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[–] 302 points 3 months ago (1 child)

It's always the people you most expect

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  • [–] 141 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    He’s the kind of guy you just wonder when he’ll get sent up on some kind of sex offender charge, not if.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I mean he was already arrested for exactly that in Romania and somehow was allowed to leave the country to flee to the US.

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  • [–] 79 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

    You know, I haven't lived a perfect life. I've done things that I regret. I've broken hearts. I've burned bridges. I've let people down. These failures don't define my life, but, like most folks who aren't complete narcissists or psychopaths, I have my share of regrets. Like most, I've had dark moments where I wonder if I'm truly a good person, or if the world would be better off without me. I'm fine now, but life has had its ups and downs.

    But moments like these are a useful salve for such feelings. The regrets I have are a big deal in my life, but nothing compared to this. My regrets are thing like when I've burned out of a job due to ADHD, let my coworkers pick up the slack, and then quit on short notice when I hit a wall, leaving them holding the bag. Or when I had to break up with someone I had been with for years, in a relationship where mutual feelings still existed, simply because of incompatible life and relationship goals. Or how, despite all we tried, we weren't able to save my little brother from the opioid epidemic; the fact that I as an older sibling wasn't able to save my little brother. Or times I've let my spouse down. These are the kinds of regrets that eat at my soul. And I've never physically hurt anyone, never cheated on a partner. Just ordinary life regrets.

    Those are the kinds of regrets I have. Those are the things that when I'm at my worst make me feel like a monster. I know none of those are objectively evil acts. But feelings aren't rational.

    But then I look at someone like Tate. I feel grief and shame for things that aren't even really my fault. And this man is unrepentant despite a lifetime of committing the most vile acts a human being can commit. Human trafficking. Rape. Child pornography. He unapologetically treated human beings as disposable trash, on a mass scale, and bragged to the world about it. That is a universe of evil that is simply beyond my understanding.

    Some say God has a plan or purpose for everyone. I think Andrew Tate's purpose, if he has any at all, is to be such a human monster, that ordinary people, healthy but flawed human beings, can get a reality check on their own self-doubts and self-hate. If there is any good at all that has come from Tate's life, it would have to be something like this. This tiniest of silver linings in cloud of pus and shit.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    As a fellow older brother who lost a sibling in a (kinda) similar way (got my own dark memories there), I felt that.

    But for me it's just a sad reminder that that what should be an absolute statement can have an exception.

    As in, even saying "I hate humans suffering at all..." requires an "except..." added onto it.

    I don't have the general self blaming issue though.

    Except for the brother bit specifically. But I give myself a pretty big break for that (unfortunately due to some of the other problems). Not saying it's better or worse, just different.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    There is no silver lining. This guy's crimes extend far beyond him through the use of deceptive propaganda. He has influenced millions of young men to be abusive fucks.

    If society would use him as an example to expose the manosphere and dismantle it, then perhaps that would be a good thing to come from this. Unfortunately, that is not going to happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I think it’s important to note they weren’t even men when YouTube and Social media started throwing their content at them. The early twenties misogynists were single digit boys when Tate, Rogan, and the rest of the manosphere was thrown on them.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Everyone fucks up every now a and again and I wouldn't look past that more than it is, and truth be told yours are not fuck ups, it's just life. This Tate schuck has fucked up far and beyond, that is the difference

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  • [–] 61 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Joseph D McBride, the Tates’ lawyer, told reporters that his clients were innocent. He said: “They’ve never done nothing wrong. They shouldn’t be extradited for crimes they didn’t commit. It’s garbage. It’s a stitch-up job.”

    Where did they get this guy.

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  • [–] 44 points 3 months ago

    It doesn't feel right agreeing with such an amazingly stupid arsehole but he's right when he says "They've never done nothing wrong".

    It's true... They've never done anything right.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    A lawyer should know what a double negative is... Or maybe he did it on purpose...

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Lawyers aren't supposed to lie but also represent their clients in the best possible light to try and get sympathy of the judge, jury (if present) and public opinion in general.

    Not to sympathize with the guy but seems evidence is pretty solid. All he can do is try to spin into something it's not.

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  • [–] 58 points 3 months ago

    Images? Bro he sold minors to rapists

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  • [–] 56 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not in the slightest surprised

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  • [–] 89 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The day when we never have to hear about this man again is coming tantalisingly close.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    When Dickfingers dies I will have a party as well

    The only thing is that in my life I've seen George Bush and clowns, then lived through two Dickfinger presidencies, what's to say they don't elect someone else corrupt and retarded in a few elections time? There's no sign that Americans are getting smarter

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    In fact, the evidence clearly points to Americans getting dumber.

    As an American, we’ll be lucky if we still have a country in 10 or 20 years. Assuming Dickfingers doesn’t try to nuke everyone before he finally dies.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

    This puts the US admin in a weird spot. This guy is charged with possessing CA images. Will the USA protect him or hand him over?

    It kinda sets a precedence in a way on if pedos are protected or not. We all know the reality but in such a high profile situation like this where there is a charge and he is not politician what will they do?

