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GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress (cnn.com)
"If you look at what our Congress is doing for tech, it's failing. It's putting all of us in danger," game developer Brianna Wu told CNN, adding "It's so imperative that people of my generation, native to technology, that we step up and make our voices known." An anonymous reader quotes CNN's report:
Wu says she is running for Congress in 2018. The co-founder and head of development at games firm Giant Spacekat hasn't announced which district she wants to represent in the U.S. House of Representatives to prevent alerting her potential opponent while she prepares. Wu, a Massachusetts Democrat, told CNNMoney she's building up a team of advisers and figuring out campaign logistics before announcing her candidacy next month... She said the election of President-elect Donald Trump spurred her to consider entering politics...
Wu "says her extensive technical knowledge and experience fighting the alt-right and harassment and will be advantageous for a Congressional representative."
Wu "says her extensive technical knowledge and experience fighting the alt-right and harassment and will be advantageous for a Congressional representative."
It turns out, anti-gamergate affiliated goons from somethingawful were associated with actual hate directed at her, per the FBI. Most of the anti-gamergate crowd hate her guts, too. It's just that she takes the hate she receives from them and associates it with Gamergate, for reasons.
What exactly is she going to do for tech, other than force companies to hire more women and minorities, and pay them all equal regardless of talent?
(tosses bag of popcorn into microwave)
I'm sure Clinton or her people had no idea about fighting the "alt-right".
Otherwise I have no idea who Brianna Wu or gamergate is. Anything ending in gate is rarely worth reading.
No matter who it is. It could be Satan, and I'll be giving cash.
Will Trump grab her by the pussy and make congress great again?
She's been mass deleting tweets
She's done this because she's an absolutely abhorrent person, a hypocrite and a narcissist, and hopes the 99% of the population who've never heard of her remain blissfully unaware of this fact until after she's won.
So it sounds to me like she's ideally suited to be a politician.
Will this person have anything to offer anyone other than complaining about whatever the latest grievance obsession is? People used to look for leaders who had accomplished something.
Also, some random person is talking in vague terms about running for congress somewhere, sometime? This is news?
I don't know about you but I'm feeling triggered after reading this.
Scott Greenfield from simplejustice gives his take on Ms. Wu's whole-hearted attempt to represent *HER* desires and *HER* feelz and not anyone else in her failure run for Congress.
It's a good read. Scott is a lawyer who blogs daily... and he doesn't pull any punches. Unlike Ms. Wu he is able to view things objectively.
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I have never heard of Giant Spacekat until now. Looking at their first game, it looks pretty terrible. But it is a first game, so I'll give them that.
I don't know much about this particular person's role in Gamergate, but I think the whole thing was asinine. It failed to understand market demand and the industry surrounding gaming and entertainment in general.
Also, it's interesting all these people are deciding it's now time to do something since Trump was elected. Were the eight years of predator drone bombing not enough? Was the ten plus years of warrant-less spying not enough? Was the endless war not enough? Keep in mind everything that is happening now, is happening under the Obama administration.
Clinton and Trump were equally corrupt. Basing your decision to participate in the system now shows you've totally ignored the reality of what America does on a daily basis to destroy other nations to give the west our current standard of living.
I wouldn't want a self-proclaimed "software engineer" who can't even build a computer and install an OS on it trying to pass legislature about technology.
I noticed her Twitter feed is limited only to her latest non-violent and nice posts. I wonder why that is? During the gamergate fiasco, she posted some of the most abhorrent, violent, and childish things I've ever seen. Especially against men. I would hope her political opponents will bring this up and destroy her. She is not mentally fit or mature enough to run a small gaming company, let alone a district.
The co-founder and head of development at games firm Giant Spacekat hasn't announced which district she wants to represent in the U.S. House of Representatives to prevent alerting her potential opponent while she prepares.
Would that district not happen to be the one where she lives? I thought it was the law in every state that you had have residence in the constituency if you run for elected office in that constituency? Or, does she intend to carpetbag, like Clinton did when she moved to New York?
Victimhood identity won't work in politics. First, scrutiny and criticism is expected part of politics. Second, the moment you transition from private citizen to public person, censorship becomes a big no-no.
