To say the left fell for the Andrew Tate pizza box hoax is the understatement of the year. These are just from The Other 98% in the last day! It happens so many times; a narrative that seems too perfect probably is, just wait a day and see what comes out before running with it.
▪️The Romanian authorities say the pizza box had nothing to do with their investigation. Tate owns a home in Romania and has recently posted he was in Romania. It’s not like police have no other method of locating people than waiting helplessly to piece together some 4chan-style internet sleuth project.
https://www.calmdownben.com/p/romanian-cops-did-not-find-andrew
▪️Further, it appears he wasn’t even arrested. It’s hard to sort out with translation and everyone’s lack of knowledge about Romanian law, but news reports there say he was detained and the court would decide if he is to be arrested later.
https://www.gandul.ro/actualitate/exclusiv-fosta-politista-ridicata-de-diicot-in-dosarul-de-trafic-de-persoane-deschis-pe-numele-fratilor-tristan-si-andrew-tate-femeia-ar-fi-lucrat-pentru-cei-doi-19899738
▪️The sole evidence for the pizza box narrative came, not from any Romanian source, but a left wing Twitter activist. Which went viral and got shared by countless reporters, sophisticates and rubes alike. Few stopped to ask for any evidence or question why the narrative seemed so perfect.
▪️Of course, most of those who ran wild with it think that misinformation (on the other side) is a big problem on social media. Indeed, the very person who started the hoax testified in front of Congress about the dangers of extremist “hate speech” on social media!
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
