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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?
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?
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 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.
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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Lifetime Professional Victimhod actually makes them perfectly suited for life as a Democrat politician.
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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Seeing the ignored question--yeah, if she's going to insist that only trans people get a voice in trans issues, she needs to answer when asked if she's coming out about it or not. It'd be an entirely different issue if she was insisting that it should never matter if somebody is or is not trans--that this should not get those who are or aren't any different treatment aside from what might be medically necessary.
This woman is simply doing what religious leaders have been doing for centuries: Milking the "outrage" of people to get rich. Why do you hate capitalism?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Looking back at the original article where the questions were asked, I asked 3 times that it be addressed. Those questions have been deleted. So were others.
I have skin in the game, and wanted to know why anyone would continue to deny the truth when it's so well documented, right down to the voter registration card name change. I also asked why her characters were hypersexualized on her revolution60 pages, right down to camels toe. Why draw characters that are an early adolescent male's wet dreams and then criticize other games for objectifying women?
Being a transsexual is nothing to be ashamed of. I was outed here a decade ago, no big deal. Acting like you're ashamed of it, and expecting it to stay hidden while running for office, when the truth is so easily found, is whacko.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.