Warren Lynch Shitpost General - TRUE and HONEST (former) John Flynt for Congress campaign worker

[W person cow]

More information please on Brianna's shitposting and trolling activities.

What information do you want? Her twitter is public and her whole career is based on trolling Gamergate.

A few examples would be wonderful and will cause me to cancel the contract I have taken out on you with the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus to beat the rudiments of English grammar into your bog-hoppin' ass.

Fuck English grammar. Is féidir le gramadach Béarla póg mo thóin!

you have a sense of humor and you are not a psychotic sociopath.

Aww, thanks!

Additional information on the "strange employment practices" would also be greatly appreciated, especially anything that might interest the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor or the Federal Election Commission. Sister Brighid is six-foot-one and has anger issues.

Well for starters, she's fond of "agile standups". Or at least what she calls agile standups. Whoever invented those should be punished.
Basically her version of an agile standup goes like this:
(phone call wakes me up)
B: Good morning Warren, are you ready for your agile standup?
W: Oh God no. Hold on, I'll just get my coffee.
B: Okay fine but Kate has been up working since 8am. Call me back.
(I scramble to find my notes from the previous day which I spent 2 hours at the end of every day writing. Basically an attempt to prove I was working by listing all the things I did. I call back.)
W: Okay I'm ready
B: Okay, what did you do yesterday?
W: Well let's see, so I talked to the folks at Our Revolution Boston...
B: Why are you still talking to them?
W: Um so that maybe they will endorse you?
B: What good are endorsements?
W: They get you votes, volunteers and sometimes money? So ORMA modified the endorsement process now and here is the procedure and what you need to do...
B: Warren, endorsements are your job not mine. I need to be on the phone raising money. And frankly I don't think they are a good use of YOUR time.
W: Okay well I'm glad to work on anything you send me to work on. What should I work on?
B: What do YOU think you should work on?
W: Well, endorsements, events...
B: Why haven't you set up any events?
W: Well there are actually events every day this week and next week and they're all in the calendar, color coded...
B: Warren it does me no good for you to just dump events in a calendar with no explanation. I need to be able to decide which ones I want to go to and which ones I don't. Which ones do YOU think are important?
W: Well, all of them, pretty much. I can explain them to you right now, I have my notes in front of me here...
B: Warren I spent 2 hours with that Boy Scout guy and an hour back and forth commuting, and it got me nothing. I need you to book me events that are actionable.
W: Well you probably got about 40 votes in Whitman just by sitting down with him. The whole town is talking about it. And if you would call him back about the merit badge thing...
B: Oh right, the merit badge thing. Yeah I should do that. If I don't do that in the next few days, remind me.
W: Okay well here's his number again.
B: I don't know, Warren. He's a right winger. I need votes from Democrats who will vote in the Primary, not long conversations with white dudes trying to tell me that Trump is "sometimes okay".
W: Brianna every Democrat in Whitman, Abington and East Bridgewater knows him. Every Independent knows him. Heck, Republicans. everybody. He got fricking Geoff Diehl elected, who was a fricking sign painter before that. Independents can vote in the Primary too. And they vote based on local issues. The local scouts. Jobs. Teaching the kids to code. You talked to him for two hours about it, I thought you were interested.
B: There's no need for you to be mansplaining at me right now.
W: I don't mean to mansplain. Should I tell you the rest of what I did yesterday?
B: Yes, go ahead.
W: So I talked to the folks at Planned Parenthood. They said that whereas state rep candidates can get a state level endorsement, federal candidates like you have to come by their DC office. They asked when you're "next going to be in DC". You don't have plans to be in DC soon do you?
B: Well I'll go there for Planned Parenthood!
W: Okay. Here's their number if you want to call, or I will call.
B: It's your job to call.
W: Okay so when should I tell them you'll be down in DC?
B: Well I could figure that out if you would SET UP A CALENDAR!
W: I have a very detailed Google calendar which I wish you would look at. And if somebody could please explain to me how to set up iCal, I could do an iCal calendar, I guess?
B: I'm not your tech support, Warren. And I've told you a bunch of times that Google is not secure. I have hackers coming after me literally every day. And if I'm going to work with you, I need you to take that seriously.
W: Are you saying you want to fire me?
B: Well honestly this last month has been very frustrating. I'm paying you all this extra money and I'm not seeing any results.
W: Well so can we either talk about these events or can you call these people back?
B: What people?
W: Well (state rep, name redacted), (progressive organization), (3 city councillors), (another progressive organization)...
B: Warren you can't just fire off these names at me. I need them in an organized list.
W: Okay I'll get to work on that.
B: So that's all you did yesterday? One phone call to Our Revolution Boston and one to Planned Parenthood? That sounds like 20 minutes of work to me. What did you do the entire rest of the 8 hour day?
W: Well okay let's see, so I think I solved the mystery of the East Bridgewater Democrats...
B: What? Why did you do that?
*****
on and on like this for 2 hours each morning. Followed by 4 hours of actual work, and then 2 more hours putting that work into sound bite form for tomorrow's "agile standup" makes an 8 hour day that sounds like 4 hours to Brianna. If she will even listen to it at all. And so then the next day's standup is even more hostile. Rinse, repeat. Most days it was 12 hours. In April it was 16. But at least there were no "standups" then...
I found myself thinking fondly of the previous quarter making 70 cents an hour for 16 hour days that Brianna thought were 6 hour days, and she still had to admit I was being underpaid for even 6 hour days. Because at least back then I was able to get some actual campaign work done and not spend half my time justifying the other half.
***
After a couple weeks of this, Brianna became convinced that "some people are just not cut out for the startup lifestyle". And I guess so, if other startups are like that. Yikes. But she went on to say that startups are high-pressure, very demanding and unforgiving, and I must be just used to ordinary 9 to 5 office jobs. I was like "um, I put 3 shows on television, including one with a 2-week episode turnaround, and I made 4 feature films. I know what a high-pressure environment is like. But in filmmaking, people TRUST each other and HAVE FUN together."
Or actually I hear there is a lot of distrust and hostility on many LA sets. But Boston indie filmmakers are pretty much a koom ba yah hugbox love fest. And despite my exploratory stint into talk radio and politics, which can be very "tough guy" fields, I do prefer an environment of optimism and trust more. Maybe that's spoiled, I don't know. I don't expect to find such an environment in the City Council if I run. But I would hope to have one with my campaign staff.
***
Anyway, long rambling answer I guess. Another thing she did was say I "can't handle taking orders from a female boss."
I know we all have residual unconscious biases. But I'd like to think that if a male boss was like that, I would freak out just as much?

How were they around you? Other than the one biting, that is?

Very nice, they are cute little things. It was just a small nip, no broken skin. They are kind of excitable and Frank let them all in at once and they got all excited and like rushed me, and I bent down for one to sniff my hand and he jumped up and bit my hand.

 

[Norvic]

LOL, wow. Real agile standup meetings are rapid fire events that take about 15 minutes where everyone in the team talks about what work units they knocked off yesterday, what they're going to do today and what they plan for tomorrow. They're supposed to be short, hence everyone stands so they won't be tempted to waffle on ad nauseam.

Again, Wu just tries to sound like her fantasy software engineer self by appropriating the lingo without any of the understanding.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Warren I wrote you such a nice post and you just liked it and moved on!?! I expected a thorough point by point refutation!

Anyway, look man, here's what happened. The SJW thing, with the labeling of opinions as evil and bad and the oppressive control over speech caused most of the "not nazi" internet venues to be utterly useless for real thoughtful conversation. All that was left were the "Nazi" websites. (Kiwi farms is not a Nazi website, but it will allow nazis to post without being banned) Of all the places like that, this seems to be the most... open?

So, it's unfortunate that we have to have our serious conversations here in troll city, but it's not Kiwi Farm's fault. They're just a shitposting site with no real ideological loyalties. But they don't stop us from talking about stuff here.

If you don't want to have to talk with people saying the "N word" and making you uncomfortable, look to the places you used to be able to do that. This place didn't change, they did.

On this site I was able to have an earnest discussion with an honest to goodness trans person and came to a much better understanding of that person's experience. This was able to happen because there was no line either of us needed to toe, we could just speak our minds, no matter how offensive a 3rd party might perceive it to be.

I've gone on rants about the self defeating nature of racism, I've defended BLM, and they let me keep posting here. Hell, I don't even get neg-rated all that much for going against the supposed narrative here.

On the other hand, Wu would have this place shut down in an instant if she had the power to do so. Wu would have censorship put into law, at least going by what she's said. And unfortunately we need places like this for when "polite" society decides to deny reality.

 

[W person cow]

I agree with all that, pretty much. I lived in Virginia for a while and race relations are way better than they are here in Boston. Much more interracial marriages, less segregation, etc. Because people talk. They get all ignorant sometimes and say shit wrong or whatever, but they're saying something.

But if it's a free speech zone, I might use my own free speech and express my own opinion then. Including shitposting at people who sass me, lol. Heck I do that on my public FB page.

It's amazing the hypocrisy of some people around free speech. I mean, probably me too sometimes in other ways, but the whole
"the only taboo speech is to EVER SAY ANYTHING IS RACIST" line of reasoning is really old and late.
You should be able to say or question *anything*.

Except for the SJW generalization part. Plenty of social justice people who are pro free speech, and it's a dumb idiotic cartoon. And the right is full of people who constantly crow about free speech, and then will banhammer you in two seconds when you hurt their fee fees.
All is vanity. It ain't just on one side or the other.

 

[Norvic]

Yo, Warren. What grabs me as interesting from your latest story: when Wu poo-poo'd your chasing endorsements and you asked her what you should be working on instead, she turns the question round on you and never actually answers.

Did she ever give you any direction, or was it basically just "here's some money, do campaign like things for me"?

 

[Kroster]

What information do you want? Her twitter is public and her whole career is based on trolling Gamergate.


Fuck English grammar. Is féidir le gramadach Béarla póg mo thóin!


Aww, thanks!


