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[–] grus@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a Romanian I want to tell everyone "you're welcome, world".

[–] Crayon8027@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for this and also for all the delicious Italian food.

[–] grus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Don't let the Italians know that our version of their dishes is better, they'll start throwing hands in 2 seconds flat.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (10 children)

As much as I'm glad that Andrew Tate is facing criminal charges, I think we need to address the root cause of our societal ills. Tate isn't the cause but rather a symtpom.

We really need to step back and ask ourselves why somebody so brazenly misogynistic has attracted a following of millions and has become a role model to teenage boys especially.

I can explain exactly why, because we've created a growing social underclass of men who cannot earn a living, cannot find a romantic partner, cannot live fulfilling lives, and anybody who they turn to either mocks them, fobs them off, or give them false platitudes, which is why they turn to toxic masculinity and the Manosphere for guidance.

The reality is that inceldom is largely an economic issue that has resulted from decades of stagnated wages which have disproportionately affected men, because despite our best efforts to create an egalitarian society, we still overwhelmingly find men unattractive if they are not the strong hunter-gatherers and providers that our biology has been conditioned over millions of years to find physically attractive. Our biology has not caught up to the millennia of societal progress we've made because evolution is a much slower process.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Hmm, I don't think I'm with you. You say men are incels because they're poor and can't find a girl. From what I've seen, they can't find a girl because of deeply rooted, misogynistic beliefs that turn people off. If also like to see your citation for wage stagnation affecting men more than women, because every study I've seen says the wage gap has stayed the same or widened in the last few years. I know many, many men who aren't the strong hunter gatherer type and have loving wives or girlfriends. The difference is those guys aren't assholes.

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[–] xuxebiko@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

because we’ve created

"we"? no, not "we". men who feel entitled to being treated like they're god's gift to life by virtue of having a dick have created it for themselves.

These men choose to turn to toxic masculinity and to the manosphere (an echo chamber of toxic masculinity) rather than choose therapy and self-improvement because they are too selfish and lazy to work on improving themselves and their lives. They want a rich fulfilling life handed to them on a platter and fawned on by adoring slaves who they should be free to abuse at will.

They choose to be incels because they feel they can get away with treating women as lesser beings. And when they face any consequence for their actions they paint themelves as victims belonging to a social underclass, when they're anything but.

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This sounds like a list of excuses to be a fucking shitbag. You can't make money? Don't be a bitch and get a job. IF YOU CAN'T SUPPORT YOURSELF that is not a woman's problem. That is your problem. Is modern society too hard for you? Pretty sure humans have thousands of years of evolution dealing with actual existential threats of starvation and surviving the elements that most of humanity overcame. Now your bills are too much and it's driving you to beating the fuck out of women? Fuck off with that shit.

Fuck yeah we can do a lot better as a species, but with some actual perspective of the majority of humans time on earth we have it pretty damn peachy. Sure as fuck aren't victims of some atrocious shit that justifies any of that redpill bullshit, at least on a systemic level.

People are becoming incels because a bunch of idiots got ahold of the internet and gave themselves a name and a platform to echochamber in. That is it. It would have happened, much worse, in any other time in history if they were able to organize.

[–] Airazz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't agree with that. Being poor is not an excuse to be a shitbag. A lot of those guys aren't even trying to change anything, they put all the blame on corporations as if it somehow makes their behavior justified, and then spend their days on incel forums.

[–] like100dollars@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They didn't say it was an excuse. They didn't defend being a shitbag. They offered an explanation. You may disagree with it, but you're not talking about the same thing here.

[–] Airazz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I meant, I can't agree with this explanation. Economic disadvantages don't create incels.

[–] primevandal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

inceldom is largely an economic issue

that's such a reach. women are lagrely more economically disadvantaged, specially when you consider that men are paid more, are not straved off of promotions due to their gender, are not discriminated because they are women. rich/well-off incels exist, they are and will remain incels despite their financial status or attractiveness. they are incels because of their misogynistic beliefs (among other horrible traits).

the internet and tate has amplified the voices of this community since they are able to congregate anonymously and with no repercussions.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's an economic issue in as much as this is what capitalism promotes and exemplifies. Psychopaths and sociopaths rise to the top. And all the other haters fangirl over them for doing it.

