'Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Nazi Party in my head?' - Nina Power's response to the court case.
'there are never enough Nazis to meet demand, so you have to create them'
https://ninapower.substack.com/p/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been
This all seems so antiquated and some of these cancel campaigns have lost their power (for public figures outside of normal workplaces at least).
But then you remember #Bluesky exists, which is sort of a Wayback Machine for the revivalists and larpers of Left Twitter 2010s. Bluesky have similarly made Nostr a bogeyman to rally against and slander. (I would suggest it is at least partly cos Bluesky is slightly insecure about their own protocol being 'too white' and 'privileged' .... Aka Whitesky lol).
Best line:
"In all seriousness, everyone probably should ask themselves if they would have been a Nazi. Most people would have been because most people are conformists to whatever regime they live under. "
The rest is just peak fiat/twitter nonsense and witch-hunts. Glad I never posted in that minefield, Musk could probably make a new fortunate charging per delete...
Yeah it is a bit of a time capsule, and even tho it's based on old tweets, it still feels much much older. This sort of thing peaked a long time afo thankfully. Although, I'm sure it still happens for normal non-public figure posters in HR depts all the time without notice.
