It is, though, but it depends on what you value. Loyalty/supporting one's friends/family is more important than any other principles/values, but it's also context-dependent.
It’s difficult for me to wrap my head around this perspective.
Your values must be very poor if you’ll willingly compromise them for friends or family.
As a Christian, Jesus Christ takes precedence over everything. This means placing the truth and righteousness above everything. This obedience to Christ and prioritization of things greater than you or your family bears fruit in countless blessing for Christians, including having strong families, but this only possible if you correctly identify the “Most Important Thing” and pursue it above all else.
To live your life with no higher values or motivation beyond the needs and desires of your family sounds depressing and pointless beyond the perpetuation if your genes to the next generation. It’s just another flavor of materialism.
He seems like a decent enough guy if you met him in person but he greatly exaggerates things, manufactures drama and abuses click-bait tactics, which is unfortunately very common among right-wing content creators.
Personally, I don't understand people who value loyalty. I hate betrayal and backstabbing, but I also don't like it when people give preferential treatment to their friends or family regardless of the facts of the situation. Sticking up for your friends when they're in the wrong doesn't seem commendable to me.
Walk with integrity. Uphold your obligations. Judge without bias. Treat everyone properly in accordance with their behavior. Be kind. Be fair. Be honest. This seems like the proper way.
Except, it wasn't a contract, it was a terms sheet. They may have low-balled Crowder but this isn't uncommon in contract negotiations with large dollar signs attached.
The testimony of everyone who works at Daily Wire seems to be that Boering makes a hard bargain but that they ultimately get what they're want contractually and are very happy with how they're treated. People who are unaccustomed to contract negotiations and big business are reading into it all sorts of bad intentions that may make sense to the layperson but are standard business procedure.
People are free not to like how big business operates -- I don't either -- but acting like this was a conspiracy to silence and control Crowder or other small creators is ridiculous. Andrew Torba doesn't know what he's talking about.
This community has lost their mind on this issue; they're not thinking rationally. People hate the Daily Wire and "the Jews" so much that anyone who calls them out are automatically the good guys.
Crowder is clearly in the wrong here, and there's a good chance he's deliberately manufacturing this controversy for his own benefit and not just because he's "fighting for the next guy". He's not the hero people believe him to be.
He would be, as Jeremey Boring said in a recorded call with him, a “wage slave.”
This is just wrong. Among other misquotes and misrepresentations, Boering never said Crowder would be a wage slave. Crowder and Boering were talking about the up-and-coming new conservative content creators which Crowder claims to be protecting.
There are other issues with the article as well but I'm losing interest in this topic so I won't bother.
Andrew Torba is a hard liner and a Right-wing gatekeeper that thinks all of you who aren't Christian should be kicked out of the Right. He thinks the only battle worth fighting is Christians versus the world. Because of this and other reasons, I have a hard time taking him seriously.
Often when I would argue that homosexuality is a disorder, a common retort from Leftists is that homosexuality appears in nature so therefore it must be natural. They then cite cases of male dogs, male geese and other male animals humping members of their own sex. I explained to them that male animals will hump anything in sight, living or otherwise, and that humping things indiscriminately -- occasionally including a creature of the same sex -- doesn't make them homosexual, just very horny.
As far as I'm aware there is no manifestation of homosexuality -- as it's represented by the Left - in nature. There are no gay relationships, no gay pair bonding, no gay mating practices. The only examples they have are horny male animals masturbating by indiscriminately humping other male animals.
All signs point to homosexuality being little more than a sexual fetish or a disorder that has been "dressed up" by the Left to mimic heterosexual relationships in the name of broader societal acceptance. There's not even any evidence that homosexuals were "born that way" as we are so often told and people now just accept. In contrast, there's plenty of evidence that homosexuality is the result of conditioning, in many cases sexual abuse and trauma.
The normalization and acceptance of homosexuality was the destruction of the final rampart that held back the flood waters of degeneracy. There are no limits to how fare they're willing to go at this point.
I had to double-check to make sure I wasn't the original author because I've posted content very similar to this on reddit in the early 2010's.
