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

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Dorsia.Reservation said:
Yep!
He's linked to official Porsche track days.
They won't take you without that insurance PLUS if you have never done a track day before,you have to go out with a safe driving instructor and have classroom time.

You don't follow instructions to a T and humble your ass before the instructors and teachers...they will kick you out.

Also they go over the car with a fine tooth comb...see something they don't like...car not allowed on the track.
Since he's never done a track day before the focus is on properly operating the car and many times that means speed is limited to under 65mph.

And no one at a track event gives a shit if you're a woman or the 100 other things John likes to claim he is. It's about utmost safety and then the fun.
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Dr. Boe Jangles Esq. said:
This.
If you've ever done any track driving or hung out with any auto clubs that use one, it's like trying to join fucking Delta Force. They pick over every single microscopic detail, because if something should happen they are fucked beyond measure.
You're a safe driver? Fuck you, do the paperwork.
You've done this before and were fine? Fuck you, do the paperwork.
You're a professional race driver? Fuck you, do the paperwork.
They're not kidding around.


What's hilarious is that Wu is missing that this was the entire goddamn point of Hatred.

Hatred isn't a very good game on its own. It's a samey, isometric shooter with about 30 minutes of entertainment. The point of it being made, however, is the same reason games like Postal got made back during the "VIDYA MAKES KIDS VIOLENT" days when Clinton and Jack Thomson got their collective narc on. It's an immature thumb in the eye of hand-wringing crybabies who want everything censored. If you look at the specific time at which Hatred was released, you start to get the sense that its timing wasn't an accident.
The entire point of Hatred existing was to piss off people who didn't want it to. Kiwi Farms is not entirely dissimilar, in that sense.

These games don't get stopped because people like Wu object to them. They are made because people like Wu exist.
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Can you see anyone taking one look at Wu in person and not simply declaring “unsafe at any speed!”
 
Oh so that's why you get up at 11 AM every day.

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You have no career in tech, and no one wants your goblin ass in public service. Fuck off.

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Sissy Galvez said:
Do you even have to ask? No, of course they’re not white supremacists.
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Obvious shit is obvious, but calling everyone white supremacists ruins the power of the words and means people won't believe you when the real white supremacists show up.
Of course, John and co. don't care as long as crying wolf will get them attention.
 
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Manly-Chicken said:
Were the devs actual white supremacists?
I mean, it's 2018, so that label is more or less meaningless.
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No, they made a game about a murderous psycho, but he more or less killed every single person he encountered. He was a crazed nihilist, not a Nazi.
 
Kosher Dill said:
I cringe whenever I read John talking about "pushing" his penis replacement on the streets of suburban Boston. Anyone who's been there can probably think of a dozen twisty little warrens of residential side streets, and the thought of getting blindsided by the Wumobile on one of those is chilling.

I wonder if he tries to race it through the Big Dig, I bet that would seem pretty "video gamey" in exactly the way that would appeal to him.
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I could be wrong, but I bet that Wu's sperging about "pushing" a sports car in any environment is pure bullshit, just like he talks about his motorcycle (that he doesn't ride). Wu probably goes about the speed limit but in the wrong gear at all times. And the whole 'track day' thing will be what everyone else he talks about is: something to talk about doing.
 
Has this been brought up?
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/lo...ist_primary_challenges_loom_for_5_in_us_house

It's an article about the upcoming elections in Massachusetts listing the people challenging the current Congress members.

Three of the five challengers are women, two of whom are African-American.
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Let's see who these women are.

1ST DISTRICT: Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, a Springfield attorney, is challenging veteran U.S. Rep. Richard Neal in the Democratic primary.

Amatul-Wadud cites health care, climate change and improved access to high speed internet as among her priorities.

A mother of seven, she serves on the Massachusetts Commission for the Status of Women. If elected, she'd be the first Muslim to serve in Congress from Massachusetts.
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Ok, seems legit.

7TH DISTRICT: Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley is challenging Democratic incumbent Michael Capuano, who is completing his 10th term in Congress. It's been the most closely watched interparty challenge thus far.

Pressley said in announcing her candidacy that residents of her district needed more than an ally, they needed an advocate and a champion. She was the first black woman elected to the council.
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Again, seems legit, has experience in civil service.

8TH DISTRICT: Generally considered the delegation's most moderate member, Rep. Stephen Lynch has served in Congress since 2001.

The South Boston Democrat is being challenged in the primary by Brianna Wu, a software engineer and video game developer. Wu says she's running against the status quo and seeks a "bolder Democratic party."

In 2014, Wu became a target of GamerGate, an online harassment campaign which subjected several women in the video-game industry to misogynistic threats. The threats became so intense that Wu and her husband left their home.
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Yup.
 
There’s ethnic cleansing happening in parts of the world right now and Brianna Wu aka John Flynt continues to beat the “I had to flee my home” dead horse because gamers made fun of him on twitter.

Narrator: “he did not, in fact, leave his home”.
 
None of these [other] primary challengers are running to win. They're running to drive the party left, and to start growing more of a pipeline of progressive challengers. There are organized efforts behind a few of them, but I'm not sure all or which. They're running professional-level campaigns that cost as little money as possible, but they're working their assess off and doing what they can to have a seat at the table. I don't agree with all of them, but I admire anyone who does that, Democrat or Republican. Tedeschi (a Republican mentioned in the article, running against a well-liked Democrat in the district next to the 8th) doesn't stand a chance, but he's doing the same thing, and it's important to have contested elections where politicians have to answer to each other and to the press and to the people: otherwise, we might as well live in Russia.