...head of development
She can spell HTML, so she's head of dev.
It's a working model (you'll see what I did there).
Trump has whore support.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
TIRED of all these retards ending anything that they disagree with with a "-gate."
I agree. We should name this sentiment disagreement-gate or gate-gate so that we can all organize our disagreement with something catchy that the laymen will
understand while being easily searchable.
Gamergate started with the public outcry over game developers, companies & publishers colluding with game review magazines & sites to fix reviews in exchange for money (and sex allegedly). The review sites & magazines (along with their parent publications & owners) changed this into a "women are victimized in gaming" issue to deflect the issue.
These are two separate and serious issues but one got buried under the vitriol, attention seeking and underhandedness from most of the parties involved.
The biggest indicator of a fake news site: If it has articles that claim Gamergate is a alt-right hate campaign made of white men. It's pretty much the opposite. Alt-right elements got attracted to it because of who were writing the attack articles.
Exactly who does she intend to take down?
The place she'd have the biggest impact if she won would be Stephen Lynch's 8th, which encompasses the Boston neighborhoods of Southie Roslindale, and Dorchester, the cities of Brockton, Braintree, Norwood, and Quincy. Lynch is an old-time union Democrat. He's also the least liberal congressman from Massachusetts, which in his own analogy is like being the slowest Kenyan in the Boston Marathon. But she'd have almost zero chance of winning the working class voters in this district especially against a longtime incumbent.
In American politics, incumbents are at there most vulnerable in their first re-election campaign. So Wu's best bet would have been to run this year against Katherine Clarke, who has just been re-elected to the relatively new 5th. But that ship has sailed, and now Clarke is fully familiar to her constituents in her sprawling suburban district.
The place where Wu's tech background and politics would be most advantageous would be long-time liberal lion Mike Capuano's 7th district, which includes Cambridge and Somerville. But he's been winning elections in those communities since he was elected Mayor of Somerville in 1990. He also made it past the first re-election benchmark in the new district boundaries this year.
So basically this is like her announcing her candidacy to become a liberal feminist for Emperor of the Moon -- if the incumbent Emperor were a popular liberal feminist. It's not likely to come to anything, and if it did win it wouldn't make much of a difference. She should move to North Carolina and run there.
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3...2...1...At this point all the Wu critics have voiced in, and the story has been up a little while. It's time for the Wu supporters to make the top comment something about how Wu is a powerful womyn who deserves to be in congress because of her social insight and experience running a gaming company.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
We sure do, but she is not intelligent.
TIRED of all these retards ending anything that they disagree with with a "-gate."
I agree. We should name this sentiment disagreement-gate or gate-gate so that we can all organize our disagreement with something catchy that the laymen will understand while being easily searchable.
Oh Please No!!!
Someone somewhere will decide that this is some sort of conspiracy and then you KNOW what happens...
Gate-Gate-Gate!
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
It seems all these women that make noise don't do anything but parade victimhood. The women I know in the field that put their head down to the grindstone (like the rest of us) don't have these persistent (manufactured) problems.
I used to love the video game world until the Anita Sarkeesians started seeing mysogyny everywhere and made everything about themselves rather than the gaming. And fools keep on rushing to give them a platform even though they produce next-to-nothing but drama.
May she be as successful running as a Congresscritter as she has been as a game designer. And if, in a paroxysm of insanity, the good people of Massachusetts elect her to Congress, they get the representation they deserve.
Only in America can a bright young boy grow up to be an angry, oppressed woman.
You know that way that an SJW would say the word 'Wow' upon hearing someone express an opinion that's not hard-left or states a fact that contradicts The Narrative? Well, her website elicits that kind of 'Wow'. Have a look.
It's a working model (you'll see what I did there).
Trump has whore support.
Found the feminist!
nomsg
Way too sensitive and reactionary.
"MetaGate"
If the dems want any chance at all, just drop brianna like a hot tamale. Her "experience" in dealing with the "alt-right" doesn't really amount to much. Truth is she didn't really deal with them, and she won't be able to deal with them in office. Her incompetence is mind boggling as well. There is already a stock pile of ammunition to toss as this poorly put together shitbag.
She's just going to galvanize the alt right even more.
