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

  • ⚙️ Performance issue identified and being addressed.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Who did you intern for again John?

cons.png
 
Peace and Harmony said:
Who did you intern for again John?

View attachment 1239795
Click to expand...
This is probably going to be a bit of powerlevel, but Katrina is personal to me, so allow me to poke holes in this latest lie.
I lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast when Katrina hit, not too far from the shore. I'll spare most of the details of what all I went through so as to refrain from powerleveling further, but here's the pertinent stuff with regards to John's story:
  • A couple trees in our yard fell down, and there were other trees in the neighborhood that had fallen over as well. Most trees were leaning (and of those, mostly pine trees), but in no way were most trees flattened.
  • We never lost running water so we could still shower, though we had to boil it for drinking for three weeks.
  • Electricity was back up about two weeks after the storm.
  • We ate canned food for maybe a few days before truckloads of MREs started pouring in, and it wasn't long before the grocery stores were back up and running.
I'm still grateful that the house itself wasn't destroyed, like many homes closer to the beach were. But my actual experience with Katrina was nowhere near as harrowing as John claims his parents' was.

It gets worse when you realize that they live near Hattiesburg, about an hour from the coast. By the time it was hitting there, it was already weakening; it was still a pretty strong storm, but nowhere near as intense as it was when it first made landfall. We drove that way on our way back from evacuating, and I can confirm that there were a lot of leaning trees, but nowhere near the implied "most trees flattened" like John claims. You can also tell that's a lie because if it were true, then we'd have whole swaths of fifteen-year-old pine forests in the area, which I can confirm don't exist. I'll admit it's entirely possible a tree fell over and damaged their house, because that definitely happened to a lot of homes, so I won't comment on that part of John's story.

Furthermore, I did some research to determine if there were any service outages around Hattiesburg. I found this article from the National Academy of Engineering that talked about the timetables for restoring service in various areas. In a nutshell, all power companies resolved to get electrical service up and running to all customers in the area within two weeks, which they accomplished. John's parents were likely without power for maybe a few days at most. They might have been without running water for a while, admittedly; this article mentions that the wells that Hattiesburg used for their water didn't work without power, but they added generators after the storm in case of future emergency. Still, it would have been no more than a couple weeks at most, which most people learned was tolerable.

Without getting into politisperging, the response from the feds could have been better, but it was overall alright, especially when it came to getting emergency food and supplies to the area pretty quickly. The thing that John doesn't get is, we didn't solely rely on the feds or just wait around for them to do all the work (cough cough New Orleans). It was the local community and countless volunteers from across the country that pulled together and pitched in, clearing debris, making repairs, and rebuilding what was lost.

John probably didn't even know any of this was happening at the time because he was likely high on Ambien at Ole Miss when Katrina hit, and by the time it got that far north it was just a strong thunderstorm.
tl;dr: John's doing his standard stretching of the truth to make things sound worse than they were, especially since his parents didn't live on the coast.
 
King Dead said:
This is probably going to be a bit of powerlevel, but Katrina is personal to me, so allow me to poke holes in this latest lie.
I lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast when Katrina hit, not too far from the shore. I'll spare most of the details of what all I went through so as to refrain from powerleveling further, but here's the pertinent stuff with regards to John's story:
  • A couple trees in our yard fell down, and there were other trees in the neighborhood that had fallen over as well. Most trees were leaning (and of those, mostly pine trees), but in no way were most trees flattened.
  • We never lost running water so we could still shower, though we had to boil it for drinking for three weeks.
  • Electricity was back up about two weeks after the storm.
  • We ate canned food for maybe a few days before truckloads of MREs started pouring in, and it wasn't long before the grocery stores were back up and running.
I'm still grateful that the house itself wasn't destroyed, like many homes closer to the beach were. But my actual experience with Katrina was nowhere near as harrowing as John claims his parents' was.

It gets worse when you realize that they live near Hattiesburg, about an hour from the coast. By the time it was hitting there, it was already weakening; it was still a pretty strong storm, but nowhere near as intense as it was when it first made landfall. We drove that way on our way back from evacuating, and I can confirm that there were a lot of leaning trees, but nowhere near the implied "most trees flattened" like John claims. You can also tell that's a lie because if it were true, then we'd have whole swaths of fifteen-year-old pine forests in the area, which I can confirm don't exist. I'll admit it's entirely possible a tree fell over and damaged their house, because that definitely happened to a lot of homes, so I won't comment on that part of John's story.

Furthermore, I did some research to determine if there were any service outages around Hattiesburg. I found this article from the National Academy of Engineering that talked about the timetables for restoring service in various areas. In a nutshell, all power companies resolved to get electrical service up and running to all customers in the area within two weeks, which they accomplished. John's parents were likely without power for maybe a few days at most. They might have been without running water for a while, admittedly; this article mentions that the wells that Hattiesburg used for their water didn't work without power, but they added generators after the storm in case of future emergency. Still, it would have been no more than a couple weeks at most, which most people learned was tolerable.

Without getting into politisperging, the response from the feds could have been better, but it was overall alright, especially when it came to getting emergency food and supplies to the area pretty quickly. The thing that John doesn't get is, we didn't solely rely on the feds or just wait around for them to do all the work (cough cough New Orleans). It was the local community and countless volunteers from across the country that pulled together and pitched in, clearing debris, making repairs, and rebuilding what was lost.

John probably didn't even know any of this was happening at the time because he was likely high on Ambien at Ole Miss when Katrina hit, and by the time it got that far north it was just a strong thunderstorm.
tl;dr: John's doing his standard stretching of the truth to make things sound worse than they were, especially since his parents didn't live on the coast.
Click to expand...

If John says it, you know it's a lie.

According to this article by The Associated Press and datelined Hattiesburg, water and electricity were both restored in the city four days -- not John's "weeks" -- after Katrina made landfall.
 
King Dead said:
Assuming he fails at his congressional ambitions again, will he try a third time, attempt some other scheme to remain relevant, or fuck off and play video games badly for the rest of his life? I guess we'll find out in September.
Click to expand...
I think he'll stick to being a 'canidate' as long as he can, because it makes him sound important and all he does for it is day how great he is, how terrible some men are, and beg for money - all things he would be doing anyway.

It got him on CNN (I know, but still, national TV) and lets him imagine himself as a new AOC, so he gets attention and delusion-fodder, both of which he craves. And the chances he could get elected and therefore have to do anything resembling work is incredibly slim, so he gets to throw Frank's money away while he tweets about bullshit and pretend that it's all Important Work.

I don't think we'll ever see the end of 'canidate' Wu. It's the perfect scam for him.
 
What's yours, John? Oh yeah give $1,000k to every household indefinitely to stay indoors, got it.

lib.png


And just like that, Frank suddenly stopped being a bacterial geneticist and is now a trial lawyer. End your fucking life John and also Frank's.

friends.png
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom