Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

Anyway, she's done. Nobody gives a shit about Wu, and she'll lose hilariously on election day. She's also never going to try again, because nobody will be dumb enough to even think of working for her the second time round, there'll be no press and no money. Bye bye, politician Wu.

I imagined that this campaign would die quietly in March 2017, predicting that the moral minnows of the progressive bloc would forget about this stupid shit and that John would get bored of it after finding that it wasn't giving him cash/asspats fast enough. I would like to say that that was the common opinion at the time in this thread, too.

I'm not saying that John is going to win...but neither am I underestimating the power of universe-destroying autism. It seems that in this timeline, there is no outcome so buttfuckingly re,tarded that it can conclusively never happen.
 
John was heavily influenced by seeing Buckaroo Banzai. What with being all those things, I'm sure he'll also claim soon to be a top neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, rock star and comic book hero.

I can't wait for the rock star phase. "Hi, I'm Brianna Wu and the Delusions, and this is my best selling troon of all time, called Goobergrape Killed My Dog (Because I'm a Woman). Are you ready to rock'n'roll, Cincinnati?!!!"

It's gonna make Bikini Kill look like the Spice Girls by comparison. Fuck to the yeah.

To me he seems more similar to the tv-series "Hack" starring the always delightful David Morse. He plays a regular cabdriver but is a secret vigilante that takes on different roles to solve crimes, like "in order to get young Teddy off the drugs, Hack will have to become... a gang member"

Brianna is like that but her episode synopsis would be something like "in order for Brianna to become a cyber tech expert in an interview he will have to become... a hack"
"in order for Brianna to save the Latino children he will have to become... a hack! Then do a soft-ball interview with the HuffPo over e-mail"

and it goes one on like that, for every chapter/episode of his life, no matter what it is Wu will become the and tell everyone he's got the answer because of some tarted up falsehood.
 
I'm not saying that John is going to win...but neither am I underestimating the power of universe-destroying autism. It seems that in this timeline, there is no outcome so buttfuckingly re,tarded that it can conclusively never happen.

I suppose technically anything can happen, but then again this campaign only got the ballot signatures because Warren happened to know a guy who ran a signature collection company. I strongly suspect without Warren the whole campaign would have died right then and there because Wu was too lazy even to do the google search Voehl did.

As far as I can tell, every single contact Wu has made has been from the pool of friends and acquaintances Warren has made over the years of involvement in local politics and, with respect to the guy, he's a fucking nobody. Now even that little clique has wised up that Wu's a charlatan, so what now? I can count the number of people I've seen promising to vote for Wu with one hand tied behind my back. I have to trust that a career pol like Lynch has the situation well in hand, and he has the backing of the state party apparatus because who in their right mind would want to see Wu in power?
 
Yes thanks to increased regulation, our nimble federal government can always stay one step ahead of the hackers because that's exactly what they're known for.

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It might also be that Amerifat schools are shitholes.

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(this isn't a 1:1 analogy here, but stay with me)
Lets say that in 2024, Jeff Sessions is elected president. He runs on a platform of "Trump Part II + illegal weed". In response to getting schooled in the electoral college again, and Sessions making it impossible for any further states to legalize weed (or otherwise deviate from federal drug laws). Despite the fact he doesn't make any efforts to roll back legalization in the states where its already legal, the Pacific states secede from the union because they are aware their representation in congress, particularly the senate, will be kept at a minority, and its only a matter of time.

As it becomes clear military force will be needed to bring them back into the union, Sessions makes weed illegal everywhere, turning a war about if states can set their own drug policy into one about moral force of making sure all drugs are kept out communities.

Now, the simpilistic version of history would be "They seceded because of weed", and that was the rallying cry at the time. But it would ignore the growing divide between coastal america and everyone else, as well as polarization in congress. It wasn't really about weed, it was a bunch of other issues brewing that weed legalization represented, as the Pacific States realized they couldn't set their own policy and were going to have it dictated to them by the rest of the country, to the other states' benefit and their detriment.

