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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    asmon rlly one of the dumbest mofos ive ever had the displeasure to be exposed too. Like most right wing grifters know they lie about shit to get their points across. This dude is so dumb he believes all of it

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    Are you racist? Are you misogynistic? If not can you pretend to be?

    If so, modern social media would like to promote you. Apply now!

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      Maybe if i was slightly more nihilistic and much more of an asshole i could pretend, alas it is not so.

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    Asmondgold is so far past being relevant. He was intolerable when he was simply making World of Warcraft videos.

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    Baffles me why would anyone watch him at all. Maybe people watch him to see him destroy himself as in many other cases online. It it is that, then fuck all those enablers and let their life be a soulless, joyless, empty life.

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      People connect with him because he feels relatable and “genuine” and if that boggles you, we who can type and read words vastly underestimate how powerful this kind of “don’t give a shit how stupid people think I am” persona really is.

      Why should we be at all surprised when people like Joe Rogan and Donald Trump himself are so popular with people for their “charisma.” Charisma doesn’t mean suave and smart, it means you can charm some certain segment of people, particularly those who can’t tell the difference between confidence and dimwittedness.

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        I would debate that Asmongold has a Charisma. People, for the reason unbeknownst to me, are enjoying to watch other people destroy themselves. Typically, their target already shows some dysfunctional behavior. Asmon is textbook this case. There is no charisma. He is just attracting spectators by destroying his image and his personality. I saw same happen to many streamers and influencers and Asmon is not a special case. He is the case.

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          It’s reality TV for incels. Wow look at that unkempt guy in a filthy apartment who’s good at video games. I’m not quite as bad as he is I guess I’ll watch to make myself feel better about the sad life I live in butthole-town USA.

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    The part I like is that these fucking assholes will raise hell about “making things political!!!” if they happen to hear an opposing opinion.

    I think they should all be hanged.

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      Can’t agree with people who condone executions of any sort.

      Freaky america, still stuck in medieval ages…

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        When you behave the way the people at the Nuremberg trials did, you deserve to be punished in the same way the people who were punished at the Nuremberg trials were.

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          Not even sure where to begin with. So my rational side tells me not to.

          While i am open to all and any comparisons, no matter how much of a stretch, i would be really interested to hear who here acted like the literal nazis that stood trial at Nuremberg and how.

          Then i would like to ask why is it important to kill people instead of imprisoning them. Justice? How is justice restored through ‘revenge’? Maybe it does sate our sadism a bit but the injustice won’t be undone. Is a rape victim helped when we rape the rapist? Does a murder victim come back to life after we kill the murderer? What is the goal?

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            They have to be exterminated because they REFUSE to join or advance society and will ALWAYS be trying to create a power structure that kills and destroys.They are not redeemable and the speed run to Nazism and twice voting a fascist demagogue is proof of it.

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              ‘they have to be exterminated because they refuse to join or advance society’ reads exactly like what Nazi would say when pressed on why killing whomever is ok so thank you for taking my side.

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                Hey how bout you fuck right off with your shitty-ass “fighting Nazis amies you the REAL Nazi!” bullshit. Fuck you for pissing all over the graves of those who cheerfully murdered Nazis the first time.

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                  Reading comprehension like a toddler but yes lets pretend we did talk about fighting and not execution of people.

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                This kind of false equivalence is kind of annoying.

                Doctors and serial killers both cut people, but they’re clearly not the same, are they?

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                  Where is it a false equivalence? Calling for the extermination of people sounds not like a false equivalence. I am not even arguing against violence or even killing Nazis if you have save a life. We are talking about executing someone you have in your power.

                  Your comparison sucks. If the Doctor kills people without need he would soon be in that second category.

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    I started kind of liking this guy right before he ripped the mask off. This is the same thing that happened with Rogan. Started to like his content and within a few months he went full douchebag. I’m cursed.

