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

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Norvic said:
This leads me to believe we'll eventually see her blaming her failures on the MA political community failing to give her due respect or some nonsense like that.
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Wu will resort to the same tired excuses:

1. It's because i'm a woman! (LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL)
2. GAAAMERGAAATE!
3. Right wing Nazis hired by Trump rigged the ballots!
 
https://www.wral.com/stacey-abrams-...either-are-these-female-candidates-/17587944/

Brianna Wu represents another dynamic this year: a political novice confronting a long-standing but more conservative Democratic incumbent, in this case Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts.

As one of the several female video game developers who were targets of death threats in the outpouring of vitriol known as Gamergate, Wu has a national profile, a motorcycle and a Porsche in her driveway, and gulps Soylent, the tech drink of choice, for lunch. But her long-shot bid has quickly run up against institutional barriers.

She is new to her district; her opponent is well-funded; and her upstart candidacy faces open antagonism. Trying to draw up a plan to address a water crisis in the town of Hingham, she said she reached out to a local official and a federal environmental employee who told her they were friends of Lynch and declined to help.

“The doors slam shut,” she said. “I feel like I’m running more against the Democratic Party in my state than against Stephen Lynch at times.”

Even if she fails, she says, she will try again in 2020.
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Guess who responded to this?
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Brianna Wu, a software engineer who was one of the targets of Gamergate and an expert in being harassed online, told me she “absolutely” has experienced the wrath of the MuskBros.
"There seems to be a contingency that feels the need to defend Musk from any statement that could be considered critical,” said Wu, who is now a candidate for the House of Representatives in Massachusetts. “They are thoroughly unpleasant to deal with. I dread @ mentioning Elon, because it’s going to make Twitter unusable. A billionaire does not need to be shielded from critique.”
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:story: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/8mwqqe/ethics_erin_biba_wrote_her_hit_piece/
I'd just like to point out that one "expert in being harassed online" featured in this article doesn't seem to have ever actually tweeted at Elon Musk, so far as I can tell, but has somewhat insinuated that SpaceX is dangerous because they might create moon rock cannons to obliterate the Earth.

http://archive.is/9qZkL

So...I mean, I really don't know where to take the conversation from there
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Sissy Galvez said:
https://www.project100.org/candidate/katherine-clark

Just wanted to post this, take a look at the other women that are running. All professional, typical photos you’d expect. Then you see Brianna / John in his one dress and leaning agonist his bike. You know, that photo he took to appear cool and that is 4 years old and heavily photoshopped.

That’s not even the worst part, the bio under the picture is hilarious. “Business Leader, Scientisf, Environmentalist”.

Have these idiots lost their damn minds? In what reality is any of that true about Brianna / John?
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I like the ones that say "LGBT" and "woman of color" like it somehow makes them more qualified.
 
I was coming to post the NYT article, too. I feel like it's the most negative press I've seen about her in a mainstream publication, even if it's subtle. At least they mention the Porsche and the fact that she just moved here. And the links are interesting: the Gamergate article they link to doesn't mention her, and the "has a national profile" link takes you to an anti-Wu YouTube video. And the last line, about how Pressley has more of a chance, even though they later say that she doesn't have a chance, implies that Wu is seen as a joke candidate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/us/politics/women-candidates-midterms.html

Brianna Wu represents another dynamic this year: a political novice confronting a longstanding but more conservative Democratic incumbent, in this case Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts.

As one of the several female video game developers who were targets of death threats in the outpouring of vitriol known as Gamergate, Ms. Wu has a national profile, a motorcycle and a Porsche in her driveway, and gulps Soylent, the tech drink of choice, for lunch. But her long-shot bid has quickly run up against institutional barriers.

She is new to her district; her opponent is well-funded; and her upstart candidacy faces open antagonism. Trying to draw up a plan to address a water crisis in the town of Hingham, she said she reached out to a local official and a federal environmental employee who told her they were friends of Mr. Lynch’s and declined to help.

“The doors slam shut,” she said. “I feel like I’m running more against the Democratic Party in my state than against Stephen Lynch at times.”

Ms. Pressley, running in the congressional district next door, is seen as a more potent threat for an upset.
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Wu LARPS all the way from game developer (barely true) to "software engineer" and then drops the 'software' because "engineer" sounds better so that she can somehow try and turn that into being a 'scientist.'

It's really amazing.

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“The doors slam shut,” she said. “I feel like I’m running more against the Democratic Party in my state than against Stephen Lynch at times.”

Yeah, because they know you're a joke. Lynch isn't running against you at all for the same reason. The ONLY people who would want Wu to win the primary are the few republicans there.

"Even if she fails, she says, she will try again in 2020..."

And if we needed any more proof, there it is. Wu has decided to become a failed politician as a career. The perennial candidate that gets nowhere.
 
Pocket_Sand! said:
That first part about motorcycle/Porsche/Soylent sounds like Flu wrote it to me.

"Oh here, I want this in your article about me!"
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I think it’s more likely she bragged about it for several paragraphs, and they just edited it down. No way she would admit to “gulping” Soylent. It’s about one of the least feminine verbs they could have used
 
Hellfire said:
Guess who responded to this?
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I saw this person getting roasted on the Twatter last night by some prominent people and got a quick chuckle out of it. I honestly did not even think of checking to see if John Flynt had stuck his hobgoblin face into this shitpile, and of course he did. Man, it really is one thing to know what fake news is conceptually and another thing entirely to REALLY KNOW what fake fucking news is. All these people are living piles of shit.
 