Replace weed with slavery, and pacific with southern, and you've got a rough understanding of the situation of why the civil war happened. It wasn't about slavery, it was about states rights. It just happens the states right they were arguing about at that current time was chiefly slavery, but the actual causes were deeper than slavery.*

So the fact "slavery" isn't the reason given for the civil war probably demonstrates that a more nuanced picture of America leading up to the civil war is being given to students.

Lincoln didn't even decide the war was about abolition until over a year in.

edit: Such as Southern States being dependent on cash-crop agriculture that was labor-intensive, while the industrial Northern economy was run on the backs of principally Potato Niggers who were treated worse than enslaved blacks, but who were technically free. Imagine a reverse situation where the Southern states were forcing the Northern states to implement modern labor standards, and the North would have been (and was, if you read up on strike busting) up in arms about it.

The real root cause was the disproportionate population growth in the North, which had allowed the non-agricultural Northern states to have increasingly disparate sway in congress. This disparity was nothing new and goes back to the revolutionary government (The population disparity issue is why each state gets 2, and only 2, senators) but was starting to become more and more noticeable by the mid-1800's with advancements allowing for higher population densities in cities. The 3/5ths compromise was negotiated to try to forestall that brewing conflict about federal representation.

And at the end of the day, it wasn't even about States vs. States, it was about Democrats wanting to keep their power and Republicans wanting to ensure their opposition was crippled to the point the Republicans could vote things through without their support.

If it hadn't been slavery - or more specifically, Democrats wanting to ensure future states would have a "cash crop elite" voting for them, and by doing so at the very least maintain themselves as an effective power in the Senate if not the house - it would have been something else.
 
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Wu has apparently been supporting Jessica Price, a woman who is so toxic she got herself fired from two jobs in two years (Paizo and ArenaNet) for being a dumpster fire on social media.
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"be judicious" says the nigga who routinely drops thousands of dollars on cars he doesn't drive.

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A deranged asshat who blames many of his problems on bots, Russian hackers, and a long-defunct group that lobbied for ethics in journalism probably shouldn't be telling people to ignore conspiracy therories.
 
"be judicious" says the nigga who routinely drops thousands of dollars on cars he doesn't drive.

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Ah yes, I well remember how vociferously these people argued that whack-job and frequently antisemitic 9/11 conspiracy theories needed to be shut down before they got any oxygen.
 
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Price and Wu are birds of a feather: two people who have an inflated sense of self-importance, took up space in the gaming industry that could have gone to much more talented people, and are harpies who will always blame their faults and shortcomings on "sexism" even when there is none to be found. The only difference is that one has a fake cunt and the other is a real cunt.
 
I tried my hardest to not get :optimistic: but I am legit disappointed that Wu didn't show up to the canidates' meeting last night. It would've been glorious but it's also expecting John to give a shit about the scampaign and actually put in a modicum of effort.

All kiwis are poorer for it.
 
I tried my hardest to not get :optimistic: but I am legit disappointed that Wu didn't show up to the canidates' meeting last night. It would've been glorious but it's also expecting John to give a shit about the scampaign and actually put in a modicum of effort.

All kiwis are poorer for it.

I'm disappointed as well. But then again we couldn't expect John to actually follow through now could we? It's simply too much to ask of an individual who is running a scam of a campaign.
 
Anyway, she's done. Nobody gives a shit about Wu, and she'll lose hilariously on election day. She's also never going to try again, because nobody will be dumb enough to even think of working for her the second time round, there'll be no press and no money. Bye bye, politician Wu.

There's was a big Politico article that was posted last night about the Democratic congressional primaries in Massachusetts - Democratic rifts rattle Massachusetts primary.

