But is he a terf?
Not just a social media influencer any more.
Social media influencer Andrew Tate has been arrested in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group, prosecutors have confirmed.
Now that’s the big time.
The 36-year-old British-American and his brother Tristan were arrested on Thursday evening and are being detained for 24 hours alongside two Romanian suspects, prosecutors in the country said.
“The four suspects… appear to have created an organised crime group with the purpose of recruiting, housing and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content meant to be seen on specialised websites for a cost,” prosecutors said.
Imagine being a person who would do that – what can it be like? It would be very up close and personal so what can it be like to be that dead inside?
Tate, a former kickboxer, was banned from Twitter in 2017 for his misogynistic views and hate speech but reinstated last month.
Good work, Elon. Platform the rapists!
Tate first rose to fame in 2016 for being removed from the reality TV show Big Brother after a video appeared to show him attacking a woman with a belt – he claimed the clip was edited.
He has suggested rape victims “bear some responsibility” for being attacked and has described women as “property” belonging to men.
It’s almost impossible not to see that kind of thing as deliberate provocation, exaggerating for effect, baiting the feminists, all that – but clearly it can be all too literal.
As a result, concerns have been raised about his influence on young people, particularly young men.
Oh no I’m sure he’s a very benign, healthy influence. Women get away with too much, it’s time to teach us a lesson.
The story of his arrest is the stuff of farce.
He got into an online Twitter battle with Greta Thunberg. She won, with his best (pathetic) effort amounting to “I know you are but what am I?” after she made a small-dick joke.
In a follow up to that exchange, in a video, he shows himself eating pizza and taunting Greta like a 4-year-old, declaring he wouldn’t even recycle the pizza boxes.
The pizza boxes were from a popular Romanian outlet. This was the evidence that the Romanian authorities needed to confirm Tate was in-country and mobilize their forces to arrest him.
The cherry on top of this FAFO sundae is that GRETA… well,
https://www.coe.int/en/web/anti-human-trafficking/greta
And… this is what I get for going through posts most-recent-backwards. Obviously, Ophelia knew all about what I posted above, including having a semi-undoing of the “Romanian authorities needed to know he was in-country”, as opposed to simply knowing he was at home. Still funny as hell.
Hahaha definitely funny enough to say more than once!
Hah! I’ve been caught in that trap repeatedly, since I read posts here the same way!