It's the opposite. Your generation's ideas and depth of understanding could *maybe* fill a bottlecap, and we need to keep you as far from elected offices as possible until you (if it ever happens) actually grow up. Millennial nonsense. Thinking that gamergate is a legitimate issue in a world where right now actual atrocities that would make gamerthingy look like a junior high temper tantrum are happening all over the earth. You are beyond sheltered and privileged (it isn't 'abundance' you were born into, it's straight up privilege), you are children, age notwithstanding, and grown ups that vote are not going to placate you or actively support your entitled and just plain ignorant bullshit. Come back in twenty years or so, we'll see if you've learned anything.
"Wu says she ..."
You mean "he". You see, a man can wish he were a woman and pretend he's a woman and chop his Johnson off and get fake tits and hormone therapy and wear makeup and panties but you know what?
It's still just a man. A fucking weird man.
... I'm going to donate $5 to her campaign. Have at it!
I refuse to read your petty articles if you're going to write them like a bunch of proud, cocky seventh graders.
Says the person whose comment is headed "GAYmergate".
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I predict she moves somewhere she thinks she can win. Worked for Hillary...
She will be absolutely destroyed by whatever Democrat she runs against though in the primaries when they find her vast trove on online hatred.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
So, what she wants is more pro censorship in Congress. No doubt running as a democrat. Tell her to amend the Constitution then. Personally, I hope she loses big time. We don't need this crap. Let the snowflakes burn in hell...
He is a freak and won't stand a chance.
It is very easy to sit at your keyboard and throw shade on Brianna, whether it be earned or not.
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THE SYSTEM? ARE -YOU- RUNNING FOR OFFICE?!?
Seems to me she has way more balls than most, no matter if you agree with the politics or not.
Although it is popular on these forums to Trump bash, he actually is not terribly corrupt. There is a difference between disagreeing with a policy position and corruption. Making a judgement call that is different than you is not a crime. The most frightening thing of our time is that so called smart, educated people of this time do not see this.
Hillary Clinton was actually the definition of corrupt. She accepted money for favors. She used power and coercion to silence political opponents and alter election results. She and her staff actively worked to suppress the political views of Sanders supporters. Amazingly, it is all they're in the Wikki leaks and other sources, if you bother to read them. Remember, the counter arguments of these leaks is not that they were untrue, but another government may have brought them to light. Think about this. No, really, think. The. Accusations. Are. True.
The better question is why do accept an American press that was complicit in suppressing and hiding these facts? So, Trump may be an asshole. He may be gruff and insensitive. He certinally used every loop-hole that he could find in the law to abuse the system. However, that is not a crime. These are the rules that people like Clinton and frankly nearly every congressmen (including the Republican ones) put in aid rich friends and donors. To imply the person using the system is more corrupt than the one who designed it to be corrupt is truly beyond hypocritical.
The democrats nominated a corrupt person. She was ultimately destroyed by the truth leaking out. The democrats almost nominated an honest politician. Things might have been different if they did. But please, stop this bullshit of saying everyone is equally as corrupt as Clinton was/is. It is untrue.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
That really shows just how profitable lying really is.
Lets recapitulate for those that did not follow gamergate back in 2014 what this person had to do with it:
Nothing, zero, zilch!
It should be clear to everyone who knows how to use google to dig up more than news sites that the claim that gamergate was anything like a hate movement is clearly wrong, it was always about finally getting _some_ standards in gaming journalism, really just "dont fuck the person you are reporting on" would be enough, maybe followed by "dont collude on a secret mailing list to release 14 articles about how your target group (gamers) are supposedly dead on the same freaking day" because that was just a tiny bit suspicious.
If you want to know more, dont bother with the wikipedia article as they are so horribly biased that even Jimmy Wales called them out on it. May have something to do with citing Gawker and their subsites as sources, the very sites that were in the cernter of that controversy. (Go cite "Mein Kampf" as a trustworthy source on the article about worldwide Jewery, I dare you).
Sadly the article on Gamergate on encyclopediadramatica is much more objective, despite being completely irreverent.
Anyway, so far so good, this was between Gamers, Journalists, Zoe Quinn (and her fake death threats) and Anita Sarkesian (and her fake death threats). No trace of Wu so far.
