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Did that waste of oxygen just resort to "I know you are, but what am I" and think he 'won' that exchange?
I think the intention was to invoke a similar feel to the following exchange from Happy Gilmore:

Shooter McGavin: You're in big trouble though, pal. I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!
Happy Gilmore: You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?

i.e.

Greta Thunberg: You can contact me at [email protected]
Andrew Tate: You chose to name your email address [email protected]?
 
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I think the intention was to invoke a similar feel to the following exchange from Happy Gilmore:

Shooter McGavin: You're in big trouble though, pal. I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!
Happy Gilmore: You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?

i.e.

Greta Thunberg: You can contact me at [email protected]
Andrew Tate: You chose to name your email address [email protected]?
Unfortunately Tate has the wit of a particularly impeded box turtle.

I can't imagine what it must be like living in perpetual terror that you will be perceived as not manly enough.
 

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Posted earlier about how George Santos has admitted lying about his work history and having a degree.

...well, he's also been caught out tweeting first that his mother died in 9/11, and then five months later tweeting that she died in 2016 (online obit confirms the latter). There's one possible charitable explanation here: she had a cancer diagnosis, and survivors of 9/11 did have a significantly elevated risk of cancer as a result of the released toxins. So it's conceivable that she was present, survived, and then developed cancer as a result-- and that Santos attributes the death to the attack for that reason. If we're being very charitable.

He has also been claiming that his parents moved from Belgium to the US to escape persecution by the Nazis. However a genealogist has indicated that his parents were actually from Brazil.

Is this all just self-serving cynicism? Or is he a genuine fabulist?
 

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Posted earlier about how George Santos has admitted lying about his work history and having a degree.

...well, he's also been caught out tweeting first that his mother died in 9/11, and then five months later tweeting that she died in 2016 (online obit confirms the latter). There's one possible charitable explanation here: she had a cancer diagnosis, and survivors of 9/11 did have a significantly elevated risk of cancer as a result of the released toxins. So it's conceivable that she was present, survived, and then developed cancer as a result-- and that Santos attributes the death to the attack for that reason. If we're being very charitable.

He has also been claiming that his parents moved from Belgium to the US to escape persecution by the Nazis. However a genealogist has indicated that his parents were actually from Brazil.

Is this all just self-serving cynicism? Or is he a genuine fabulist?
Real-life Aldridge Prior the Hopeless Liar.
 

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Posted earlier about how George Santos has admitted lying about his work history and having a degree.

...well, he's also been caught out tweeting first that his mother died in 9/11, and then five months later tweeting that she died in 2016 (online obit confirms the latter). There's one possible charitable explanation here: she had a cancer diagnosis, and survivors of 9/11 did have a significantly elevated risk of cancer as a result of the released toxins. So it's conceivable that she was present, survived, and then developed cancer as a result-- and that Santos attributes the death to the attack for that reason. If we're being very charitable.

He has also been claiming that his parents moved from Belgium to the US to escape persecution by the Nazis. However a genealogist has indicated that his parents were actually from Brazil.

Is this all just self-serving cynicism? Or is he a genuine fabulist?
A guy called Santos... came from Belgium...
 
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A guy called Santos... came from Belgium...
Technically possible. From the mid 40s to mid 70s a lot of Southern Europeans immigrated to Belgium to work in the Wallonian coal mines. Mostly Italians, but also Spaniards, Portuguese, Greeks, Turkish, etc. As a result there are still minorities of those ethnicities in our country, e.g. my so who is 3rd gen Italo-Belgian.

Tho the more likely explanation is that he is actually Belgian descended, but his family moved to Brazil some generations back, and somewhere along matrilineal line someone married a Brazilian named Santos and took her husband's name.
 
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Hey now, let's not got off this train too hasty like, let's see where it going first.



Elon Musk‘s net worth has plummeted by more than $200bn over the past 13 months, one of the biggest losses of wealth in recent history.

The tech tycoon lost more than half of his fortune between November 2021 and December this year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, largely due to the collapse of Tesla stock during that time.



The $208bn wiped from Mr Musk’s net worth is roughly equivalent to the GDP of Greece. The amount lost is also more than the net worth of the world’s richest person, Bernard Arnault.

After topping the rich list for most of the year, Mr Musk lost his place to the French business magnate earlier this month, although he remains ahead of other US tech billionaires that have dominated the list in recent years.



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Mr Musk’s net worth peaked at $338bn in November 2021, according to Bloomberg, coinciding with the fortunes of Tesla.