    IMO, Given he is partially African American and generally operated out of the UK, they will hand him over, but that sends the very clear message pedos are to be punished.

    Interesting position that’s occurring here (I suspect by design of the UK) . The USA protects its pedophiles, however verbalizing protection of a non white not fully American pedophile is a possible stretch.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    The US doesn't protect pedos per se, it protects the disgustingly rich and those connected to them.

    It's just that there's a great deal of overlap between that group and the pedos

    I suspect Tate is not in the obscenely weathy group, or he wouldn't have been imprisoned in the first place.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I don't disagree with your assessment...but the fact they elected one to the highest office is a pretty powerful message (on normalization) to the rest of the world.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You seem to focus too much on the pedophilia. It's not that these people like pedophilia. They like the rich. And if the rich are pedophiles, who cares, they are rich.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    The love of rich is stronger than the hate of pedophiles, yes that is how it looks.

    I can't understand it personally. Only one of those is actually a despicable crime. Worshiping rich is people idiotic to me, letting them be above the law, on that kinda crime goes well beyond idiotic.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The Tate brothers will be sacrificed for the sake of optics.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    It's almost like that's their purpose.

    They need to prosecute some to show virtue and intent. They just don't go after the billionaires.

    The only reason the filthy rich go to prison is for harming other filthy rich.

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  • [–] 110 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Child ABUSE images? RELEASE HIM!

    -Republicans Tomorrow!

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months ago

    To the surprise of no one.

    Now do Trump.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago

    The usual suspects.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Oh look — another Conservative pedophile.

    I’m no genius, but I’m sensing a pattern here.

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    He compared the charges to the legal proceedings against Donald Trump

    Oh they're totally guilty then lmao

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    So... next Republican candidate for 2028?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Best friend of Barron.

    I guess.. Like father like son!

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    i expect nothing less, especially if the tate brothers (andrew) also raped a women.

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    It's always the person you most suspect.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    I thought that's what would get him in to the new modern america.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 months ago* (7 children)

    They're being charged in the UK. All Trump can do is refuse to extradite; but that just means they're bared from the UK and anywhere else that has an extradition treaty with the UK.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I'd be very surprised to learn that the US doesn't have an extradition treaty with the UK. Given present circumstances, not sure if matters.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    The US does have an extradition treaty with the UK but they also refuse to adhere to it. Remember that lady that ran a kid over in the UK and then escaped to the US? They refused to send her over to stand trial for her crimes.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    With every instance like this, it grows both hilarious and tragic that right wing figures of the like will inevitably, at some point, happen themselves upon a bit of CP on their hard drive

    By all means of logic no political group, let alone a political direction, should be this consistent with their ability to be pedophiles, but here we are

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Scumbags gravitate to radical politics because radicalized people are the biggest marks. Just be famous say a few slogans and you have them willing to defend whatever scummy shit you do.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    That's because right isn't really a political direction, it's just a selfish opinion. If society operated the way the right actually want it to operate everything would collapse within about 5 years.

    Their entire philosophy relies on their being an out group that they can punch down. It's either immigrants, or people living on the streets, or ethnic minorities. It's all about how they can hurt people. Never help them.

    So of course they are going to attract the psychopaths.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    surprisedpikachuface.jpg

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    They are prosecuting Tate with less than they have on Mango Mussolini.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It hasn't escaped my notice that there are alot of pedophiles in the GOP. More than you would expect by chance. I wasn't the only one to notice: We need to talk about pedocon theory

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Right wing politics in general tends to go hand in hand with misogyny, sexism, and generally treating people as things. Whenever you talk to them they always say it's a few bad apples, but it seems to be like a third of the barrel.

    Of course it's even worse with the GOP because they are now actively misogynistic rather than just trying to hide it beneath the surface which is what the right of done in the past. To various levels of success.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Absolutely no surprise. None. Zero. Ziltch. Nada. Neoni.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    He must feel like a big man beating it to that

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Fuck this evil bastard with a chainsaw.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Pedophiles and abusers. Conservatives have been investing a lot of money so that pedophiles and abusers are the role models of young men as part of their manufactured culture war. When Javier Milei took power in argentina he already had a network of influencers behind him spewing the values of his presidency: anti LGBT sentiment, scorn for women and feminism, racist rethoric and the openly abusive machinations of free market capitalism. The ideology came first. The looting of argentina followed.

    This has been going on for a while in the US and it has the potential to get way worse. Because this is the official discourse now and children and young men are taking the examples of these adults and reproducing them in equally disfunctional lives.

    Why are we surprised that things are going to shit? People say we are living in the ideocracy, but i think the state of things is way worse. They want to create a society of savages and march us down to self destruct along with their failing system.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That arrest outfit ought to go over big in prison.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    We should have Protect Trans Kid Act. From this point and on, whoever advocates anti lgbtq policies, mandatory sexuality investigations and disclosure.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    ...created by trumps people

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    walled articles do not belong on social media

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    well they will get along very well with Trump then

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