Thats because she was utterly unknown. Literally no one had ever heard of her or her game prior to her claiming to have been forced out of her house because of "death threats" (both lies, she never left home as the interview with a TV station and some google image search revealed later).
So assuming that gamergate really was hate movement, even then her claims would have been false: You can only hate what you know. She was not known in any form. No surprise here considering the quality of her "game" particularly with regards to graphics and character design. It was some tiny crappy indie title among tens of thousands in the play store.
And suddenly she is the center of attention and can reap her victimbux through patreon.
Really, if this does not convince people to how fake and twisted the SJW are, I dont know what will.
Brianna Wu, Brianna Wu.
There are two types of people in this world: The people who do good out of selflessness, and the people who act like they are doing good in order to feed their ego.
I have met plenty of both types.
The selfless truly good people tend to be the kind of people who don't insult others no matter how much others insult them.
They tend to be in the midst of societal problems helping the needy, and by midst i don't mean on Twitter and social media from the comfort of their chair and home.
I mean they tend to go do physical direct work in non-profit organizations, they tend to involve themselves in building homes and shelters, or are busy developing business and providing jobs by being directly involved in the formation and construction process rather than just vocalizing it over social media.
They tend to read shitloads of books in economics, business management, medicine, whatever sees actual application in making society better when they apply it.
They tend to never ever show pride in what they do, they don't throw praise at themselves, they don't call themselves leaders or warriors or fighters. They just do good, without ever explaining themselves or explaining why they do it. Explanation is useless.
Then there are people who make themselves look like some soldier, putting up a strong front, using labels on themselves. Self-elevating pride and ego. A status symbol. A savior complex to feed the ego. Vanity and narcissism through making other people tell you positive things which is the sole reason you do anything.
There is no selflessness in these kinds of "good doers".
They will indulge in pointless banter and insult exchange with others, they will berate others who don't think like them, insult those who dare question anything or who dare be skeptical, because that's the point. Using good intention as a leverage to be a douche. We've seen this kind before through history. Religious, ideological, political, all kinds of people who wore white clothes and spoke the right things to bait people towards them, while they hide self-interest and corruption underneath their veil of righteousness.
Based on how easily hateful Brianna Wu becomes, how eager to jump into derision and insulting and arguments Wu is, how little actual good Wu has done through their life, where policing and judging other people's actions like some Judge Dredd over the Internet doesn't belong because there is nothing constructive to come out of this; how nobody was made less poor, less hungry, or less depressed in life thanks to Wu because being a Social Media Evangelists doesn't achieve any of this,
i'm confident enough that Wu is just a corrupt individual seeking to be treated as royalty or some celebrity rather than helping people.
So i'm gonna leave on this account: If Trump can become president, Brianna Wu can become part of Congress. This statement indirectly describes Wu perfectly i believe.
That's a man, baby.
"If you look at what our Congress is doing for tech, it's failing. It's putting all of us in danger,"
As much as I hate Brianna Wu, I can't disagree with her on this. Almost every other thing she's said, yes, but not this.
We're putting utter incompetents and creation-apologists in charge of critical administration positions dealing with technology (as well as just about everything else, for that matter) and if you think this won't come back to bite us in the ass, you're mistaken.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
And, shit, look at all the anti-Saddam people! Not to mention that anti-Hitler is still a huge thing.
So I guess that people who are anti putin/saddam/hitler/stalin/pol pot/et al are just horrible people unfairly against some people who we don't know were as bad as these anti-whoevertheyare people make out, right?
Or maybe people are anti-Brianna for a goddamn reason, hmmm? And not one that is about her minge existing, either.
About this "gamergate" thing? I tried to puzzle together what it's about, and so far all I can say it's a lot of overblown bullshit that has no relevance for gaming in any way.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Congress ALREADY has enough idiots and head-cases in there.
They do NOT need a complete loon like Wu.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
"...hasn't announced which district she wants to represent..."
But she has decided the party she'll be running for: The Carpetbagger Party.
I think we can safely dismiss her as irrelevant.
Brianna Wu just realized that you can make it to the highest office in the land just by being a self-promoting internet troll and she wants to get in on that action.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Luckily pity votes don't get you elected.
