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

[GethN7]

If you all don't mind, I have a question about Wu and Flynt being the same person. I don't understand why Wu/Flynt would have to hide being transgendered in 2018, as trans people get more protection and support than ever before and it's generally acceptable to be openly trans. In 1988, perhaps it made sense to hide that, but in 2018 it makes less sense. In addition, given Wu/Flynt's position as an SJW, you wouldn't think that they would leverage being trans for oppression points which would give them more attention than hiding it.

My question then is, if Wu/Flynt could serve to benefit from admitting they are trans, and the costs are less than in the past, why would they continue to deny it? I feel silly for asking this question, but it's just something that doesn't quite add up to me if anyone can offer any insight or theories as to why this is.

And at this point, every lie ever uttered about his past revolves around his BS stories of always being a girl. The whole house of cards goes down if he tells the truth now.

 

[AnOminous]

Another thing, I don't really know a huge amount about US elections. Does this floating class of professional campaign staffers actually exist the way Wu seems to think they do?

Sort of. There are definitely names you see over and over again.

They work for real candidates, though. Being associated with John is like taking a shit and smearing it all over your resume, though. Nobody in their right mind who had any intention of a future in politics would do it.

 

[Kroster]

“You think, I’ll just disrupt it and we’ll figure it out using new technology,” said Wu, who launched her first tech startup at 19, hiring three equally inexperienced newcomers. That formula, she realized, “utterly does not work in politics at all.”

Except that's what Deval Patrick did in 2006 and then Obama copied his model when he ran for presidency. The software originally developed for Patrick's campaign is now the best campaigning software in the US and it's available for any Massachusetts democrats to use. Wu never bought it or used it. No idea what she is using. Are there expenses for any van software in her expense reports?

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As I've said so many times it's becoming boring, she met with a lot of people at the beginning of her campaign who told her exactly how to run a campaign. She went to at least one training where experts on topics that are important for candidates fly in from around the country to teach candidates how to run for office. Unless you're running against them, there is literally no downside in sharing your trade secrets and best practices about running for office, and candidates do it all the time. My first instinct is that she's lying in saying that nobody shares information, but I wonder if she really doesn't understand that's what people were doing for her, and she just ignored them all.

Another thing, I don't really know a huge amount about US elections. Does this floating class of professional campaign staffers actually exist the way Wu seems to think they do? I've read a few political memoirs and it often seems like they're hiring friends or family members to key roles at least in campaigns, though ethics rules mean they can't be hired on as permanent staff in Washington.

To run for Congress, yes. At the town and for most of the state level, a friend or spouse or cousin or someone you can get for free, or maybe a few hundred dollars a week, is standard. But once you get to the federal level, you hire someone who already has experience and pay them a salary. Remember that US elections are a lot longer than UK elections. Wu's been running for 20 months now: if she'd hired someone professional out of the gate, they would have had pretty steady employment. If you win, you give them a job as your aide, and if you lose they go looking for another campaign job.

Rumor is that she would have hired someone with experience but nobody would work for her. I think her claiming that she wanted to go renegade is her covering up for that fact. If she really wanted an outsider, she wouldn't have hired Warren, who was the only person with campaign experience who would talk to her.

 

[AnOminous]

Rumor is that she would have hired someone with experience but nobody would work for her.

There's no shame in working for a losing candidate and doing a good job anyway, even if the campaign was unlikely to succeed.

However, working for John would be working for a LOSER. That would be career suicide.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

 

[AnOminous]

What a bunch of fucking bullshit. Anyone running for office, male or female, gets inundated with hate mail and threats, and sends the actionable ones to law enforcement.

You know the difference? When men get this shit they don't act like little bitches about it.

 

[Mola Ram]

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No wonder Sara Jeong lusts for white genocide.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Wu never bought it or used it. No idea what she is using. Are there expenses for any van software in her expense reports?

They subscribed to NGP VAN for the first few quarters, but as far as anyone can tell they never seriously used it. Which puts it in very good company along with the VR computer, the Audi, the exercise bike, Porsches #1 and #2, the motorcycle, the Net Yaroze, the home video gear, the office, and many more.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

and many more

The dogs
Warren

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

I think we all accept some of Wu's GoldenGirls claims were self-originating, so why no phantom Lynch supporters throwing rocks through windows?

I'm almost certain that John has claimined that someone threw a rock through his window during this campaign in an attempt to drive him out of the race. Wasn't there even a picture of the rock, but not of the broken window?

