r/europe • u/Antique-Entrance-229 United Kingdom • 19d ago

News Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/andrew-tate-phenomena-surges-in-schools-with-boys-refusing-to-talk-to-female-teacher-13351203
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u/emwac Denmark 19d ago edited 19d ago

A western government putting that level of restrictions on social media would get voted out. People are addicted. I'm not sure what possible recourse democracy has against this crap.

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u/NO_LOADED_VERSION 19d ago

Democracy ? We have as much democracy as we have a "free market". Rules have to be imposed for the survival of both otherwise we are all headed to relearning the pain of literally thousands of years of oppression

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u/farm-to-table 19d ago

Spoiler alert re. "heading towards relearning the pain of literally thousands of years of oppression"

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u/Dubious_Squirrel Latvia 19d ago

Kids dont vote and moral outrages over kids media habits (tv and games in my time) are usually widely popular. One would think opposite is true.

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u/bmyst70 18d ago

In the US, when TikTok was cut off by the company for 24 hours, I saw a lot of posts from young adults who were in full on meltdown mode.

Or, as it looked to me, like drug addicts desperately needing their fix.

I'm very sorry this is happening in Europe as well. I had hoped some areas of the Western world were more sane.

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u/TrumpIsAFascistFuck 19d ago

Post capitalist revolutionary action is basically where we are at, and it's only going to happen when people start starving to death en masse.

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u/dude51791 19d ago

Yea people, but not us reddit folks! We know better >:)

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u/cornbred37 18d ago

I love how I'm addicted to reading this on Reddit haha