Being likeable gets you elected.
Wu is HARDLY likeable. Wu seriously thinks the little bubble world they live in is somehow indicative of success in politics. It isn't.
Considering the fact Wu lives by a mental filter and warped view of the world, no chance.
People incapable of understanding others feelings simply do not get elected because they can't play against those feelings.
Again, pity votes don't get people in. Electors can see this a lightyear away when someone is trying to play the pity game.
Wu also doesn't have a lot of a very vital component to success in politics: self-confidence.
I've seen trannies on Chaturbate with more confidence. (and don't look like a rubber sex doll mask that's been left in the cold of winter for a month)
If she opposes the alt-right scum sucking weenies, she's good with me.
Seriously this is nothing, this person is not mentally balanced. Vermin supreme running was bigger news than this.
I'm going to fucking die laughing.
some people finally pissed enough people to get destroyed, exactly like hillary, they had the media, but the whole internet was against them
then it happened again with trump
Stop pretending that MRAs are anti-feminists "because feminism is about EQUAL RIGHTS for EVERYONE!", because it's stated clearly and proudly that you don't give a rats ass for equal rights.
PS " I wouldn't want to do that, because men's rights activists are really scary." is well dumb. You have this idea that somehow men are violent and therefore SHOULD be scary, but that MRA's (when male) aren't. Kinda fucked up, that.It's about as correct as calling women a bunch of whiney emotional crybabies who couldn't survive a day without a man to do the hard work.
I'll say this: The Republican Party are terrorists. I mean that. Literally, and here me out here.
Multiple members of their party were caught saying that they were opposing Obama because they wanted him to fail and the country to be hurt so that the Democrats would be damaged politically when the American people blamed the Dems. This happened repeatedly during his presidency. Meanwhile there were no repercussions or even denouncements from the Republican party leadership.
The goal was to spread fear among the American people to hurt the Democrats politically. What _else_ do you call somebody who uses fear to achieve political ends besides a Terrorist? Seriously, you don't have to be blowing up school buses to commit acts of terror. There are far more insidious (and better) ways.
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Yes, trannies are inherently dishonest.
They are denying the way "evolution made them". Us atheists can dislike trannies too.
They are in the "uncanny valley". (better known from human-looking robots)
They are in denial of mental illness, impeding the search for causes and prevention. Likely: viruses before birth, hormone-mimicing environmental contamination before birth, and similar pre-birth damage.
I tuned out GameGate early on when it was actually going on, and as my interaction with the commercialized gaming industry has waned, so has all the ancillary GG related activities (The last in fact was an Adult themed MU* NaughtyMuffin I was considering joining, knowing a few people elsewhere from there. One of their forum posts turned out to cover how they were Anti-GG and how GG was just haters on women... And then they wondered why they were having a hard time recruiting straight men to help pad out their community's ranks...)
Having read up on John Walker/Brianna and related activities takens, all I can say is: America is done. Cleaning up the sociological mess we've made of things in the past 20+ years would be a multigenerational activity, but thanks to the Boomers (if not their parents) and now Gen X's raising of Millenials, the impact of both our radical liberal and radical conservative ideologies have strayed too far from the center for reconcilation.
Hope you wanted fresh turkey for X-mas, because this bird is done!
GamerGate [...]
Thank you for telling us in the first word that this story is not worth listening to and can be safely ignored.
Now, if that was not your intent, and you actually want your story to reach a wider audience, you now know how to do it. Don't use the -gate suffix, and I will happily read whatever it is you want me to read, regardless of its position.
Washington DC is full of people with a story a lot like that, and they get gigs on both sides of politics.
It's amazing how many student whiners end up as professional whiners.
Just until the gate-gate-gate-gate controversy...
it's gates all the way down .
the autism-hating, custom EpiPen-hating, Musk-hating Slashdot troll!
How's life in the hypocrite lane?
"I think transgender people are probably the most persecuted people on the planet". Are you sure you want someone who actually thinks this is true in a position of any importance? sauce: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gamer...
her extensive technical knowledge and experience fighting the alt-right and harassment and will be advantageous for a Congressional representative.
Based on the results of her "fighting the alt-right" so far, I assume Bannon & Co will be major donors to her campaign.
