Scott went on to elaborate his ideas further in today's episode. Starting at 42:00 he begins by saying the comic drawn by Zyklon Ben presents the message that Scott insists others take the vaccine, when his actual beliefs are the opposite of that. He goes on to explain in his highly scientific twitter poll about 46% of people said they stopped supporting (buying his shit) because of their misunderstanding of his belief. Since Ben's comic spreads this alleged misunderstanding further he believes it is hurting his bottom line.
He admits that it's almost impossible to win a defamation case, but lists off the 5 qualifications for something to be defamation and why Ben's comic meets the criteria. My commentary will be in ().
1. It has to be published - It most certainly is.
2. Person being defamed had to be mentioned by the statement - Says he is named and shown in the comic (Actually Scott isn't named, the person in the comic is Clott Adams, but it's safe to say it would meet this criteria regardless)
3. Remarks had a negative impact on the person's reputation - Allegedly very easy to demonstrate as he'll just run a twitter poll to prove it. (No idea how well twitter polls hold up in court)
4. Published information is demonstrably false - Easy to prove since everything he's said is in the public, and if Ben tries to use any tweets to back his point they can easily be debunked because those are "out of context" (My proof is good because it's mine. His is bad because it's not mine)
5. Defendant is at fault and demonstrate malice - He sent him a message on Instagram asking him to make a statement saying "this comic does not accurately portray Scott's views," and if he doesn't that will be enough to prove malice. (Say sike right fucking now or I will see you in court. This strikes me more as legal intimidation than anything else)
His mental gymnastics were not the best part of the stream though. The best part was him admitting he is absolutely willing to go to court and lose, pay a quarter of a million dollars in settlement money, if it means he can prove in the court of law that he was misrepresented. Taking a page from Sargon in doing whatever it takes to trigger the libs, own the libs. I wish I was kidding here is an exact quote at 51:05.
"Here's the real play, the play is this I want to create way more attention to the lawsuit then the original comic got. And if losing the court case also surfaces the fact that it was not accurate statement about me, that'd be fine....I don't care what happens after that. If that costs me a quarter of million dollars, money well spent."
Now he's basically retarded. He claims the comic promotes the idea that Scott insisted that people take the vaccine. I can't imagine reading that comic and coming to that conclusion. To me and everyone else in this thread, the comic has Ben calling Scott exactly what he is. A fucking idiot.
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