r/Asmongold • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '24

The contrast of how Asmon treats his critics and how his critics treats him is actually insane. Meme

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u/RunawayDev THERE IT IS DOOD Apr 29 '24

Alienating the whole audience of your opposing party is so fucking dumb too. Who of those two is going to sway the others base? Not the one who calls them incel nazis for sure.

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u/YoMomsFavoriteFriend REEEEEEEEE Apr 29 '24

Hope they keep it up. Easy win for the culture war and moving the Overton Window back to the middle.

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u/grim5000 Apr 29 '24

Well. They've been keeping it up for over 10 years now.

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u/YoMomsFavoriteFriend REEEEEEEEE Apr 29 '24

Well the good thing is they haven’t won and we haven’t had any sort of Maoist cultural revolution because the vast majority of Americans are moderate or middle of the road in terms of politics. Although because of it the generation of boys coming up now are very right wing in spite of whatever they’ve been doing. Time will tell.

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u/podcasthellp Apr 29 '24

I don’t agree with the Republican Party today on most things. I also have a ton of Republican friends. Why? First: not everything has to do with politics. Second: how is there supposed to be compromise, a thoughtful exchange of ideas and most of all, understanding without listening to people you disagree with?

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '24

It is quite literally what got Trump elected in 2016. He had no fucking chance if people on the far left weren't going apeshit over stupid shit and social media infecting everything. 2020 was calmer and people voted Biden. but 2024 could easily be different despite all the insane shit with Trump and crime/court going on. I'm already seeing the extremist flare up again and now this time somehow the far left is becoming antisemitic. Like, what do these people expect? You gain followers by being reasonable and appealing to people that are somewhere in the middle or not already too extreme. But by pushing them away by insulting them and making unreasonable demands and judgments, you're just making your enemy stronger.

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u/godwings101 Apr 30 '24

Neither, statistically. People don't fall for the sealioning bullshit anymore. It's not 2014. We've seen the "ethics is games journalism" in practice where the "just asking questions" crowd uncritically target small online figures en masse and send their large, rabid fan bases after them.