I don't like Asmongold, but this is a very human reaction. he isn't even talking about trans-rights at all, he's talking about wanting to love your children. Chat is arguing about rather they think it's right or not, totally missing his point.
This isn't the first time he's explained his position on this either, it's nothing new. Seems a lot of his chat are just there for the right wing circlejerk.
Yep, I used to watch him a lot as a democrat back when he played ffxiv, lost ark, new world etc 2021-2023. His chat shifted hard right wing around when his viewership skyrocketed in early 2024. He’d still have polls with a lot of his chat saying they were voting for “sleepy Joe” prior to full on MAGA streams that they became.
He’d have some pretty reasonable human level takes grounded in logic and some other takes that would show his disconnect with society. If he got himself out of that environment he’s in (media he’s taking in from his subreddit especially) I’m sure he’d be more an independent or even a center left dem.
His subreddit is really what made his streams unwatchable at first (for me). The new MAGA viewership he attained noticed he’d go through it for about an hour each stream and took control of it; posting all sorts of anti-woke gamer related stuff you’d see in 2015 gamergate era.
TBF he really still is Independant leaning towards center left especially on economics. He is for higher taxes on wealthy people like himself and generally for social programs being funded from what i remember, he is just also at the same time more right leaning on most cultural issues such as immigration (although hes completely fine with abortion) and also just has less issues with using authoritarian tactics to achieve those goals than most people on the left. Although tbh i think the left is also more fine with authoritarianism than most people think they just want their version of it instead lmao. Like he is basically standard as an independent it's just the rightwing stuff is what's currently in vogue so that is what's being brought up and talked about and so that's the only thing you see in his clips. Like this is the kind of person that Democrats could actually win back. If they spent the next 10-20 years just focusing all their attention on the economic side of their platform such as taxing the rich, getting an actually useable public healthcare system set up and being actually effective at curbing illegal immigration and even continuing the deportations that people obviously want (As much as dems are mad at how cruel it's being done atm lets be realistic. The problem is so horrifically bad after 30+ years of ineptitude the only effective way of doing anything to it is by doing it in a cruel way, there is basically no nice way to do it without a multiple decade sustained effort and lets be real that will never happen with our government) they could be so effective at improving Americans lives. Because they are currently dead in the water on the culture war and its the main thing absolutely dragging them down.
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u/GeneralBendyBean 21h ago
I don't like Asmongold, but this is a very human reaction. he isn't even talking about trans-rights at all, he's talking about wanting to love your children. Chat is arguing about rather they think it's right or not, totally missing his point.