With luck they'll be strong enough to hold the turtles back...
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
And replace everything for references to someone that actually deserve it like Roberta Williams?
In terms of real impact on the gaming industry as a whole, a day of work of Ms.Williams was more influential than the whole life of those three combined.
turtle gate? God help us.
We need the right people in positions of power. People who will take on the "online community" and put it in its place. People who will help reshape the interned as a civilized medium. People who will push back against the ugliness of nerd "culture" (rape culture) and remove it from existence.
Congress members' average approval rating is somewhere between mold slime and con men (con artists of any gender and/or gender identity and/or sexual preference to be included in that term without explicit mention).
She'll fit right in. At least right now: there is a chance that the president-elect will make Congress look good in comparison.
"You can't blame Obama for not doing enough to work with the Republicans. When they didn't get their way they shut down the fucking government."
Meanwhile, in the REAL world, the big reason Trump destroyed the other Republicans in the primaries is that the base of the GOP is SICK of the Republicans in Washington caving in to Obama on EVERYTHING. Not only did they never shut down the government for any significant amount of time (the primary weapon the Constitution gives to a congress for checking a president), but those dolts actually preemptively surrendered to Obama on EVERYTHING and fully funded every damnable thing the slimeball did. Former speaker Boehner actually made a multi-year deal with Obama in which he agreed to fund all Obama's crap and NOT shut down the government - and then Boehner and his underlings fanned-out across the country to tell rank-and-file Republicans just how powerless the congress was to block Obama. The Republicans in congress campaigned in 2010 for control of congress claiming they would use the power to block Obama, and then they decided not to. They campaigned that way again in 2014, and won both the House and Senate an STILL insisted they lacked the power to block Obama. This past fall they all campaigned claiming Trump would lose and they would be needed to "stop Hillary" if they were re-elected, but the base of the party did not buy that given their history of fecklessness.
Here's why we CAN blame Obama: As soon as he returned to DC in 2009 after winning the Presidency, Obama had a meeting with Republicans and in that meeting he said (on national TV) "Elections have consequences" and "I won, you lost". In his ONLY meeting with the GOP on his healthcare plans, he told the Republicans he would give them a month to surrender and support Obamacare... then after a few days he rammed it through with NO negotiations. Obama never negotiated with any Republican on anything. When he met with McConnell and Boehner (and later with Ryan) he simply told them he would NOT negotiate and that he would wait them out on ANY fight and the media, who were almost all aligned with him, would beat the Republicans into surrendering. That's exactly how the entire 8 years worked out. Don't take my word for it, just go look at YouTube and watch Obama's guy, Mr Gruber, laugh at how the press were in the bag for Obama and the Obama supporters were stupid enough to fall for the propaganda, without which Obamacare could never have become law.
There is no example of Obama compromising/negotiating with the GOP on anything.
Guess what, Obama bots? to quote your hero "Elections have Consequences", Trump won,and you lost.
Trump can use every single precedent Obama set, and the press cannot legitimately criticize him since they never challenged Obama on ANYTHING. He can undo Obama's entire legacy with a pen and a phone and the courts cannot stop him since THEY allowed Obama's actions. He can make all the policy he wants while ignoring congress if he chooses, since the congress spent the past 8 years DEMANDING that it has no power to stop a determined president. This is EXACTLY why people like me warned idiots like you NOT to support Obama's lawlessness and disregard for the Constitution's clear rules and NOT to support his stuffing of the courts with "progressive" judges who claim the Constitution is a "living document" whose words can be "re-interpreted" by politicians to suit the preferences of those politicians. This is the world you all cheered for, so now you can suck on it.
I'm not a Trump fan, but I'm gonna love watching you Obama and Hillary fools suffer as he abuses every opportunity YOU made available to him.
THEY said basically the same stuff re Bush. ALL opposition parties say basically that when they are not running things. Republicans promised to stop Carter. Democrats promised to stop Reagan and Bush41. Republicans promised to stop Bill Clinton. Democrats Pelosi and Reid promised to stop Bush43.
