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An explanation of That Mean Girls Tweet.
Jackie& #39;s comment ("the Greens Political Party are obsessed with themselves") struck me as a very Mean Girls tone. So I screencapped her comment & posted it w/ the well-known Burn Book quote, parodying her vitriolic tone toward the Greens
Jackie& #39;s comment ("the Greens Political Party are obsessed with themselves") struck me as a very Mean Girls tone. So I screencapped her comment & posted it w/ the well-known Burn Book quote, parodying her vitriolic tone toward the Greens
the @brisbanetimes, in reporting this & #39;story& #39;, included only my caption ("this party is the nastiest skank bitch I& #39;ve ever met etc") and not the screencap of Jackie& #39;s comments to which it referred. That made it seem like I was calling the ALP a nasty skank bitch and a fugly slut.
Very quickly this was twisted into my calling Jackie Trad those things, which simply wasn& #39;t true even in the most disingenuous reading of the tweet.
In context, there& #39;s virtually no controversy, but political smear campaigns are all about removing context. I had to watch doctored images & completely false quotes attributed to me circulate rapidly around the internet, and I knew there was nothing I could do about it.
It& #39;s hard to exaggerate how sick & powerless that makes you feel. I haven& #39;t been able to eat or sleep properly for days, and I& #39;ve been basically having a constant low-level panic attack since the story broke.
Of course, that was what @QLDLabor wanted. (That and to undermine the Greens in South Brisbane, who look set to take Trad& #39;s seat.) I& #39;m a literal nobody - a 29 y/o volunteer w/ fewer than 500 followers - but they were happy to make my life hell to claw back a fraction of ground.
(One of the weirdest things has been being referred to as a & #39;staffer& #39; or & #39;senior official& #39;. M8s the branch secretary role is extremely unpaid & involves taking the world& #39;s most boring minutes. The Greens have never given me a cent and Adam Bandt doesn& #39;t know who I am lmao)
I want to thank my partner & friends for their unflinching solidarity, & particularly @amymacsouthbris. It would& #39;ve been easy to throw me under the bus. All the loudest voices in Labor were baiting her to do it, and she didn& #39;t take the bait, and I reckon that says a lot about her
Finally, I& #39;ve lodged a Press Council complaint against @eastTMoore and the @brisbanetimes for their misleading reporting, and am strongly considering legal action against the individuals who attributed false quotes to me. Hope this clears everything up 
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