Well for starters, she's fond of "agile standups". Or at least what she calls agile standups. Whoever invented those should be punished.
Basically her version of an agile standup goes like this:
(phone call wakes me up)
B: Good morning Warren, are you ready for your agile standup?
W: Oh God no. Hold on, I'll just get my coffee.
B: Okay fine but Kate has been up working since 8am. Call me back.
(I scramble to find my notes from the previous day which I spent 2 hours at the end of every day writing. Basically an attempt to prove I was working by listing all the things I did. I call back.)
W: Okay I'm ready
B: Okay, what did you do yesterday?
W: Well let's see, so I talked to the folks at Our Revolution Boston...
B: Why are you still talking to them?
W: Um so that maybe they will endorse you?
B: What good are endorsements?
W: They get you votes, volunteers and sometimes money? So ORMA modified the endorsement process now and here is the procedure and what you need to do...
B: Warren, endorsements are your job not mine. I need to be on the phone raising money. And frankly I don't think they are a good use of YOUR time.
W: Okay well I'm glad to work on anything you send me to work on. What should I work on?
B: What do YOU think you should work on?
W: Well, endorsements, events...
B: Why haven't you set up any events?
W: Well there are actually events every day this week and next week and they're all in the calendar, color coded...
B: Warren it does me no good for you to just dump events in a calendar with no explanation. I need to be able to decide which ones I want to go to and which ones I don't. Which ones do YOU think are important?
W: Well, all of them, pretty much. I can explain them to you right now, I have my notes in front of me here...
B: Warren I spent 2 hours with that Boy Scout guy and an hour back and forth commuting, and it got me nothing. I need you to book me events that are actionable.
W: Well you probably got about 40 votes in Whitman just by sitting down with him. The whole town is talking about it. And if you would call him back about the merit badge thing...
B: Oh right, the merit badge thing. Yeah I should do that. If I don't do that in the next few days, remind me.
W: Okay well here's his number again.
B: I don't know, Warren. He's a right winger. I need votes from Democrats who will vote in the Primary, not long conversations with white dudes trying to tell me that Trump is "sometimes okay".
W: Brianna every Democrat in Whitman, Abington and East Bridgewater knows him. Every Independent knows him. Heck, Republicans. everybody. He got fricking Geoff Diehl elected, who was a fricking sign painter before that. Independents can vote in the Primary too. And they vote based on local issues. The local scouts. Jobs. Teaching the kids to code. You talked to him for two hours about it, I thought you were interested.
B: There's no need for you to be mansplaining at me right now.
W: I don't mean to mansplain. Should I tell you the rest of what I did yesterday?
B: Yes, go ahead.
W: So I talked to the folks at Planned Parenthood. They said that whereas state rep candidates can get a state level endorsement, federal candidates like you have to come by their DC office. They asked when you're "next going to be in DC". You don't have plans to be in DC soon do you?
B: Well I'll go there for Planned Parenthood!
W: Okay. Here's their number if you want to call, or I will call.
B: It's your job to call.
W: Okay so when should I tell them you'll be down in DC?
B: Well I could figure that out if you would SET UP A CALENDAR!
W: I have a very detailed Google calendar which I wish you would look at. And if somebody could please explain to me how to set up iCal, I could do an iCal calendar, I guess?
B: I'm not your tech support, Warren. And I've told you a bunch of times that Google is not secure. I have hackers coming after me literally every day. And if I'm going to work with you, I need you to take that seriously.
W: Are you saying you want to fire me?
B: Well honestly this last month has been very frustrating. I'm paying you all this extra money and I'm not seeing any results.
W: Well so can we either talk about these events or can you call these people back?
B: What people?
W: Well (state rep, name redacted), (progressive organization), (3 city councillors), (another progressive organization)...
B: Warren you can't just fire off these names at me. I need them in an organized list.
W: Okay I'll get to work on that.
B: So that's all you did yesterday? One phone call to Our Revolution Boston and one to Planned Parenthood? That sounds like 20 minutes of work to me. What did you do the entire rest of the 8 hour day?
W: Well okay let's see, so I think I solved the mystery of the East Bridgewater Democrats...
B: What? Why did you do that?
*****
on and on like this for 2 hours each morning. Followed by 4 hours of actual work, and then 2 more hours putting that work into sound bite form for tomorrow's "agile standup" makes an 8 hour day that sounds like 4 hours to Brianna. If she will even listen to it at all. And so then the next day's standup is even more hostile. Rinse, repeat. Most days it was 12 hours. In April it was 16. But at least there were no "standups" then...
I found myself thinking fondly of the previous quarter making 70 cents an hour for 16 hour days that Brianna thought were 6 hour days, and she still had to admit I was being underpaid for even 6 hour days. Because at least back then I was able to get some actual campaign work done and not spend half my time justifying the other half.
***
After a couple weeks of this, Brianna became convinced that "some people are just not cut out for the startup lifestyle". And I guess so, if other startups are like that. Yikes. But she went on to say that startups are high-pressure, very demanding and unforgiving, and I must be just used to ordinary 9 to 5 office jobs. I was like "um, I put 3 shows on television, including one with a 2-week episode turnaround, and I made 4 feature films. I know what a high-pressure environment is like. But in filmmaking, people TRUST each other and HAVE FUN together."
Or actually I hear there is a lot of distrust and hostility on many LA sets. But Boston indie filmmakers are pretty much a koom ba yah hugbox love fest. And despite my exploratory stint into talk radio and politics, which can be very "tough guy" fields, I do prefer an environment of optimism and trust more. Maybe that's spoiled, I don't know. I don't expect to find such an environment in the City Council if I run. But I would hope to have one with my campaign staff.
***
Anyway, long rambling answer I guess. Another thing she did was say I "can't handle taking orders from a female boss."
I know we all have residual unconscious biases. But I'd like to think that if a male boss was like that, I would freak out just as much?

What is the mystery of the East Bridgewater Democrats?

She obviously doesn't know what an agile standup is or anything about tech company culture. So much of this conversation is her shooting herself in the foot, and it must be on purpose. What candidate wouldn't want endorsements? She went to campaign training, she knows what endorsements can do for you. And refusing to talk to anyone who gives endorsements herself is very weird. Why did she think that was your job?

I'm sorry you had to go through all this. I hope that you find a great candidate to work for next time around, if you decide not to run yourself.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

Brianna’s going to hang you out to dry, Warren. She’s already started to do it by blaming her failure on people working for her without campaign experience.

