• Gnothi@lemmy.world
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      I believe that was just coincidental timing. Not complaining though, because it made it all much more exciting.

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        It wasn’t just timing. His reply to Greta was what led the Romanian police to know he was in Romania and close to which pizza restaurant.

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    Lollll I absolutely love that it was because of Greta Thunberg that he got caught.

    Here’s a quote from an article:

    On Tuesday, Mr Tate, a former kickboxer and influencer who has been banned from numerous social media services for violent and misogynistic rhetoric, tagged Ms Thunberg in a Twitter post, asking for her email address so he could “send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions”.

    The tweet also featured Mr Tate filling up a gas-guzzling Bugatti supercar at the pump.

    The following day, the climate activist responded with a tweet of her own, replying, “Yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com.”

    He then took a picture of himself with a pizza box, which then led the Romanian authorities to where he was hiding, and was arrested.

    Fuck yeah.

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    As much as I’m glad that Andrew Tate is facing criminal charges, I think we need to address the root cause of our societal ills. Tate isn’t the cause but rather a symtpom.

    We really need to step back and ask ourselves why somebody so brazenly misogynistic has attracted a following of millions and has become a role model to teenage boys especially.

    I can explain exactly why, because we’ve created a growing social underclass of men who cannot earn a living, cannot find a romantic partner, cannot live fulfilling lives, and anybody who they turn to either mocks them, fobs them off, or give them false platitudes, which is why they turn to toxic masculinity and the Manosphere for guidance.

    The reality is that inceldom is largely an economic issue that has resulted from decades of stagnated wages which have disproportionately affected men, because despite our best efforts to create an egalitarian society, we still overwhelmingly find men unattractive if they are not the strong hunter-gatherers and providers that our biology has been conditioned over millions of years to find physically attractive. Our biology has not caught up to the millennia of societal progress we’ve made because evolution is a much slower process.

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      I can’t agree with that. Being poor is not an excuse to be a shitbag. A lot of those guys aren’t even trying to change anything, they put all the blame on corporations as if it somehow makes their behavior justified, and then spend their days on incel forums.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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      Hmm, I don’t think I’m with you. You say men are incels because they’re poor and can’t find a girl. From what I’ve seen, they can’t find a girl because of deeply rooted, misogynistic beliefs that turn people off. If also like to see your citation for wage stagnation affecting men more than women, because every study I’ve seen says the wage gap has stayed the same or widened in the last few years. I know many, many men who aren’t the strong hunter gatherer type and have loving wives or girlfriends. The difference is those guys aren’t assholes.

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    Andrew Tate? Let me tell you, he hasn’t hurt a fly, not one bit. Why on earth would they be charging him with crimes? It’s clear as day, folks, this is just another attempt by those liberals to punish people for being good in society. They can’t stand it when someone stands up for what’s right. Sad! We need to fight against this injustice, folks, and support those who are making a positive impact. Together, we will triumph over these baseless accusations. #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #Trump2024 #TateIsInnocent

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        This is a news community, not a lousy impersonationators community. It’s the wrong audience for this joke. I don’t want news posts filled with bad comedians, so of course I’m going to vote against this. Trump gets too much attention as is, why would I want him to get even more attention on articles that don’t even have anything to do with him?

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        Yeah so that‘s how the donald started out. Trump satire isn‘t funny to me and irrelevant, so I‘ll vote how I want.

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        We know it’s satire. We just find Trump so unfunny and so problematic that even satire of him is annoying.