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    What tone deaf idiot wrote this headline?

    Caption under the picture at the top of the article: “Tate and his brother are charged with human trafficking, sexual misconduct, and money laundering.”

    Professional misogynist is a weak way to describe such a person. Misogyny isn’t even illegal.

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        The person your replying to didn’t say they were human traffickers etc, just that they had been charged with it. Which is true.

        Considering the fact that they’ve been charged with these crimes is why their passports have been seezed is relevant to what’s being reported. So ommiting any mention of that from the headline a choice.

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    Something that’s been sort of tickling at my brain for a while now just came together with this headline.

    Tate, Trump, Musk, Vance, Hegseth, Zuckerberg and a bunch of others of the hard right all share a distinctive personality type.

    Essentially they’re incels who somehow managed to get laid.

    If it weren’t for particular circumstances (most often undeserved wealth), they would’ve just been typical incels, sitting at home being bitter and hateful and insecure and self-absorbed. But because of those circumstances, they managed to get laid, so they ended up with more or less the same bitterness and hatefulness and desperate insecurity they would’ve had anyway, except it’s countered by a weird situational and entirely undeserved over-confidence, because after all, they’re special, because they can get laid.

    That would also go some way toward explaining why they’re so often sexual predators. Essentially they’re bitter incels who don’t have to limit themselves to fantasies alone.

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      Because Trump needs to show people that being on his side means you won’t face consequences, and crossing him will have dire consequences (see: Zelenskyy not being invited to peace talks regarding Ukraine.)

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        Not that I disagree but when did Zelenskyy cross Trump? Pretty sure Ukraine was only left out of those talks because Trump is Putins meat puppet.

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      Apparently there’s been “a concerted effort to target conservatives around the world” run through USAID. 🤷‍♂️

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    Seems to me that Romania should just let everyone know that they are receptive to the idea but will need some funding towards the cost of improving the speed and efficiency of their court system.

    Start the bidding at an even billion USD. Let Trump try to Art of the Deal™ that one past the american populace. Should be some interesting mental gymnastics to try to explain why he is valuing Tate at 500 million times higher than any rational person would.

    I honestly feel like every country that has anything that Trump wants needs to start figuring out the most unreasonable price tags they can.

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    Makes sense. He’s part of a larger cultural manipulation “movement.” It’s not so much that it’s organized but that he and people like him are useful to the fascists as he’s one part of a larger worldview that keeps reich wingers attached to the far right and therefore solid votes for MAGA.

    There really is a conspiracy of cultural manipulation, but it’s not like they all get together in a smokey room and discuss plans. It’s more like a whole bunch of useful idiots working in their own self interest that play into a larger movement which is what Bannon aimed to weaponize and what people like Muskrat signal boost on their platforms. :/

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      It’s not a formal conspiracy, but an alignment of interests among the oligarchs and grifters.