Trying to draw up a plan to address a water crisis in the town of Hingham, she said she reached out to a local official and a federal environmental employee who told her they were friends of Lynch and declined to help.

LOL. I bet it went more like this:

Wu: I'm here to solve the water crisis!

Local Official: Excuse me, but what are you doing here in the water and sewage dept?

W: I have a plan to deal with the water crisis here!

LO: Um....ok. Can you give me the details?

W: Wellll....there's no specific plan, per se. You guys just let me take charge of the water and sewer dept, and after working on the O ring paradigms and altering the synergy of the BIOS, I'll have this under control!

LO: Please leave before I call the police.

W: YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE GAMERGATERS HIRED BY STEPHEN LYNCH, AREN'T YOU!? *WU SNARLS*

LO: I better call Animal Control while i'm at it.
 
Water-T said:
Trying to draw up a plan to address a water crisis in the town of Hingham, she said she reached out to a local official and a federal environmental employee who told her they were friends of Lynch and declined to help.

LOL. I bet it went more like this:

Wu: I'm here to solve the water crisis!

Local Official: Excuse me, but what are you doing here in the water and sewage dept?

W: I have a plan to deal with the water crisis here!

LO: Um....ok. Can you give me the details?

W: Wellll....there's no specific plan, per se. You guys just let me take charge of the water and sewer dept, and after working on the O ring paradigms and altering the synergy of the BIOS, I'll have this under control!

LO: Please leave before I call the police.

W: YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE GAMERGATERS HIRED BY STEPHEN LYNCH, AREN'T YOU!? *WU SNARLS*

LO: I better call Animal Control while i'm at it.
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I love when people with no political experience act like issues like this can be solved with a snap of the fingers, but have no idea how the system works or the steps they'd take to actually solve it.
Pretty common these days too.
 
“The doors slam shut,” she said. “I feel like I’m running more against the Democratic Party in my state than against Stephen Lynch at times.”
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"It was almost as if I were primarying an incumbent in a year where it's more important than ever to hold every single seat and gain more."
 
Blue Jerkop said:
And if we needed any more proof, there it is. Wu has decided to become a failed politician as a career. The perennial candidate that gets nowhere.
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It's probably for the best. It's easy, vague, involves asking randos for money instead of totally leaning on Frank, doesn't actually require much for results.

Who knows, maybe twenty years from now the perennial Wu campaign will be looked forward to like Vermin Supreme's runs.
 
Water-T said:
Trying to draw up a plan to address a water crisis in the town of Hingham, she said she reached out to a local official and a federal environmental employee who told her they were friends of Lynch and declined to help.

LOL. I bet it went more like this:

Wu: I'm here to solve the water crisis!

Local Official: Excuse me, but what are you doing here in the water and sewage dept?

W: I have a plan to deal with the water crisis here!

LO: Um....ok. Can you give me the details?

W: Wellll....there's no specific plan, per se. You guys just let me take charge of the water and sewer dept, and after working on the O ring paradigms and altering the synergy of the BIOS, I'll have this under control!

LO: Please leave before I call the police.

W: YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE GAMERGATERS HIRED BY STEPHEN LYNCH, AREN'T YOU!? *WU SNARLS*

LO: I better call Animal Control while i'm at it.
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It's even better. The Hingham water issue (it's not a crisis at all, and if she called it a crisis she doesn't even know what's going on) is about the town wanting to buy the water company from the private company that owns it. It's complicated and based on a hundred year old contract, and the courts have already ruled that the company needs to sell, and now the lawsuit is about how much Hingham will have to pay. Hingham is a rich town with lots of lawyers and I'm sure they already have the most solid plan money can buy. And in most lawsuits the people involved can't even talk about what's happening in the lawsuit.

Wu focusing on this is the result of her relatively recent revelation that voters care about local issues. The town next to Hingham has an actually valid crisis (a company wants to build a gas compressor station in a residential area), but Lynch (whose sister lives next door to where it will be) is already very active in trying to fight it. So she looked around for the next issue she could find, and randomly found this. It's not an issue anyone outside of Hingham cares about, and it's not a crisis, and it's not something even a competent federal politician could help with. The thought of Wu wandering into Hingham at the tail end of a long series of lawsuits and asking if she can help plan a strategy is funny tho.
 
NotoriousD said:
SCIENTIST. BUSINESS LEADER.

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I love how he can't come up with a professional photo like everyone else.
Nope, it's the photo shopped to hell photo with the bike he can't even ride.

John and warren like to keep spreading lies about Lynch...and yet true and honest woman Brianna gets to claim that she is an engineer, business leader, game dev and now scientist and no one dare question it.
 
The best attack ad would be a billboard justaxposing her tweet about how she can’t afford her house and how it’s governments fault with her tweeet about spending $600 on Mass Effect. I know this is late but I still can’t wrap my head around why some 40 yr old would admit they can’t afford a house but can spend $600 on one video game.
 
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