The Democrats, however, did FAR worse than you allege the Republicans did:
In 2007, the Democrat-run Senate (including then-senators Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders) voted to block Bush from having legal authority to reign-in the recklessness at US Government established home mortgage entities "Fannie Mae" and "Freddie Mac" even though the team from the White House warned that the scandal was going to get out of control. EVERY Democrat, and Bernie voted to block Bush, NO MATTER THE CONSEQUENCES. All four of the mentioned senators got to vote on whether the US economy melted down in 2008 and they ALL voted to burn the house down rather than help Bush. I despise the Bush family for other reasons, but Bush was the ONE PERSON in Washington DC who had NO legal authority to prevent the meltdown and never got to vote on the matter.
By YOUR definition, Obama, Biden, Clinton, and Sanders are TERRORISTS.
I'm hungry. Hungergate!
I'm too lazy to make myself food. Lazygate
Ok, I know that quote's being inflammatory, but it's also true. For those of you wondering, this particular AC is using a classic technique pioneered by Stalin's men and perfected by Karl Rove: Whatever negative traits your party has you accuse the other party of. Then you force the other side to into an argument about how/why they don't have those negative traits instead of hammering down on them for being generally awful in the first place.
Nothing this AC does or says will change the fact that _his_ party committed a willful act of Terror. Full Stop.
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Almost as if the more equality you have, the less there is to fight for...
Fascinating.
No. It didn't.
Gatesgate, a Microsoft conspiracy
If there is anything we are seriously in need of in Washington, it is scientific and technical literacy and competency. I do not even know who this woman is yet, but she has my vote right out of the gate.
Isn't she that one that claimed she was "chased out of her home" but was outed as a liar because her "hotel room" just happened to have a computer chair and a smudge on the wall exactly like her room?
Women that lie about abuse and harassment are just as scummy as the ones that commit it.
Lets not forget about the conspiracy that there is a conspiracy about the conspiracy of the white house front gate. The gate-gate,gate-gate. Why doesn't anyone in the news ever talk about what's really going on.
TIRED of all these retards ending anything that they disagree with with a "-gate."
I agree. We should name this sentiment disagreement-gate or gate-gate so that we can all organize our disagreement with something catchy that the laymen will
understand while being easily searchable.
Fun fact: They almost stayed at the Waldorf hotel rather than Watergate. That would have led to this being the Gamerdorf Consumer Revolt.
fearmongering and what they did. They actively worked to sabotage the US economy, threatening to shut down the US government at a time when the economy was weak and insighted war with Iran with the Stated goal of damaging the United States so that people would blame the damage on Obama and the Democratic party. They were caught doing this multiple times and only ever called out by the liberal press, Al Jazeer and Maybe the BBC.
See the difference? Fearmongering is when you say scary things. Terrorism is when you take action. They took action. Lots of it. To the determent of all of Americans outside of a wealthy the connected elite they serve.
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She's not a "victim." She had a restraining order against her by the school. She faked some of the tweets that purported to threaten her. She has continually lied about her education, work experience, and qualifications. You do that sort of stupidity often enough, you've painted a huge bulls-eye on yourself and deserve to be called on your bullshit.
She portrays herself as a victim - being a professional victim is how she makes a living now that being a "game designer" went bust. She says she needs the money she makes off patreon to pay someone to remove all the bad tweets people post to her account - but it's been shown that it's far more likely that she's doing it herself since there is nobody in the US with the name of the "person" who is supposedly doing this.
Only fools believe her at this point. And as you can see by going through the posts, there are a lot of us who are not fools. This whole "going to run for the senate" is just more attention- and money-seeking behavior.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
TIRED of all these retards ending anything that they disagree with with a "-gate."
Yeah, fuck Adam Baldwin.
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Nope. All the facts are still on the public record and you can look them up if you care. The review collusion conspiracy theory post-dates the victimisation of the first woman, by several hours.
Gamergate soon after the Zoe Post by Eron Gjoni, a 9,000+ word rant about his ex-girlfriend Zoe Quinn. Certain /b/tards misread the post as claiming that Nathan Grayson published a favorable review of Depression Quest after having sex with Quinn, which is pretty much the one thing Gjoni didn't claim. (It's also bullshit on at least two levels: Grayson never reviewed a Quinn game and Kokatu's review was before they hooked up.)
The rest, as they say, is history.