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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 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

such a punchable face

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

He will get away with it just like last time by saying sorry I didn't know or read any facts, and was just going with my inner hateful selfish racist genocidal feelings about other ethnicities whom I hate and wish the worst upon. Anyway, thank you for the $10000 donations XxReatrd420GamerxX

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Why are we giving a guy who used a dead rat as an alarm, and smeared blood from his gums on his walls attention?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Asmongold says stupid things and then only responds to the lowest hanging fruit.

He'll say we can't take refugees because XYZ, then people will respectfully counter his arguments, but he effortlessly ignores them.

Then someone calls him a loser or makes a silly argument and that's when he's "You see? This is the problem."

Just a circus act for idiots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

There is no point responding to right wing idiots; all of their speech is logical fallacy and bad faith rhetoric. They’re best ignored, or talked over. They can’t be bothered to respond to anyone, they just spout their own bullshit, no matter what anyone else says, so we as a society need to refuse to debate them or address them directly. Whatever they say just respond with another fact that refutes their entire existence

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

not only a racist but also a misogynist, a present-day gamergater, who is literally in 2025 still complaining that "video games used to be made for guys and now they're made for everyone" 🤦

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

If he doesn't like today's games, then he can just ask ChatGPT to make it the old way. Or Grok for that MechaHitler edge.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Asmongold is a huge piece of shit. I never liked the dude. No idea why people listen to anything he says, dudes a grade A moron.

People like him have ruined the online gaming sphere with their low-life personalities and acting like racist children who just learned to talk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Have you seen the aamon animation version of him?

https://youtu.be/MH2UkCLvXAk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Fortunately for me, I had not until just now 😒

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

How the fuck is this gross dude the top streamer?

We're cooked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Parasocialites are the biggest rejects of society and are the most likely to fall into the alt right pipeline because they're unable to get proper socialization anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

Most Americans barely speak comprehensible English. We tolerate that, so it's not much for them to do the same in return.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So squeaky.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, the voice someone's born with is definitely what should be focused on, when it comes to criticism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I see clips of this guy in my recommended videos section on youtube all the time. I never click on them and I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it's deciding that I should watch these clips. Either way, I find it odd how signal-boosted this clown is. The gaming-to-politics pipeline is too strong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips.

This is why, lol. Since his videos are generally popular on YouTube, if you have no watch history for your recommendations to be based on, it's just always going to feed you whatever's popular, which will include his stuff.

You're doing it to yourself, in other words. I actually have watched a couple videos of his in the past, and yet, because it's rare, I never see his videos being recommended to me. Hell, in my experience, stuff recommended to me is rarely similar to things I've seen more than a month or so ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I don’t think it’s really gaming-to-politics. I think it’s more like gaming-to-very-loud-bigot. The fact that bigotry is so tightly coupled into right wing politics is just coincidental.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

He knows nothing about politics, but realized that saying right wing bullshit gets engagement so now this is what we have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Sometimes it feels like the internet is just a giant rat maze and people chase after whatever the algorithm rewards them for chasing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 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

[+] [email protected] -6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Of course Sweden, the dogwhistle for the racists and fascists trying to insist on the ""Islamification"" of Europe.

You're claiming ignorance on what can be explained by malice. There's no excuse for ignorance in this day and age when access to information is so open. These far-right fuckwits don't want integration, they want a race war. They want white supremacy.

The concerned citizen shtick is bullshit to cover for racism. Trying to appease them has proven time and time again to be pointless. The argument for not "alienating" the far-right is literally just "give them exactly what they want".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Appreciate the live demo of exactly what I was talking about.

Instead of engaging with the argument, you go straight to branding me a racist. This is why the far-right keeps gaining ground - not because people agree with them, but because they’re sick of being shouted down any time they try to talk about real issues. Apparently things still aren’t bad enough for that lesson to sink in.

EDIT: Ironically this just in: Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners

Sweden is not set up to cope with a rise in the numbers being sentenced to jail time as the government grapples with an unprecedented wave of violence brought about by gang crime.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

people who are worried about this stuff as racists or xenophobes

Yeah ok.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

explain sweden, please

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Massive amounts of refugees and immigrants since 2015, failure to integrate, gang violence, shootings and bombings among the highest per capita in Europe, and the rise of the right-wing nationalist Sweden Democrats.

Sweden basically became the cautionary tale among the Nordic countries of how not to handle mass immigration.

Edit: Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners

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