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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.
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 don't know much about this particular person's role in Gamergate, but I think the whole thing was asinine.
Self promotion. "She" wasn't a target, no one gave a crap about "her", until "she" inserted "her"self into it by falsely claiming to receive death threats. (The local police have never heard of "her.")
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.
That's the thing, it WAS enough. What we've been seeing for the past eight years is the Left slowly abandoning the Democratic Party under the realization that they're just Republicans who reverse on a couple of wedge issues. There's a reason Bernie Sanders had so much support and that it came from outside the Democratic Party. The left DOES want to replace their horrible politicians with ones that might not be warhawks eager to go to war with Russia. It's why Hillary lost - her campaign of "I'm just like Trump, except I don't know how to use a phone" just wasn't compelling, so a lot of left-leaning voters just didn't bother.
There's basically just one party in the US, there's the Republicans, and there's the Republicans who are socially liberal on killing babies and LGBT issues. And, somehow, being Republicans "but slightly less shitty" just isn't compelling to the voter who doesn't like Republicans.
But, of course, rather than realize "maybe we should act on issues our voters really care about" the Democratic Party has decided to cry Russia Russia Russia! over and over again.
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.
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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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.
John Walker Wu, aka "Brianna" Wu, is a trust fund kid who spent 10 years at one of the more expensive schools in the nation to not graduate. He accomplished nothing of merit there other than infamously calling the people running the newspaper a bunch of "sand ni**ers" for refusing to let him publish his increasingly unhinged, unibomber-like screeds and god awful comic, "Socially Unconscious." This resulted in $150,000 or so being spent on an attempt to turn his shitty comic into a radio drama, a restraining order preventing him from going near the school newspaper, et cetera.
He would bounce back and forth between the school becoming increasingly unhinged. First, when his parents gave him $200,000 to try and start an animation studio, which failed because John is of the opinion that critiques are something that happen to other people, that people owe him viewership, fandom, et cetera. He then went back only to quit again in 2001 when his obscenely rich parents got him a kushy Washington DC job working for the Bush administration. He screwed that up by getting addicted to some pretty serious drugs, so his parents put him in the same rehab Tiger Woods stayed in. Ever since then he decided he wanted to pretend to be a games designer because he's decided he wants to be a role model to all young female engineers everywhere!
His parents, having wasted about half a million bucks, sold the estate they were letting him stay in and cut all ties while he was in rehab, which led to him deciding he was really Brianna Wu
Somewhere along that timeline he decided he wanted to pretend to be the main heroine of his failed comic strip, decided to marry some well connected and EXTREMELY gay writer or publisher or somesuch, decided that now the world owed him success as a video game designer so he decided he would demand EVERYONE call him a software engineer despite not knowing how to program his way out of a paper bag. He also browbeat / hired a few idiots to work at his failed game development studio where they put out an abortion of a game titled "Revolution 60," whose only mark on the industry is that it's become an in joke due to the female lead (copied straight from John's comics) having two giant testicles for hair.
Sometime around 2014 he smelled profit in pretending to be a victim online -- he's already pretending to be female, so why not -- and started harassing himself, pretending to flee his house, et cetera, all blaming it on "GamerGate," the hashtag being used to index a bunch of tweets about corruption in the games industry. He achieved some success with this mostly due to people donating so they could claim to be right and virtuous people for "fighting the good fight," but even the Social Justice Warriors can't fucking stand Wu, so this is drying up, fast. Having seen his patreon dollars slowly dwindle away the frank realization is that eventually this pathetic loser is going to either have to get a real job (which he can't because he has literally no credentials other than "I can troll people on twitter")
So he decided that what the world really owes him now is political power. He's gonna be "in charge" and you all are gonna vote for him because god DAMNIT he's OWED your votes and if you don't agree then you are a SEXIST RACIST BIGOTED MEANIE WHO HATES TRANS PEOPLE (Even though if you mention Brianna's supposedly Trans you're a LIAR AND A DOODOO HEAD!) WHO JUST WANTS TO DESTROY ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD!!!11 (Donate to my patreon plz.)
To recap. Wu has been a failed:
College Student
Comic artist (with art style traced/stolen from 'GALS!" by Mihona Fujii)
Animation Studio Head
Radio Drama Author
"Software Engineer" (aka Twitter shitposter while someone else writes the code)
Social Media Troll
Patreon Grifter
Professional Victim
GamerGate started when her ex-boyfriend put up a blog post making various allegations about her infidelity, including the false claim about the review
This is blatantly false. The zoepost makes no such allegation about a review, and the author clarified that he does not believe there was any conflict of interest in the comments. The post was not about conflicts of interest; it was about emotional abuse.
If you insist on claiming otherwise, please show where the author accuses Grayson(?) of writing a favourable review of Depression Quest in exchange for sex. (This is a rhetorical request, for the reader's benefit more than yours or mine; I know you won't supply any cites, because you never back up your bullshit.)
Must inform that you are loaded with chemicals.
In fact, you're nothing but chemicals.
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My apologies, you are correct. The allegation about a positive review was note made in the blog post by her ex. It was fabricated later by people supporting him as a way to justify the harassment.
And to be completely clear, once again, the review does not exist. The allegation is entirely false.
It wasn't a review. It was coverage. The head editor of Kotaku strawmanned the argument into "review" in order to make it more specific and false, which allowed them to deny it. Everyone knows this, except certain trolls that support Gawker's disgusting behavior intentionally muddy the waters to give themselves some cover.
Nathan Greyson absolutely COVERED Quinn's scams and "projects" without announcing he was friends and later dating her. That should have got him fired. Kotaku instead doubled down, and we got GamerGate.
Then we had the Gamers Are Dead scandal and the discovery of GameJournoPros, a secret mailing list where people like Greyson and the Kotaku editor were discussing how to break NDAs, fix review scores, and blacklist topics and people, which fanned the flames of GamerGate and ensured it wouldn't go away.
And hey, while we're speaking of harassment, wanna talk about how Quinn sent a flood of sexist and racist hate mail to Candance Owens to an email address that only Quinn knew, claiming it was by "gamers?"
Or the huge leaks of her "advocacy organization," Crash Override Network -- aka, "CON," proving that they were doxing, harassing, gaslighting, and generally being monsters to everyone who pissed Quinn off that week?
Or how Quinn openly bragged about being part of the Helldump board of SomethingAwful that was dedicated to doxing and harassing people into suicide?
No? Yeah, didn't think so. Zoe Quinn is a serial abuser, rapist, and sociopath. If there's only one more thing GamerGate could succeed at doing, it would be ensuring that nutjob never hurts another person.