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Are these contrarian/scandalous/unapologetically insulting figures a new phenomenon or have they always been a part of pop culture? Seems like Tate-like or Yiannopoulos-like personas are attracting a lot of media coverage.
They can't be THAT new; punk culture got its start nearly SIXTY years ago, as an example of a subculture that was intentionally inspiration insulting
I came to hackernews to run away from that staged noise to keep twitter engagement high but it has spilled over to this platform as well.
Yeah I was surprised to see him mentioned on a site dedicated, IMO, to startups & tech & interesting discussions.
Beating a woman is certainly more visually shocking than stealing a rape victim's medical records but in a legal context I'd be hard-pressed to declare one "worse" than the other; and a vocal portion of HN defended the latter person and company during and for years after.
The connection to Greta Thunberg isn't accurate really. Andrew Tate said something like "bring me pizza and don't recycle the boxes" (paraphrasing) After he was arrested she replied "this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes" Her remark is because of what he said and later getting arrested. I can't see how it's because of the supposed use of the pizza box to locate him.
But what was the video containing the pizza boxes a response to?
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You've read Tate's tweet? What goes around comes around. BTW small dick energy dies say anything about the real size, it just has the same kind of energy
> You've read Tate's tweet? What goes around comes around. No, and it's not really relevant to what I'm saying. > BTW small dick energy dies say anything about the real size, it just has the same kind of energy These are the arguments I hear. "It doesn't actually mean you have a small dick, just that you're petty and unimportant, like the people who have small dicks".
Small dick is a metaphor for a small ego, because those people think that women are only interested in well hung, successful, rich, powerful tall man.
So I am tempted to flag this submission because I don't really think HN is the place but I want to make sure I am using the flag feature correctly. Can any more experienced HN user weigh in? Is flagging for articles you don't want to see on HN or is it more reserved for spam/ inaccuracies?
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
IMO one could justifiably say that it doesn't meet the "gratifies [hacker]'s intellectual curiosity" bar to be on-topic and runs afoul of the "crime" example in the off-topic guideline but ultimately the decision as to whether the story is sufficiently off topic to merit a flag is up to readers' personal judgement.
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You've read Tate's tweet? What goes around comes around. BTW small dick energy dies say anything about the real size, it just has the same kind of energy
> You've read Tate's tweet? What goes around comes around. No, and it's not really relevant to what I'm saying. > BTW small dick energy dies say anything about the real size, it just has the same kind of energy These are the arguments I hear. "It doesn't actually mean you have a small dick, just that you're petty and unimportant, like the people who have small dicks".
For instance, if someone calls you a dick it does matter if you called him something similar before.
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Yeah I was surprised to see him mentioned on a site dedicated, IMO, to startups & tech & interesting discussions.
These guys are a pretty big portion of grindset/hustle culture, which overlaps heavily with startup culture. Beating a woman is certainly more visually shocking than stealing a rape victim's medical records but in a legal context I'd be hard-pressed to declare one "worse" than the other; and a vocal portion of HN defended the latter person and company during and for years after.
Answer : a few months.
So I am tempted to flag this submission because I don't really think HN is the place but I want to make sure I am using the flag feature correctly. Can any more experienced HN user weigh in? Is flagging for articles you don't want to see on HN or is it more reserved for spam/ inaccuracies?
The HN guidelines say: " On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pict…
Agree this post is a gray area.
I’m just happy I had no idea who this person was. Turning into my dad has been a blessing…
The problem is, trolls like him thrive off publicity, presumably ad impression revenue-sharing from Youtube et al is how he managed to get the expensive cars he was bragging to Greta Thunberg (although pimping is also highly profitable, so who knows?).
The correct response is ostracism and damnatio memoriae. Don't get upset about him, let the law deal with him if he's committed actual crimes, but just ignore him and starve him of the oxygen of publicity.
I'm lucky that I mediate the news and everything through my own RSS feed reader that has extensive filtering capabilities, so anything that mentions the Kardashians, football, the Olympics, unfunny April Fool's pranks and other topics of utter uninterestingness is automatically deleted and doesn't waste a nanosecond of my time. I just added him to the list.