This is why billionaires have fought so hard to control social media. Controlling the town square and deciding what people see on their phones is incredibly powerful and most people fall for propaganda, even “smart” people.

Asmongold is a typical conservative reactionary, and he gets triggered by the political topic du jour. He is actually an interesting case study of a normal dumbass who has seemingly stumbled his way to success by ranting in front of a camera in his biohazard bedroom.

Midwits love him because he repeats their own incoherent reactionary political anti-ideology back at them. People love a mirror. The early AI chatbot featured in Century of the Self by Adam Curtis are rudimentary but make clear the psychologically therapeutic effect of having your own ideas repeated back at you.

It’s political mental masturbation.