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Old 12-08-2022, 01:25 PM   #2161
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Its works people who want to believe it. There are a bucket load of people out there who have been completely radicalized over politics and spend days on end protesting expired vaccine mandates or drag shows for kids. And then there is an entire industry of people and companies out there making money off them.
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Old 12-29-2022, 05:29 PM   #2162
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Andrew Tate reportedly arrested on allegations of human trafficking and rape.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-ri...mania-for-rape

Supposedly his reply tweet to Greta Thunberg's tweet about his # of cars compensating for something led to authorities knowing where he was based off of a pizza box he showed in his video. Which is hilarious if true.
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Old 12-29-2022, 06:47 PM   #2163
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Taken down by a “I know you are, but what am I?” post. He really is pathetic. Hopefully he rots in jail.
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Old 12-29-2022, 06:55 PM   #2164
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Taken down by a “I know you are, but what am I?” post. He really is pathetic. Hopefully he rots in jail.
Ugh. Wasnt he though?

I'm no Greta booster or anything but good for her...

"You say you have a small dick in your email address! So yeah! I win!!"

Are you for serious right now Captain Clownshoes?
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Old 12-29-2022, 07:05 PM   #2165
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Can we not include this guy with the likes of Sam Harris please
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Like George Costanza jerk store come to jail.
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Old 12-29-2022, 07:12 PM   #2167
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Like George Costanza jerk store come to jail.
I believe the local constabulary have just informed this fine, upstanding citizen that he has won a free boat.

He merely has to come to the local Transylvanian Police Station to collect his winnings.
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Can we not include this guy with the likes of Sam Harris please
Yeah fair, the thread title is "intellectual dark web". I have regrets.
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Can we not include this guy with the likes of Sam Harris please
Like it or not, Tate is a thought leader to great number of people in the intellectual dark web. He does espouse many of the same narratives that guys like Peterson have promoted but does so with a level of bravado and douchiness that is accessible without the pop-psychology psychobabble.
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Yeah Tate is basically Peterson but for ######bros. He definitely belongs in this thread.
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Tate is a loser, and hopefully he gets put away forever. But hilarious to watch people trip over themselves thinking Greta the idiot had anything to do with it.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1608861801768255489
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Old 12-30-2022, 04:56 PM   #2172
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Well I've been a little rough on the Romanians thus far, but I will say it could be high entertainment to have those two idiots in Romanian Prison.

You could film it and sell the rights. Send the proceeds to their victims.
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Old 12-30-2022, 05:18 PM   #2173
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Tate is a loser, and hopefully he gets put away forever. But hilarious to watch people trip over themselves thinking Greta the idiot had anything to do with it.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1608861801768255489
As mentioned in the other thread, it’s just a funnier story. Nobody cares if it’s true. Nobody is tripping over themselves for it to be true.

Unlike people tripping over themselves to get a dig on Greta in, in a situation where she made an absolute fool of Tate.

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how will the masses that follow Tate excuse the actions of their hero? I'm sure they will find a way .. can already see the #freetate shirts and hats making the rounds

human trafficking is next level ####ed up

of course he let his status go so far to his hollow dome that he believed he superseded the laws that govern common citizens and could do whatever he liked with his cigar-weilding bro clan

there's always, sooner or later, a downfall when someone is driven that much by testosterone (and a delusional god complex), and that little by intellect
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Old 12-30-2022, 05:27 PM   #2175
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Tate’s followers have always excused his human trafficking. He literally brags about human trafficking on his website, he just sells it as everything being consensual and something the girls want to do (after he has thoroughly manipulated him using the tactics he sells as advice to young men).

If anything they’ll turn on him because they’ve realized he can’t be THAT good at manipulating women if some of them are willing to turn on him.
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Can we all agree that Lex Friedman is at best a goober and at worst a fraud?


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https://twitter.com/user/status/1609599879965442048

https://twitter.com/user/status/1609697439472095232
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Old 01-01-2023, 06:07 PM   #2178
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Can we all agree that Lex Friedman is at best a goober and at worst a fraud?

I dunno, i just read that thread on twitter or at least a chunk of it and Nassim comes off as the nob not Lex.

Admittedly i know little of either of them.
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Taleb is an arrogant knob but Lex allotting the same amount of time to Animal Farm as The Brothers Karamazov or Sapiens etc is wild. It's also a bit of a High School reading list.
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I'm kinda wondering how Lex Fridman could have gotten to this point without reading any of those already! Unless he's re-reading I guess.

I've tried to listen to Fridman's podcast a few times and I've never really liked it (maybe because he spent too much time talking). Is he basically just a science communicator? I generally avoid those podcasts since they don't go deep enough.
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