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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    When the fuck did Asmongold become the largest POLITICAL streamer?

    He went from games, to reacts, to the largest political just because he says stupid hateful MAGA shit?

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      It’s weird. 6 months ago I hadn’t heard of this guy and it seems like he’s everywhere now.

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      When he discovered it’s an easy grift, and even easier way to get attention which is what he really wants. Dude is a sad little man child, constantly searching for adoration. These are not deeply held, or even shallowly held beliefs he’s just doing whatever gets his audience to be nice to him.

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      When the fuck did Asmongold become the largest POLITICAL streamer?

      He didn’t, not even close—the OP just made that up to augment the ragebait level of their post, lol.

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      That’s all. His chuds look for validation by finding a big streamer to regurgitate their views. Doesn’t matter that his only life experience is rotting in front of WoW. Doesn’t matter that he used the sunlight hitting a dead rat as an alarm clock. Doesn’t matter that his teeth bleed.

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      Because people are getting dumber. It used to be Ben Shabibo with his logical gymnastics, but now with the average right wingers getting dumber they don’t need that shit, now they’re just flocking to people like Assmongold and Charlie Kirk who just shouts keywords and that’ll activate their neurons.

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    I see nothing racist or xenophobic here. This isn’t about race, its about how much effort is needed to reintegrate these people into your society.

    It’s actually really funny, that mild take like this sells to the hate mob here, while Hasan swinging a fucking gun on stream is ignored

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      I see nothing racist or xenophobic here.

      Look at the examples he provides. Do Germans or Poles speak English moreso than Africans? Do Germans or Poles share foreign (American) values moreso than Africans? Why would Germans or Poles integrate into American culture moreso than Africans?

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        Pretty disingenuous take tbh. Of course it would be easier for someone used to living in a stable first world country to integrate into a new one than someone who might’ve grown up without access to school or a stable environment. This is of course not the fault of the individual, and everyone should strive to help poor countries stabilise and improve economically, but the fact remains

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      Oh really, you don’t see anything racist or xenophobic about taking refugees from white skinned countries, but refusing ones from dark skinned countries?

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        It’s about cultural similarity not skin colour. Skin pigmentation doesn’t affect anything but the culture you grow up in matters a lot in how easy it is for someone to integrate into a new one.

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          Hypothetically, if you were in charge of screening immigrants, what kind of culture would you refuse?

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            Seeing the reality that some cultures are harder to integrate is not the same as refusing them. Similar to how unruly children need more attention from teachers than studious ones, some people likely need more help with integration and learning local customs.

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                That’s fair. I’m not trying to defend asmon just pointing out that there is nuance to it

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      Why are you defending such a turdwaffle?

      Dude makes his living by making stupid takes and then playing up his doofus character to apologize like “durrrr sorry I didn’t know it was bad to call someone a f*gg*t”

      The devil doesn’t need an advocate, and he has a hoard of frothing redpills to defend anything he says.

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        Tell me honestly, did you watch some of his streams, or did someone just told you he’s a turdwaffle and you’re just parroting someone eleses opinion? Or maybe you just see cherrypicked snippets and base your opinion on that?

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          This one clip is all I need to hear to know everything I need to know about how shitty this guy is. Never watched a stream or clip of his before in my life.

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          Not his streams, but I’d watch his VODs that got popular on YouTube sometimes.

          I had to block him like a year ago because the dumbest of his takes kept popping up in my recommended feed. The way he’d crank up the slack jawed hurr derr right before he said something intentionally divisive, drove me nuts.

          But years ago his takes were fairly benign (or at least the VODs that made to YouTube were), iirc. I thought he was just kinda goofy, back then.

          I don’t know him from the WoW days, though.

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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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    Lol I remember Dunkey complaining about this guy and twitch streamers in general showing up to E3 because “The only Twitch streamer that plays games is Pete Dorr, and he wasn’t even on there”

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    Accept refugees from Gemany

    Like the Nazis who fled to America after WW2 to avoid persecution?

    Actually that’s exactly the folks he wants.

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    This dude has been a well known shit head for years. It’s not surprising to see him continue to be a well known shit head. Twitch, like most platforms, doesn’t actually care what people say, as long as it drives engagement.

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      I still remember tuning in to see what his stream is about and he is explaining why having a confederate flag is important to texans (not sure if it was texans, been a while)

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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.