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The Tate Brothers

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 12:53

I put this in AIBU for traffic. I am furious and I know what I’m feeling is reasonable. Trump has convinced/bullied whatever Romania into releasing the bastards and has allowed them to fly to America. They are on their way to Florida. No doubt to be wined and dined at bloody Maralago. They will now have a luxury life and continue to be able to abuse and exploit women and girls and also corrupt the minds of boys and young men. 😡

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RetroTotty · 27/02/2025 18:04

@LifeExperience Trump will not like that!

Thelittleweasel · 27/02/2025 18:03

@LifeExperience

And if they did get tried and found guilty Trump would pardon them perhaps?

Thelittleweasel · 27/02/2025 18:01

The Romanians say that they will go back for their court cases! Oh yes!

@StrikeAlways

LifeExperience · 27/02/2025 18:00

The governor of my beloved home state of Florida said a few hours ago that they are not welcome in Florida, and that the state will be looking to see if any crimes were committed in Florida so they can be tried under state law. The penalty for sex trafficking is 30 years and the penalty for rape of a minor (aggravated sexual battery) is life without the possibility of parole.

Let's hope they effed up in Florida, because my state will get them if they did.

saraclara · 27/02/2025 17:57

I am wondering how the GC feminists who said and still say they like trump because he “knows what a woman is” will defend this.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

charmanderflame · 27/02/2025 17:51

Ablondiebutagoody · 27/02/2025 13:51

They seem like a pair of tw@ts but pretty insignificant really so not worth getting worked up about.

Unfortunately you are incorrect about them being 'insignificant' - these 'men' are responsible for corrupting a lot of young minds in the UK. Andrew Tate is everywhere - all teenagers know about him, quite a few idolise him.

Our secondary teachers are explicitly asking for guidance on how to tackle online misogyny and Andrew Tate's influence on pupils.

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:41

JHound · 27/02/2025 17:28

There are multiple accounts from schools on the negative impact of the Tates on how boys are interacting with female teachers and fellow pupils.

Please don’t play dumb.

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I suspect she’s not playing 🙄

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:36

Ablondiebutagoody · 27/02/2025 16:50

I think that most of the posters here need to have a bit more faith in their kids to see through his bullshit. It's wild that so many are worried their boys are going to turn into misogynistic monsters because of some cigar smoking cretin on the internet. The moral panic is massively OTT in my opinion.

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Some of us care about boys who are not ours, society in general.

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:34

Jeeekers · 27/02/2025 16:46

Thinking Melanie will find them disgusting and will need to change the upholstery after they depart.

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Do you mean Malania? She hasn’t lived with Trump for many years.

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:33

Dollydaydream100 · 27/02/2025 16:45

Does he really actually SAY this stuff on camera?

Ive heard of him of course but I don't really know anything about him.

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Yes

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DomPom47 · 27/02/2025 17:32

No doubt Trump will have them in a job linked to women’s rights. Nothing this President does surprises me and the worst is still probably yet to come.

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:32

Ablondiebutagoody · 27/02/2025 16:42

So if you had sons, you really think that they would be persuaded to get into the sex trafficking business because of Andrew Tate?

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It’s not necessarily about intelligent, well adjusted sons with good parents (although some of them get caught up too), those most vulnerable to this shit don’t have those advantages.

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JHound · 27/02/2025 17:28

Ablondiebutagoody · 27/02/2025 17:07

So mine and yours won't be. Just people less clever and enlightened than us. That's really patronising.

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There are multiple accounts from schools on the negative impact of the Tates on how boys are interacting with female teachers and fellow pupils.

Please don’t play dumb.

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:28

Changingplace · 27/02/2025 16:34

This is sadly a very naive view, Tate has an absolutely huge following across social media, 10million followers on X and that’s without the now backing of the likes of Trump & Musk.

He’ll have a role in the White House soon, can see it a mile off.

I think Trump will have been influenced in this by his son Barron, he was in charge of his social media campaign knowing how to reach and influence a young audience by engaging with certain podcasts etc.

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Sad to hear this. I’d been hoping that baron might grow up a bit better than the rest since his mother has kept herself (and by default her son) well away from Trump aside from the odd public appearance.

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JHound · 27/02/2025 17:24

TemporaryPosition · 27/02/2025 15:55

Neither the right nor the left are a friend to women, but to the lefts shame - it is they who have launched the most vicious attack on women and girls in recent years. To the extent that Trump looks as though he hates them less.