The electric car maker has lost roughly 70 per cent of its value in 2022 following production delays in China, vehicle recalls, and concerns among investors that its CEO has been distracted by his new role as head of Twitter.

Tesla’s market cap is down by nearly $900bn since November 2021, causing it to drop out of the top 10 most valuable companies.


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Despite the losses, Tesla remains the world’s most valuable car maker by a distance, with its losses over the last year equivalent to the combined market cap of all other automakers.


In a recent email to Tesla staff, Mr Musk wrote that he believed Tesla will become “the most valuable company on Earth” in the long-term.

“Don’t be too bothered by stock market craziness,” he wrote, according to Reuters. “As we demonstrate continued excellent performance, the market will recognise that.”



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Mr Musk rarely speaks of his wealth, though did explain his ambitions for his fortune in a Twitter thread in 2018.

“You should ask why I would want money,” he wrote. “About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure the continuation of life (or all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves.”

Other US billionaires have seen their wealth decline significantly over the last year, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq falling by around a third in 2022.

Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Google’s Larry Page have lost more than $180bn combined since January.

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Posted earlier about how George Santos has admitted lying about his work history and having a degree.

...well, he's also been caught out tweeting first that his mother died in 9/11, and then five months later tweeting that she died in 2016 (online obit confirms the latter). There's one possible charitable explanation here: she had a cancer diagnosis, and survivors of 9/11 did have a significantly elevated risk of cancer as a result of the released toxins. So it's conceivable that she was present, survived, and then developed cancer as a result-- and that Santos attributes the death to the attack for that reason. If we're being very charitable.

He has also been claiming that his parents moved from Belgium to the US to escape persecution by the Nazis. However a genealogist has indicated that his parents were actually from Brazil.

Is this all just self-serving cynicism? Or is he a genuine fabulist?
He just can't seem to stop being so shit at lying, it's, well, maybe not so surprising after seeing the last president's efforts, but still...the repubs certainly don't see him as useful it would seem;

 
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It's been removed now, but someone had a bit of a laugh with Tate's fight record on Wikipedia
Oh it got better.


The Romanian government had been waiting to find out if Tate was in country so they could arrest him. In his comeback video against Greta, he posed with a Romanian pizza box on camera and they raided his house and arrested him.
 

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Kinda like Shapiro being an idiot's idea of a genius, Tate is a virgin's of a cool guy
My favorite thing about Tate is that he writes his own cringey martial arts fantasy stories about his "previous life" in the magical land of Wudan, and they are some deep, deep, nuclear-level cringe..

 
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The Romanian government had been waiting to find out if Tate was in country so they could arrest him. In his comeback video against Greta, he posed with a Romanian pizza box on camera and they raided his house and arrested him.
Wait, is this for real?! If so that would make my fucking day.
 

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The Romanian government had been waiting to find out if Tate was in country so they could arrest him. In his comeback video against Greta, he posed with a Romanian pizza box on camera and they raided his house and arrested him.
"Don't go around that corner. There's a bunch of tools on the ground and you could get hurt."
"You can't tell me what to do!"

 

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Oh it got better.


The Romanian government had been waiting to find out if Tate was in country so they could arrest him. In his comeback video against Greta, he posed with a Romanian pizza box on camera and they raided his house and arrested him.
This is quite possibly the biggest self own on Elon Musk's Twitter, which I didn't think was possible considering it's Elon Musk's Twitter
 

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I can't imagine what it must be like living in perpetual terror that you will be perceived as not manly enough.
I can. I've lived in the terror of fearing not being sufficient, of not being good enough. Though it's never been expressed as a fear of not being considered manly enough.
 

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I can. I've lived in the terror of fearing not being sufficient, of not being good enough. Though it's never been expressed as a fear of not being considered manly enough.
I've dealt with more than my share of impostor syndrome too. It's the degree that people like Tate take it to that baffles me. I can't get my head around being that insecure. That divorced from reality.
 
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My favorite thing about Tate is that he writes his own cringey martial arts fantasy stories about his "previous life" in the magical land of Wudan, and they are some deep, deep, nuclear-level cringe..

"It is impossible to be completely lethal when indulging in their beauty."

Because you're just not a man unless you're ready to kill at any given moment in the day.
 
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"It is impossible to be completely lethal when indulging in their beauty."

Because you're just not a man unless you're ready to kill at any given moment in the day.
... that's just Two Monks and a Woman, a Buddhist parable, and probably centuries old.

It's supposed to teach to live in the now and not let past actions weigh you down. You know, the whole detachment thing that's a core tenet of Buddhism? But I can imagine alpha bros instead see a warning about involvement with women making you weak or something.