Greta Thunberg sons Andrew Tate; UPDATE: Tate Brothers Arrested in Romania for Human Trafficking

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I'm not defending this asshat in any way, shape, or form. But y'all do realize he wasn't "flexing" on her about his cars though, right?

He was trolling her about the amount of pollution he causes and doesn't give a fukk about. It wasn't a "Look at me, I'm richer and better than you" tweet. He was using her name and status as a lightning rod for right wing vitriol to try and shyt on her and her activism for a cause his followers despise and a person they hate (for no logical reason whatsoever).

Not that it makes it any better (it's probably even worse in that context). :whoa:

I knew that from the jump but I can't imagine any set of circumstances where I'm online, as a grown ass man, Twitter beefing with a teenager girl.

There's no W there, it's literally impossible. Let alone instigating it in the first place. Let alone doing all this while I'm a millionaire.

Tate is the textbook definition of a lame with money.

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I'm not defending this asshat in any way, shape, or form. But y'all do realize he wasn't "flexing" on her about his cars though, right?

He was trolling her about the amount of pollution he causes and doesn't give a fukk about. It wasn't a "Look at me, I'm richer and better than you" tweet. He was using her name and status as a lightning rod for right wing vitriol to try and shyt on her and her activism for a cause his followers despise and a person they hate (for no logical reason whatsoever).

Not that it makes it any better (it's probably even worse in that context). :whoa:


I thought it was both. There were dozens of things he could have done or said that would have been massively polluting and would have been funnier and unconnected to his wealth. He could have had a barrel burning plastic on his back porch and claimed he just feeds shyt into it 24/7, he could make up ways he creates all sorts of trash for no reason, he could say he only buys shyt with the worst environmental impacts, he could brag about eating some endangered animal. But he purposefully flexed in a way that most explicitly referenced his claims to extreme wealth and lifestyle. And the manner in which he framed it was so awkward and stilted that it projected insecurity.
 

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People will say he's being taken down by women and some agenda. Like Romania anti-organized team is a West Hollywood brunch or something. I don't know much about Romania's legal system but it's probably not very liberal leaning.


There are plenty of posts in the TLR thread suggesting exactly this. They claim that the EU put the pressure on Romania to do it. Think of how confused about life you would have to be to even imagine a group of EU officials having a conference call regarding a Twitter beef between Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate and deciding it rose to the level of major geopolitical pressure?
 
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I thought it was both. There were dozens of things he could have done or said that would have been massively polluting and would have been funnier and unconnected to his wealth. He could have had a barrel burning plastic on his back porch and claimed he just feeds shyt into it 24/7, he could make up ways he creates all sorts of trash for no reason, he could say he only buys shyt with the worst environmental impacts, he could brag about eating some endangered animal. But he purposefully flexed in a way that most explicitly referenced his claims to extreme wealth and lifestyle. And the manner in which he framed it was so awkward and stilted that it projected insecurity.


Fair enough. I don't know too much about this buffoon, but he doesn't seem clever enough to come up with half those ideas. Some of those could have actually came off kinda humorous. I always say the worst kind of trolls are lazy ones.
 

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There are plenty of posts in the TLR thread suggesting exactly this. They claim that the EU put the pressure on Romania to do it. Think of how confused about life you would have to be to even imagine a group of EU officials having a conference call regarding a Twitter beef between Greta Thunberg and Andrew Tate and deciding it rose to the level of major geopolitical pressure?


I hear this all the time, on here and in real life. The real issue is that one, a lot of these people are just uneducated, and two, they feel outside the structures of society, disenfranchised (though it also comes from within, like the former president)

And, I think people's social media interactions since 2010, have blurred out a lot of structural knowledge, and replaced it with a gamification of the world, where everything is a meme, or a reaction GIF, or whatever. Like educated people, and some less educated, don't have any idea what the State Department does, or what it's like. Same with the Justice Department. Same with the local DA's office. To them, it's the same as a celebrity feud, or a fan/stan war.

Good example: The Brittany Grenier exchange was debated online like a NBA trade or something. That's not what it was. We are talking about US cvilians detained in bad faith by a hostile foreign power abroad. We have a MANDATE to go get that person. It's not a game.

Like you said, the idea that the EU/or US "made a call" and engineered this is absurd. But, it doesn't matter, because these people often have ZERO idea how something like an international arrest is coordinated. I know. The Justice Department has to secure an indictment, then request detention, then request a PAW, Provisional Arrest Warrant, THEN request extradition. But, that's al boring and doesn't make a meme.

I saw it with friends of mine who had decent educations, and weren't dumb, like 7-8 years ago, with the Facebook News Feed. They began to understand everything through online culture. I explained to someone, who is vastly more educated than me, what the State Department did, and why it's important. They should have been explaining that shyt to me, I don't even have a degree. It may not matter in your immediate world, but it does matter.
 
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It's true that investigations came come from media, I know that in the case of the 2019 Jeffery Epstein indictment, a line prosecutor read the Miami Herald, Julie Brown, reporting, and brought it to her boss, Geoff Berman, who had also read it, and he told her to start working on it, and see if they can come up with a prosecutable case.

I know that example because I fukking read a 400 page book by the former US Attorney of the Southern District. What's not true is that prosecutors and serious career level officials would risk their careers over social meda/gender roles debates. But, if someone showed a prosecutor an Andrew Tate video, where he is bragging about his money and various adjacent criminal activities, yeah, that could happen. But, not without a case that will hold up to a jury, a judge, a federal appeals court.
 
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