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Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 hour ago

This is only mildly infuriating, because we already knew he is a giant piece of shit.

[–] Shamber@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 19 points 6 hours ago

isn't this also the same guy who said he's ok with the genocide of Palestinians? (source)

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 hours ago

I seen this guys clips before and am not gonna see them anymore after this.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

the guy whose a documented asshole?

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 6 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] socsa@piefed.social -2 points 1 hour ago

Oh great, so SKG is another gamer-based alt right recruitment tool or something?

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Ragefarming seems the only form of content lately... So sad...

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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."

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 9 hours ago

Ukrainians in 2022 were considered "almost european", as in, almost "civilized"

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 10 hours ago

The stupid beady-eyed prick is being a stupid beady-eyed prick.

[–] cacti@ani.social 6 points 9 hours ago

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.

[+] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk -6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

people who are worried about this stuff as racists or xenophobes

Yeah ok.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 4 hours ago

explain sweden, please

[–] Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 34 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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?

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 42 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Same dude who got temp-banned from Twitch for actively calling for the literal genocide of Palestinians. Asmon is a piece of shit.

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] XM34@feddit.org 22 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

How do you then reset the alarm so it doesn’t smell? Do you refrigerate it or freeze it?

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[–] RampageDon@lemmy.ca 161 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Since when is this dude a political streamer. Wasn't he popular for WoW and he was a PoS then. Why is anybody listening to what he has to say now?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 114 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

It's the natural progression for a 20-something piece-of-shit gamer edgelord. When he hits middle age he pivots into being a miserable racist piece-of-shit bore.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Middle age?!

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah that was my assumption because he looks middle-aged to me. Found out after I wrote that he's like 35? How the fuck can you look that haggard when you're a 30-something content creator raking in the money from your parents' basement!

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Man, I'd look elderly to you I guess. How old are you?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm middle aged.

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 57 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Seems that there’s an endless amount of money for right wing social and political commentators.

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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 16 hours ago

He is 35 years old. Just imagine that. 35 years old and still not capable to use the brain properly.

He was never smart. And he still lives with his parents. And he doesn’t even go to a dentist. He is representing a lot of central US people.

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[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 30 points 16 hours ago

he discovered the grift and decided to get in on it. Even his father called him out on it after he called Palestinians "inferior". that's all this is. He's an act, a con artist, a grifter.

a guy that claimed streaming on his main asmongold account and getting paid with subs was "too stressful and causing anxiety" thus started streaming on an alt account that eventually became bigger than his main and makes him more money too.

And the people that watch him are just morons of the lowest caliber.

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[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 125 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

This dude has been a well known shit head for years. It's not surprising to see him continue to be a well known shit head. Twitch, like most platforms, doesn't actually care what people say, as long as it drives engagement.

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 17 points 13 hours ago

THE MAN LET RATS ROT IN HIS HOUSE AND CALLED IT HIS "ALARM CLOCK."

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

noped out when he called someone a retard.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 22 points 15 hours ago

I thought this guy just did shit reaction content? I was suggested a video before and he just sat with his stupid face in the corner most of the time making dumb comments and turning a slightly interesting 30 minute video into 3 hours. I couldn't be bothered to watch more than a few minutes and I feel like I am owed that time back.

[–] Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 20 points 15 hours ago

The fact that he’s got a following still, shows you just how underdeveloped some humans are. How sad must your life be, for you to watch and listen to this cockroach.

[–] ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 50 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Human trash

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