[0 fucks given about downvotes, I know this sub hates Ben Shapiro and the DW. I routinely speak truth to those who don't want to hear it on Reddit, lol.]
Ben Shapiro and the DW are 100% in the right in this one, and Crowder is a slimy douchebag who is 100% in the wrong.
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Crowder solicited a job offer from the DW
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10/5/22: The DW gave him an offer of $50 million for 4 years, meant to be a starting point for negotiations (the document even says this, that it's a starting point and a framework, not a "take it or leave it" deal)
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11/2/22: Crowder gets INSULTED by the offer, demands $30M per year, and demands the DW re-write the term sheet entirely instead of making edits to the one already provided.
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11/14/22: DW rejects Crowder's demands.
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12/12/22: Steven registers http://StopBigCon.com, planning a future hit piece on the DW to cast himself as a rebel against the establishment, and a victim.
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1/7/23: Steven texts Jeremy in friendly fashion to ask if they can talk.
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1/9/23: Steven calls Jeremy and secretly tapes him.
Then Crowder releases his little hit piece, lambasting the "contract" without mentioning that it was not a final offer but just a starting point. He cherry picked out certain contract provisions designed to share or mitigate risk, some of which were provisions I would personally disagree with as a little excessive, and which might have been inserted or exaggerated purely to be "traded away". I don't do business that way, but it's a standard business practice. Nothing wrong whatsoever with the DW doing it.
Crowder is a baby. He doesn't seem to understand how the concept of negotiation works. His ego couldn't handle getting offered what he thought he deserved as a 1st offer, to the point where he got emotional and unprofessional about it.
Crowder's attacks on the DW amount to r-antiwork bullshit. "slave contract" for $50 million. Riiiiight.
And yes, Crowder did the supremely scumbag move of knifing his fellow conservatives and friends in the back and trying to damage their reputation, all so he could generate hype, drama, and views for his new project launch. Secretly recording a phone call made under false pretenses is a mega scumbag move.
Crowder is in the wrong for being upset at such an agreement because truthfully the agreement is fine. Crowder is right about much of the Big Con media being nothing but grifters that seek the money rather than what is truly best for Americans. Crowder also doesn't really understand the severity of the problem nor does he mention what race Shapiro is and why that's relevant.
The only thing big conservatives care to conserve is their bank account.
If you think a term sheet that 1. Would immediately negate a portion of offered income and the offering party knew and 2. Excluded every known source of income aside from big tech monetization is a good contract and it is something you would offer someone then you have no place doing business with anyone even semi ethical because they will run you out of town being so predatory.
That's just the business implications then you get to the fact that they are censoring people on the right and forcing them to keep toe the line set by big tech which is overwhelmingly left
I'd ask you to sign your soul to me if I felt I was in a bargaining position to do so. I work in banking. The contracts I get people borrowing money to sign might as well offer up their soul and in fact if I check the fine print I wouldn't be surprised if it's in there.
I'm German. Inside man for the fourth Reich.
Including Crowder.
Who isn't motivated by money? The Left is just as motivated by money as the Right. The peon little cannon fodder aren't, sure, but all the elites at the top, including all the pundits, are.
It's literally just capitalism. By design. I think Ben Shapiro is not a grifter, and is 100% true to his ideals when he speaks. He also runs a shitload of ads because he likes money. So do you. So do I. No one is out there trying to be a martyr for the cause.
Is the left motivated by money entirely though? Seems to be a of leftists grooming children and visiting Epstein island... Not all motivators in life are money related. What you described capitalism to be is essentially what capitalism means if your moral values are based on a capitalist outlook on life. Such people whose motivations are based on money alone are in fact trash but not everyone is motivated by this. I took a paycut and changed jobs to a smaller business because I was tired of being bombarded with how important blacks and women in the workforce is and D&I meets. I was motivated by the culture more than the money. Some elites can be motivated by culture more than money also. If you told a woman that her husband will earn 3x what he's earning now if she was banned from working and the woman was considered his property for him to do whatever he likes with but he had to spend at least 50% of his money on things she wanted, do you think she'd take the offer? She'd have more money and material possessions but what she needs to sacrifice to get that might not be worth it.