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      same here, I used to like his Warcraft stuff and thought his house tour being complete untamed chaos was so hilarious. never knew of his political stuff until he commented on gaza and I was instantly made aware of the reality of his views.

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        Eh, I tried to be open-minded. Asmongold was funny and surprisingly articulate back when he just dunked on video game developers, but as time went on and Trump came into office, it really started falling apart. Rogan used to have doctors, scientists and educators on his show, and had enough humility to at least admit he was stupid and respected what they taught him. But just like Asmongold, Trump, money and the pandemic absolutely broke his brain.

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          The problem with Rogan was that, even like 7 years ago, I was trying to tell dudes to stop listening to Joe Rogan because he platforms people with very dangerous, unscientific ideas. The response was always, “he has doctors and researchers on, too!” as if Rogan wasn’t doing that on purpose as cover for him to broadcast his deeply reactive political views.

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      Maybe this experience is telling you to question your beliefs on yourself, your family, other people, your country, the world…

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    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.

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      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

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      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.

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      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.

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        I watch twitch, this dude is gross. I’ll watch some pretty degenerate twitch streamers, but this guy seems like a grade a nazi.

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    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.

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        I thought the voices for this were AI generated until I heard his quote on Palestine at the end and remembered that very clip which landed him a Twitch suspension. Fucking hell, those are all actual Asmongold quotes?

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        lmao, no, I haven’t. That’s horrific, hilarious, and eerily accurate somehow.

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      Bots are easy to buy to make you look popular. Also 50,000 people watching isn’t really all that many people in the greater aspect of the world.

      He’s a human garbage dumpster. He’ll probably die from contamination from a mouse eating something that he eats later.

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    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?

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      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.

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          This is it.

          All you need is to parrot what more popular accounts say and have a phone and you can make money as a political streamer.

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          which russia is happy to pay, the political grifters went silent immediately when people found out they were being paid/consultancy through a llc backed by russia.

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        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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        I wish people would just come to terms with the fact that gaming, for whatever reason, seems to breed these ballsack-looking conservative gamers who are willing to do anything and everything to avoid having to keep down a real job. I’ve met a dozen of them in my life and they’re all the same. They’re all rich kids who couldn’t survive a single performance review.

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          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!

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            He doesn’t go to the gym, he’s not active, he’s got shit genetics, he lives in filth, and actively avoids washing.

            It’s not hard to look like shit when you go out of your way to on top of having hit the ugly tree in the genetic lottery.

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      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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      I think he must attract a certain amount of viewers from the “train wreck” effect. He literally was using the stench from the sun hitting a decomposing rat corpse in his room as an “alarm clock” for a while. He has had roaches crawl across him live and not reacted.

      So I can kind of understand getting some sort of twisted satisfaction that you’re doing better, or having the same sort of fascination people have with train wrecks and disasters.

      What I don’t get is why anyone cares about his takes on anything. The man willingly lives in decomposing filth. He’s clearly not a source of knowledge or good opinions on fucking anything.

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        He’s clearly not a source of knowledge or good opinions on fucking anything.

        So here’s my take on this, because I’ve seen similar personalities make similar pivots.

        This guy is a disgusting, bumbling idiot, but he speaks with certainty and condescension. The curious onlooker will see him, get trapped by the mindset you describe (“oh man, this guy’s a trainwreck, let’s see how much worse off he is than me”), find it funny and continue watching.

        After establishing some sort of “trust” with the audience (“I’m a big dumb idiot who makes you laugh”) he pulls out the manipulative speech. “You’d have to be stupid to-”; “this guy’s a retard!”; “It doesn’t make any sense”, etc. Once you get to this part of the steam, you’ve already established that the dude’s an idiot, but you also think he’s funny. You’re faced with the decision to either laugh along with his “jokes”, or “accept” that this buffoon is “more educated” on a topic than you are. The fragile, uninformed audience these people are after are much more likely to go the latter route.