My daughter and her family are staying with us for a few weeks - caught between the sale of their home and the construction completion of their new home. This morning I’m having a conversation with their youngest, 14. He asked me if I’ve ever heard of Andrew Tate -I haven’t. He’s been explaining who he is and being unbanned from Twitter. Apparently he’s been arrested for trafficking in Romania but grandson thinks he’s been framed - will have to dig some on that.
He brought up the celebrities making the the Illuminati sign over their eyes, memes showing the programming of young people.
I showed him the “Threat to our Democracy” video.
We’ve been having a whole conversation about the Matrix and red pills, etc., and about media programming and censorship.
ANYWAY - I am a bit encouraged that he knows some of this.
He’s been homeschooled his entire life.
I posted a very indepth article about Andrew Tate, I will find link. Turns out Tate has a very dark side and started his career being a pimp. He is not not what he appears to be. I’ll try to bring the link here as soon as I can.
The Federalist has an article about Andrew Tate describing what he has done and promoted and speculating for the reason he is arrested. I recommend. I had never heard of him.
Your grandson sounds pretty sharp.
Here it is, Sather dug deeply and it is eye opening.
https://jordansather.substack.com/p/on-andrew-tate-and-truth-telling
On Andrew Tate and “Truth Telling” Cults of Personality
Identify narcissistic tendencies and guard yourself from predatory behavior of internet influencers
The first time I heard of Andrew Tate was a few months ago, a little late to the party since I couldn’t care less about nonsense internet trends. If you aren’t familiar with who this guy is, he blew up on social media this year in “motivation” and “mindset” circles with the controversial life advice he posts, along with sharing his extravagant lifestyle of private jets and Bugatti sports cars on his social media. He acquired a devoted following of young men who think that by following Tate’s advice they will become wealthy alpha males, and he also developed a following of social justice warriors who can’t stand him.
I was curious as to the fad around the guy, Tate fanatics saying that he’s “helping men become men again” and “destroying woke culture”, so I went to check out his Instagram. The first thing I noticed was that nearly every single picture posted for months was either him with his shirt off, his diamond Rolex, a pic of his Bugatti sports cars, or him on his private jet. I thought to myself, this is what all these dudes are fawning over? This materialism? This is what they think success is?
I wasn’t impressed, and quickly logged out of Instagram. Unfortunately with the way their algorithms works, Tate content was forced in my face every time I logged into Instagram for weeks. Annoying, but this did allow me to listen to some of the ideologies he was preaching that one side of the political internet labeled “mysoginistic” and the other side as “a man’s man destroying woke culture”.
To be honest, he would say a few interesting things about “The Matrix” and The Powers that Be that I did find curious and resonated with. I did like a popular personality doling out some red pills like that. On the other hand, I heard some pretty basic bitch comments from him. Materialism, pseudo-spirituality, and pseudo-masculinity is heavily promoted by Tate. Looks like he peddled just a few red pills to rope people into buying his big bowl of black pills. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want my children to take life advice from him.
[Much more at link]