Some of the happiest most satisfied people I know are poor. They just don't have the massive entitlement to other people's things.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I'm currently one of those dudes who doesn't have a romantic partner and doesn't live what others would call a "fulfilling life". I haven't fucking decided that Andrew Tate or any of a thousand others are the guiding star of my life, nor do I feel I ever will. This idea of "society's to blame for incels" is pretty bad even on its face - most of these guys are told by these influencers (or their cultists) that they deserve not only a happy, prosperous life, but they shouldn't even have to actively work for it. According to this philosophy, they shouldn't have to go out and actively seek romance, women should be flocking to them in droves. As this does not happen, something must be fundamentally wrong with society - which is why a lot of these types also wind up spouting fascist rhetoric, and eventually fall into white supremacist pablum.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nah man incels are just losers and Tate is just the same. I talk to my male friends all the time about difficulties I'm having I don't need to blame women for them. We haven't created s growing social underclass of men, some men are just bitching and thinking this is targetted when everyone is struggling.

This reaks of manosphere bullshit.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nah man incels are just losers and Tate is just the same.

I don't think brushing away the issue like this is particularly helpful. It's a statistical truth that men are over-represented in a long list of bad settings, from victims of violence, to drug abuse, suicide, homelessness, unemployment etc. Additionally, the past ≈30 years there has been a trend of a decreasing proportion of men having several partners throughout their life, and an increasing proportion of men never finding a long-time partner. And men are to a larger and larger degree under-performing in education compared to women.

Furthermore, like you say: Everyone is struggling. The struggling disproportionally is disproportionally difficult to handle for those that are over-represented in the statistics mentioned above.

I definitely think we have a societal issue where certain men are being marginalised, or at least put in a position where it is understandable that they feel marginalised. We know very well that humans in general, when they feel pushed into a corner, tend to lash out in some way.

What I'm saying doesn't defend their actions, but provides an explanatory model for why they are acting the way they are. Because if nothing else, we as a society need to do something about the increasing number of men acting that way.

Nah man incels are just losers and Tate is just the same.

This does not serve as an explanation for why these people are acting as losers, or what we can do about it, and is thus not a very constructive standpoint to take.

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[–] tookmyname@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’m happy to be reading about this on a 3rd party app for a growing redddit alternative. Feels right.

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[–] kwot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Finally. Wish his influence would crumble to dust too.

[–] SUPERcrazy3530@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Couldn’t happen to a nicer piece of trash.

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Good. Fuck that guy.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And to think, all of this happened because he got owned by Greta Thunberg.

[–] GnothiSeauton@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I believe that was just coincidental timing. Not complaining though, because it made it all much more exciting.

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Is there a /r/upliftingnews equivalent here yet?

[–] hydra@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One more grifter preying on young men has fallen. This is a nice day.

Also 666th upvote

[–] elenmirie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Preying on young women and young men. Probably being enslaved and trafficked is worse for the women than it was for the young men dragged into his sphere of influence. Thoroughly evil man.

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[–] figaro@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lollll I absolutely love that it was because of Greta Thunberg that he got caught.

Here's a quote from an article:

On Tuesday, Mr Tate, a former kickboxer and influencer who has been banned from numerous social media services for violent and misogynistic rhetoric, tagged Ms Thunberg in a Twitter post, asking for her email address so he could “send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions”.

The tweet also featured Mr Tate filling up a gas-guzzling Bugatti supercar at the pump.

The following day, the climate activist responded with a tweet of her own, replying, “Yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com.”

He then took a picture of himself with a pizza box, which then led the Romanian authorities to where he was hiding, and was arrested.

Fuck yeah.

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[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I'll celebrate at conviction.

[–] Ratking@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hopefully he gets convicted. The evidence is ostensibly damning, but sleazeballs like him always seem to manage to avoid real repercussions.

[–] ziggysane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

They say that if you can't say something good, you shouldn't say anything at all.

Andrew Tate has been indicted and will face trial on rape and human trafficking charges in Romania. Good.

[–] Snowpix@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago

Well, well. If it isn't the consequences of their shitty, abhorrent behaviour! Here's hoping to a long, long prison sentence for these fucks.

[–] GordomeansPhat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Always nice to see people face consequences for their terrible actions.

[–] sojourn@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago
[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving fellow! It's rare that a person's achievements are repaid with the commensurate rewards... but this proves that such miracles do happen every now and then.

[–] Hairyblue@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't a wonderful girl get the best of him when he messed with her on the Internet?

Tate is one of the worst of the right. Glad justice is coming for him.

[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[–] SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"Where corruption is accessible to everybody."

The boy must be a nobody.

[–] cpp_hleucka@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Melpomene@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Oh hi, good news this Tuesday morning... mister "above the law" finds himself indicted and on trial for the stuff he admitted doing in recordings. 385 million seized for being a human trafficking piece of shit? It's a start.

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