Where does he say he dropped the suit? Where does he admit he was wrong to file it in the first place?
He never said he dropped it. He just stop mentioning it and there's been no news on it. He most likely just quietly dropped it since it's been many years.
How do you know the terms were good? When nothing came of the SFWA and Gab suits Vox went quiet and told people to stop asking him about them instead of admitting he lost or quit, which is how he's now behaving with the IndieGoGo suit. I'm not saying for sure the IndieGoGo suit went badly but I'm not going to accept it went well without proof.
Sorry to keep peppering you with questions.
He's talked about the suit extensively and mentioned a settlement. He just won't talk about the settlement outside a loyal cadre involved in the suit. People could get leaks from the insiders, IndieGoGo could call Vox out, or people could probably get a FOIA through. So I doubt he'd even be able to lie. He says he'll let people know the settlement years down the road. If there was a bad outcome why wouldn't he just go radio silence like he did with SFWA?
No problem, you're asking in good faith.
But that's exactly my point. If he had said "I've learned from my own experience..." or something to that effect then I'd have more respect for that post. But look at it again, he phrases it as other people telling him what to do and how he's always right. He always has to paint everything as never being wrong.
I gave my opinion on Vox. Why do you care about these hypotheticals that may have never happened. I don't think you'll respect him until whatever made you dislike him is resolved. He says when he's wrong. He admits things like being wrong on trade and has a group of trusted advisors who he trusts to shoot down over 50% of his ideas on what media to create.
Again, exactly the point. Vox only does for others who have first done for him. But then he complains about nobody ever giving him a shout out. Well maybe they're just operating under the same rules he is and not referencing people unless they first reference them. It's like reversing that old saying, "he doesn't dish it out then complains nobody gives to him."
Maybe he would get more referrals if he didn't burn so many bridges.
If it's a bad idea then why would anyone shout out Vox who's a gatekeeper that didn't shout them out? See the paradox? Vox has literally set up a perpetuating cycle that just gives him an excuse to bitch.
I said he gave shoutouts to people who do good work. He gave a shoutout to Ron Unz the other day and Unz hasn't really shouted Vox out.
So "gatekeeper" is just like "gamma" and "fascist" then, eh? "Somebody I don't like."
No. A gatekeeper is a cutthroat and/or coward who (Knowingly or not) gets propped up by the establishment as fake opposition. They suck oxygen from others that would put far more use into that oxygen. They're the reason The Right loses.
I disagree with Bernie, but he's not a gatekeeper. The DNC rigging the 2016 primary shows that. Elizabeth Warren is a massive gatekeeper though. Ron Paul wasn't a gatekeeper either. Gary Johnson (Unwittingly) was a gatekeeper used against Trump in 2016.
But Vox does spam gamma a lot. 80% of them are right. Other times it's just "This guy disagrees with me so he's a gamma". Vox isn't perfect - especially his personality. But he fights the good fight, calls out gatekeepers, and points out unique things in a calm non-wignat manner.
Extra ironic then that he labeled PJMedia as a gatekeeper since by the above standard, they aren't as i haven't seen any promo for them from the MSN. (A quick search of the NYT for example yields 0 results.)
I don't know about PJMedia or Vox's critiques of them. However the Intellectual Darkweb and ContraPoints have both been propped up by the NY Times. Both are gatekeepers in their own ways.
Ever consider that the Chinese are pointing fingers to distract from their misdeeds?
Of course they are. But that's not the biggest issue. The biggest issue are the western elites destroying us from within. The MSM constantly points fingers at Russia to distract from their own misdeeds. But I focus on the DNC leaks and the fake Mueller investigation more than I focus on Putin.
Also let me just say glancing at the rest of your post? Yeah I've been following Vox for far longer. I remember the days he was arguing with atheist blogs over his irrational atheist book.
You have to watch him daily for a little while to get a full picture. He's nuanced and is a bit of an acquired taste.
Considering how common it is for members of the alt-right to declare conservativism dead, and to actively harm the causes of other right wingers by jumping in with their exceptionalism, displaying fascist and white supremacist symbols at rallies, etc, in a blatant redirecting of focus to their own attention whoring that often sinks whatever the original cause was as they provide the left wing media with a propaganda feast, the alt-right is the last group that should whine about betrayal by other people who are nominally on their side.
You've described what Neoconservatives have done ever since the 1960's. Especially when Neoconservatives took over the Right and pushed the Paleocons out. They damaged the Right in the eyes of an entire generation just to waste our blood and taxpayer dollars in Iraq.
Vox Day would agree with you on the fascism thing. He's not a fascist or even a wignat. Plenty of Alt Righters like Nick Fuentes and Alternative Hypothesis (People's Veto) take the non-fascist route.
The conservatives punched Right and the Left pushed a false narrative. Conservatives (Including Ben Shapiro) posted all kinds of memes about running over pedestrians if Leftists blocked the road. Then James Fields gets attacked by ANTIFA and panics then gets left to rot with a 400 year sentence.
How well did the alt-right help keep up those Civil War monuments, huh? That was a PR wet dream for the people who wanted them torn down. But of course the alt-right's response anytime shit like this happens is "It would've happened anyway." Bullshit. There's been controversy over shit like Confederate monuments and the Washington Redskins since the 60's. The alt-right is very effective at getting shit done in politics. For the left.
What have the conservatives conserved for the past 60 years? They couldn't even conserve the women's bathroom.
The alt-right has made it perfectly clear that their relationship with conservatism, libertarianism, civic nationalism, and other more mainstream right wing groups is entirely parasitic. They provide nothing and only take. They weaken and feed off these groups, harming their ability to actually get anything done in the political sphere, and practicing accelerationalism, handing the left victories in the active hope of making things worse so that more people will be radicalized to them in hopes of a real life autism race war or marshal law or some other bullshit because they know damn well they're never getting the amount of power they crave in the political sphere through the current election system.
Without the Alt Right Trump never would've gotten past the primaries. Handing the Left victories? That's what Gatekeepers have done for many decades.
If you mean violent accelerationism - we don't support that. A minority support political and social acceleration. Vox isn't really one of them, he has more of a patient "longview" perspective. Many on the Alt Right say: "You don't control how fast things accelerate".
We don't seek to radicalize. That's just what people at the NY Times say. We seek to recruit, build legal defese networks, social networks, platforms, and prepare for the coming decline so we'll land on our feet when things get shitty and begin rebuilding. We're in it for the long haul. We're dedicated. We punch far above our weight. The Left didn't win via elections. They won via culture and institutions. "The Long March Through The Institutions". We don't have the same focus, but we have a similar longterm mindset.
The alt-right has no leg to stand on whining about "betrayal" when they routinely destroy right wing causes/platforms/etc for the purpose of getting a handful of new recruits to their autism brigade.
Destroy? The Left destroys. And they can only do that because conservatives are either scared of the Left or share more with the Left than they let on. CPAC literally gave ANTIFA journos press passes while kicking milquetoast Alt Lite Civic Nationalists out of the building. Was that our fault?
You're falling into The Left's frame:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnMbYSrq-ZY