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    It was bewildering to me that he was a popular WoW streamer. But at least he had some basic knowledge there. His turn to politics, something he has never studied and personally asserts he doesn’t need to study. Because he’s somehow an expert in human behavior. Despite never seeing a psychology or sociology text. Basically just projecting his own behavior on everyone else. It’s just baffling

    Are young men really this hard up for role models?

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      I have a friend who parrots so much of what the guy says. Since we mostly play/talk about video games it’s normally more low-stakes than genocide but Asmon’s takes are still such dogshit.

      E.g. my mate refused to play Helldivers 2 for free because Asmon said it’s too repetitive and has no content. After 12 months he finally gave it a go FOR FREE and was blown away by how fun it “had become”. Mate, it was fun the whole time but you listened to some chronically online shitbag over your own friends. Smh.

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        Some of the most fun I ever had playing video games was on Grindy, Korean MMOs run by horrible companies with limited content and bugs out the ass. Emergent gameplay can trump almost everything.

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      isnt he just as bad as hasan who also pivoted to politics, whom is part of the rich class, while trying to peddle leftist ideas.

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        Hasan has been doing political commentary for like 15 years or something. Long before he started streaming on Twitch. I’m pretty sure he’s got a Political Science degree from Rutgers.

        It’s absurd to say he’s just as bad as asmongold who has never read a fucking book.

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        Cenk Uygur’s nephew? Yeah, he’s privileged. And definitely has held some stupid positions. Though looking at Cenk it may run in the family.

        But he can’t compete with Asmon. Hasan whether or not I agree with him, is consistent and often on the right side of many issues. Asmon can’t claim that.

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    Gonna shamelessly plug Yugopnik and MikeFromPAs podcast trailer here. Animation from ‪AamonAnimations‬. Not affiliated with them. Haven’t even watched the podcast myself. Just a fanboy of Yugopnik and this trailer goes hard. Asmond is less than a cockroach.

    https://youtu.be/rE7IGmDR9sg

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    as a dutch person its still strange that there’s no english word for apartheid

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      Apartheid is the English word for apartheid. That’s how English works. “That’s a nice word you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.” Then it’s an English word, too.

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        If we go by George W Bush the French have no word for entrepreneur rules, then there’s no Dutch word for apartheid anymore since it was taken for English.

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    Since when? I have only read articles about his “antisemitic behaviour” when criticising Israel

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      It’s a hierarchy of hate. Asmeinkamph gobbles up conspiracy theories of all stripes. He’s a parrot. He parrots antisemitism, but he hates Muslims more. Viewing Israel as token “good ones” basically cheering them on. There’s no consistency or logic to it.

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      This the first time you’ve encountered an extremely antisemitic person that supports Israel enough to support it’s purpose in American Imperialism? He’s the propaganda voice for the state department to speak to the dumbest fucking guys on the internet. He’s just smart enough to have zero actual ideology or concrete positions to keep the dumbest people listening to him and being fed whatever narrative keeps his viewers showing up to their job or just isolating themselves in their home.