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highplainsdem

(62,117 posts) Sat Nov 19, 2022, 05:15 PM Nov 2022

Elon Musk let that thug Andrew Tate return to Twitter.

This is what Musk allowed back:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/06/andrew-tate-violent-misogynistic-world-of-tiktok-new-star

Andrew Tate says women belong in the home, can’t drive, and are a man’s property.

He also thinks rape victims must “bear responsibility” for their attacks and dates women aged 18–19 because he can “make an imprint” on them, according to videos posted online.

In other clips, the British-American kickboxer – who poses with fast cars, guns and portrays himself as a cigar-smoking playboy – talks about hitting and choking women, trashing their belongings and stopping them from going out.

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Tate’s views have been described as extreme misogyny by domestic abuse charities, capable of radicalising men and boys to commit harm offline.

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https://www.cnet.com/culture/heres-why-andrew-tate-is-banned-from-almost-every-social-media-platform/

Andrew Tate was largely unknown until this year but in 2022 his profile has exploded. Then, in August, Tate was banned from the full gamut of social networks -- Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter -- dealing a painful blow to his Hustler's University online business.

But who is Andrew Tate, and what is Hustler's University?

The short story is that 35-year-old Tate is a self-help personality who revels in misogyny. Purporting to extoll wisdom to men that helps them "escape the matrix," Tate has falsely claimed that women bear some responsibility for being sexually assaulted and that they have no "innate responsibility and honor."

Before being banned, his videos racked up billions of views on TikTok and Instagram. His main business venture of late was Hustler's University, an online course for aspiring alpha males that taught lessons on crypto, stock investing and "freelancing."

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