supersquirrel

Let Fascism and Xenophobia grow like this as it has in the US and you will have no future nor any pearls left to clutch as your country hurtles into oblivion.

They are also a bunch of incompetent idiots

Don't condescend me, I am talking about TV and US media in general.

The only people driving people away right now are centrists... which is why those of us on the left are so worried.

Maybe he wouldn't be such a 'role model' if he had a harder time getting laid. Not sure what we can do about that, though

Andrew Tate is a rapist, what we did about it was put him in jail, and then we put conservative rapists in power who find solidarity with Andrew Tate, this isn't rocket science how we got here.

It's a problem with human psychology where we can't accept a modest approach to anything.

This is nonsense, the rightwing has clearly evolved this way but provide evidence the leftwing has or stop repeating this narrative of "both sides".

Y'all will "both sides" everything right up until a conservative yells a slur at you and kicks you out the door as you get deported to a brutal prison in an authoritarian country because conservatives decided you weren't worthy of basic human rights.

Then again maybe you will still sit in your cell shaking your head saying to yourself "damn, both sides got so extreme" .

edit how about you provide some evidence instead of just downvoting like an intellectual coward?

What we need to figure out is what made him so persuasive to young boys

Why is this a mystery to people? Everything is falling apart and most adults are in denial about it, kids are going to follow people like this because they sense the nihilism of the moment that their parent's can't handle confronting.

We do need to get rid of Andrew Tate though I will settle for him going back to jail, but his popularity isn't a mystery. There is a very clear pipeline to make money as a conservative influencer, this is then ultimately an issue of money being poured into manipulating children.

This is a very dangerous line of reasoning that will play right into the hands of fascists.,

With social media being dominated by US style "freedom of speech" algorithms and US style acceptance of the impossibility (or even undesirability) of regulation and with completely unaccountable megacorps running them while giving very minimal if non-existent attention to who is watching what, we have a complete lack of age rating. We have given up on the idea of protecting childhood it seems.

...and you have clearly given up any pretense of not being extremely authoritarian it seems, what the hell does "freedom of speech algorithms" even mean? Rhetorically you are completely mixed up about what is going on and what the solution is, I am amazed you made it here to the fediverse.

We had agreed as a society that certain things should not be visible to children until they grow up.

Do you have evidence the systems we employed to do this actually didn't make problems worse? As far as I can see, it is also just overly righteous adults desperate to fix the world in ways that don't make them look inwards and question the policies they support and the beliefs they hold.