Richard Stabone
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Money goes in their pockets so they can pay rent and buy video games.
Horrorcow Zoe Quinn / Chelsea Van Valkenburg / Locke Valentine / @UnburntWitch / @Primeape / CrashOverride / Hat Box / Old Uncle Anime - Con Artist, Abuser, Sexual Harasser, Drove Alec Holowka to Suicide.
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But... they can't manage to do that for themselves.
CON is now funded by FemFreq, so that's where it gets its 'operational budget' (IE: A place for Anita to funnel money to; in order to make it look like she's maintaining that non-profit status). Quinn removed it from her patreon.
Harper still looks to just be funneling her Patreon into it, supposedly. But, we all know, just like Quinn, she is using the Patreon to not have to actually find work; especially after she left FreeBSD on not the best of terms (and apparently people who worked with her said she spent all day on twitter over doing her actual work).
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All evidence is that it gets virtually no money from them anymore.
I wouldn't be surprised if they seperated entirely after the UN Women debacle.
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This just keeps getting better.
http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2016/0...-kotaku-polygon-vice-ign-and-eurogamer/10612/
http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2016/0...-kotaku-polygon-vice-ign-and-eurogamer/10612/
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And out of those notified outlets. How many have ran the story so far? Have any?
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That's the beauty of the tactic. They either had to run the story and be part of exposing CON or not run it and be part of the cover up.
They knew the story was going public and they knew who else had been notified and given advance access.
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I figured as much. Randi already burned her bridges with the Troon Squad, so there's no way she's going to make a move against Chelsea's cult...unless there is a huge payoff to offset the loss in Patreon dollars that going full Judas would incur.
There's no way anyone on that list outside of Niche Gamer (which leans pro-GG) and Escapist (who are neutral) are going to report on this, and the ones that do are guaranteed to spin it to Chelsea's favor. They've spent way too much time, effort, and column inches propping her up as The Saviour Of Video Games and The Most Harassed Woman In Tech (sorry, Bri-Bri!), and truthfully reporting about those logs now means they backed the wrong horse for 2 years. There's no way in hell Jezebel will touch it, because they'd rather slice off their tits than ever admit that a woman can be a liar, a whore, an abuser, a con artist, a manipulator, and a walking garbage fire.
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That's fucking brilliant.
I'd agree, except one caveat: The troon squad is already fucking worthless economically. A few thousand autismbux in oppression dollars isn't worth potentially self-destructing over, no matter how much they want to mimic Bob Chipman and/or Gawker. That's one of the reasons the timing on this is hilarious; the biggest things they could have pinned it on are long since gone, and with it, any loyalty they might have towards the clique. I doubt anything will come of it anyway, but this is still damned clever.
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Whenever this sort of issue comes up they simply stand by the "It's not notable/Not News" to justify their radio silence. Just the typical double standard, if no one writes about it, it never happened, they stay on the "right side of history" which apparently is wikipedia to them.
Bonesnap
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A pincer hasn't been so effectively employed since Hannibal at Cannae. It's a shame it will all be completely ignored and amount to nothing. Truth has never amounted to anything when confronted with a willingness to believe.
Also: lol farts or something
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They don't actually say they do anything for their "clients." Other than force you to take an oath of secrecy and punish you if you ever violate omerta with an "immediate burn notice."
No, seriously. That's what they say.
If it weren't so comically amateurish it would be creepy.
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They don't actually say they do anything for their "clients." Other than force you to take an oath of secrecy and punish you if you ever violate omerta with an "immediate burn notice."
No, seriously. That's what they say.
If it weren't so comically amateurish it would be creepy.
cosa nostra sjw lite edition...
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And Laurelai enters the ring by telling Ian Miles Cheong there's stuff he doesn't know.
http://archive.is/Kzo1O
http://archive.is/Kzo1O
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They don't actually say they do anything for their "clients." Other than force you to take an oath of secrecy and punish you if you ever violate omerta with an "immediate burn notice."
No, seriously. That's what they say.
If it weren't so comically amateurish it would be creepy.
They have no self-awareness, these people take themselves so seriously, even though nobody actually thinks they're doing anything other than circlejerking and whining on their private chats.
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Normally I'd be skeptical of the rapist but they were talking shit about Laurelai in those logs too and went out of their way to not include him.
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Seeing as IMC was in the chat and Wesley wasn't, I doubt it.
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I'm actually of three minds about the leaks in general.
On one hand, it's a complete vindication of a ton of GG's longstanding claims. It's also a great example of just how far these idiots were willing to go to push an agenda, and it's frankly chilling just how far they went with it. This was a group of people who wanted opposition to their agenda to be a permanent stain against the speaker; the sort of thing that would result in the ruination of careers. It's easy for us to sit here and laugh now about the likes of their saying that any GG supporter deserved to have their careers and livelihoods destroyed, but it's far less funny when you consider that a number of people did lose their jobs specifically because the followers of these unpleasant fucks thought that an opinion online was worth destroying someone over.
An opinion about fucking video games, no less.
This infamous tweet led Arthur to have a little meeting with the police when someone called a Bomb Threat into the GG meetup.
Similarly, your average Kiwi knows that doxing isn't as big a deal as it's made out to be, but we've also seen what people following the Antis did with this information - from the TotalBiscuit Incident to countless minor cases of death threats, bomb threats, and offline harassment cases these people brought about. I've not had to bring this up in a while, but despite claiming constantly that Gamergate is responsible for harming them, the only ones repeatedly on-record with supporting these attacks has been the clique themselves. The reveal essentially blows the lid off this, and reveals the clique to be openly guilty of what they're blaming others for.
Sarah Nyberg's exposure led to @le0pirat3 being banned from Twitter; that was another Izzy Galvez special.
On another, it's too late, and likely won't amount to much. The clique pretty much already self-destructed. Once again, it all blew up in their face, like it always has. But when we step back from the leaks, we realize just what colossal fuck-ups these people were. We know now that Dina went in well in advance hoping to push a bullshit agenda, that Nyberg was a liability they knew about months ago (and still tried to do damage control on), and they tried to keep a leash on Brianna Wu, which ended about as well as one might expect. Despite having so much concentrated power, the assistance of the mainstream press, and all the money that came with that, they still failed against a group of video game-loving sperglords on the internet. Within a year, Zoe Quinn would go from victim of everything to "that idiot that went before the UN with a report citing Jack Thompson and Lyndon Larouche." We'd see all the GJP backers of Quinn fall from grace, from Leigh Alexander to Ben Kuchera, we'd see Alex Lifschitz lose his connections because of his Critical Distance sperg-out, we'd see Sarah Nyberg exposed, the troons turn circular firing squad, and Bob Chipman blow up his own career for good measure. On every single venue, they ultimately lost. And while it's very easy to point to areas GG kicked their ass, ultimately, Gamergate really only had to exist for these people to destroy themselves.
This touched upon just a few of the big connections these asshats had with Social Media companies.
Fact is, we've known for a very, very long time that this clique doesn't have anywhere near the power it thinks it does. Despite all claims to the contrary, public opinion was never on these peoples' side. How the public felt about Gamergate was irrelevant from the start; Quinn had been a firestorm of professional controversy long before the word "Gamergate" had ever been mentioned, and Anita Sarkeesian's videos had already gotten widespread criticism for their bullshit - there's a reason that none of them allow voting or comments, and so many of the videos put out by members of the clique disable the same. Fact is, they've never been able to work outside of an echo chamber. Want to see this in action? Check out Wu vs Pakman and laugh your ass off as Wu tries to act like an actual human. Lightning round: see if you can keep a straight face with Arthur Chu's follow-up interview, where he tries (and fails) to defend the clique's own double-standards. Double or nothing: Watch Kluwe versus Mercedes Carrera and watch as the porn star demonstrates that you can peg someone verbally.
But the third part of this is the most terrifying one to think about: Can you imagine what would have happened if these people weren't fucking morons? They were already in collusion to this degree, exhibiting this level of control on social media, and involved with this widespread an attempt to damage anyone who went against them. Even with these people being like this, a lot of the worst offenses committed by these shits we wouldn't have believed if the evidence hadn't been right in front of us. Thankfully, their ranks included histrionic shrieking professional victims, convicted sex offenders, several insane troons, and a bunch of people with egos, impossibly, larger than those of Jay Geis, and I think, hilariously, this may have been the most important aspect of the entire Gamergate song-and-dance for the Internet as a whole. People are going to be aware of groups like this in the future, and I think they'll be increasingly unwilling to nibble the bait as time goes on.