 

[Kroster]

Brianna’s going to hang you out to dry, Warren. She’s already started to do it by blaming her failure on people working for her without campaign experience.

But nobody in politics cares what she thinks. If Warren's willing to talk in real life, he'll be a hit at any democratic parties with his funny stories about the time he worked for crazy Brianna Wu.

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

What is the mystery of the East Bridgewater Democrats?

She obviously doesn't know what an agile standup is or anything about tech company culture. So much of this conversation is her shooting herself in the foot, and it must be on purpose. What candidate wouldn't want endorsements? She went to campaign training, she knows what endorsements can do for you. And refusing to talk to anyone who gives endorsements herself is very weird. Why did she think that was your job?

I'm sorry you had to go through all this. I hope that you find a great candidate to work for next time around, if you decide not to run yourself.

I've had a sneaking suspicion for awhile that Wu's efforts here are a rehash, ironically, of the Trump campaign.
There's a weird theory that's popular in liberals circles that Trump's campaign was actually just a big promotional bit for the new Apprentice, just a way to get his name in the public eye and push numbers for his other projects.

Whether or not that's actually the case is neither here nor there, but for Wu? That actually makes a lot of sense.
It would also explain her continued, seemingly deliberate attempts to hamstring her own candidacy.
She doesn't expect to win and wouldn't know what to do if she did. This is a publicity stunt designed to get her face in front of some cameras and help repair her absolute dogshit reputation long enough to run another Kickstarter scam for whatever hairbrained project she has next.

It would also explain good ol' Warren here. Someone expendable who doesn't have the public face to embarrass her or call her out later, and who's just nutty enough to easily discredit. He's a perfect stooge for that kind of thing, and he did a lot of the legwork so she could appear to be working, but not having to put in the actual effort.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Except for the SJW generalization part. Plenty of social justice people who are pro free speech, and it's a dumb idiotic cartoon. And the right is full of people who constantly crow about free speech, and then will banhammer you in two seconds when you hurt their fee fees.
All is vanity. It ain't just on one side or the other.

Wait... the right will banhammer you from where?

Yeah, people get defensive about things being labelled as racist, but it's not as if that just happened out of the blue. The right gets called racist constantly over everything, so it's a bit of a boy who cried wolf thing. That doesn't mean racism doesn't actually exist, but if your first instinct is to blame everything on racism (not saying you do, just that it's a common strategy by some on the left) you shouldn't be surprised when people get sick of hearing it.

But yeah, you should be able to say or question anything. I agree with you there. But Wu, the candidate you tried to help get elected, does not at all agree with that. Wu is very quick to throw out the sexism and racism cards, and absolutely does not allow herself to be questioned about anything. She's famous for making connections to get "backchannel access" which she uses to get people who she doesn't like banned.

So I'm glad you're personally pro-free speech, but you tried to put a person into power over me who is very much not pro free speech. This is one of the things we complain about with progressives. They say one thing, but their actions don't match at all. Free speech is clearly not the most important thing to you, apparently certain people's right to not be offended trumps that. Your actions clearly say that, despite your words saying the opposite.

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

What information do you want? Her twitter is public and her whole career is based on trolling Gamergate.


Fuck English grammar. Is féidir le gramadach Béarla póg mo thóin!


Aww, thanks!


Well for starters, she's fond of "agile standups". Or at least what she calls agile standups. Whoever invented those should be punished.
Basically her version of an agile standup goes like this:

...cool story...

Warren, I appreciate you getting back on to the topic of focus for this forum. It's much nicer and more worthwhile than hearing about your imaginary judgements.

This one was pretty funny.. well, probably not funny for you since you were under her boot but funny for us.

I can't even imagine how enraged she was that the boy scouts wanted to have her teach a coding class for a merit badge. You do realize she doesn't actually know how to code anything, so she had to make it somehow your fault / deny that there was any value in doing so lest her flimsy "Godzilla of female tech" persona (a name she gave herself, mind you) falls apart, right?

If she actually cared about the locals, the children, and the economy of your area she would be all over that. Instead she spent those hours breaking her new porsche and playing street fighter / pegger. But even in her misdirection she can't control her narcissism, "What does that do FOR ME?" Do you think she ever even for a split second thought that a public service job was... for service to the public? Do you believe now that it was all about vanity and regaining power and relevance?

