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  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    He actually is getting the rich guy treatment. I'm pretty sure a normal guy bumbling their way into standing between the ghoulish Romanian oligarchs and their precious Schengen agreement would have put their legal appeal days behind them so to speak. But also, I'm pretty sure he can't bribe his way out of this one, because by these people's standards he is actually not rich. He owns a dozen or so fancy cars, but he managed to make himself the enemy of the people who own all the roads. Accepting a bribe from him now would have a certain "I'll pay you $10 000 to stand between Haliburton and their entire quarterly profits" vibe. I don't think anyone is going to accept that deal, and if someone were to, I'm certain that no one will look at what happened to the first guy and want to step into that role.

    I'm sure many of the oligarchs who are about to make sure that Romania's police and court systems do their job (serve capital) are actually even worse than him when it comes to the amount of human suffering they have caused, but it's a bit like if he had been caught by Hannibal Lecter instead of the Romanian police. As a woke liberal leftist I actually find some of Dr. Lecter's actions very problematic and I would for sure support clapping back at him or even canceling him entirely if he doesn't mend his ways, but also the idea of Andrew Tate making himself a target of Hannibal Lecter to win an internet argument with a teenager is pretty funny. And that is pretty much what he did.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      it’s a bit like if he had been caught by Hannibal Lecter instead of the Romanian police

      Does this mean he'll become the special ingredient in a super fancy version of jellied eel ("with a side of salty taters") served to a bunch of buerocrats in Brussels?

      • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Bragging to the world about how easy it is to do human trafficing in Romania and how he has bribed officials when the main obstactle to Romania joining Schengen is them being known as a corrupt sex trafficing hub. This is not a defense of the Schengen countries. You can still do all that of course, but you can't look like that. Andrew Tate made himself the embodiment of making Romania look like that, while having no connections to the true upper class who truly run the country, at the worst time possible. That will probably not be remembered as the greatest decision in the world.