I'm listening to Rekieta's fiery stream about the Waid response currently ("and if you disingenuously attempt to misunderstand that, you deserve all the testicles you have gargled in your career, and all the sweat that has dripped onto your tonsils from it!"), and all this inclusion of tweets and anti-CG articles from the NPC press in the response has me thinking.
Back during GamerGate, the FBI announced they were looking into the gamer threat threat and then did absolutely nothing about it (except perhaps rolling their eyes), thus proving that GamerGaters weren't quite the terrorists that Law and Order and the press made them out to be. Meanwhile, Waid's attorneys want to include all of this stuff and make this a case about the sentiments of ComicsGaters rather than merely a business deal between two Texans. Okay, they can do that, but then if this thing goes to trial and Waid loses, then, in a way, the things ComicsGaters are saying will have been vindicated in a federal court.
Waid is literally making a federal case out of ComicsGate, and he's probably going to lose.
ETA: "Is she factually a
Dumpster that receives
cum?" 
There's actually a bit more to it than that.
When GG happened, one of the biggest things that GG opponents tried to do - and this
didn't last long - was report GG to the FBI in the hopes of cracking down on a consumer hashtag. A very amusing thing happened though: GG as a whole
welcomed the investigation.
In the defense of the Anti-GGers on this one, it's not like there
wasn't some actionable shit that happened during GG - it just so happened that basically
everything that
was remotely legally prosecutable involved with GG happened to be coming from third-party trolls. To use Wu a microcosm, the "Death to Brianna" Tweets happened came from SomethingAwful, the Crash Wu tweets came from SomethingAwful, and probably the funniest part of Wu in general happened when she tried to exploit fucking Jace (and yes, this led to the FBI paying Jan a visit). This is especially notable because there was an Anti-GGer attending the University of Washington who for fucking
years has claimed GG had been involved with a homicide - a claim that's never been backed with even a single crumb of evidence - but of course, even with the FBI investigationg, nothing came of that, either.
When the FBI FOIA requests came out, not only was all of the above proven true (which was, admittedly, common knowledge in GG circles, but now had a fucking official FBI stamp of approval on 'em), but the response was.... Well:
Let's just say other than Brianna Wu (who claimed GG was a vast conspiracy to ruin her life and get Trump elected and that the FBI was in on it) and the deranged mental-patients she surrounds herself with (such as Fruszina Eordogh), every single Anti-GGer worth their salt
shut the fuck up about Gamergate for a bit, and never, ever mentioned the FBI again if they could help it. Bringing it up, for all intents and purposes, is an instant loss for them, and a big reason they distanced themselves from it. This left the Antis in a weird position; while they can cheerfully parrot the same talking points they always have, they'll run the fuck away if anyone brings up the FBI FOIA requests, since the options for defending againt it are largely limited to accusing them of being either in on GG or incompetent, both of which undermine their bottom line.
If Waid really does go through the route he's been talking, this may very well cause a similar outcome, because while there's doubtlessly numerous saved tweets of comicsgaters being poopheads to mister Waid and his bestest friends, there's undeniably far more incidents of Waid and his buddies being histrionic shrieking retards.
Zaid keeps getting into slapfights:
