Not only are the countries he is saying have “fine” refugees don’t even speak English as an official language, Africa as a continent has the largest amount of countries that speak English:
Most other African countries speak French, Spanish or another European language as an official language. So what is the issue here? Many Africans have immigrated to Western countries and have integrated fine. It’s insane that Twitch is allowing this kind of rhetoric to be displayed in full velocity on this platform.
This is only mildly infuriating, because we already knew he is a giant piece of shit.
An absolute retard calling others retards, the irony is just hilarious…52k ppl tuning in to a dude spouting hate and nonsense in front of 30 bucks mic calling him self a political streamer, he’s not even qualified for an actual job …god, I hate tge internet
isn’t this also the same guy who said he’s ok with the genocide of Palestinians? (source)
Yep, he is pro trump and elon and anything nazi. But most of it is just his lack of intelligence. He will read a twitter post and 1sec later pronounce it as the truth on stream, without having any source. Hes a propaganda echo and unfortunately reflects the average American gamer pretty well. Should have stuck to gaming.
and his followers eat this right up and probably parrot it off elsewhere…that’s both sad and infuriating
I seen this guys clips before and am not gonna see them anymore after this.
Only heard about him for the first time recently, in the context of the Stop Killing Games initiative. He spoke in support of it (which is a good thing, yay), and is apparently involved in some way in the drama that gave SKG the boost it needed.
Trying to figure out who the hell he is and how he ties into it, I watched one of his videos on YouTube (reacting to someone else’s video about SKG). Instantly got the impression that he’s an asshole… But at least he’s on the right side when it comes to SKG.
Dude is the living incarnation of Nurgle. If I told you the stories you’d think I’m making them up or smth lmao
There is a reason he’s commonly called asswithmold
He used to play world of Warcraft and seems good at it, at least in the old stuff. Then he got famous and now he’s the guy to watch if you like unhinged untreated mental illnesses. Beats me why anyone cares what this neckbeard thinks. It’s not like he’s done anything with his life
Oh great, so SKG is another gamer-based alt right recruitment tool or something?
Skg is happy to have any support it can, just keep your cockroaches and dead rat alarm clock on your side of the infinitely wide room.
Ragefarming seems the only form of content lately… So sad…
It’s so hard to find enclaves on the internet that aren’t just reposting the same ragebait over and over.
Yeah agree still one of the things I love from Lemmy is that is more wholesome. Is not perfect yes, but way better interactions than any other place I’ve been to.
what a cunt.
it’s obvious he doesn’t even understand what a refugee is
and then goes on to say “why would you add people to your country that don’t speak the language” in English and not the native tongue of the tribe that the land was stolen from
and what the fuck did he think happened to Poles who moved to the US 100 years ago? They weren’t even considered “white.”
Ukrainians in 2022 were considered “almost european”, as in, almost “civilized”
The stupid beady-eyed prick is being a stupid beady-eyed prick.
Considering Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, I don’t think it’s really all that insane that Twitch allows this. And I’m sure as hell that Asmongold has made statements more unhinged than this.
When the fuck did Asmongold become the largest POLITICAL streamer?
He went from games, to reacts, to the largest political just because he says stupid hateful MAGA shit?
Because people are getting dumber. It used to be Ben Shabibo with his logical gymnastics, but now with the average right wingers getting dumber they don’t need that shit, now they’re just flocking to people like Assmongold and Charlie Kirk who just shouts keywords and that’ll activate their neurons.
When he discovered it’s an easy grift, and even easier way to get attention which is what he really wants. Dude is a sad little man child, constantly searching for adoration. These are not deeply held, or even shallowly held beliefs he’s just doing whatever gets his audience to be nice to him.
That’s all. His chuds look for validation by finding a big streamer to regurgitate their views. Doesn’t matter that his only life experience is rotting in front of WoW. Doesn’t matter that he used the sunlight hitting a dead rat as an alarm clock. Doesn’t matter that his teeth bleed.
What he says might be unpopular on this platform, but I don’t see the racism in it. Integrating large numbers of people from a completely different culture into your society is extremely difficult – if not outright impossible. Exhibit A: Sweden.
This is one of those things where dismissing people who are worried about this stuff as racists or xenophobes just alienates them – and pushes them to vote for the actual racists and xenophobes instead. That’s how you end up where the US is today.
Counterpoint, attempting to appease and cater to racists is the Ratchet Effect in action. This hasn’t caused racists to actually vote for Democratic candidates, rather it simply moves the Overton Window rightward.
God forbid the racist asshat doesn’t feel welcome on the internet. Fuck asmongold, he is stupid and this argument is stupid, racist and made in bad faith. He is plain wrong, don’t defend the racist.
people who are worried about this stuff as racists or xenophobes
explain sweden, please
Same dude who got temp-banned from Twitch for actively calling for the literal genocide of Palestinians. Asmon is a piece of shit.
Sometimes I think these posts are made by insincere racist dickheads like him to actually recruit more people to his side with fake out-rage over real problems
Please keep in mind this is a guy who, quite seriously, this is not made up…
… used to use a dead rat in his pigsty of a room as an alarm clock.
The sun would come in through the window, bake the rat corpse to the point of a striking pungent smell, and this is what would wake him up.
Again, I am not making this up, just a year or twoish back he earnestly explained this to all his viewers.
The man also very, very rarely brushes his teeth, and has frequent issues with his gums bleeding.
This is your basement dweller 4chan addict, who just so happened to win the streamer popularity contest.
On basically any topic other than World of Warcraft, he has no fucking clue what he is talking about.
Honestly, and I know I’m gonna get downvoted for this again, but he makes a surprising amount of sense in a lot of topics he touches and it often seems like his responses are well thought through and quite eloquent.
And that’s exactly the problem. It makes it really easy for some people to fall for his batshit crazy bullshit takes and it makes him a lot more dangerous than if he was just some crazy Maga nut.
He also addresses a lot of the struggles his predominantly young male audience experiences. Something, pretty much everyone else fails to do. And his arguments only really fall apart once you invest quite some time to look deeper into the matter.
Disregarding Asmongold as just a crazy basement dweller with dead rats in his house might be easy but it’s severely underestimating the danger that this man poses if we don’t find ways to offer a better save space for his target audience. Although, Dr. K. is doing god’s work here!
Hey, engaging in good faith here:
Yeah, I get that a socially stunted basement dweller ‘elder gamer’ is indeed appealing to and relatable with a younger generation of basically the same.
And I totally get that many, many people are just highly dismissive of and rude toward such socially awkward people, which reinforces the entire dynamic… when what they should be is more appealing to, sympathetic and empathetic to the younger disaffected crowd, that are basically scared and confused and angry kids, many of whom could be easily set toward a better path in life and development of their world view if … just anyone would actually make them feel heard.
I really, really do get that, as I myself come from a right wing family, and genuienly didn’t even realize how fucked up a good deal of my young beliefs were, how self-destructive some of my own behaviors were, untill I actually encountered and got to spend a lot of time with people less shitty than my family, irl… granted this was 20-30 years ago, I think I am roughly the same age as Asmon, so this was… back when computers and video games were actually niche, weirdo nerd things, not the widespread bog standard for children’s socialization.
I have no argument with any of that.
I do however request at least one actual example of Asmon having a take on literally anything that is… lets say, more well thought out and reasoned than a high school sophomore’s 5 page book report.
… And in saying that, I am now remembering that American literacy rates and scores have plummeted since I got out of high school, I think within +/- 2 ish years of myself graduating from college, that was the actual high point for average American literacy levels…
Maybe my standard of ‘well reasoned and thoughtful’ just objectively is higher than the modern standard.
Hrm.
How do you then reset the alarm so it doesn’t smell? Do you refrigerate it or freeze it?
… you pull the blinds down… and go noseblind after enough ‘exposure’.
He probably reused the same one a fair few times. After that stops working, new rat. God knows he has plenty of volunteers.
One thing I dislike about streamers is when you can tell they are using their voice in a “hey you should take me seriously, I am obviously right” kind of tone, and are good at that, but the actual words are just repeating a common opinion and devoid of much any substance or argument. Like they think adjusting the way they say something makes them more right.
