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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (3 children)

He’s pretty clearly a shitty person that no one should model themselves after.

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

Wow that seems pretty harsh.

You try having something like 50,000 hours of recorded streams without saying something dumb.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s not what he says rather it is who he is and presents himself as.

No one should aspire to be a troll that is as uniquely unfuckable as him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think aspiring to be another person is very admirable in any context.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So then what was the point of your initial comment? I said no one should model themselves after him. You replied that that was a harsh statement, but if you don’t think anyone should aspire to be like someone else what is the problem?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think he's a shitty person. He doesn't actively harm or exploit anyone just spergs out on the internet playing Vidya. If every Texan was an asmongold it would be a half decent state.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think his larger message is his harm. I think his attitude is problematic as is his hygiene.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What do you even interpret his "larger message" to be?

Collecting videogame mounts? Reacting to other people's YouTube videos?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

His overt racism and sexism are a problem as are his anti-social norms regarding hygiene/sanitation etc

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

He definitely is a member of a subculture, I don't watch much of his content but I appreciate the moderating effect he has on gamer culture in general. It would be easy for him to sell out to the right wing corporate media machine but he hasn't.

There are so many people who are not just worse than him but intentionally pretending to be the worst person they can imagine for monetary gain.

He strikes me as a rather genuine person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What moderating effect do you think he has?

He’s genuinely a shitty guy. The fact that worse people exist doesn’t make him more acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He acknowledges his own shortcomings and emphasizes self examination. He's fairly anti corporate and generally follows his own values rather than the medias directions. To fairly dubious ends of course but there is still value in that.

I wouldn't recommend modeling your life on the man. But any minute that someone is watching asmon they aren't interacting with the right wing scamiverse that is hellbent on enslaving humanity and destroying the planet.

So I would call him a troll but I wouldn't call him shitty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

His racism is a good place to start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

LOL Where and when was he racist? I need a source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He said inferior culture, not inferior race tho.

CULTURE != RACE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you’re nitpicking to avoid the obvious conclusion that he is racist and he sucks.

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

I think he's based AF!

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

Funny how the BBC didn't quote asmongold (because then they'd have to mention the word 'genocide' twice). P. S.- not defending asmongold at all just the Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

without saying something dumb.

except for the misogyny and bigotry

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It's pretty easy to not say racist and misogynistic shit if you're not a racist and/or misogynist.

Like you realize that people aren't out here struggling every day to not say the n word. That's not normal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He does have based takes on most things tho. IMO

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You REALLY need remedial preliminary education if you believe that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's OK, let me help you out:

Remedial means: "to give a remedy," or in this context, "to provide a corrective education in order to attain the education level of your contemporaries" ("Contemporaries" means a person living and working at the same time as you).

Preliminary means: "denoting an action or event preceding or done in preparation of something important."

Hopefully that helps!

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

I didn't say "huh" cuz I didn't understand you. I said "huh" because I was confused about why you think I'm uneducated/unintelligent.

Fun fact: There are highly educated and intelligent people with different world views and values than you and other average Lemmy people.

If someone doesn't think the same as you - that doesn't necessarily mean they are dumb or uneducated.

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

Yeah sure whatever you say, keep following the herd. I stopped giving a fuck about your virtue signaling types months ago.

Go ahead and follow the script to call me a nazi next.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why would you be a nazi? I suspect you are a cnfused child if you think Asmingold is an aspirational figure.

Asmongold is the kind of guy who is unfuckable despite having money. Why would you want to be that guy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you habitual judge people entirely on their fuckability? I mean, I have little opinion of Asmongold except what I see other people saying about him on the internet, but that seems like a weirdly sexualized take on things.

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

When Im talking to an obvious teenaged boy it’s safer to talk in terms they understand. A 15 year old might get why Asmongold isunfuckable but they might not understand why adults would hold him in disdain regardless of what he does.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Playing by someone else's rules means they dictate the conversation. You have significantly less power. If you want people to act like adults, like reasonable people, try treating them that way.

It may not work, but it's far more likely to do so than constantly talking down to them.

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

Have you been paying attention to this conversation? Maybe go back and reread before replying to me. You might find yourself thinking differently when you see my comments and the replies that I got from the start

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

Ah yes because appearance equals value in this dogshit world of yours. Way to admit you dont like him because he is actually popular despite that fact.

Also a kid using lemmy? get real. Most of us here are 21+ at the least.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

His personality and hygiene are what makes him unfuckable.

And based on your responses here, why shouldn’t I continue thinking you’re a boy?