JohnnyDoe said:Why anyone with an IQ>60 should follow them?
To witness how the "regime" treat those who oppose them and to learn how to dribble the regime. 🫣
Fiscal said:Watching the Tate brothers become world-famous has to be one of the most unexpected developments in my life—that’s just how life goes sometimes. Back when I was living in Bucharest for a while and they were still micro-celebrities (think fewer than 30,000 Twitter/Instagram followers), I met them at a nightclub and even spent a day at the beach tagging along with them.
You have to picture it: ten years ago it wasn't all that common to move to somewhat unfamiliar countries. You might recall this yourself, perhaps from your own offshore industry adventures, the world still had a few more rough edges to it. As a result expats tended to stick together more. They were happy to spend time with Westerners in Romania.
Their house is a converted warehouse just a few dozen meters from an airport runway. Ironically it looks good on video. It was interesting and funny to spend some time with them. I can't deny that. Having witnessed them first hand I think their entire online persona is a facade.
Regardless of what all of us think of them, they were among the first to achieve fame by employing so-called 'clipping.' Many celebrities followed and every influencer uses this strategy nowadays. It has become a norm. They used this method to amass their fortune (which they themselves vastly exaggerate) by paying affiliates to spread their videos and sell their courses, so that people could be lured into their 'War Room' and get them to pay thousands of $$ a year.
In hindsight they might have been better off remaining micro-celebrities. Now all sorts of skeletons have come out of the closet. And the liberal system has every interest in destroying them. That is why I don't see them being released anytime soon. If they are actually extradited I can easily see them getting more than ten years in prison.
100% this! In the 90s and early 2000s I did a lot of this with other expats (although as you mentioned, we were small in numbers). I later decided to get more immersed in the local community and learn their language(s).
Now, for example, in Shenzhen, and after COVID, I am the only foreigner around most of the times. There is an expat community but some of the members are "suspect", so I did distance myself from them. It's not beneficial to me to be around them. Their "discussions" are centered on "complaints"🤬
WhoMe said:I'm on the side of the dick heads.
100% me too! Besides, it's a big club and I'm not in it.
JohnnyDoe said:Making money is easy. Keeping it is the hard part.
A fool and his money are soon parted. “Soon” usually means a few years, because the judiciary is slow.
In cases of extreme foolishness, it’s already a good result to stay out of prison.
So, true. I have too much empathy, so for me it's best to stay away from others you might be going through hard times as I tend to "help out" and this only makes things "worse."
I NEVER discuss money anymore as it attracts too many entitled "leeches".
Paratore said:no one ever swung for the whole Epstein thing.
This! 100% this! 🤬
All that law, justice, fairness, etc is just BS lies.