[suthener]

I have no interest in this but I did watch Jeremy do a video where he went line by line of the the agreement with Crowder. I have no perspective to judge fairness of the contract, but Jeremy putting the contract out in public does indicate he was negotiating in good faith. If Crowder doesn’t want to sign with them, he shouldn’t. Jeremy also mentioned several times that this about making money for his company. I just can’t see a problem with that.

[Alberta's Child]

As soon as I saw Crowder’s rant about the deal I thought his anger was misplaced. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a company looking out for its financial interests and protecting itself in the event one of its lines of business gets shut down for reasons outside its control.

I am always reminded of a contract I was reviewing as part of a business deal some years ago. One provision of the contract was somewhat similar to what Crowder is complaining about … and I wanted it removed from the contract. When I told this to my lawyer, he said: “You may not like that item in the contract, but it’s not an unreasonable demand. If I was representing the other party in this contract I would never let them sign it without that provision.”

Both sides agreed to make a minor change to the provision, and everything worked out well in the long run.

[Hostage]

You're focused on the smaller picture of a seemingly legit business proposition, which is fine, at the cost of missing the bigger picture.

Unfortunately, during my engineering and quant undergrad education, I had to be forced-educated to take a smattering of humanities courses, which I resisted until the last moment where the only thing left was to sign up for a year of History of Western Civilization.

Briefly, here's the takeaway:

Individuals view their day-to-day in weeks and months.

Entire societies play out in years and decades.

In other words:

A small picture of judgment focuses on the short-term.

A larger picture of historical judgment focuses on the long-term.

The time scale separates the two.

Roe v. Wade played out over a half century.

What to see is Torba calling attention to history in development of serpent behavior disguised in conservatism, slithering around strong MAGA voices, readying its fangs behind a seductive poisoning of large amounts of fiat.

Torba's thesis is, the conservative movement needs to resist demise by seduction.

Hard to do, but Donald Trump is a prime example, as is the example of this piece, Steven Crowder. There are many others. Need to highlight their defiance and sacrifice.