Daily wire lays off 25% of it's staff (twitter-thread.com)

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[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Daily Wire has largely been replaced by Asmongold and Adin Ross.

Hasan used to cover Ben Shapiro's videos to debunk his talking points, but he does that for Asmongold instead now. Adin Ross is an explicit fascist, who Hasan refuses to cover, unless it's something so popular it makes it into the regular news cycle, like Adin Ross interviewing Donald Trump

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

I can't believe a WoW streamer is the lead conservative commentator right now. What a weird time line.

Or does Fox / OAN still beat these online guys?

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

It's also a time where being a huge dumbass is a better argument for fascism and the fascist project's ongoing atrocities for "normie" fascists than bean shabibo's having to attempt making an actual argument in favor. Instead the mold bug can just say "Yeah, based, this guy's a terrorist"

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ya it's interesting that the audience looking for the faux intellectualism of debate pro Shapiro or Professor/Pseudo-Father Peterson seems to be waning. It's like people know the logical arguments suck and want to embrace the shitty aspects without having to embrace it.

Could also be that he's more situated for the new, rising audience of Gen Z's streamer culture instead of the millennial's YouTube video culture, too.

Either way, it does seem to be the logical evolution of 4chan and /pol/.