Is Asmongold an alt-right "entrypoint" influencer? - eviltoast

When I watch certain of his Youtube clips, etc… some things bug me off. What do you think of it?

    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      I don’t think he thinks much about anything really. He just puts on a show.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      4 months ago

      He strikes me more like a nihilist or at least realist. He does react to political videos like the Trump interview where he complained about Harris “suddenly being black”. But Asmon mostly makes fun of all the idiocy. But he also makes fun of idiocy on the left and that seems to get gobbled up by his commentors.

      But all in all he doesn’t seem to care about stuff, including himself. He just states how things are without much evaluation beyond objectively bad things.

      Like, he’ll state that he has an unhealthy lifestyle. He’ll state that people make fun of him. He’ll state there are transsexual people. He’ll state people get upset about transsexuals. Could be construed as right-wing, but there is no valuation in those statements because they’re objectively true.

      He’ll also say that there is violence against transsexuals and that that is fucked up. Could be construed as left-wing but I would say that’s as objectively morally bad as one would be able to call anything so.

      His followers and detractors seem to ignore everything left leaning he says and instead just focus on everything even slightly right leaning. Especially taking any statement out of context. Like here: https://youtu.be/xBzc3CJOj9I

      I don’t like the guy but I think he is entertaining. I just have to stay clear of his comment section.

      • britishblaze@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        I think he’s aware that the statements he makes are always objectively correct and the right wing audience wants to believe that he is on their side when it usually isn’t the case. Especially when discussing about the current direction of games.