Pulse DTGIJS · August 16, 2026 · 2 min
You’re Missing the Point About Andrew Tate
A rented Lamborghini is still faster than your moral superiority.

Everyone on campus seems incredibly excited that Andrew Tate may have rented some of the cars in his videos.
Congratulations.
You cracked the case.
Apparently masculinity has now been disproven because a Bugatti came with paperwork.
This is exactly why people like Tate matter. Not because every photograph is a financial audit. Not because every sentence he has ever posted should be carved into stone. But because he understood something most men are still terrified to admit: nobody respects weakness simply because it is authentic.
The cars were a symbol.
The watches were a symbol.
The physique is a symbol.
Discipline, ambition, status, control. That is what men responded to.
And now the same people who spent years saying material wealth doesn’t matter are practically throwing a campus parade because apparently some of it was rented.
Pick a lane.
If the message was worthless, you wouldn’t care whether the Lamborghini belonged to him.
What actually bothers people is that millions of young men looked at Tate and saw someone saying things nobody around them was willing to say: get stronger, stop complaining, build something, become useful, stop begging the world to validate you.
You can dislike the messenger. Fine.
I don’t need another man to be perfect before I recognize when he is right.
And before somebody inevitably mentions the criminal allegations: allegations are not convictions. I know that concept has become unfashionable around here, especially when the accused person has opinions you dislike.
What happens in court happens in court.
But none of it suddenly makes weakness a virtue.
None of it changes biology.
None of it makes the guys sitting in Coffee & Teabag discussing “healthy masculinity” over oat milk the winners.
Maybe the Ferrari was rented.
The decline of men isn’t.
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Silverdalers, in their own words
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Claire Danes
You seem very angry about people drinking oat milk, Casper.
Leo Ramirez
I don’t know, man.
If you need a Lamborghini, a podcast and twelve paragraphs to convince people you’re masculine, you may be overselling the product a little.
I make coffee for a living and nobody has challenged my testosterone yet.
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