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Twitch Streamer Asmongold: I don't really give a fuck what Palestine's problems are... but if somebody's blocking the road... and I'm trying to get through... I will reflexively be against them. (hexbear.net)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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HE COMMENTED ON CIVIL RIGHTS:

When asked: Would you have said the same thing during the civil rights movement?

He replied: "What a ridiculous and self-serving oversimplification to imply the civil rights movement was successful because people stood in the street. It's very simple, just get out of the road"

Here's the link to the video clips.

He also said this:

"What gives you the unique moral authority to break the law because of what you believe in?... It's narcissistic and entitled. That's insane. It's like these people think the world revolved around their issue..."

The pic is just a pic I found of him.

Edit: Also, if people think he doesn't matter, he's literally more popular than Hasan, especially when it comes to gaming shit.

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[โ€“] abc@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

literally one guy's comment from a 4 year old post that isn't even about him lol. I'd expect a qualifier like 'I remember when this site used to praise him[...]' to be referring to at least 3 posts with 50+ comments actually praising him. Instead we have:

He [Hasan Piker] seems to have a good influence on the other grill pillers too

After talking to him Asmongold started saying shit like "private property is a construct of the state", and "the US electoral system is captured by monied interests" on stream, so that's almost an understatement lmao

This is just a comment saying that WoW Streamer was on his stream parroting the politics of the last guy he spoke to. Not even in a praising way lol. If anything this is more Hasan praise - which sure, is definitely an argument to get into (not with me, I don't care about Hasan) but I think it is definitely wrong and a gross mischaracterization of the site to say that we've ever 'praised' Asmongold or Kanye West or even Grimes. It seems like you read someone facetiously commenting 'based' on a random "X Celebrity said Y thing in public" post and conflate that with them thinking 'wow they're finally a leftist and have my undying support now'.

I'm not seeing any legitimate praise from this post and that is quite literally one of the oldest posts you can find when searching 'Kanye' and maybe the only one I saw during the 30 seconds I searched that had any amount of 'praise' in the title: https://hexbear.net/post/28862

The top comment is literally:

Lol is Kanye changing his grift?

anyways shrug-outta-hecks I don't really care because yeah, they're all celebrities who are inconsequential to my life and I'm not fans of any of the above -- I just think its kinda wild to say something like "I remember when this site was actually pretty pro reddit" and point to a post that is talking about inviting people from a banned leftist sub.

[โ€“] JayTwo@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There was more than that but I'm not searching for everything.

This is just a comment saying that WoW Streamer was on his stream parroting the politics of the last guy he spoke to. Not even in a praising way lol.

It's absolutely "in a praising way".

The context is that Hasan was influencing other "grillpilled" streamers and therefore that their opinions were improving.

The comment before it was

He seems to have a good influence on the other grill pillers too

And the user I linked called Hasan being a good influence on Asmongold "almost an understatement, lmao"

This though just shows that not enough of us touch enough grass and speak to people outside of leftist circles, because people will say something promising then rubberband back to something super reactionary. It happens all the time.

Once again I'm not sure if we're arguing that the site as a whole has had some bad takes or that enough people on it to make their opinions moderately visible have.
I'm just arguing the latter.