480 Comments

I hate when that happens.

Expand full comment

I have been laughing like a hyena about this story all day. Dirtbag starts a Twitter fight he can't finish, loses not just his dignity but his liberty. If he'd just admitted he'd been dunked into the centre of the earth and slunk off in decent shame, he'd probably still be free. Instead he's in jail and facing VERY serious charges, his criminal empire is in tatters, he's the laughing stock of the internet, and the memes are WILD. Meanwhile, Greta Thunberg is having a nice day.

Even better - he has a significant presence as an "Alpha Male" influencer on TikTok. That immolation won't have done his Brand any good. And the longer he's jailed, the longer he can't indoctrinate young men and boys into his foul ideology. A break of even a few months will see many of them wandering off to do better things.

Just to rub salt in the wound; every report and story about this has included a lengthy introduction of Tate, because mainstream people have no idea who the fuck he is. NONE, not a single one, has introduced Greta Thunberg. Because Greta Thunberg don't need no stinking introduction.

I swear, I've laughed at this so much I keep triggering asthma attacks.

Expand full comment

You are a saint.

Expand full comment

Enroll her in martial arts. Actual martial arts, not posing. Best choice I ever made for my daughters, when they were 4.

Expand full comment

Tate's a British citizen.

Expand full comment

British. Amazingly enough, not our problem.

Expand full comment

Your lips to his Noodly Appendages.

Expand full comment

of course he joined the Church which is utterly corrupt and in Putin's pocket :(

Expand full comment

Wait. I sent her an email complimenting her on the takedown.

Expand full comment

They literally identified his social media post as the reason they knew he was in the country.The pizza place gave his exact address.

Expand full comment

The EU organization monitoring human trafficking has the acronym GRETA.

Expand full comment

Anyway those latter people have completely different sort of aims. Like-they're not full of repressed desires that are bound to come out in wrong ways. I used to want to tell army people that. They thought gay soldiers would lose control and grab straight soldiers but gay people are so disciplined, period. And no trans female is going to feel like a horny male in the woman's bathroom-- their whole lives repudiate the horny male life so completely. But it's too much bother for RW people-- the ones who are so bothered all the time-- to learn about this.

Expand full comment

Men like him are especially annoyed by women who don't dress up and wear make-up. "How she dare?"

Expand full comment

At alternet in the article about Sen. Mike Lee's proposal for a 'clean' internet, I said "no nudity or porn on the internet" is a great idea!" bc children-- I mean young children-- often see everything thing that is there. I thought grownups could go elsewhere. Unsupervised children meanwhile could be deeply harmed. You can have a look at the deeply depressing conversations that followed.

Expand full comment

Not one of the 4 or 5 who carried on this thing with me would acknowledge this one fact: that children can be harmed. "Will you promise to provide peer-reviewd studies to prove your claims?" They denied that I cared about children bc I only wanted to end their fun. Never met guys like those.

Expand full comment

Why did he say "how dare you?" That's so funny.

Expand full comment