Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Why I Joined DailyWire+" video.

Well no. If anything I imagine some of this is just to catch onto the weaknesses which have come from the larger corporations. Remember when they scooped up Gina Carano after she was canceled? As far as I can tell the entire idea of the Daily Wire expanding as a company is simply to offer as much creative freedom as possible to prominent figures on the more mainstream right. Even The Blaze is much more prominent in this aspect as it's basically a bunch of talk shows and the like. However the daily wire is a news organization (which you can take however you like their quality of reporting) which is moving into other media production. Fox and Vice already have done this. It's not even an uncharted path in that sense. So pulling in the prominent cultural figures, creating movies to as well influence culture, seems to all be in service of this goal. The idea is to influence culture with better ideas and communication. Instead of just ranting about it trying to DO something about it. You have things like "What is a woman?" but you also have things like "Run, hide, fight" and now with Jordan Peterson (who I'd call one of the linchpins of the modern mainstream cultural force of the right) it just seems like they're doing their best to finally fight culture on the cultural front. These things are basically to better color their brand and overall de-color the current tinge they have from those who don't really identify politically. At least that's how I see the whole trajectory going.
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@retro2103 He's not of the traditional tribe which people associate with the right wing. However, I've never really found any disingenuousness from him in speaking and he seems to be remarkably candid. Outright lying I find very hard to believe.
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@camanderson9132 His view on it is not Russian propaganda. It's simply one which he was woefully lacking in understanding. He's primary front is the cultural one. And on that note I actually believe that his move to the daily wire plus makes a lot of sense and if anything will do more to make even more the right the larger tent than it would've otherwise. If his recent interviews are at all to go by it doesn't look like he's going any more into an echo chamber than he already was. However, his success on the cultural front and the cultural lens does not necessarily make sense in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war. It's a cultural lens which includes Russia in the context of the west rather than one primarily at odds with it which I believe serves as a much better representation of Russia as despite their western influence, their biggest influences were the orthodox Christians which have a markedly different development from the catholics and the protestant outcrop on their society as well their Mongol institutions. On top of that, the cultural lens falls apart in the context of the geopolitical. Here this war is almost exclusively geopolitical. It's really not one rationalized well in the cultural context which is why his video so much missed the mark.
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