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So I know nothing about Tate other than that he's a hateful person. Was the trafficking a known thing? What the hell is even going on here?

the tate pizza box thing seems like the fact too good to check

yeah it seems to stem from just one press outlet speculating that it could have been a factor after authorities said that social media was part of how they identified he was currently in romania

Was the trafficking a known thing?

yeah he had been under investigation for this stuff for a while & he'd said previously that one of the reasons he moved to romania was because he thought romanian police were less likely to pursue rape charges.

Yikes

elon musk reinstated him on twitter recently, another fantastic decision

Neil Strauss/The Game is underrated as a root of the alt right

another fantastic decision

with an unusually entertaining sequel

Oh my God the host of this chud andrew tate space is freaking out because he just found out coercing women into prostitution is illegal because "he has lots of friends who use that strategy" I'm not joking or exaggerating pic.twitter.com/dlhuS9la6b

— Auld Lang Brandon (@lib_crusher) December 30, 2022

From this stuff to FTX to Jan. 6, there's something so delightful about these idiots who have been living in Internet fantasias watch it all melt before their eyes

otm

makes me feel more optimistic about the stability of civil society

https://i.imgur.com/n91AYGo.png

lol

You can't make this up. Romanian authorities were urged last year to effectively prosecute human traffickers by GRETA, the Group of Experts Against Trafficking Human Beings. pic.twitter.com/rPsX2PD244

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) December 29, 2022

reality is not real

I literally knew nothing about Andrew Tate until yesterday, this has been astounding. (Including the complaints I've seen that "small dick energy" is ableist — I feel like "small-dick energy" is a vibe not an actual bodyshame.)

Think yourselves lucky if you haven't heard of him before. He is influencing young men over here.

He was new to me too. So pleasing to see someone so loathsome self-immolate so thoroughly the moment I become aware of them. More of this, please.

this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes

— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 30, 2022

lol

BBC says the pizza box thing is probably not true, but what the hell, let the Internet have some fun.

yeah was gonna say, in 2022 when an antiterrorism task force says they used social media to determine someones location, theyre not talking about scouring their photos for clues

Even if the timing had nothing to do with the Thunberg exchange, it still made for a helluva news cycle.

Supposedly it's a detainment and not an outright arrest but he has to appear in court today

some joker on reddit posted that gt tweet with the caption, "...AND GRETA FROM THE TOP ROPE!!"

also i'm sorry i know this is for twitter discussion but i really don't think it's possible to body shame a literal turd that has taken the form a person.

Greta tweet has passed the BTS_twt gauntlet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-liked_tweets

kinda messed up

The most-liked tweet was posted by the account of American actor Chadwick Boseman, announcing his death in 2020.

I started to write an explainer about the Andrew Tate situation, but it’s way too strange. A partial cast of characters: Floyd Mayweather Jr., Jake Paul, Logan Paul, Greta Thunberg, Tommy and Tyson Fury, Daniel Kinahan, countless Romanian mobsters, and YouTube personalities with names like “The True Geordie” and “Coffeezilla.”

i'm good not knowing who this guy is forever, thanks

Seconded

Alas

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/30/andrew-tate-detained-romania-brothers-crime/

Speculation swirled overnight Thursday that Romanian authorities were able to locate Tate after he posted a video in response to Thunberg containing a pizza box from a local spot that gave away his location. Bolla denied that this played a role in the detention or its timing. “It was a hard job gathering all the evidence” in the months-long investigation, Bolla said.

greta is cool, tate sounds like he needs trial and a noose, her tweet was merely haha, the fact that i am now aware of any of this shit is another sign of end times. people who care about this incident aside from greta are not serious people and as a not serious person, i know about this.

nb i am not talking about tate's detention that is simply encouraging almost-news.

I have a 10 year old nephew who is into Andrew Tate. he is a really sweet boy though and likely only really understands some of the fast car stuff. his Mom has no idea who that is. but he's absolutely not someone I would want him watching because that age is prime time for bad ideas about women forming in your head.

the pizza box thing is obviously true romanian cops are just doing typical cop shit

actually we were doing a super serious investigation on the whole time we just happened to arrest him right after he reveled his location

van buren rolling her eyes at the shit green and briscoe pull but still putting it right with the high-ups and the mayor

Supposedly it's a detainment and not an outright arrest

Yeah, downside of all of this is million more eyes will be on his tweets going forward, and now he’s a household name.

*millions

actually we were doing a super serious investigation on the whole time we just happened to arrest him right after he reveled his location

― lag∞n, Friday, December 30, 2022 1:07 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yea people are trying to disprove the pizza box thing by saying they knew he was in Romania the whole time, but if they were doing an investigation wouldn't this video tip them off to his exact whereabouts? idk I kinda think this may be true

pizza box is canon print the legend

Print the legend (because it’s true)

Can you explain what the benefit is in lying about the pizza box thing?

How does the box reveal his exact whereabouts? That pizza chain has locations all over Romania

they dont want to let on that its their only clue

Cops will always lie to make themselves seem smarter. "We were searching for him the whole time — a months-long investigation! The timing of this arrest is pure coincidence! no one else had anything to do with it — it was all us! Fuck off!"

As US intelligence agencies are constantly saying, secrecy and lies are needed in order not to compromise "sources and methods". (Yah, that's the stuff.)

they've been investigating him since april when they raided him for the first time after getting a tip off from the americans. they just wanted to time the raid when they knew he was in the country so they could get him, and said that social media was part of how they knew, so the pizza video was very possibly a factor but probably not anywhere near as decisive as some are claiming. it's still funny though

it doesn't seem like they've been searching for him for months - they know where he lives and raided him before - they were just ready to make a move now and wanted to make sure he'd be there instead of in dubai or wherever

How does the box reveal his exact whereabouts? That pizza chain has locations all over Romania

― ✖, Friday, December 30, 2022 1:29 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

maybe not the box but its plausible that the background of the shot was a location they recognized so by posting it he tipped off where exactly he was. same basic story just one less funny detail

no it was the box

I just don’t think the laugh from the world sharing the news is worth the guy becoming a household name, unless he ends up locked up and offline for years to come.