V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai of Cambridge, who sues Web sites for disputing his claim that he invented e-mail as a 14-year-old, announced at a right-wing gathering in Washington yesterday that he will run against Elizabeth Warren for US Senate in 2018.
Ayyadurai (left in the photo) opened his campaign with an announcement at a party by a group called MAGA3X outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
One of MAGA3X's organizers is Mike Cernovich, who played a key role in the misogynist GamerGate movement, which went after Boston-area game developer Brianna Wu. Wu is now running as a Democrat against incumbent US Rep. Stephen Lynch.
In a tweet, Ayyadurai said his platform will be to "Defend the American Dream!" He adds:
Time to take fight right into the belly of the beast in MA, the epi-center of Fake News, Fake History & Fake Science!
He joins Allen Waters, a retired financial consultant from Mashpee. On his Web site, Waters calls himself "a middle class, Cape Cod family man with blue-collar roots," but in a Globe article last month he stepped that up to "an angry, conservative black man with a chip on his shoulder."
Also looking at running as a Republican against Warren are failed game developer Curt Schilling and online aftermarket auto-parts magnate Rick Green.
Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!
Ad:
Comments
So some guy named "Adam" says he created UHub.
By bulgingbuick
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 9:11am
Well he'd better have a good lawyer.
Echomail Alums Speak up!
By Friartuck
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 3:04pm
This sh*tbag can only have been emboldened in this due to the efforts of a similar paranoid bully who was just recently elected to the oval office
Half these comments of grumpy
By anon
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 4:39pm
Half these comments of grumpy Liberals contain swear words. You all amaze me with your classlessness
Fuck, you actually counted them all?
By adamg
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 4:56pm
That's pretty damn impressive.
Curt is that you?
By Matt Frank
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 7:35pm
Curt is that you?
So sorry to trigger you
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 02/26/2017 - 8:17pm
We didn't know that the entire internet was supposed to be some giant fucking safe space for fragile pearl clutching morons.
Oops ... I did it again.
Such a fucking sensitive
By jmeltzer
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:01am
Such a fucking sensitive snowflake.
I think the correct name is Mike
By The Beer Guy
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 8:46am
"There's no such thing as Date Rape" Cernovich.
Gross individual. BFFs with disgraced General Flynn.
And then this gem is posted this morning
By cybah
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 9:18am
Thanks to Steve Koczela for this gem
"the tone and content of #MASen 2018"
By lbb
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 11:03am
So let's get real about this.
In 2014 a fecal smear named Scott Lively ran for governor of Massachusetts. I won't be too surprised if none of you have heard of his campaign; you might have heard of his activities in Uganda and elsewhere, targeting LGBT people and encouraging decriminalization of homosexuality. During his gubernatorial campaign (such as it was), Lively actually got a seat at one of the debates. He's the sort of deeply delusional smug that it wouldn't be possible to actually laugh him off a stage, but suffice it to say that no one went away thinking, "Yeah, that guy Scott Lively, he's the one." He ran without the endorsement of any party, not even some made-up fly-by-night religious wackadoo party, and his political career ended without even a whimper. He's now off trying to keep his meal ticket valid by peddling religiously motivated hate -- always a solid sector, but not such a big seller in Massachusetts as elsewhere.
As sad and tattered and confused as the Massachusetts Republican Party is, there is exactly zero chance of them endorsing Captain Email. Fishy might make a few bucks coaching him on race-baiting, and I'm sure Scott Brown could give him some sartorial tips, but this one doesn't even have the legs to get to the starting line, much less have a measurable affect on "the tone and content" of the election.
well lbb
By cybah
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 11:41am
I know who Scott Lively is.. ugh. disgrace of a human being, and shameful to call himself a Christian. (and I think you mean 'criminalization' not 'decriminalization' )
And I agree. There's no way the GOP here in this state would support Shiva.. but then again, what other choices do they have. Schilling? Who supported Milo Yiannopoulos via a tweet he promptly deleted. (or something where he supported Milo and his opinions of pedophilia or something like that). Along with how he milked the Tax Payers of RI for .38 Studios.
Not sure who else would run as a GOP candidate...
We know who won't run
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:44pm
Those Republicans with moderate views and working brains (yes, there are some). They won't run unless there is a snowball's chance in hell that they could win.
The present crop just validates what many of our finest r-trolls are constantly denying: Warren is a very strong candidate to retain her seat, and nobody gives two tubes of fecal matter for the fauxcahontas bullshit that got Scotty Barncoat laughed out of the state.
I'm sure Scott Brown could
By Scratchie
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:14pm
Maybe Sen. Barnjacket could help find him another state to live in.
nah
By cybah
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:27pm
Scott Brown is being picked to be the ambassador to New Zealand...
Really?
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:34pm
That works, actually.
So if Shiva loses...
By CraigInDaVille
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 9:38am
... does that make him the Sacko?
Misreported
By Refugee
Mon, 02/27/2017 - 3:08pm
Ayyadurai's claim is not that he "he invented e-mail ". It's that he invented "EMAIL". As far as I can tell, he can claim credit for first coining the term EMAIL, and for developing the first electronic mail application that resembles a modern email client in the way it's organized (inbox, address book, etc). At the time, Unix Mail was still built like a geek tool. His mail client was built like an office tool.
The scope of Ayyadurai's contribution is certainly small, since his application never became famous, and Unix Mail was headed in that direction anyway.
He's basically making a claim like "First Post!" in an internet comment section. Sure, he's first, but it doesn't really matter.
Pages
Add comment