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.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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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        13 minutes ago

        [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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        16 hours ago

        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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          16 hours ago

          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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            15 hours ago

            That’s probably true. Dogs cannot cause the suffering of billions of other dogs though.

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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.”