Social media influencers fighting against extradition to UK where they face rape, sexual assault and other allegations

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in jail at least two more weeks until their next hearing as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge said on Monday.

US magistrate Lauren Louis set a detention hearing for 13 August to determine whether the Tates should stay in jail or be released during what could be a months-long extradition process.

The brothers were not in court on Monday or required to be there and have remained in jail since making a brief court appearance two days after their 18 July arrest.

The Tates have become among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities with their promotion of wealth, male dominance and misogyny through their social media empire. The new allegations are the latest in a long-running international legal saga involving the Tates that has spanned the US, Britain and Romania. The brothers have repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

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    27 days ago

    The brothers have repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

    At least one of them has repeatedly bragged about their wrongdoing on video, and given instructions for others on how to also do that wrongdoing, so…

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      Yo dawg, he’s not denying doing the wrong, just that the wrong he’s doing in his wrongdoing is not wrong.

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      25 days ago

      Sociopaths always do this. They assume the world will give them everything so they have no qualms at all about documenting all their misdeeds.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    Like trump, there’s virtually no chance they’re not guilty of what they’re accused of and much worse. And many people went to jail for life for a joint. People still to this day are killed for homosexuality. I think humans’ most unique trait is that they can create a justification for any injustice, no matter how glaring.

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      Studies suggest that all our choices are unconscious and this entire thing we call sentience is a shameless justification engine, making sense of all the choices we’ve already made. It really do be kind of like the Oracle said to Neo that one time: “You didn’t come here to make the choice - you’ve already made it. Now you have to understand it.”

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        I don’t have any source to cite, but I will say that it seems neigh impossible that there aren’t at least some animals who experience something like “that isn’t fair”. I mean even just with dogs you can easily observe something akin to, if not, jealousy just by giving one dog a treat but not others.

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          If so, and I’m just having fun here, then it could be said that it’s neigh impossible that they couldn’t conjure a justification as well.

          That pupper who got a treat needed it to survive and deserved it for all the good boy points!

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        [citation needed]

        Seriously though, there are a ton of extremely gregarious animals out there, it wouldn’t be too surprising if some of them have some rudimentary concept of justice

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    Aww, shucky darns. Anyway, how’s everyone’s gardens growing? We started getting tomatoes, but with this heat they’ve stopped ripening. And I’ve def. got a skunk picking and eating my tomatoes. I found the burrow. And there’s 2 half eaten tomatoes just outside the burrow this morning. I gotta do something.

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      26 days ago

      Yeah shame. I didn’t get the jump on planting I should have this year and decided fuck it I’m just scattering wildflower seeds in all my beds to they have some kind of cover crop. The results have been so spectacular that I might never use the beds for anything else again! Working and working to get a carrot…? What was I thinking!

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      I used to have a beautiful organic garden, and one of my best animal repellants was peeing on the borders of my garden. One night I would pee on the corners, another night on the borders. It works, and it’s fun!

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    Wondering if the US is going to step in and save them at some point…is it really possible that they are too toxic for even this administration!?

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      Its said that no one really likes them, the department with control of extradition is headed by a trump fool but who previous to boot licking took a hard line and championed trafficking legislation.

      Trump said he doesn’t care for them or something. They are screwed, he does not need a “pedo frees rapists” headline right now.

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      Somebody asked Levitt and she said no. Not that you can trust her for anything but that is their official position.

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    25 days ago

    Pssst wanna know a secret?

    ^no one cares - leave them in there and let’s move on^

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    Better they rot in an American prison forever than wasting legal resources elsewhere. They are an American made problem, the US should take care of it.

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    If Romania had just got on with it and jailed these two idiots instead of messing around for over a year and then letting them go for no readily apparent reason, we would not have to be dealing with this now.