There was zero mention of Wu because a national political journalist finally realized it was dumb to write about the Lynch race. Local journalists at the Boston Globe haven't mentioned Wu since February. The entire point of this race was attention/narcissism. All of the has begun to evaporate now that once again people realize Wu is a joke, and we're still a month out from election day. My expectation is that Wu's focus on this will continue to drift away and then, one day, it will be ignored with the occasional exception of an "as a former congressional candidate..."

I honestly don't know how Wu will attempt to remain relevant after this. I'm sure John will think of something to get his name in the paper, but I really think we've begun the decline to complete public nonexistence.
 
There's was a big Politico article that was posted last night about the Democratic congressional primaries in Massachusetts - Democratic rifts rattle Massachusetts primary.

There was zero mention of Wu because a national political journalist finally realized it was dumb to write about the Lynch race. Local journalists at the Boston Globe haven't mentioned Wu since February. The entire point of this race was attention/narcissism. All of the has begun to evaporate now that once again people realize Wu is a joke, and we're still a month out from election day. My expectation is that Wu's focus on this will continue to drift away and then, one day, it will be ignored with the occasional exception of an "as a former congressional candidate..."

I honestly don't know how Wu will attempt to remain relevant after this. I'm sure John will think of something to get his name in the paper, but I really think we've begun the decline to complete public nonexistence.

Maybe John will shoot for the moon and announce he's going to challenge Trump in 2020.
 
I tried my hardest to not get :optimistic: but I am legit disappointed that Wu didn't show up to the canidates' meeting last night. It would've been glorious but it's also expecting John to give a shit about the scampaign and actually put in a modicum of effort.

All kiwis are poorer for it.
He probably didn’t show up because Lynch wasn’t going to be there and in John’s mind he didn’t want to appear pathetic with just Voehl. What John doesn’t realize, because he’s a narcissist, is he’s still a nobody with no campaign staffers or support so he needs to be out there trying to win votes.

I kind of wish the shit Warren is spilling would get out there so rubes wouldn’t fall for John’s scam and the money flow would stop.
 
Honestly I think Wu's campaign is over at this point. She can't get any staff members to stick, and she relies entirely on them to generate the momentum to get anything done. A handful of people did sign up to volunteer for the campaign, but Wu's not going to be organising them personally. Without bodies to get out there and talk to people in person, what's actually going to happen?

Maybe she'll organise a mailing, but I doubt it. As far as I can see, she has yet to invest in any system to target voters which is a major stumbling block to doing almost anything at this phase of the campaign. I know being an actual, real software engineer that if I was given the lead time Wu got in the run up to the election, I probably couldn't resist rolling my own software to match volunteers to doors to knock on. Wu is more limited to off the shelf solutions, but I'm sure there must be something suitable. If nothing else, there's the labour intensive way of managing it all manually in big spreadsheets.

She's basically failed the first few points of Political Campaign 101. She never found and registered supporters, she never found which of those supporters would make reliable volunteers, never found which volunteers could be made group leaders. She's now down to like two tasks left. Inform the mass of voters of your position, and turn out your voting base on election day. Neither of those are going to happen because she failed at the volunteer organising step. She got so caught up in asking for money that she never bothered until it was way too late to figure out that people are of more use to politicians than piles of disposable income. Or maybe she just never cared and the money was the whole thing.

Anyway, she's done. Nobody gives a shit about Wu, and she'll lose hilariously on election day. She's also never going to try again, because nobody will be dumb enough to even think of working for her the second time round, there'll be no press and no money. Bye bye, politician Wu.

There is an amazing CRM (or in this case voter management) software called the "VAN" (voter activation network). You can license parts of it (like say for her district) and then it's really easy to import your own lists and then print call/walk sheets for targeting. It's both a front and back end so you can have your canvassers easily entering data and printing sheets and you can have your database folks importing lists, de-duping and all that.

I doubt she even knows it exists. I bet 90% of her lists are fucking color coded excel sheets. she probably isn't even using pivot tables.
 
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