I can picture her right now. "Commissioner, my methods aren't by your precious book. But I get results."
Every single step was the most clownishly absurd self-own imaginable. I mean, everybody is applauding Thunberg, but all she really did was tell a troll to go fuck himself. He's the one who laid rakes all over the yard then ran around screaming with a blindfold.
The guy should be in custody to protect him from himself.
Mostly to protect other people from his trafficking, if the Romanians are right.
Don't forget that if Elon hadn't unbanned him from Twitter he'd be free today. (Though not necessarily next month.)
This whole story is the most hilarious thing.
It must be a tough day for the Mansophere.
all she really did was tell a troll to go fuck himself
Which he most certainly did. So I guess points awarded after all.
Romanian police are apparently really good at following process.
Somebody over at LG&M commented that there are a whole lot of men who seem to have forgotten that they live in the real world, and the real world can bite back. They're so used to wielding their money and power like a weapon against anybody they choose, that they forget they're not totally invulnerable.
Like this reptile Tate.
I just keep imagining Greta holding his forearms and telling him to stop hitting himself. Why are you hitting yourself, Tate?
It's not big of me.
I saw a post on Mastodon saying that the "little dick" comment was insensitive to trans men which is just so wonderfully eye-roll-y but also, huh, dick size cracks, that's what we're going with here? Can't argue with the results though.
Story is, perhaps, not quite as good as it sounds: https://www.calmdownben.com/p/romanian-cops-did-not-find-andrew
So apparently you can argue with the results
14: his original tweet to Thunberg was full of "I have a big dick" energy. I mean, "gaze at my *enormous* collection of biiiig polluting cars, little girlie" energy. He was begging to be smacked-down, and that's what Thunberg did.
15: All of his points are well-taken, of course, but one of the tweets that kicked it all off seems to be basically accurate -- if taken sufficiently literally and not in the sensational way it was eventually spun (including by the author of the tweet):
Romanian authorities needed proof that Andrew Tate was in the country so they reportedly used his social media posts. His ridiculous video yesterday featured a pizza from a Romanian pizza chain, Jerry's Pizza, confirming he was in the country.
14: I hadn't previously been worried about wokeness and political correctness and all that, but I fear for the future of our society if Unfogged is starting to question cock jokes.
I'm afraid I've been doing pizza boxes wrong. I though you weren't supposed to recycle them because of the food grease.
you put them in the green bin for recycling/food composting system, moby.
The best counter to 14 I've seen is it is the kind of crack that will actually hurt people like Tate - as shown by his "I'm not mad, don't put in the newspaper that I got mad" video.
Also, spokesperson for Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism has now told the Post the pizza box photo played no role in the arrest whatsoever.
Also, spokesperson for Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism has now told the Post the pizza box photo played no role in the arrest whatsoever.
Swedish people aren't usually funny, so I say we should give this to her regardless.
25 - You would think that the Post would recognize when a story is too good to check.
His car was literally designed to look like a penis.
I can buy that the pizza box wasn't the reason, but the timing is to choice to assume that Greta had nothing to do with it.
He went from standard internet douchebag to main character of twitter overnight. That may well have prompted the police to pull the trigger on arresting the guy, lest things start to get weird.
31: That's how I see it. If nothing else, it's an entertaining coincidence.
And the Romanian guy quoted by the Post seemed a bit defensive: "No, really! We worked hard on this! This isn't about a pizza box!"
I don't really blame him for that.
31: I could imagine his return to Twitter could have led to his arrest - both greater prominence increasing their interest, and more material to track off of. But weeks of leadup also make sense, so I think the conjunction is plausibly just coincidence.
(I'm sure Romanian law enforcement sucks in all sorts of ways, but it makes sense they see a strong national interest in not being advertised to the world as the place to go to force women into sex work without legal consequence, which is what Tate was both doing and advertising.)
It was Greta what done him. I won't hear more.
Romania probably has one of those nice, progressive prison systems I'm always hearing about in Europe, yeah?
If they got into the EU and are on track for Schengen, they're probably doing better than we are.
Or will they just take him down to a Transylvanian dungeon and chain him to the wall for the vampires to finish?
Cosign 35. Greta with the pizza box on the twitter.
23 is also what they say about calling Trump fat or calling that one shrill dork short. I think we can all enjoy having our shitty immature fun without rationalizing it as something it's not.
Prosecutors don't want them wandering off, asking to extend initial detention. These guys will get what they deserve.
Not to stereotype, but maybe Thunberg can wield sorcery as well as social media?
https://www.reuters.com/world/romania-detains-ex-kickboxer-andrew-tate-human-trafficking-case-2022-12-30/
I'm sure Romanian law enforcement sucks in all sorts of ways, but it makes sense they see a strong national interest in not being advertised to the world as the place to go to force women into sex work without legal consequence, which is what Tate was both doing and advertising.
Yeah, publicly saying stuff like "I love living in this country because its authorities are too corrupt to arrest me for my many obvious crimes" is the sort of thing that's likely to eventually get you arrested, especially if you suddenly get restored to a much larger platform.
42 is right, and not only restored to a wordlwide platform, but engaging in a ridiculous well watched spat with a global figure, flaunting his location. The police would have looked completely hapless if they didn't arrest him now.
So yes, it was Greta and the pizza box, and if the cops want to pretend it wasn't, why do we need to believe them?
36: it isn't great by European standards https://www.coe.int/en/web/cpt/-/council-of-europe-anti-torture-committee-publishes-report-on-romania-highlighting-that-the-challenges-facing-the-prison-system-remain-extensi-1#:~:text=In%20addition%2C%20the%20material%20conditions,and%20infested%20with%20bed%20bugs.