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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."
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?
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.
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.
You can get a hot-air popper for less than $20 that will last for years.
I don't care if you buy store brand or 'expensive" kernels you get a LOT more popcorn per dollar, with less chance of burning the popcorn (which smells horrible BTW).
Also - I don't even have a microwave and sort of prefer it that way.
If you eat "one bag" of popcorn per day you'll break even within a month and have save a lot by the end of a year.
I'm poor. I still have a CRT TV, my latest game console is a used PS3.
You sir, are an idiot.
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She should be popular with Democrats on Slashdot. Supported Sanders, support net neutrality, actually understand technical issues...
By the way, this lawyer doesn't seem very neutral or objective:
The goal is to champion her personal self-serving cause and vindicate her personal self-serving butthurt
Very professional. Doesn't actually explain what specifically lead him to this conclusion. He then goes off on a rant about Super Mario Run.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
"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.
At the very least, no matter what else, I've felt that Wu and others like Sarkeesian didn't deserve the nasty harassment they got.
First of, Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu injected themselves into the mix by making fun of GamerGaters. They then used the predictable backlash to claim they were fleeing for their lives... by going to a scheduled convention and tweeting exactly where they would be at the convention. They then gave interview after interview about how they had to flee their home... from their home.
But that's just one of the ridiculous sagas within GamerGate, and something never reported by the mainstream press, who were all too happy to present GamerGate as a harassment movement to drive women out of gaming.