Bucharest
The news has forced my hand.
I already had opinions about Andrew Tate before now, and one of them I think helps to explain yesterday.
First off, if ever you doubted the power of the Streisand Effect, well, then, quit. Because, by now, most people who have heard of him didn't even know who he was until they started canceling him this past spring and summer. I was somewhat familiar with him even pre-Streisand, because he's closely linked to other RP manosphere creators. Yesterday's news will only serve to introduce way many more people to him.
Second.
I don't really have any problem with his message. It's just that I really wonder if most people who consider themselves big fans of his really care about his message. What I'm trying to say is that I wonder if they're fans of his message or if they're just fans of his lifestyle, the yacht, the private jet, the supercars, and if they're just cargo culting around the message because they think it's how to get the lifestyle. And while you can't blame Tate for that per se, what is undeniable is all his flaunting and flossing for public and creative consumption. To put it another way, if message was what one really cares about the most, then one should try to eclipse out as many other things as possible. It's why I don't care about design in this space, which is why this blog has had the same ancient design theme since God knows when. And I have no desire to "modernize" it, in spite of the fact that WordPress gives me all the tools and options to do so. Maybe Tate figures that he has to floss his lifestyle in order to get people to at least give the message a fair hearing. Problem is, that kind of tactic rarely works.
Third and most critical.
I think I know the real reason for the investigation and the arrest. It's something which I saw as heavy weather ahead for him when I first found out that he was living near Bucharest. He, BTW, is a dual American/British citizen, ICYDN.
As you know, Bucharest was one of the stops on our honeymoon. And in fact, we ended it by flying from Bucharest back to Cologne. So I've seen enough of it. And I know that, for most of its denizens, the lifestyle and standard and quality of living is, to put it diplomatically, quaint and modest. While plenty worse cities can be found, so can plenty better. Clearly second world.
To set this up, all I have to do is look in the mirror. Cologne is a first world city (in spite of its demographic problems) in a first world country (for how much longer, who knows), no doubt about it. But I come here from a country that is of a perceived status as "higher" than the one I'm in, and continues to be in all real essence an occupying force in both hard and soft power terms. And here I am married to a local native woman, and we have children.
I get "looks," and I get "looked at," from those who happen to know or come to figure out that I'm a dreaded American, even though I am of DNA and ethnic constitution almost as good as a real native, and I very much look the native part, (on both counts down to the specific region), unless you look very closely and know what to look for. Until I open my mouth, then all doubt is removed. I wasn't born yesterday, so I know why I get those "looks" from quite a few German men who are in the relative age range of my own self and my wife. It's the look of resentment and jealousy, that this "occupier" is befouling one of their women.
It's as old as the hills. Foreign man takes native woman, native men get angry.
And remember, insofar as standard of living, the United States and Germany are way closer to each other than either is to Romania. And my wife and I came into our marriage relatively equally yolked. Also now you already know that my wife's yolk is about to get a lot bigger than mine. So it's not as if I was some rich dude from a rich country swooping down into the land of the damned to rescue a damsel from what would have been a lifetime condemned to grinding destitution.
When I found out that Andrew Tate is living near Bucharest, I thought to myself as a hot take: "Oh God. I hope he's not dumb enough to be boinking the local chicks. Because, if he is, he's just painted a big target on his back, and he's almost going to be a dead man walking. A big percentage of the men in and around Bucharest are going to be hunting his head."
Because, whatever the power and SES differential that manifests as a result of me being in Germany married to a German woman that in turn causes these "looks" of resentment that I get around here, the differential is way way WAY worse when the man is close to filthy rich flaunt all his shit Andrew Tate carrying both USA and UK passports and living in a second world southern/eastern European country. At least I have the comfort of knowing that the "looks" I'm getting are coming from cucked out urban western German soyboys too cowardly to act upon them (notwithstanding the ever present threat of beta male rage), even though any other time I wish they weren't cucked. Tate doesn't have that luxury; he is generating red hot hatred among men who are in no way cucked or defenestrated. I figured that sooner or later one or more of them would pay him a "visit."
Yesterday, they "visited" him. Except they made it an "official" visit. Which was very smart on their part, because it means that, for public consumption, the Romanians are 100% on the side of the angels and Andrew Tate is 100% on the side of the devil. Hardly anyone will be able to see this for the opaque charade that it is, and you're reading one of the scant few people who can and do.
This is my way of saying that Andrew Tate dindunuffins, except not have any common sense.
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