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

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Furina said:
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Shut up, Brianna.

Edit: For the record, the comic isn't meant to be accurate. It's hyperbole to make a point. I posted it more as a response to Brianna's attitude of: Republicans never compromise. Both sides have compromised and together could probably reach a fairly agreeable middle point, were it not for idiots like Brianna who like to through wrenches into the works.
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I don't like that comic at all. In many ways, state level laws were much more restrictive in the past than they are today, since many Southern states had restrictive permit laws aimed at stopping black people from buying or carrying guns which date from the 19th century. New York's Sullivan act, enforcing their restrictive permit system for buying and carrying pistols, dates from 1911. Concealed carry was rare until the 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Rtc.gif

Chicago had a total ban on handguns from 1982 to 2010, when it was ruled unconstitutional. No jurisdiction in the US has such a ban today. The fact that the Supreme Court twice confirmed that the Second Amendment is an individual right in 2008 and 2010 means that the right to bear arms is much stronger today than it once was.
 
Von Clausewitz said:
What?
Why?

Why is there 'Happy Birthday Frank' written on that cake, if it isn't his birthday?
Why isn't there something like 'Because you are a wonderful husband.' on it?

So Brianna either ordered a cake with 'Happy Birthday Frank' written on it, although it isn't Franks birthday.
Or she ordered it on mistake, because she mixed up the date of her husband's birthday.
Or this a old image and she hasn't actually ordered a cake, but wants to humble brag.

Each of these options is just so mind-boggling dumb.
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I think she saw it on sale, next to the "in deepest condolence Mrs Frank" cake.

But hey, one persons misfortune...
 
Jaimas said:
It's certainly overblown, I admit, with more than a bit of strawmanning. At the core though, there is a relevnt point being made, is what I was getting at.

Definitely a good point on State Laws though.

Wu is still a fucking dipshit advocating this drivel still stands, however.
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The comic is overblown, but it does highlight the most interesting point for me: there was a not-insignificant period of time in this country where you could buy a tommygun at a fucking Sears. And yet the only mass shootings were thugs in Chicago blowing each other away, which ... well, that part hasn't changed a bit.

Something has changed in this country and it isn't the guns themselves. But if we were to, I dunno, lock up all the obviously mentally ill people, we wouldn't have Wu for Congress.
 
Ruin said:
I'm guessing Wu and the woke crew are going to stop their reeeeeeeeeing now that it's been determined that the shooter was an r/atheist type who hated Christians and not a white supremacist?
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Wu has cosplayed a Christian a couple of times in the past few months to try and win arguments/get attention. If he needs to, he'll slip on his "liberal Christian" hat again even with the years of tweets and forum posts out there of him being extremely bigoted towards Christians. John will push himself as just about anything (other than a gay man) if it means he'll be the center of attention.
 
The more Brianna says "absolutely," the less I believe him.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
Yes this unsubstantiated accusation must be true.

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No you fool of a troon, they fired her when it went viral because suddenly she's now the face of the company and any company that negotiates with hers is going to say "so you guys approve of rude gestures towards the President?"

When you work for a company, what you do reflects on the company itself or at least that's how they operate. You have to be so careful to prevent your personal and professional lives from crossing.
 
Mola Ram said:
The comic is overblown, but it does highlight the most interesting point for me: there was a not-insignificant period of time in this country where you could buy a tommygun at a fucking Sears. And yet the only mass shootings were thugs in Chicago blowing each other away, which ... well, that part hasn't changed a bit.

Something has changed in this country and it isn't the guns themselves. But if we were to, I dunno, lock up all the obviously mentally ill people, we wouldn't have Wu for Congress.
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In 1934, the year the NFA came in, the homicide rate in the US was 9.5 per 100,000. In 2016, it was 5.3 per 100,000. As I said in a previous post, state level laws around carrying weapons were often stricter then than now, and many Southern states had laws designed to prevent black people from being armed, but the Prohibition and Depression years were much more dangerous than today.
 