Also, do you believe that her "Team Rocket" tech podcast is just a podcast or the most important tech podcast?




By the way, I do like how you were thinking of the next generation as the future in your area in your story prior. You were trying to blend Brianna's insane ramblings, "We will save MA-8 by bringing tech jobs", with reality and critical thinking, "Well.. if we just import tech companies here it's going to price everyone out and import workforce.. that's not good for the local community. So we should work on getting tech into the education so that in 10-15 years we will have a local workforce ready to take on tech jobs."

It's a horrible shame that you had Wu here who only cares about vanity and wants twitter HQ there now, especially when she represents the district so she can get even more backchannel, albeit with much more illegal bribing.

Your ability to take horrible, misguided, and selfish ideas and figure out a way to work with those people to make actual good things happen is a stripe found in good politicians. Reasoning like that and your obvious dedication is why I think you should get involved with a real campaign and get ready to maybe run yourself if you choose to do so one day.

 

[Very Honest Content]

Yup. Same guy...Brianna did meet with him, and it went pretty well, but then she yelled at me because he didn't call her back first. I was like well, so are you going to teach that coding merit badge like you promised? She was like "WARREN, WHAT DOES THAT GET ME?" I was like "OMG 450 SETS OF VOTING PARENTS WHO WILL TELL THEIR FRIENDS". I can't even.

Your answer was true, from a certain point of view, but only if John could actually fulfill his end of the proposed bargain, which he could never do and thus why it wasn't ever going to happen. John thinks coding is akin to arcane alchemy that requires some kind of a sanctum sanatorium envelope of silence to be able to even attempt successfully, not realizing that if you need to maintain your place in the middle of the process and take a break there's this little thing called a highlight that you can make appear over the part you're at in the lines to keep your place easily for future sessions, for fucking sake. But that's all now water under the bridge anyway, plus, people just love it when politicians lie to them and shit, that's why it's such a well worn trope for the job and why John thinks he should fit right in among the congress critters...

24 organizations and 32 individuals. Everyone was polite but DSA spoke their minds. They said I seem like a nice guy but that I should check out the lolcow wiki.

@Jaimas , every single keystroke, it was all worth it! Sorry Warren, it had to happen this way, for the good of the country. You'll thank him in the end, I promise.

 

[Kosher Dill]

All of you who think John-style "agile standups" don't happen in reality are living charmed lives.

 

[AprilRains]

Real agile standup meetings are rapid fire events that take about 15 minutes where everyone in the team talks about what work units they knocked off yesterday, what they're going to do today and what they plan for tomorrow.

Minor point: In my experience, you don't talk about what you'll do tomorrow; you mention obstacles so that the team can help you with them.

Of course, when your main obstacle is that Brianna Wu is a monster of ego and a shitty candidate, that part might get monotonous.

All of you who think John-style "agile standups" don't happen in reality are living charmed lives.

Yes, they happen, but a multi-hour standup is a sign of pathological issues.

 

[Chemical snorfare]

"um, I put 3 shows on television, including one with a 2-week episode turnaround, and I made 4 feature films

Warren, just in this sentence you have proved you've done more in your life than John, and that he should have been working for your campaign.

A campaign for a bat-shit potato nigger , but hey.

 

[Dimethyl Ketone]

All of you who think John-style "agile standups" don't happen in reality are living charmed lives.

Ohhh yeah. About 8-10 years ago when "Agile" became big and they started hiring "Scrum Masters" and "Agile Gurus" and shit.... everyone wanted to be Agile.

I worked at a place where everyone but me on a team of 10 developers did the old-style long iterations. The fact that I did their 6 week iterations in 2 days meant that I was in a special solo group, but that's besides the point.

Every time they would bring customers (real world customers, not internal "customers") on tour we would be told 15 minutes ahead of time to sit in pairs, draw up a bunch of fake scrum stuff on the boards, etc. They would bring the customers by, "We practice agile development and extreme programming here. We're on the cutting edge blah blah blah" 20 minutes later we went back to work.