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Yes.

Ok.

If you say so.

TheignT · 27/02/2025 17:24

I wonder if they will go back in a month as per the conditions of them being allowed to travel? If they don't what can Romania do?

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:23

Ablondiebutagoody · 27/02/2025 16:22

I'm calling bs on that. Influencing millions? Come off it. Don't be so melodramatic. A handful of morons at best who, even without the Tates, would still be morons.

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You are clearly not British, yes, millions of young boys here.

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BIWI · 27/02/2025 17:22

RafaistheKingofClay · 27/02/2025 16:52

Have you spoken to any secondary teachers recently? Ask them how much of an issue it is in schools. Especially the female teachers.

What's really shocking about @Ablondiebutagoody and her posts is that she IS a teacher! (Based on an AS)

TooBigForMyBoots · 27/02/2025 17:22

StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:15

You need to do some research. They are dangerous, violent misogynist rapists, who vlog and teach their millions of young male followers to be dangerous, violent, misogynist rapists

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Oh come on, they're not going to do any research.🙄 Too busy minimising the actions of sex traffickers and rapists because Donald Trump.

It's the MAGA way.🤷‍♀️

JHound · 27/02/2025 17:22

DuncinToffee · 27/02/2025 15:27

From the BBC

Today’s news was preceded by a diplomatic effort on behalf of Donald Trump’s White House.

US officials had brought up the case with the Romanian government earlier this month, a discussion that was first reported by the Financial Times.

And Trump envoy Richard Grenell raised the issue again a little over a week ago, at a security conference in Munich.

There are other ties as well.
One of Tate’s lawyers now works in the White House as a liaison to the US Justice Department.

Paul Ingrassia was part of a team representing the Tate brothers in a defamation lawsuit they filed against several of their alleged victims.

But Ingrassia also acted as Andrew Tate’s publicist and says he got the self-described misogynist influencer onto a show hosted by Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host.

Ingrassia effusively praised Tate in online posts. In one dating from July 2023, he echoed far-right online talking points about moral decay in Western countries and called Tate “an extraordinary human being” who was offering “a dying West some hope for renewal”.

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Jesus Christ….

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:22

Ablondiebutagoody · 27/02/2025 16:19

He's an idiot but so what? The Internet is a swamp, there are tonnes. Why focus so much attention on one and his brother? Really not worth panicking about in my opinion.

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You are just playing the provocation game now aren’t you. Just leave the thread.

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Kendodd · 27/02/2025 17:20

Mittens67 · 27/02/2025 17:10

I am wondering how the GC feminists who said and still say they like trump because he “knows what a woman is” will defend this.
I am very much on side as a feminist who knows that sex is immutable but I would never be a single issue voter and in no way like any single thing about that orange psychopath.
The fact that he doesn’t think men in frocks are women is no more indicative of his nature than hitler being a vegetarian.
It will be of small comfort to the women who die from no access to abortion even in medical emergency that the president knows how to differentiate females from males.
We all know trump can recognise a genuine vagina when he sees one. After all, as he has boasted himself he can grab us by the pussy whenever he wants.
Trump has shown his contempt for women again and again. This bollocks with the Tate scum is just today’s example.
How any intelligent woman can support him in any way is a complete mystery to me.
Trump is not about being left or right wing. He is a sub species all of his own.
And let’s not forget that this moron holds the nuclear button.

My thoughts exactly

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:20

User32459 · 27/02/2025 16:09

Trump knows what a woman is, the left don't.

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He does, but he also thinks women are there to be controlled by men

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:18

DaringTurtle · 27/02/2025 15:59

I felt sick when I saw the headlines. Trump, Musk & the Tate Bros are just an horrific group of men. I am afraid their influence will only embolden a host of fellow misogynists.

I’m generally a fairly chilled person. I practice mindfulness and rarely feel real anger, but this has pushed me over that edge!

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StrikeAlways · 27/02/2025 17:15

Ablondiebutagoody · 27/02/2025 15:53

My son and I saw a clip of them this morning in response to this story probably, dancing around with their shirts off whilst smoking cigars. Complete tools. It was hilarious. I don't think that they are going to exert much influence over anyone.

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You need to do some research. They are dangerous, violent misogynist rapists, who vlog and teach their millions of young male followers to be dangerous, violent, misogynist rapists

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