[richbell]

> I thought the GP comment was wild, but "I just got my welfare check, time to hire a lawyer" is an even stranger take.

I don't have any links on hand, but from what I recall they were all Pro Se. My understanding is that many of them were discovered by KF in the first place because they were vexatious litigants.

One of the vexatious litigants had previously sued Taylor Swift and threatened to abuse her lawyer's daughter, resulting in a high-profile lawyer representing Kiwi Farms Pro Bono against him.

The truth is wilder than fiction.

[danShumway]

> My understanding is that many of them were discovered by KF in the first place because they were vexatious litigants.

That seems if anything to reinforce the idea that this is unrelated to welfare?

- KF finds some vexatious litigants and starts targeting them

- The vexatious litigants sue KF

- ???

The pattern that's jumping out to me here isn't that people are on government assistance.

[richbell]

> That seems if anything to reinforce the idea that this is unrelated to welfare?

I don't recall claiming that it was because of welfare. I'm merely providing context to one of the earlier posts — a number of people on government assistance are constantly trying to take the site down, the admin notices a pattern with the DDoS attacks, and speculates it's because that aligns with when government assistance is paid out.

I am not saying that his speculation was true, but it makes significantly more sense if you understand why he may have come to the conclusion.

[UncleMeat]

Are people on assistance not allowed to sue people?

The narrative is obviously "those idiot leftists on the dole don't have jobs and waste their time and money on this." The causal relationship is critical to the narrative.

[richbell]

> Are people on assistance not allowed to sue people?

Of course they are, which is why I never said or implied this.

I am referring to people who spend years filing frivolous lawsuits that are continuously dismissed for things like improper jurisdiction, failing to state a claim, or suing the wrong people, and ignore any judgement or advice provided by the judge. Hence why I referred to them as vexatious.

> The narrative is obviously "those idiot leftists on the dole don't have jobs and waste their time and money on this." The causal relationship is critical to the narrative.

I am fairly left-leaning and grew up on government assistance. There is no narrative beyond describing factual events.

I will try to link some relevant court cases when I get home.