That was the most egregious "fake agile" I've dealth with, but many thereafter call themselves agile as just a way to expect more work done quicker, but without actually implementing agile because all the old "engineers" and "architects" would be phased out. So it was the worst of both worlds. Stand ups weren't what we were doing, it was them listing every thing they wanted and why wasn't it done yet.

So yeah, I feelz you on that.

 

[W person cow]

Wait... the right will banhammer you from where?

The right wing Malden "free speech" Facebook groups. We had to start another one where left wing speech is allowed. I'm a mod. A lot of the moderate left wing Malden people keep trying to get me to ban all right wingers from it. But I just let anybody say whatever. I did banhammer this one dude after like 300 comments in 4 hours. And another guy. Total, two. The right wing group banned over 50 people. Being ignorant is not a left or a right thing, it's a general thing.

Yeah, people get defensive about things being labelled as racist, but it's not as if that just happened out of the blue. The right gets called racist constantly over everything, so it's a bit of a boy who cried wolf thing. That doesn't mean racism doesn't actually exist, but if your first instinct is to blame everything on racism (not saying you do, just that it's a common strategy by some on the left) you shouldn't be surprised when people get sick of hearing it.

True sometimes. But I see more of people pretending or imagining that is happening, because they are just enormously fragile.
Guess what fragile people, everybody's ignorant. You're a racist and a sexist too sometimes. Everybody is. We're morons. The key is hopefully, to listen and learn. Or not. I dunno. But I like trying to be sensitive about people who never hurt me or did anything to me, who I might not understand, and might say some fool thing about. And if somebody says I'm being a racist, well, shit. My bad probably. IDK. It's not like, the apocalypse to even talk about it, or something.

But yeah, you should be able to say or question anything. I agree with you there. But Wu, the candidate you tried to help get elected, does not at all agree with that. Wu is very quick to throw out the sexism and racism cards, and absolutely does not allow herself to be questioned about anything. She's famous for making connections to get "backchannel access" which she uses to get people who she doesn't like banned.
So I'm glad you're personally pro-free speech, but you tried to put a person into power over me who is very much not pro free speech. This is one of the things we complain about with progressives. They say one thing, but their actions don't match at all. Free speech is clearly not the most important thing to you, apparently certain people's right to not be offended trumps that. Your actions clearly say that, despite your words saying the opposite.

IDK man. It's nice to have a candidate in your district whom you agree with 100% of the time, but I haven't met that yet around here.
But I'd happily campaign for free for Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whom I disagree with 2% of the time
I'd happily campaign for pay for Elizabeth Warren or Ed Markey, whom I disagree with 6% of the time
I'd definitely share memes and inspirational encouragement to Ron Wyden or Pramila Jayapal, whom I disagree with about 9-10% of the time
I'd vote and get people out to vote for somebody I agree with 10% more than their opponent. Or heck 1%. But I sure as fuck wouldn't campaign for them etc.
I knew from the beginning I disagreed with Brianna about free speech and surveillance and Russia, but she spoke to so many other issues, I thought she was in the 6%-10% category. Now I think more like 20-30% at best.

 

[AnOminous]

Brianna’s going to hang you out to dry, Warren. She’s already started to do it by blaming her failure on people working for her without campaign experience.

Wu has no credibility in any circles that should matter to Warren, I bet.

 

[AprilRains]

Wu has no credibility

You were good right there, fam.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

No, you're both at 0 and 100 with Wu, because she just says whatever. Not much different from Trump, really, except the things she says are left flavored instead of right. She has no actual platform because she's never done anything, except be miserable on social media and claimed to be under attack at all times. Judging her by her actions, her only real platform is censoring criticism.

If "progressives" are about elevating people like that into positions of power while saying nice things, then you're a bunch of dangerous idiots because you'll promote literally anyone who just reads a script of "Progressive things to say".

How is Wu better than anyone, when Wu's history shows what she'll do. Whatever she can to silence criticism while not actually doing anything else. Why are you trying to get your relative out of office, since at least he does something? If you had your way, my district would be a worse place just because some scam artist read the progressive script to you.

That's why I keep talking to you. You seem to want good things, but you project the good things you want so hard on anyone who wears the progressive labels. A die hard racist who actually did work would be better for the state than the nicest progressive who does nothing.