At a glance this Brandon Morse guy does at least seem more genuinely interested in gaming news: a look through his history of published articles brings me stuff indicating a much more consistent approval of games, disapproval of censorship even on moralistic grounds, and support for gamers, like this article about Stellar Blade and how there's nothing wrong with Eve's sexiness or this one from last November shitting on Alan Wa/oke II. And he does outright describe Matt Walsh's take to be completely wrong very early on in the above linked article. Perhaps we're starting to see tension in the online conservative media sphere between dinosaurs like the Daily Wire and more tech-friendly, forward-looking young guard types?
Anyone more familiar with Brandon Morse and RedState, please do help me fill in the gaps of my knowledge re: how real & reliable they are, at least in comparison to blatant opportunists and fake & gay neocons like Walsh and the Daily Wire.
I'm hesitant about RedState because they've published TERF shit in the past (using terms like "toxic masculinity" in an anti-troon article) but I don't know how representative that is of the site in general. I'm not familiar with Morse but I like what I see so far. Pro-gamer voices in the conservative media is a good thing as long as they don't expect us to be the tradcucks' house niggers.
I mostly remember RedState for being a battleground between pro-Trump and never-Trump voices on their staff back during the 2016 election, which eventually resulted in the former winning and purging the latter shortly before election day (they then fucked off to neocon sites such as Bill Kristol-sponsored The Bulwark and Erick Erickson's The Resurgent). In more recent months & years, when I take a look at their front page I've sometimes seen dueling articles between pro-Ukraine and anti-Ukraine writers.
Having done a bit more digging, they seem to be a site that tolerates debate & rivaling viewpoints as long as those viewpoints remain broadly right-wing and nobody goes so far as to support the Democrats, which IIRC was the tipping point that precipitated the purge of the Never-Trump RINOs in 2016. Interesting place to be for a conservative website, I suppose. Hard to say whether that's true of their view on gaming too since Morse seems like the only guy who talks about vidya at all on the entire site - if there are any Walsh-types on board, they're keeping it to themselves so far. Then again Morse is apparently a senior editor on there, which may be a good sign depending on the sincerity of his views of gaming.
Final note, it turns out RedState has actually been around longer than the Daily Wire (founded in 2004 vs. 2015) and they're owned by Salem Media Group, a Christian conservative media conglomerate that's been around since the 1970s but has seemingly always had ambivalent relations with the Buckley-Reagan-Bush 'fusionist'/neocon consensus which dominated the American right wing until Trump. Actually all their websites (Townhall, PJ Media, Hot Air - they got rid of Allahpundit a few years ago) have been turning increasingly overtly unfriendly towards the Republican establishment alongside RedState since the mid-2010s, and RedState was also the first site to break the financial scandal that decisively forced Ronna McDaniel out of the RNC. Frankly if these trends continue, I'd rather these guys be the future of the conservative media sphere than more of Fox and the DW.
At a glance this Brandon Morse guy does at least seem more genuinely interested in gaming news: a look through his history of published articles brings me stuff indicating a much more consistent approval of games, disapproval of censorship even on moralistic grounds, and support for gamers, like this article about Stellar Blade and how there's nothing wrong with Eve's sexiness or this one from last November shitting on Alan Wa/oke II. And he does outright describe Matt Walsh's take to be completely wrong very early on in the above linked article. Perhaps we're starting to see tension in the online conservative media sphere between dinosaurs like the Daily Wire and more tech-friendly, forward-looking young guard types?
Anyone more familiar with Brandon Morse and RedState, please do help me fill in the gaps of my knowledge re: how real & reliable they are, at least in comparison to blatant opportunists and fake & gay neocons like Walsh and the Daily Wire.
I'm hesitant about RedState because they've published TERF shit in the past (using terms like "toxic masculinity" in an anti-troon article) but I don't know how representative that is of the site in general. I'm not familiar with Morse but I like what I see so far. Pro-gamer voices in the conservative media is a good thing as long as they don't expect us to be the tradcucks' house niggers.
I mostly remember RedState for being a battleground between pro-Trump and never-Trump voices on their staff back during the 2016 election, which eventually resulted in the former winning and purging the latter shortly before election day (they then fucked off to neocon sites such as Bill Kristol-sponsored The Bulwark and Erick Erickson's The Resurgent). In more recent months & years, when I take a look at their front page I've sometimes seen dueling articles between pro-Ukraine and anti-Ukraine writers.
Having done a bit more digging, they seem to be a site that tolerates debate & rivaling viewpoints as long as those viewpoints remain broadly right-wing and nobody goes so far as to support the Democrats, which IIRC was the tipping point that precipitated the purge of the Never-Trump RINOs in 2016. Interesting place to be for a conservative website, I suppose. Hard to say whether that's true of their view on gaming too since Morse seems like the only guy who talks about vidya at all on the entire site - if there are any Walsh-types on board, they're keeping it to themselves so far. Then again Morse is apparently a senior editor on there, which may be a good sign depending on the sincerity of his views of gaming.
Final note, it turns out RedState has actually been around longer than the Daily Wire (founded in 2004 vs. 2015) and they're owned by Salem Media Group, a Christian conservative media conglomerate that's been around since the 1970s but has seemingly always had ambivalent relations with the Buckley-Reagan-Bush 'fusionist'/neocon consensus which dominated the American right wing until Trump. Actually all their websites (Townhall, PJ Media, Hot Air - they got rid of Allahpundit a few years ago) have been turning increasingly overtly unfriendly towards the Republican establishment alongside RedState since the mid-2010s, and RedState was also the first site to break the financial scandal that decisively forced Ronna McDaniel out of the RNC. Frankly if these trends continue, I'd rather these guys be the future of the conservative media sphere than more of Fox and the DW.