Did the Matrix kidnap Top G? Or is Andrew Tate the Matrix himself, now unplugged and shorting out in a Romanian jail?

While his self-confessed crimes against women come home to roost, the online spectacle his arrest has generated provides a litmus test for just how fast the cognitive dissonance of culture war chaos can plummet.

Welcome to the broader “Tate crime”: a spectacle of acute reality-reversal, fueled by reactionary politics and driven by a cultic network of devotees and SEO managers, where culture war punditry is funded by bogus self-help courses and online pornography.

Show Notes

The PHD Program (“Pimping Hos Degree)

Andrew Tate said he broke a woman's jaw and that his business was a 'scam' ahead of Romanian charges

Tate admits to statutory rape

Part One: Andrew Tate, and the Mythopoetic Men's Movement - Behind the Bastards | iHeart

The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate

"From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: Con(fidence) Games, Networked Misogyny, and the Failure of Neoliberalism"

A Coordinated Group Of 4,500 Bots Tweeted In Support Of Andrew Tate

Teachers Warn That Misogynist Andrew Tate Has 'Radicalized' School-Age Boys

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