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

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It's been a while since we checked in on true and honest campaign staffer Warren Lynch and his Herculean task to single-handedly get Wu on to the ballot without her helping or really even caring whether he succeeds or fails.

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Oh. Oh dear. Maybe if there were another 30 or 40 weekends between now and the deadline he could manage it.

I don't get Wu's plan. She spent the first 3 crucial months of this year basically doing nothing but now, when it's too late to actually get on the ballot, she's having a burst of activity. She fixed up the website, invented a fake person of colour to work on her campaign, send a half arsed begging letter to her mailing list and now she's doing a video.

What gives? Is she just trying to milk as much money out of her political career as it will stand in the last month or so she can still pretend to be a real candidate?
 
Norvic said:
It's been a while since we checked in on true and honest campaign staffer Warren Lynch and his Herculean task to single-handedly get Wu on to the ballot without her helping or really even caring whether he succeeds or fails.

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Oh. Oh dear. Maybe if there were another 30 or 40 weekends between now and the deadline he could manage it.

I don't get Wu's plan. She spent the first 3 crucial months of this year basically doing nothing but now, when it's too late to actually get on the ballot, she's having a burst of activity. She fixed up the website, invented a fake person of colour to work on her campaign, send a half arsed begging letter to her mailing list and now she's doing a video.

What gives? Is she just trying to tard cum as much money out of her political career as it will stand in the last month or so she can still pretend to be a real candidate?
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It's not about winning. Wu doesn't want the job, couldn't do it if she had it, and wouldn't survive the necessary scrutiny if she could.
It's about appearing to run.
Honestly, I've suspected it since she mentioned the whole "if I don't win, I'll run again in 2020, and again in 2022".
It's an eternal cycle of posturing, but never, ever getting to a position where she might actually have to produce results.

She wouldn't know what to do if she won. She just wants to keep chasing an ideal, claiming she'd save the world if she won, while safe in the knowledge she'll never have to.
In short? You remember that guy in college you'd hang with who swore he could kick Muhammad Ali's ass in a fight, knowing he'd never have to prove it?
That's Wu. That's her whole schtick.

Election Eve would've been a best seller, but she was betrayed or some shit. Rev60 would've been a hit, but gamergate happened. She would've singlehandedly fixed politics, but she lost the election.
The check is in the mail, I wasn't speeding officer, and I totally would've invented dubstep if people had listened to my mixtape in 2001.

Brianna Wu is not a blind ideologue. That's what separates her from the rest of the Rat King, and it's why they don't like her. She's a con artist, and not a particularly skilled one, but she's just smart enough to know that you never stick around long enough for them to test if the snake oil cures cancer.
 
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Dr. Boe Jangles Esq. said:
For once, I agree completely, Bri.
Remington isn't just a company. It's a piece of our history. It's an American institution. It reflects our willingness to defend ourselves from any challenge, our drive, our freedom, our tenacity in the face of danger.
The world is a sadder place without it, and the many things they've done to help protect decent, hardworking Americans for hundreds of years.
I just hope we can identify the groups responsible for the decline of this proud and noble-hey, wait a goddamn minute...
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I'm confused and somewhat perturbed that Brianna Wu did a better job of summarizing the financial chicanery surrounding the Remington "failure" than the NY Times. I know that mostly speaks poorly of the NYT but, still, I wonder where Wu picked up that nugget of actual knowledge.
 
Blue Jerkop said:
I'm confused and somewhat perturbed that Brianna Wu did a better job of summarizing the financial chicanery surrounding the Remington "failure" than the NY Times.
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The left has been vocally anti-LBO since around the time Romney was the Republican nominee for President and his time at Bain Capital was a political issue. Wu is just regurgitating some 6-year-old talking points.
 
Warren writes "no commission for those" in regard to the ineligible signatures. That's strange, sounds like there's a financial incentive for him, like they actually took the advice of hiring someone to get the signatures. If so: lol
He was probably the cheapest option available(for a reason) and we know how Wu feels about spending money on somebody else.
 
How can he have been working so hard for so long and only have 400 signatures? This is unbelievably sad. I was sure the counts he was doing earlier were higher.

How can he not see what a ridiculous lost cause this is and that he's making a fool out of himself?
 
Kroster said:
How can he not see what a ridiculous lost cause this is and that he's making a fool out of himself?
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It's possible that he does and he just doesn't want to badmouth Wu. Obviously the guy has been getting no support from her whatsoever, the whole responsibility for this thing has been dumped on his shoulders and he's scrambling to do the job.

I don't think he's done a terrible job considering his circumstances. Obviously he was completely unprepared for this and has been making up the strategy as he goes, and you can see he's getting better at it as time goes on. He's just got no budget, no volunteer groups and no real supporter base to call on. Failure was inevitable. The entire blame rests with Wu for completely squandering her planning time on playing Nintendo Switch and sperging about cars.
 
