Alec Holowka

The context for what comes below is that Steam's Facebook page made a post about a LGBTQ+ sale.

After I'd made a couple of snarky observations in my share of that post regarding the comments under it, like "So many triggered incel snowflakes who mistakenly believe that they're clever," and such, I wrote the following, which I will copy and paste here (and which I also copy/pasted out into its own post on FB):

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And all I have to say is that via dipshits in Facebook comments being "lulzy" about it is a really, really shitty way for me to find out about Alec Holowka. https://www.google.com/search?q=Alec+Holowka

Holy fucking shit, I had no idea that, first, he'd been accused of sexual harassment and abuse and that, second, he'd killed himself at the end of August. I had been a fan of him and his games since Aquaria, and had been following him on Twitter. Though I haven't yet played Night in the Woods, I'd heard good things about it (well, aside from this nasty behind-the-scenes shit that I'm only just now finding out about).

Now I suppose I know what all those other people felt like after Justin "JewWario" Carmical's suicide, both before and after it was revealed years later that he'd actually been a scuzzy, grooming creep. *weary sigh*

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In any case, it's very difficult and rather depressing to try to glean anything on the Internet about this that isn't either "Alec Holowka was a horrible monster" on the one hand or the typical "Zoe Quinn is a horrible monster and a liar" GamerGate bullshit on the other (because Zoe Quinn was involved in the accusations against Alec Holowka).

I just can't, right now.

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All I'm going to do right now is post the following three links, particularly the third one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190831190450/https://twitter.com/derangedpoetess/status/1167855630385909760
https://web.archive.org/web/20190831194848/https://twitter.com/derangedpoetess/status/1167884648296222721
https://medium.com/@eileenholowka/for-alec-thoughts-on-transformative-justice-3e2a264dd891

Make of them what you will.

Another Seth Abramson thread

"8/ From my standpoint as a former defense lawyer and criminal investigator, the most bizarre aspect of Trump not yet being impeached, removed, and in custody has always been that his MO is unchanging, his criminal associates are unchanging... yet he still doesn't get apprehended.

"9/ What I've learned—what we've *all* learned—is that when the most powerful man in America is a criminal, the amount of evidence and effort and time and resources and political will it takes to bring him to *justice* is... like, *insane*. Almost more than the country can muster."

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Or... and I'm just spitballing here... perhaps those who had been and still are in positions of power to put a stop to this insanity since before Trump became POTUS, i.e. the Republicans who were leading both sides of Congress up until the Dems took the House in 2018, either A) have dirt on them from back when the Russians hacked the Republicans (which they did at the same time they hacked the Democrats) and are too afraid to act against Russia and, as an extension of that, against Trump or B) are criminals themselves who are knowingly, willingly neck deep in all of it, for self-serving reasons of their own, right there alongside Trump and his own circle of flunkies or C) both A) and B) together.

*side-eyes Moscow Mitch*