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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 168 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

I'm not the genius chess grandmaster that Tate is, but somehow I have managed to avoid the inside of every single Romanian prison.

Also, I've never trafficked even one person. Seems like a pretty beta male move on his part.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 81 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I have managed to avoid the inside of every single Romanian prison.

The secret is to avoid carbs. Romanian pizza is what took Tate down.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 67 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I somehow forgot that him getting pissy at the existence of Greta Thunberg is what gave Romanian cops the data they needed to arrest him.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how much he seethes at night knowing this fact.

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Well, TIL. I liked it better when it was a meme and not a serious police investigation that took him down, but it makes sense.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I suspect the reason it spread so easily was that people wanted to believe.

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago

Downside: Considered a monster by sane people worldwide

Upside: Can order shaorma via glovo every day, even in house arrest

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What, you mean you didn't have a successful YouTube channel that advocated for rape and human trafficking and then moved to Romania because you said it made facilitating rape and human trafficking easier and so you were never arrested in Romania for rape and human trafficking?!

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago

This made me smirk.

[–] cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I refuse to answer this question without my lawyer present

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 7 months ago

I am the genius chess grandmaster that Tate is!

But not that Tate...

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

You've avoided it so far. Don't make assumptions about the future.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 128 points 7 months ago (3 children)

who is charged with human trafficking and rape

And who is a darling of the right despite them knowing that. Sounds familiar, come to think of it...

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 55 points 7 months ago

Just needs some tax fraud and he's fit to run for office as a Republican

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The spokespeople for the right are full of individuals like this. It's insane they feel the need to invent elaborate conspiracy theories about others when these people are right in front of their faces.

[–] nulluser@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago
[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

They need the other side to also be terrible to maintain the 'both sides are the same' narrative. It's why they're desperate to impeach Biden for something.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They all claim that he hasn't been convicted yet, so he isn't a rapist.

Just have to ignore the part where Taters said he/him fled to Romania because the human trafficking laws are more lax.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Trump was found liable for rape and they still don't call him a rapist. I wish they'd just come out and admit they're fine with rape instead of all of this pussyfooting around.

[–] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

It's like their feelings keep them from caring about the facts

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 62 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I saw him being interviewed about the middle east and Israel, like why the fuck are outfits like the BBC interviewing this rapist piece of shit about anything?

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[–] Oiconomia@feddit.de 61 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Publicly bragging that the Romanian justice system is corrupt and won't detain him probably didn't help.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Quite the contrary, I think it helped the rest of us a lot, by keeping that piece of shit detained.

[–] Oiconomia@feddit.de 10 points 7 months ago

Not saying it is a bad thing. It is also very fortunate that Romania needs to show that they have a robust judical system to get into the Schengen agreement. I hope for society, that Romania now really needs to show that they can keep the EU safe from non-EU criminals like Tate.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 58 points 7 months ago

Oh, he's trying to flee Romania the same way he fled the UK to escape accusations of domestic violence and sexual aggression?

Fuck him and his brother. I hope they both rot for life in the worst Romanian prison they can find and that they lose everything. They fucking deserve it for all they've done to humanity.

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 43 points 7 months ago
[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was cool with not seeing news about this chud after I left reddit

[–] SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I don't understand why people keep complaining about journalists doing their job. Every time there is an article about musk, someone is bitching that they can't stand him anymore and op should stop posting about it.

Now Tate has had a major ruling against him. I read the Guardian most days and I haven't seen an article about him in weeks, I admit I might have missed one.

You know you can put your phone down, or go read arstechnica or Tom's hardware if you are not interested in the news?

[–] Iapar@feddit.de 38 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Must be weird for him that someone tries to fuck him voluntarily.

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[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I've literally never heard of this guy outside of Reddit (haven't been back since they killed RIF) and here. These articles do more to make him relevant than the other way around like it should be.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

This is the first I’ve seen about him on Reddit or here, but he’s all over TikTok, YouTube, talked about among high schoolers and anywhere incels gather.

[–] ButteredMonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not contradicting, but sharing my perspective. I teach 14 - 18 year olds in the USA, 80% of which are male. Andrew Tate peaked in their discussions about the time of his 1st arrest. (Was that last year?) I rarely hear about him anymore and really none this past school year.

If the current conversations I'm constantly battling are any indication, then the content algorithms are mainly serving up Jewish hate. Though surprisingly those comments are not tied to current events in Israel and Gaza.

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[–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Being relevant for losing appeals against being prosecuted for human trafficking isn't really the desirable kind of clout

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[–] iegod@lemm.ee 22 points 7 months ago

Womp womp fuck this piece of trash.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 months ago

Oh no! Anyway.

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good for him! He will soon be surrounded only by other dominant males. No beta losers nor stupid women in Romanian jails.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

He's such a poser.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

I am okay with this.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Standard ~~Tate~~ Society W.

[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

'...(he) claimed that prosecutors have no evidence against him and that there is a political conspiracy to silence him. He was previously banned from various prominent social media...'

Am I the only one here old enough to realize 12 years ago this argumentation chain would have been hilarious?

Not that I support human trafficking, but damn news writers nowadays are at the very best lazy as shit.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Whom are you criticizing? News writers? Tate? What argument is occurring?

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

What's the argument here?

[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do these people actually make money? Like surely Facebook Instagram etc won't be giving them millions of dollars

[–] gastationsushi@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He got most of his money through his university / pyramid scheme. J Aubrey's YT channel is an entertaining look at the worst internet celebs.

https://youtu.be/y73xciJEX20

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