ETA: Yes, here it is --

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Not surprising that, as always, John can't keep his story straight. In one version it's a rock, but in the other telling it's a brick.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

What are you going to do John, 1v1 him on Fortnite?

 

[Kosher Dill]

Warren

Nah, they seriously used Warren. SERIOUSLY used him.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

Stupid shit

 

[Water-T]

If you all don't mind, I have a question about Wu and Flynt being the same person. I don't understand why Wu/Flynt would have to hide being transgendered in 2018, as trans people get more protection and support than ever before and it's generally acceptable to be openly trans. In 1988, perhaps it made sense to hide that, but in 2018 it makes less sense. In addition, given Wu/Flynt's position as an SJW, you wouldn't think that they would leverage being trans for oppression points which would give them more attention than hiding it.

My question then is, if Wu/Flynt could serve to benefit from admitting they are trans, and the costs are less than in the past, why would they continue to deny it? I feel silly for asking this question, but it's just something that doesn't quite add up to me if anyone can offer any insight or theories as to why this is.

Personally, I think the reason why John denies his past as a man is two-fold:

1) He was such a failure as John Flynt, that becoming Brianna Wu was like starting over with a clean slate, free to make up a new history as he saw fit. Admitting his past is pretty much admitting that his various "jobs", "degrees", and "achievements" are all fictions he pulled out of his ass.

2) Johnny has a fetish to be seen as a True and Honest Woman, and thinks he's so much better at being a woman than actual women. Despite all his bluster about being a feminist, the only woman that John gives a shit about is himself.

 

[Dr. Merkwurdichliebe]

It's true John, the House of Representatives has locked out the common people, such as those average Joes who are able to blow half a million dollars on vanity projects while never working a day in their lives.

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As always, John reveals his complete, total, utter, and absolute ignorance of U.S. history.

The House was set up to represent property-owning, tax-paying, free white men -- the only people who were allowed to vote at the time.

The voice of the people, my ass.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

And at this point, every lie ever uttered about his past revolves around his BS stories of always being a girl. The whole house of cards goes down if he tells the truth now.

Plus it's an easy test to see if someone is a net hatin' groper graper that needs to be shamed on twitter and excommunicated. If any thought or planning was behind it all it would seem kind of smart, like a sword of Damocles hanging over everyone else.

 

[Optimus Prime]

And at this point, every lie ever uttered about his past revolves around his BS stories of always being a girl. The whole house of cards goes down if he tells the truth now.

Which means if Wu ever gets legitimately sued over something and taken to court, I'd be surprised if Wu didn't inevitably get forced to admit the truth or else be caught lying under oath.

I mean, Wu couldn't prevent a bunch of people on the internet from finding out concrete evidence of this - imagine what kind of destruction would be wrought if actual investigators got involved. Because not only is Wu completely morally bankrupt, they're really fucking bad at covering their trail.

 

[Winnie the Poohnani]

John has some serious personality/character issues. It's hard to tell how much is compulsive lying and how much is him actually believing his own fabricated narrative. He seems to think he can, by fiat, make reality be what he declares it to be.

People are a lot more willing to accept someone who's openly trans than someone who intentionally hides their past. This is why the whole "dead name" thing is a counterproductive strategy for trans people. It reeks of subterfuge. We don't trust people who change their names and have a cryptic history, whether trans related or not -- we suspect them of being up to no good, or mentally infirm.

John's behavior merely confirms the stereotype of tranny-as-trap. Or raises the red flag of scam/con artist. After all, the people most likely to change their name and disavow their previous identities are the same ones who appear on wanted posters with a string of AKAs after their current name.

 

[Mola Ram]

People are a lot more willing to accept someone who's openly trans than someone who intentionally hides their past. This is why the whole "dead name" thing is a counterproductive strategy for trans people. It reeks of subterfuge. We don't trust people who change their names and have a cryptic history, whether trans related or not -- we suspect them of being up to no good, or mentally infirm.

Shockingly, "dead naming" someone is a surefire way to get John to go on a pants-shitting rampage (as far as such things go on Twitter, of course). He basically regards transition as a reset button, where nothing that happened before it can ever be discussed. It's hilarious because it's such an obvious tell to his past and he doesn't seem to realize it -- why else would he be so personally invested in that issue?

 

[AnOminous]

People are a lot more willing to accept someone who's openly trans than someone who intentionally hides their past. This is why the whole "dead name" thing is a counterproductive strategy for trans people. It reeks of subterfuge.

I've lost track of how many times we found some troon's so-called "dead name" and along with it, their sex offender registry listing or some other history of criminal behavior.