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      i think registration and actually sending any money will be two separate steps, but it is still lot of dumb people.

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      At 50$ a pop it’s 40 000 000$ Grifters gonna grift ! Sometimes I hate that I have morals stopping me from exploiting those morons.

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        It’s worse than you think; it’s $50/month!

        Now part of the problem is we don’t know the average membership length, and it’s further complicated by the fact that the Tate brothers ran the ‘school’ like a pyramid scheme where enrolling another member earned you a kick-back (which is why so many random channels popped up a few years back sharing clips).

        So pulling random numbers out of my arse, if the average membership period was ~6 months and they had ~30% operating expenses (servers, bandwidth, kickbacks etc.) they could have netted ~$168m from this scheme.

        I too, share your self-loathing in my morals preventing me from exploiting these absolute morons.

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        Yup, was one of the first bits I thought of too…

        I still paraphrase his “your stuff is shit, my shit is stuff” to this day… 😅

        We really need someone to fill the massive shoes he left behind - an individual able to call out all the egregious bullshit.

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    My friend’s brother almost fell victim to this cult. If he’s anything to go by most members will be vulnerable idiots.

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    It’s interesting, the first time I saw a picture of Tate I only saw cringe, and that has not changed.

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    I take as a positive point that I had no idea who this Andrew taint guy was before the he was arrested or whatever the fuck.

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    Whoo, which would be more embarrassing? Being exposed by this leak or the Ashley Madison one. I would love to see a list of email addresses that show up in both datasets.

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      One of the takeaways of AM being hacked was that a ton of accounts were fake, and existed to create the idea of a busy site, to add social proof and validity-by-numbers.

      The AM hacks were like decade and change ago, and Tate’s fanbase is mostly younger. I’m sure there is some overlap but probably small.

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    Data brokers will now have a new set of identitys for Insecure White Male with No Financial Litteracy.

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    Read the article, it’s so much better than the headline lets on. Trolled him, email addresses, full forum and chat content, etc.

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          You don’t know that. You don’t even know if it was done by a human being.

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            I have been on Lemmy for over 8 months as a woman. In that time, I have been abused so badly by both the community and mods, including several death threats, I had to remove all info about me from my profile. Men here are misogynists.

            They weren’t bots. And you are a woman hater too, trying to run defense for them. Thanks for making the world 1600s again. I’m literally having to defend food safety practices and handwashing to people because people like you hmcant pick up the mental weight of empathy towards a woman. You’re in a cult groomed to automatically disrespect and dismiss women. Gender narcissist.

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              I’m gonna go ahead and block you. Consider that the problems in your life aren’t because of everyone else around you. Good luck, but stay away from me, kthxbye.

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                That was always allowed. And my problems are literally caused by slavers and colonizers, quite clearly. I will be addressing my problems online and irl and stating what’s happening. You can’t silence me, you can ofc block me.

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    “Our article is boring. How do we get more people to read it?”

    “Put a good looking able bodied bearded white guy on the cover.”

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      Wut?

      The article is about Andrew Tate. Guess whose face is on the cover? Andrew Tate’s face.

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            Right, but when I hear “able-bodied,” there’s a pretty strong implication that they’ll actually use that body for something productive. I think your average construction worker is more “able-bodied” than Tate, Tate just looks like a gym queen.

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    ”Money making is a skill,” the website states. “We will teach you how to master it.”

    step 1: convince people to pay you 50$ for access to your deranged ramblings.

    there is no step 2