As expected, 90% of the comments are hand-waving away his points or attacking his character. I only see one that that honestly tries to address his evidence, and they do poorly. This is typical for reddit and internet debates in general. Good faith argumentation is rare and hard to find. The vast majority of internet discourse is biased bandwagoning.
I always enjoyed the meta-commentary episodes, like the one where they get transported to our world and realize this world's version of themselves are actors playing on a show called Supernatural, or when they find out God is an author writing stories about them, or the jokes at the expense of the Supernatural fanfic community.
She's exaggerating the situation. That is NOT how people act when their lives are in danger. She probably felt like this guy had the potential to pose a threat, which is a fair assumption, but they didn't feel like their lives were in danger or else they wouldn't be smiling, laughing and joking around while eating their food.
Also, press charges for harassment, fine, but "hate crimes" aren't a real thing... at least in a sane world.
Most of the world is facing a massive depopulation problem and they want us to stop having children? It's insanity.
Without doing any research, I'd be willing to bet money that simply ending abortion alone would immediately solve the depopulation problem and breath new life into faltering economies across the world, but for some reason they still prefer death over life. It makes one think.
Leftism, at it's root, is about envy, resentment, hate and death. Hedonism is their preferred opium for dealing with a hateful existence. They blame any unhappiness they have on the judging eyes of others, so therefore their only way to true happiness is to either convert you or kill you so you can no longer judge them. They don't realize that it's their own conscience condemning them, so even if they killed everyone in the world who disagreed with them, they'd still be just as miserable as they are today with people who disapprove of them.
"Kids deserve a far better world than this one" -- so kill them? are they claiming there's an afterlife or reincarnation?
"Abortion is merciful" -- because it's better to be dead than to live in poverty?
"Join the vasectomy club" -- because reproducing is bad?
"Abortion is an act of love" -- love for whom? yourself? in what world do you kill those you love?
"Abortion is an ethical choice" -- for the doctor? how does that even make sense?
"Destigmatize abortion" -- just like we're in the process of de-stigmatizing child mutilation and pedophilia? if killing a baby isn't stigmatized, where exactly do you draw the line?
I've rarely seen a more disgusting and reprehensible group of women (and one man).
It's to be expected. The dissident right are often just as tribalistic as the dissident left. This is what happens when people become desperate and angry.
I'm also realizing there's somewhat of a "cult of personality" built up around Crowder that will run to his defense no matter what he does. It's not a good look.
Crowder is definitely more anti-establishment than the Daily Wire, but that doesn't make him right by default.
Then you read my comment, got upset that I disagreed with you and decided to lash out by accusing me of being insecure.
See, writing fiction is easy.
Actually thinking and conversing with people about things must be too difficult. Much easier to hurl insults and write fanfic in your head about people you disagree with.
Crowder’s livelihood and business model are almost entirely dependent on YouTube, far more so than the Daily Wire. Crowder literally self-censors so he can remain live on YouTube. There is zero difference between the constraints that Crowder puts on himself and the constraints DW were proposing. DW even embraced the idea of a special “Piss Off YouTube” segment hosted on their platform to avoid censorship.
This entire thing is preposterous on its face. Crowder has no reasonable case to back up his brash claims or unprofessional behavior.
That’s totally irrelevant, but totally fine.
People are just being tribal and picking sides based on emotions, not evaluating this situation with any level of objectivity. Just because DW has its own problems doesn’t mean Crowder is right. Crowder is a performer who knows how to create and milk controversy. He might honestly believe he’s on a righteous crusade but it’s clear this is orchestrated for maximum attention grabbing to his own benefit.
If you want to hear a good, balanced take on the Crowder vs. Daily Wire situation listen to Mark Dice, Gavin McInnes, Bill Whittle or even Tim Pool or Frei and Barnes. Pretty much everyone else is picking sides based on emotion or ignorance.
Such a stupid, brain-dead comment. Hurling insults at me simply for disagreeing with you and making accusations when you don’t even know me.
There’s zero evidence the Daily Wire is making it hard for rising stars, you’re just taking Crowder’s word for it.
