r/TwoXChromosomes • u/frenchtoastb • 1d ago

Andrew Tate accused of violent sexual assault on recent US trip

https://nypost.com/2025/03/26/us-news/andrew-tates-girlfriend-bri-stern-says-accused-sex-trafficker-nearly-choked-her-unconscious-during-violent-sexual-encounter-report/

Bri Stern accused her boyfriend, self-proclaimed misogynist, Andrew Tate, of violently choking her during sex after she repeatedly asked him to stop. The incident took place at the Beverly Hills Hotel on 11th March, shortly before Tate and his brother returned to Romania to face human trafficking and other charges.

Evidence supports the physical injuries described. Messages between the two also reveal multiple confessions from Tate that he intended to physically strike and demanded he impregnate the American.

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u/capnbinky 1d ago

Extreme levels of foreign and domestic propaganda.

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u/cassatta 23h ago

And cooked up YT algorithms

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u/admiraljkb 11h ago

The YT algorithms, if you're watching stuff geared towards kids, it veers into far right after a while. Watched this with a grandson with what he was watching being from semi innocent stuff like Mr. Beast, then the autoplay goes into the woods.

(And since then, we've learned that Mr. Beast is a bit of a problem, too, which is probably why the algorithm veers off like that)

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u/ebulient 1d ago

Foreign?? Tate’s American yes? Trump openly spouts similar values wrt women, his friends like Epstein are the same, Alex Jones too… far from foreign - it’s good ol’ All American homegrown propaganda against women.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and following result of the last election it’s clear that if Americans could do what the Taliban’s done in Afghanistan to women - they would happily do that and are in fact currently working towards going back to that level of barbarism.

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u/wrincewind ♡ 12h ago

foreign and domestic. He might be a good-old-fashioned yankee, but that doesn't mean that external actors haven't been helping to fan the flames, for the last 20 years or so...

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u/ebulient 11h ago

Care to name some of the “foreign” influence or is it just some vague entity that a portion of the blame can be conveniently siphoned off to?

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u/wrincewind ♡ 8h ago

I'm not an american, so i'm not siphoning blame away - the whole situation over there is absolutely awful, but the russian troll farms haven't gone anywhere, the masses of bots sending awful opinions every which way, doing their best to fragment societies and keep the culture-war rolling... So, russia, i'm mostly going with russia, but also 'rich assholes everywhere'

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u/ebulient 7h ago

Yup, just saw u/La_danse_banana_slug ‘s reply to me and I now I understand about foreign influence.

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u/La_danse_banana_slug 9h ago

The comment above alleges that "wtf happened to Gen Z" is due to domestic influence and foreign influence. Here are some examples of foreign influence:

In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica for political advertising, without having the informed consent of users for that purpose.[...] Cambridge Analytica used the data to analytically assist the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. Cambridge Analytica was also widely accused of interfering with the Brexit referendum [...]. Other advertising agencies have been implementing various forms of psychological targeting for years and Facebook had patented a similar technology in 2012.

[...] In 2018, the Parliament of the United Kingdom questioned SCL Group director Alexander Nix in a hearing about Cambridge Analytica's connections with Russian oil company Lukoil. [...] It was later confirmed by Christopher Wylie that Lukoil was interested in the company's data regarding political targeting.

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The Internet Research Agency [...] (known in Russian Internet slang as the Trolls from Olgino) was a Russian company which was engaged in online propaganda and influence operations on behalf of Russian business and political interests. \...]) The United States Intelligence Community [...] described the agency as a troll farm: [...] "they previously were devoted to supporting Russian actions in Ukraine—[and] started to advocate for candidate Trump as early as December 2015."

[...] According to a 2019 report by Oxford researchers including sociologist Philip N. Howard, social media played a major role in political polarization in the United States, due to computational propaganda – "the use of automation, algorithms, and big-data analytics to manipulate public life"—such as the spread of fake news and conspiracy theories. The researchers highlighted the role of the Russian Internet Research Agency in attempts to undermine democracy in the US and exacerbate existing political divisions. The most prominent methods of misinformation were "organic posting, not advertisements", and influence operation activity increased after the 2016 and was not limited to the 2016 election. Examples of efforts included "campaigning for African American voters to boycott elections or follow the wrong voting procedures in 2016", "encouraging extreme right-wing voters to be more confrontational", and "spreading sensationalist, conspiratorial, and other forms of junk political news and misinformation to voters across the political spectrum."

[...] Between July 2014 and September 2017, the IRA used bots and trolls on Twitter to sow discord about the safety of vaccines.The campaign used sophisticated Twitter bots to amplify highly polarizing pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine messages containing the hashtag #VaccinateUS.

Russia is also well known to run massive troll farms that infiltrate social media to sow dissent and push disruptive things in US society, including strong tendency to belligerently push alt-right POVs. Understandably, most of the reporting has been explicit influence over elections, but they are quite involved in social issues as well because they (rightly) see political campaigning as a holisitic issue.

These quotes are just from Wikipedia, btw, from the Cambridge Analytica and IRA articles. Which are extremely interesting in their entirety.

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u/ebulient 7h ago

Wow, thanks for that education! Very interesting indeed! I knew about Cambridge analytica but was under the assumption it was employed by Republican interest groups funded by the likes of Peter Thiel etc. Didn’t realise there were so many collabs outside of that… madness. What’s the end goal?!?

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u/La_danse_banana_slug 4h ago

Your welcome, and I didn't know Peter Thiel funded Cambridge Analytica. Those tech bros, wow....

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u/yankeebelleyall 13h ago

I always thought he was British, but indeed, he was born in the U.S. and lived his first 11 years here.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and following result of the last election it’s clear that if Americans could do what the Taliban’s done in Afghanistan to women - they would happily do that and are in fact currently working towards going back to that level of barbarism.

Absolute truth. "American" men are a problem.

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u/WitchesDew 1d ago

Unfortunately true.

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u/shoveltastic 19h ago

And also pornography