Wu was offered the same deal, and ignored everyone's advice, and is running what's obviously a joke campaign. It's total bullshit that newspapers are treating her campaign like it's as legitimate as the others, just because it plays into the narrative they want to tell of pussy hats grabbing back. Especially disappointing for the Herald, which is the more conservative Boston newspaper.

Edited to add: just compare Tahirah Amatul-Wadud's website to Wu's. Amatul-Wadud's looks professional, tells about her background and family in a way designed to spin a narrative that she's both professional and relatable, plus has a humanizing story about how her daughter needed heart surgery at birth and she's volunteered at the hospital since: a humanizing story that also brings in her administrative experience, a record of public service, and shows a certain level of commitment to her efforts. There are political consultants whose entire job is to find a story that offers this sort of sweet spot. (I'm not saying hers was put together by a consultant, though I'm sure it was refined by paid or volunteer staffers: it sounds like it was a pretty obvious story. But lots of people with the hubris and entitlement to be politicians don't have much to work with when looking for things that make them look this good). She has professional photos and videos, an interview, endorsements, vision statements. It's well done.

(If you want to look at both sides of the aisle, compare it to Tedeschi's, which is basically exactly the same, except he's working with a lot more money: primary challengers of incumbents can rarely raise much, because donating is political suicide. Tedeschi is probably raising plenty from both Republicans in and out of Massachusetts. They also know he won't win, but there won't be any repercussions to donations, and he'll likely end up with a cushy state appointment under the Republican governor so it's a good time to make friends now.)

Meanwhile, Wu's site... isn't there. It's down. Oops. But this is a real campaign. Sure it is.
 
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I think you’re right about many of those candidates but not Brianna / John. John is a narcissist, delusional, incompetent, and a scam artist. He’s conned many idiots in tech to give him $50k+ for his fake campaign that he used for personal trips and meals.

He genuinely thinks he has a chance to win and this race is personal. He’s up against another man. John’s programming is “woman = good; man = bad” so him losing basically will cause a major meltdown. You’ve already seen the signs when he started accusing people dunking on his asinine comments of being Russian bots.

No one sane would pick John Flynt to push a progressive narrative in the hopes a centrist Democrat would go further left. They would pick someone far more competent. John claims to be a software engineer yet can’t maintain his campaign website which was devoid of policy content until recently. Technically it still is because everything he put up is extremely superficial.
 
Sissy Galvez said:
I think you’re right about many of those candidates but not Brianna / John. John is a narcissist, delusional, incompetent, and a scam artist. He’s conned many idiots in tech to give him $50k+ for his fake campaign that he used for personal trips and meals.

He genuinely thinks he has a chance to win and this race is personal. He’s up against another man. John’s programming is “woman = good; man = bad” so him losing basically will cause a major meltdown. You’ve already seen the signs when he started accusing people dunking on his asinine comments of being Russian bots.

No one sane would pick John Flynt to push a progressive narrative in the hopes a centrist Democrat would go further left. They would pick someone far more competent. John claims to be a software engineer yet can’t maintain his campaign website which was devoid of policy content until recently. Technically it still is because everything he put up is extremely superficial.
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Oh they didn't pick her. I think you thought I was including her as part of the primary challengers, but I was only including the serious challengers (Voehl doesn't count either. Has anyone figured out his deal? Running as a self-funded centrist Democrat against a very popular and well-financed centrist Democrat seems like a dumb waste of money. He'd have an equal chance of winning, but at least some support and donations, if he ran as a centrist Republican). They're laughing at this train wreck as much as anyone on this site is. There are many group texts among active Democrats in the 8th district and around the state about Wu's joke of a campaign.

But way back when she first announced her candidacy, people took her seriously. Remember that the vast majority of people didn't follow Gamer Gate, and at best just knew some overview version where Wu was a victim who fought back. They met with her. I don't know the exact timeline because I'm not in an inner circle, but definitely by March 2017 the progressive branch of the state party knew she was not a real candidate.

Since then, nobody has given her any support or endorsements, except for two randos who don't live in the 8th district and obviously didn't do their research. Again, compare that with the other two women candidates: they have an equal chance of winning as Wu does, so they're not getting major endorsements, but they'll end up winning something eventually or at least working hard for progressive causes so they're picking up some legitimate but minor ones. Nobody with any power or good advice has given Wu campaign advice since initial meetings with her in late winter or maybe very early spring of 2017.

All this is how she ended up with crazy Warren as her sole campaign volunteer and advisor, while Pressley and Amatul-Wadud have small but loyal groups of volunteers, and I guarantee you they're getting a lot of behind-the-scenes advice from important people within the state democratic party and other progressive action groups.

Wu did, someone told me, post in a private Facebook group that she's still looking to hire a campaign manager. She thinks that nobody will work for her because Massachusetts politicians think that she's low class. That's how deluded she is.
 
RadicalCentrist said:
Oh? Any good examples?
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They're my source for most of what I've posted about her on these threads. As I said, I'm not in any sort of inner circle. But I have friends who are, and they enjoy sharing funny stories and warning each other about crazy people that might derail their own political careers. The night Warren was looking for endorsements, and messaging everyone he could think of, my friends were warning each other that the ask was coming and to say no. There's a pretty even split about whether to feel sorry for poor dumb Warren, or whether he has nobody to blame but himself for his stupidity.
 
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