Norvic said:
It's possible that he does and he just doesn't want to badmouth Wu. Obviously the guy has been getting no support from her whatsoever, the whole responsibility for this thing has been dumped on his shoulders and he's scrambling to do the job.

I don't think he's done a terrible job considering his circumstances. Obviously he was completely unprepared for this and has been making up the strategy as he goes, and you can see he's getting better at it as time goes on. He's just got no budget, no volunteer groups and no real supporter base to call on. Failure was inevitable. The entire blame rests with Wu for completely squandering her planning time on playing Nintendo Switch and sperging about cars.
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Despite the fact that he is quite possibly a crazy man, imagine what he could do with an actual budget.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
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"Tech" is to Bri-bri what "9/11" was to Rudy Giuliani.

Interviewer: "So, Mrs. Wu - what issues are important to you?"

Johnny: "TECH!"

Interviewer: "Just....that? What about taxes, crime, or unemployment?"

Johnny: "TECH!"

Interviewer: "OK. So can you give me an idea of what you're going to do if you win a congressional seat?"

Johnny: "TECH!"

Interviewer: "I'm just getting word from my producer that you haven't gotten a single degree in anything related to technology, Mrs. Wu. Care to explain this?"

Johnny: "GAMERGATE!"
 
Norvic said:
It's been a while since we checked in on true and honest campaign staffer Warren Lynch and his Herculean task to single-handedly get Wu on to the ballot without her helping or really even caring whether he succeeds or fails.

View attachment 411558

Oh. Oh dear. Maybe if there were another 30 or 40 weekends between now and the deadline he could manage it.

I don't get Wu's plan. She spent the first 3 crucial months of this year basically doing nothing but now, when it's too late to actually get on the ballot, she's having a burst of activity. She fixed up the website, invented a fake person of colour to work on her campaign, send a half arsed begging letter to her mailing list and now she's doing a video.

What gives? Is she just trying to tard cum as much money out of her political career as it will stand in the last month or so she can still pretend to be a real candidate?
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Conventions draw out of towners? Get outta here!

Also, “commissions?” I wonder if he’s paying out of pocket, if John is only paying him per valid signature, or what.
 
All this screeching about Facebook has to be some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard, be it from Flu, or any other sperg crying about it.

Pro tip, if you don't want all your shit on the internet, DON'T PUT ALL YOUR SHIT ON THE FUCKING INTERNET.
 
"threat vector" -- is that the sequel to Rev 60? Wu is many stupid things, including being that one friend in the group who insists on using phrases like "threat vector" in everyday conversation like a cast member in Homeland or 24.
 
I don't understand why she keeps freaking out over Facebook having access to your calls and text messages. This isn't some fucking breaking news story that was kept secret for years and was just revealed by some whistleblower. Android gives you a giant fucking pop-up every time you install an app telling you exactly what the app can access and lets you adjust it accordingly. All because a bunch of morons never bothered to read that and just closed the window doesn't make it Facebook's liability.

If anything Android has much more customization options than Apple devices do when it comes to privacy. But Brianna wouldn't know that because the only thing she knows how to use is an iPhone. When is she going to find out that literally every other modern website and app tracks their users? Does she think Twitter doesn't do it? Google? Her dumb phone games? The godzilla of tech strikes again with her latest stupidity.
 
Oh god, she's doubling down on her "encryption is magic" privacy scheme.

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She doesn't even understand application signing yet she feels confident enough to design crytoschemes to safeguard peoples' privacy. This is some next level Dunning-Kruger right here. I've said previously why this doesn't work, so I won't bother again. Suffice it to say that Wu has no idea what she's talking about.

Wu kinda-sorta explains how she expects this to function:

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I mean, leaving aside the glaring issue that you've already let the company read the data for months and months, and that at any time they could have just dumped it all to plaintext... How does this help at all? Presumably, you're revoking their access to the data because you find them untrustworthy in some way... but not untrustworthy enough to have already done bad things with access to your personal data? I boggles my mind that people can be this hard of thinking.

Even given that this scheme does absolutely nothing to enhance privacy, imagine the technical challenges involved in setting this up. You'd have to come up with some sort of standard formatting and enveloping scheme for EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF PERSONAL DATA. Otherwise, you're basically just handing untrustworthy code your personal data in plaintext and saying "pretty please, format this so I can put it in an encrypted envelope for you. Don't peek though while you're doing it!" It's madness.

Some dude even calls her out on the usability problem:

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Her response? Basically, "DUH! Your dad should just become a computer whiz kid! What, is he some kind of thicko?"

Jesus. Why does anyone ever think this bitch is any kind of engineer? This is ludicrous.
 
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