Pointless Pedant said:
In 1934, the year the NFA came in, the homicide rate in the US was 9.5 per 100,000. In 2016, it was 5.3 per 100,000. As I said in a previous post, state level laws around carrying weapons were often stricter then than now, and many Southern states had laws designed to prevent black people from being armed, but the Prohibition and Depression years were much more dangerous than today.
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Yeah, there's a lot to be said for the fact that these spectacular massacres notwithstanding, crime is largely on the downtrend (although with some notable spikes, like 1970s-1980s NYC, whose gun control laws were somehow even stronger than they are today). But don't bother trying to argue that with people like Brianna Wu, anymore than showing them how rape statistics plummet in concealed-carry jurisdictions.
 
Mola Ram said:
Yeah, there's a lot to be said for the fact that these spectacular massacres notwithstanding, crime is largely on the downtrend (although with some notable spikes, like 1970s-1980s NYC, whose gun control laws were somehow even stronger than they are today). But don't bother trying to argue that with people like Brianna Wu, anymore than showing them how rape statistics plummet in concealed-carry jurisdictions.
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It's a bit more complicated than that. After the violence of the Prohibition and Depression eras, crime trended down until the 1950s, reaching a record low murder rate of 4.0 per 100,000 in 1957. Crime stayed at levels comparable to today until the late 1960s, when it skyrocketed for reasons no one is quite sure of. In 1974, Chicago counted 970 murders, still the record to this day. The national record murder rate in 1980, 10.2 per 100,000, saw over 20,000 people murdered in 1 year and exceeded even the worst violence of the 1930s. From the mid 1990s, crime fell again, dropping to a low of 4.4 per 100,000 in 2014, until crime waves in cities like Chicago and Baltimore made it rise again. In Chicago at least, crime seems to be slightly down from last year.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

http://heyjackass.com/

The number of people legally carrying weapons has massively increased since the 1980s, since most Southern states used to have very restrictive carrying laws until quite recently. Texas legalised concealed carry in 1995; since then, the homicide rate has fallen from 9.0 per 100,000 to 5.3 per 100,000, though it had already been declining from 15.3 per 100,000 in 1991. Since most homicides are criminals killing other criminals, people being legally armed doesn't usually make an enormous difference either way, which is why it didn't have much effect when Illinois allowed concealed carry in 2013.
 
Gee, it's as if people who want to kill people will do so whether or not there's a gun handy.
 
I'm going to try and be super vague about this as to not reveal myself, but I was at a party a while back where I met someone very, very senior at a Massachusetts political organisation that Brianna definitely wants the support of.

I asked him what he thought of Bri.

He'd never heard of her.

This is the reality of Brianna's campaign. She's not just a joke. She's a nobody.
 
KakaSentYa said:
I'm going to try and be super vague about this as to not reveal myself, but I was at a party a while back where I met someone very, very senior at a Massachusetts political organisation that Brianna definitely wants the support of.

I asked him what he thought of Bri.

He'd never heard of her.

This is the reality of Brianna's campaign. She's not just a joke. She's a nobody.
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He is. His Patreon income is dropping down to DSP/Chris levels, his campaign ads are jokes which can't and won't be shown on TV, and most people in District 8 don't know who he is.

If he even keeps his campaign going until the midterms, people are going to first find out about him when they see his name on the ballot paper.
 
People who unironically think that two nations would go to war because of shitposting on the Twatter.
And they say that WE'RE the ones who need to get off the fucking Internet and go outside.

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Pointless Pedant said:
He is. His Patreon income is dropping down to DSP/Chris levels, his campaign ads are jokes which can't and won't be shown on TV, and most people in District 8 don't know who he is.

If he even keeps his campaign going until the midterms, people are going to first find out about him when they see his name on the ballot paper.
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On the other hand, I like how this fool forced himself into a position of public accountability.

Even if he backs out of this congressional seat nonsense, he's a public figure, so he can't bitch and moan if his dirty laundry is aired and get it shut down with backchannels now.

It's already happened on Wikipedia, which makes him look an idiot LARPing as a politician whose only claim to fame is a video game, being a professional victim, and making dumb tweets about moon rocks.
 
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