratic establishment, Lynch is stressing his humble roots over his work in politics, pinning his hopes on support from organized labor and working families.

“I’m relying on ordinary families and ordinary people, small business owners, unions, workers,” Lynch said. “I know I’m the underdog, but that’s OK….I accept that role. I sort of enjoy it, and I think we’ll surprise some people.”

Lynch, who has five sisters, grew up in the Old Colony housing projects, a development then known for drugs and crime.

One of his childhood friends, John Hurley, who grew up with Lynch, says the neighborhood was predominantly Irish-Catholic and populated with working-class people. Lynch’s father was an ironworker; his mother worked in the post office.

After graduating from South Boston High School in 1973, Lynch followed his father’s path, working 18 years as an ironworker. When he couldn’t find work in Massachusetts, he traveled to Maine, Indiana, New Orleans, New Mexico and Wisconsin, working in steel mills, power plants and an oil refinery before returning to Massachusetts.

Lynch says he became active on safety issues after seeing the dangerous conditions in some of the places where he worked. “Ironworking is one of the most dangerous occupations in our country,” Lynch said. “Some of these areas …they didn’t have very high safety standards so you really have to fend for yourself.”

His activism in the work force led Lynch to become a union steward, then president of the local ironworkers' union.

Hurley, who is president of the ironworkers’ union in New England and worked with Lynch for years, says Lynch had a reputation as a “top notch ironworker and very bright guy” in a dangerous field. Lynch learned to work, according to Hurley, with a diverse group of members, dealing with issues such as collective bargaining and safety.

“He showed a capacity for leadership early on,” Hurley said. “He could have gone a long way internally within the union, but he saw a broader, brighter path he could pursue, and he succeeded every step of the way.”

Lynch went back to school later in life – attending Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston on nights and weekends. He graduated in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in construction management.

“I was still in the boots when I went to Wentworth,” Lynch recalled, referring to his ironworking career. “I remember freezing outside during the winter and then going in and basically almost nodding off because of the heat.”

He says his work with the union led him to apply to Boston College Law School, from which he graduated in 1991. His interest was in labor law.

Lynch did some pro bono legal work at the housing complex where he grew up, representing families in housing court on issues like getting rid of asbestos in pipes. In one controversial case, raised during his 2001 campaign and reported on by the Boston Globe, Lynch defended a group of white teenagers accused of violence and harassment against an interracial couple. Lynch believed the young people had been "overcharged."

Former state Sen. Jack Hart, a friend and neighbor of Lynch, says Lynch “understands the struggle.” “He’s been an ironworker, lived in public housing, stood on the unemployment line,” Hart said. “He’s stood up for working people.”

Lynch said families he represented in the housing development encouraged him to run for office. He was first elected to the Massachusetts House in 1994. In 1996, after long-time Senate president William M. "Billy" Bulger left office, Lynch won a difficult state Senate campaign against Bulger’s son William Bulger. Lynch was elected to Congress in 2001 in a special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of U.S. Rep. Joseph Moakley.

Supporters say Lynch’s background shapes his politics – his support for unions and his ability to relate to people.

Bob Philips, a Democrat and Lynch supporter who works at ABLE workforce training, said he likes that Lynch is “a union guy” and “a regular guy from South Boston.” “He’s not a run-of-the-mill crazy liberal who can’t talk to Republicans,” Philips said.

The Boston Globe reported in 2001 that Lynch was arrested for assault and battery in 1979 – though the charges were dropped – for punching Iranian students holding an anti-American protest. He also is reported to have struggled with alcohol abuse. Lynch recently said he has been sober since 1982. Lynch said drinking had been “a distraction.” “It just became an obstruction to do the things that I really wanted to do,” he said. “I had a hard-orking, hard-drinking lifestyle when I was younger, but that stopped around the time I met my wife, and I haven’t looked back.”
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Charges were never filed and unlike Wu this guy doesn't run from his past. He sounds like a badass really. Rose from the projects to become a Union leader than a Congressman.
 
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