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Andrew Tate is ’too smart to read’ and says books are for ‘slow brains’ (www.irishstar.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Self-professed misogynist influencer Andrew Tate believes reading is for people with “slow brains,” according to a recent resurfaced clip of him on X. In the video, Tate is seen bragging that his brain is too advanced for reading and that he’d rather be in constant chaos.

“I’m too smart to read. I know you’re sitting there going ‘smart people read’... no. I need action. I need constant chaos in my life to feel content. I need to be driving a supercar and f—ing fighting, f—ing a bunch of hoes and champagne… going crazy.”

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

People bragging about how super smart they are usually lower the population average significantly.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

These people are just shameless manipulators of the stupid, which is the only form of intelligence our society really respects right now.

Ie, elon musk is a genius, why? Not for doing anything real, but for hyping the value of his stocks beyond any semblance of reason. The president, all the rw influencers, business dickheads, the quality they have that is valued is playing the population, no one cares if it's true, they care if they get enough people to believe it and therefore make money off of it.

Meanwhile people that actually invent stuff, that actually figure stuff out, aren't even celebrated, they are a cog in a machine under one of these confidence men, their contributions attributed to the Musks of the world. Nikola Tesla would not be respected if he was around today, just used and abused by these manipulators that would take all the credit.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

"I’m, like, a smart person. I don’t have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day,"