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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (46 children)

Not sure which sub a heartwarming story of Nazis shooting their own dicks off goes under, but: Nina Power of Compact gets called a nazi. Sues for defamation. In discovery, produces extensive facts not just supporting Nazi ideas but calling herself a Nazi. Loses so hard she just declared bankruptcy.

there has been no media coverage of this, but hoo boy does there need to be

EDIT: ohhh it's the fuckin LD50 gallery, straight up NRX. Judgement, PDF

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago (36 children)

hahahaha happy garbage day everybody

The logs also show Ms Power claiming that "the social disapproval for ‘racism’ is a psyop to stop people realising that there are alien and fairy races", and that "black and white were alien races and very different".

wait, is believing in fairies as an adult a weird racist thing? fuck, it’d kind of make sense if the people I’ve known who just causally slipped “by the way fairies are real” into casual conversation were doing a dogwhistle I didn’t pick up on

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

@self

Have to wonder what happened to her brain since the days when she had stuff published at the Guardian.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

given some of the other things I've seen from the guardian, not sure that would've necessarily been a contraindicator

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

@froztbyte

I mean they didn't seem very fashy at first. The later ones (2018, when she was fashy on the down-low ) started to get TERFy but earlier (2010-2014) it was all "the police aren't your friend” and stuff about government trying to restrict the right to protest, etc.

(I looked over her Guardian contributions after reading about the bankruptcy etc in this thread.)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I guess that is the same duration/timeline as the guardian downslope arc

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 3 points 4 months ago

@froztbyte

The guardian is kind of irrelevant to what I was getting at.

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