Certainly in this political climate, it could lead to a loss for vice media and for Fortress, Monroe, and Soros.
Much as I would like that to be, Phil still has "I'm just a journalist reporting the 'news'" he can hide behind and there's plenty of troon or troon adjacent lawyers who would be happy to go at bat for him. What he now neither controls nor can defend against is public opinion turning on him faster than he can spin it. Bringing up Kirsche's hot takes (or anything else in the culture war) will now forever be clapped back with his fetish writings and openly admitting to having pedophilia tendencies.
Giving her the benefit of the doubt, she could also just be holding her cards close to her chest in case Vice triples down and they go to court.
Mythic offers legal support.
I wholeheartedly believe Anal Violence went into this seeing Kirsche having milquetoast right wing beliefs and assumed this would be a slam dunk head to put on his wall. I don't think he understood at all the level of autism Kirsche and her fanbase have for shit like this. Kir talking about all of Valens articles and AO3 postings was literally AN AVERAGE STREAM FOR HER. I'm hoping this retard sees the changing tide of public opinion and backs off.
You can prove malice by previous interactions
That's literally one of the hardest thing you can do in civil court. With public figures, this shit scales exponentially. Journalists are scum but they're kings at putting their unofficial hit orders out and letting their foot soldiers and fellow travelers do the actual dirty work.
the standard is way higher. and admitting she has 100k+ fans would hurt her chances of arguing she's a limited public figure
For reference, most politicians usually only get a few thousand people showing up to events, if that. 100,000 fans would fill up most football stadiums.
Even in defeat, he's a piece of shit lmao. I just can't wait for the day this shitskin gets phonebooked.
so he's in america? japan and sea have different laws and are more favorable to defamation suits compared to here.
I'm of the opinion he's a American living in a SEA country, but that's just my theory.
He's talked about taking the N3 and N2 Japanese fluency test, so at the very least he's not a Japanese native.
his nationality doesn't matter as long as he's in japan and subject to nipautismo laws. If i were him i would publically retract my statements and move on because vice isnt going to fund my defense in a country without robust 1A protections. Kirsche should shift to bint for now.
I would suspect Mythic's legal support covers things like "so you've received a BS copyright strike," not "defamation case against Soros-backed entity."
I dont believe he is in Japan, because id think he would use that as way to be autistic against his detractors, highly likely that he is in some SEA country, iirc Reinigen has said the time zone matches up and his hours too. But its still possible.
God, they really are this fucking retarded.
All the images except for the header and the Anal's tweet were removed from the article, most likely due to Kirsche's open letter.
