• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    Subscriptions to their online groups, the War Room and Hustler’s University, appear to bring the brothers around $5m a month in membership fees, prosecutors say.

    This is sad. Horrible people spawning more horrible people.

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      It is a problem that the left needs to find its own way of responding to. Right now there are a lot of young disillusioned boys who are being left behind by society. They latch onto these radical right wing ideals/grifters who tell them that they can make all their dreams real if they’ll buy our memberships and treat people this and that way. Our society is changing and we need some way to help those who are left behind or we will continue to see an increase in radicalized young men!

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      Jesus, that’s so depressing. People just want to belong to something, but seeing them find a home somewhere like that makes me feel so sad.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The 300 pages of reported testimony and evidence seen by the BBC provide a rare glimpse inside the pre-trial prosecution case against Andrew Tate, whose controversial views and online influence have sparked warnings from teachers, police and rights groups.

    Included in the summary is a reproduced text message in which Mr Tate appears to claim leadership of the adult content business that prosecutors say was a human trafficking ring.

    Earlier this summer, Romanian prosecutors said in a statement that the Tate brothers had recruited their alleged victims by misleading them about their romantic intentions, before transporting the women to a house on the outskirts of Bucharest - where they were sexually exploited by the group, and forced to produce pornographic content through physical violence and mental coercion.

    The prosecutors’ file also contains what is claimed to be transcriptions of audio messages from 2020 - in which Tristan Tate appears to say he doesn’t want the women on sites like PornHub and OnlyFans to have access to their accounts:

    She says she was unable to reject Mr Tate because he would hold her head during sex, telling her he no longer wanted to receive negative messages from her, and threatening to get her pregnant and lock her in a house.

    In their report, prosecutors allege that the Tate brothers do not appear to have income “from lawful activities”, but that from 2018 onwards they acquired “numerous properties”, “15 of the rarest and most expensive cars”, estimated to be worth more than £3m, as well as jewellery and $400,000 in cryptocurrency.


    The original article contains 1,755 words, the summary contains 259 words. Saved 85%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    The content of the full text of this article is frankly appalling.

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    Friend of mine started talking in defense of this guy, and although my wife is best friends with his girlfriend, I cancelled his ass quicker than Netflix coming down on my account sharing. Fuck him and fuck his following.

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        Imagine having such brain damage that you think that taking offense that someone is defending a rape apologist is somehow something worth derision.

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          Throwing a hissy fit (rage even) just because the guy supports some random guy is a feminist trait, yea. Normal guys just say ‘come on, that dude is a douche’ and leave it at that.

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            Hissy fit/rage? They just said they don’t talk to the guy anymore, how can you assume so much when you barely know any details?

            In addition, if someone defends Andrew Tate after knowing what he did and what he preaches, I don’t think think it is someone worthwhile having around.

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              Yeah, filter your friends according to Cosmo filters, nice life advice. 🤣

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      Did you explain why he was wrong first or did you just walk away accomplishing nothing?

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        If you’re a Tate fan, you know what’s wrong with him, it just doesn’t bother you. At best you can be socially pressured into dropping him but deep down you think a sex trafficking and rape is just guys being dudes.

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          I don’t know if I believe that. I mean yes, Andrew Tate is a piece of shit. Full stop, that is fact in my eyes.

          The people who follow him could just be stupid, though. Sure there are certainly fucking pyschos that think sex trafficking and whatever else degenerate shit Tate gets into are fine, but all of his followers?

          Don’t attribute to malice what can easily be explained by stupidity.

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            You can be stupid and a piece of shit, which does actually encompass all tate dickriders and “fans”

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    How is his chin that small even WITH a beard? Is that the real reason incels idolize him? I know they’ve got lots of weird chin issues is he like their Helen Keller? Chinless success story?

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        Honestly it’s just fascinating to me that incel culture has such a huge fixation on chins yet their messiah doesn’t even have one.

        I’ve been following incel culture for a while now (and honestly mostly because so many try to kill themselves after being exposed to poison from men like this). And most of the time I just wind up roping any male staff member I can find (everybody from security to chaplains) to talk to these young men because I know I have no business womansplaining healthy masculinity to these young men.

        But go ahead and get mad about one comment then read through my comment history for dirt like we’re still on reddit even though lemmy said it would be different.