Michael Knowles literally rose through the ranks within the company to become one of their primary content creators. They literally just plucked Brett Cooper out of nowhere and made her a star. They do collabs with conservatives all over the “Right-O-Sphere”. Can you name a single rising star that DW has silenced or suppressed or harmed in any way? Whose business is it who the DW decides to help or not anyways? They don’t owe Crowder or anyone else anything. What an idiotic and naive perspective to have.
Bill Whittle actually worked with Crowder back at PJTV, and has done independent work with both Daily Wire and Crowder. He disagrees.
So does Viva Frei who is a lawyer with a small amount of experience in this space.
So does Jack Psobiac and Mike Cernovich.
So does Tim Pool.
So Candice Owens for what that’s worth.
Heck, Crowder himself believes it’s the standard because that’s the entire point behind “Stop Big Con”.
It’s besides the point anyways. It wasn’t a contract, it was a terms sheet. If you can’t arrive at a contract that both agree with, you don’t sign it. That’s all there is to it. What you DON’T do is air your dirty laundry.
Crowder’s little recording backfired, and rightly so. It was an underhanded thing to do.
Everyone’s bias against the Daily Wire is affecting their judgement. They’re swallowing Crowder’s side of the story hook, line and sinker.
The DW terms document is pretty standard fare. Crowder sat on the document for four months before releasing it. He registered the “StopTheCon.com” domain a month before this blew up. He secretly recorded a conversation with a friend a week before releasing his video. He has a history of enforcing contracts on people to shut them up (see: NotGayJared, Devin Tienken). Nobody from either DW or Blaze has come out and said their voice is being silenced or suppressed like Crowder claims they are doing. Crowders claims about independent conservative voices being silenced can’t be substantiated at all, nor can his claims of “Big Con” colluding with big tech.
The facts just do not add up.
I wouldn’t consider myself a fan of DW, but they are actually successful at pushing back against the Left, and you can’t argue with results.
Crowder, you don’t like how DW runs their business? Fine, but don’t air your grievances in public and burn bridges along the way just because you don’t like their business model. Don’t declare a crusade against “Big Con” and big tech and then whine and complain when another company won’t unconditionally support your crusade. Instead, stand on your own two feet and prove your business model and prove you’re more effective than those you’re attacking. Stop being a drama queen.
Sorry, but the unity on the Left is an illusion. The only thing they have in common is their hatred and desire to subvert what is good, but they have no problem destroying one another in the process, and they often do.
The lack of unity on the Right is just as much because of people like yourself who accuse the Daily Wire of being grifters (they aren’t) as it is due to actual grifters taking advantage of the climate of desperation on the Right.
Regardless, even if the Right was in perfect unity (no such thing), it would not be enough to turn the tide. There simply aren’t enough people who care. The problem is a moral one, not a financial or political one.
So many people defaulting to Crowder’s side on this, having no idea how business works. If Crowder wants to break the mold, he needs to shut up and do his own thing. You can’t break the mold by scolding others. You need to prove your business model works. Don’t demand others fall on their sword if you’re not willing to put your life on the line yourself.
Crowder, stop being a drama queen and just do your own thing and prove everyone else wrong. Your complaining isn’t helping anyone.
The reasons why conservatives lose has nothing to do with any of this. Conservatives and other good people on the Right lose because the other side is evil and the people they exploit are willing accomplices and supporters of evil. When your culture is corrupt and the people who make up your society are corrupt, then the corrupt leaders will win. No amount of money, influence or political power can change the hearts of a fallen and corrupt people. It’s inevitable that conservatives would lose when a majority of people who live in a country are without morals or integrity.
Yes, if you put it that way I would certainly agree.
It’s important to protect and support your friends and family, but if a friend or family member does something wrong, it’s important to correct them and help them understand their error because that’s only way they will grow or improve.
What I don’t approve of is defending a friend or family member unconditionally even if they did something wrong or unconditionally running to someone’s defense irregardless of the truth just because they supported you in the past. You should never harm someone unjustly to help a friend or family member.