On one hand, it's a complete vindication of a ton of GG's longstanding claims. It's also a great example of just how far these idiots were willing to go to push an agenda, and it's frankly chilling just how far they went with it. This was a group of people who wanted opposition to their agenda to be a permanent stain against the speaker; the sort of thing that would result in the ruination of careers. It's easy for us to sit here and laugh now about the likes of their saying that any GG supporter deserved to have their careers and livelihoods destroyed, but it's far less funny when you consider that a number of people did lose their jobs specifically because the followers of these unpleasant fucks thought that an opinion online was worth destroying someone over.
An opinion about fucking video games, no less.
This infamous tweet led Arthur to have a little meeting with the police when someone called a Bomb Threat into the GG meetup.
Similarly, your average Kiwi knows that doxing isn't as big a deal as it's made out to be, but we've also seen what people following the Antis did with this information - from the TotalBiscuit Incident to countless minor cases of death threats, bomb threats, and offline harassment cases these people brought about. I've not had to bring this up in a while, but despite claiming constantly that Gamergate is responsible for harming them, the only ones repeatedly on-record with supporting these attacks has been the clique themselves. The reveal essentially blows the lid off this, and reveals the clique to be openly guilty of what they're blaming others for.
On another, it's too late, and likely won't amount to much. The clique pretty much already self-destructed. Once again, it all blew up in their face, like it always has. But when we step back from the leaks, we realize just what colossal fuck-ups these people were. We know now that Dina went in well in advance hoping to push a bullshit agenda, that Nyberg was a liability they knew about months ago (and still tried to do damage control on), and they tried to keep a leash on Brianna Wu, which ended about as well as one might expect. Despite having so much concentrated power, the assistance of the mainstream press, and all the money that came with that, they still failed against a group of video game-loving sperglords on the internet. Within a year, Zoe Quinn would go from victim of everything to "that idiot that went before the UN with a report citing Jack Thompson and Lyndon Larouche." We'd see all the GJP backers of Quinn fall from grace, from Leigh Alexander to Ben Kuchera, we'd see Alex Lifschitz lose his connections because of his Critical Distance sperg-out, we'd see Sarah Nyberg exposed, the troons turn circular firing squad, and Bob Chipman blow up his own career for good measure. On every single venue, they ultimately lost. And while it's very easy to point to areas GG kicked their ass, ultimately, Gamergate really only had to exist for these people to destroy themselves.
Fact is, we've known for a very, very long time that this clique doesn't have anywhere near the power it thinks it does. Despite all claims to the contrary, public opinion was never on these peoples' side. How the public felt about Gamergate was irrelevant from the start; Quinn had been a firestorm of professional controversy long before the word "Gamergate" had ever been mentioned, and Anita Sarkeesian's videos had already gotten widespread criticism for their bullshit - there's a reason that none of them allow voting or comments, and so many of the videos put out by members of the clique disable the same. Fact is, they've never been able to work outside of an echo chamber. Want to see this in action? Check out Wu vs Pakman and laugh your ass off as Wu tries to act like an actual human. Lightning round: see if you can keep a straight face with Arthur Chu's follow-up interview, where he tries (and fails) to defend the clique's own double-standards. Double or nothing: Watch Kluwe versus Mercedes Carrera and watch as the porn star demonstrates that you can peg someone verbally.
But the third part of this is the most terrifying one to think about: Can you imagine what would have happened if these people weren't fucking morons? They were already in collusion to this degree, exhibiting this level of control on social media, and involved with this widespread an attempt to damage anyone who went against them. Even with these people being like this, a lot of the worst offenses committed by these shits we wouldn't have believed if the evidence hadn't been right in front of us. Thankfully, their ranks included histrionic shrieking professional victims, convicted sex offenders, several insane troons, and a bunch of people with egos, impossibly, larger than those of Jay Geis, and I think, hilariously, this may have been the most important aspect of the entire Gamergate song-and-dance for the Internet as a whole. People are going to be aware of groups like this in the future, and I think they'll be increasingly unwilling to nibble the bait as time goes on.
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CON is almost like Scientology: They claim to give you the help you need, drill you for info to use against you, only pay attention to the rich and the famous, and will make your life a living hell if you dare to speak out against them. The only difference is that Chelsea hasn't jumped on Oprah's couch, and thetans have been swapped out for goofygrippers with Mike Cernovich as CON's version of Xenu.