I was on Crowder's side back during LWC v. TDW, mostly because 3/4 of the points made against him were irritatingly shallow (Kapernick wage-slave) or of crab-mentality (friends don't record private calls bro! [1]). While I won't be on his side while he's smoking cigars that close to the house during wife's pregnancy (nicotine gets everywhere), we don't have preceding context into whether wifey intentionally baited this situation. I'll reiterate that I find barking out rigid familial roles is stupid and distasteful, that you do not commit to someone that doesn't prove like-mindedness. Still, I'm spotting potential of prior antagonism (the 2 minute mark has Steven paraphrasing), and habitual ineptitude (not acknowledging concern over gloves and lingering topical treatments), on the wife's part, at least when I'm not primed by a news headline emphasizing right-wing abuser. Wait for further evidence, not allegations, that Crowder did worse.
The more respectable pieces of mgtow/red-pill material will tell you to keep an eye out for when a woman engages in womenese; speaking in social relationships instead of objective thought. The stress of newborns and heart disease, combined with his type-A personality, likely caused Crowder to drop his guard and dignity.
One thing I noticed is that for a founder/owner and political lightning-rod, he does seem to defer and dismiss too much responsibility of business and personal operations. I would never suggest being your own accountant or lawyer past a certain scale (inefficiency and inexperience), but you should definitely take 101 biz-admin courses before engaging in real business. Admittedly I'm a wagie providing armchair commentary on a successful business owner, however getting suckered by CRTV/Blaze with Mug Club mailing lists is nigh inexcusable. Same thing with home IT setup; YOU ARE FAILING AT ALT-NEWS/ALT-TECH IF YOU USE RING CAMERAS! Use a CCTV setup only streamable through an encrypted connection to a self managed Unix server. If any company exists that provides E2EE home-security, like Proton provides for email and cloud storage, they'd be fine too. Choose a vendor without obligatory law-enforcement sharing agreements if you need cloud doorbell answering.
I did find it distasteful that the intro to Steven's response video hooked with the "wage-slave" soundbyte. That was only tolerable since the shitty term sheet corroborated Crowder's intent. However, it was a qausi-business call with reasonable expectation of dirty-play and due-diligence on both sides, so pretending otherwise is a capricious, dense, and negligent avoidance of consequentialism/causality; a shockingly common sentiment. Even if you find recording phone-calls distasteful, Murphy's Law implores you to assume that even your friends and family are recording.conversations. It might be a tad fantastical to reference a spy show, but I think these 2 quotes concisely state skepticism of rules dictating bargains and societal relationships; variations on the 'trust but verify' proverb.
"Explaining the rules of covert ops is always a challenge. It's a world where good guys look like bad guys, and two wrongs do, in fact, make a right." - S1E07
I was on Crowder's side back during LWC v. TDW, mostly because 3/4 of the points made against him were irritatingly shallow (Kapernick wage-slave) or of crab-mentality (friends don't record private calls bro! [1]). While I won't be on his side while he's smoking cigars that close to the house during wife's pregnancy (nicotine gets everywhere), we don't have preceding context into whether wifey intentionally baited this situation. I'll reiterate that I find barking out rigid familial roles is stupid and distasteful, that you do not commit to someone that doesn't prove like-mindedness. Still, I'm spotting potential of prior antagonism (the 2 minute mark has Steven paraphrasing), and habitual ineptitude (not acknowledging concern over gloves and lingering topical treatments), on the wife's part, at least when I'm not primed by a news headline emphasizing right-wing abuser. Wait for further evidence, not allegations, that Crowder did worse.
The more respectable pieces of mgtow/red-pill material will tell you to keep an eye out for when a woman engages in womenese; speaking in social relationships instead of objective thought. The stress of newborns and heart disease, combined with his type-A personality, likely caused Crowder to drop his guard and dignity.
One thing I noticed is that for a founder/owner and political lightning-rod, he does seem to defer and dismiss too much responsibility of business and personal operations. I would never suggest being your own accountant or lawyer past a certain scale (inefficiency and inexperience), but you should definitely take 101 biz-admin courses before engaging in real business. Admittedly I'm a wagie providing armchair commentary on a successful business owner, however getting suckered by CRTV/Blaze with Mug Club mailing lists is nigh inexcusable. Same thing with home IT setup; YOU ARE FAILING AT ALT-NEWS/ALT-TECH IF YOU USE RING CAMERAS! Use a CCTV setup only streamable through an encrypted connection to a self managed Unix server. If any company exists that provides E2EE home-security, like Proton provides for email and cloud storage, they'd be fine too. Choose a vendor without obligatory law-enforcement sharing agreements if you need cloud doorbell answering.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ if any of the last paragraph didn't make sense.
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