I binge-listened to Andrew Tate last week. For those who don’t know, Tate is a 4-time kick-boxing world champion, multimillionaire and playboy with a brazen personality. He has become rather internet-famous recently due to some provocative interviews alongside an intensive marketing campaign. He made his millions off his e-girl webcamming and casino businesses.
The man has moral flaws. However, we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss him. Tate has had great success in the material world and deserves respect for doing so. He is clearly a man of high-calibre, as indicated by his success as an athlete, businessmen, and womanizer – along with an 1800 chess rating to boot. If you listen to his interviews you can tell that he has positive qualities and is a capable man. He has valuable insights for the dissident right with regards to how we should tackle modern world, but before getting to these insights I’ll start with the flaws:
Flaw 1: He’s a Moral Freeloader
Throughout interviews, Tate repeatedly states that he doesn’t like living in the West as it has turned into an immoral, corrupt and degraded society (we agree there). Instead, he prefers living in more religious countries such as Romania which has a relatively strong Orthodox church, or even Dubai where it is Muslim.
The blatant contradiction is painful: On one hand, he recognizes that irreligious societies are degenerate and disgusting; on the other, he chooses to engage in behaviour that perpetuates this exact societal problem which he is describing. Worse still, he actually made his millions by profiting off of such degenerate behaviour (gambling and e-whoring). Thus, Tate freeloads off of the religious and moral behaviour of the general citizenry in his current country of preference, all while defacing the moral framework within said country through his actions. I assume that once those countries turn into morally bankrupt shitholes, he’d move on to the next country, until there is no place left to turn?
Traditionalists and nationalists could fight for decades to return their beloved European-stock nations back to their former glory. He’s the type of guy who would move in after all the hard work has been done – reaping the benefits of the righteous society which has been created while criticizing those who were creating it at the time for being monogamists and traditionalists.
Flaw 2: Hedonism and Materialism
Tate seems to have a spiritual blind-spot with regards to fulfilment beyond the material. To him, success is simply measured by physical wealth and accolades. He is not afraid to indulge in his own vices and seems unconcerned about what might happen after his death and whether or not his soul will be judged by a higher power.
Just because you can make millions of dollars off of pornography or gambling, doesn’t mean you should. The same applies for sleeping with countless women (pumping and dumping women ruins them for life), or running a pyramid scheme (which is very close to what he’s doing with his Hustler’s University business).
Despite the fact that he prefers living in religious societies, it seems that Tate is completely unable to understand a humble life, the vocation of monk, or a life free from vice. He talks so much about material riches and so little about the spiritual war we are fighting in the modern West.
Flaw 3: He Has No Kids! (yet)
Andrew Tate talks a big game. He seems quite aware of the globalist plans to subjugate all of mankind into a slave-state. He’s done quite well for himself to avoid this subjugation: he lives in Romania (where you can get away with things), has a dozen passports, has worldwide connections and strategically sold all his properties to avoid having his assets under the thumb of a government. He even zoned his current Romanian residence as a shooting range so he could legally hold guns on the property (based). However, there is one fatal flaw: where is the progeny?!
I actually respect the guy’s competence and believe he has what it takes to form a successful counter-elite against the current ruling class. But, no. Instead, what is he doing with his time? Pimping whores! The fact that he has the potential to be a truly historic figure is what makes this all so frustrating.
In fairness, he says he does have plans to have kids with multiple women, Islam style. Just probably not in marriage, probably later in life, and he probably won’t spend too much time with his kids… Lord have mercy if he has daughters. Even kids from 4 wives while actually being loyal to them would be far superior to whatever degenerate sterile-sex behaviour he is currently engaging in.
Flaw 4: He’s Deracinated and Boomer-Truth Pilled
I won’t harp on this point too much. Essentially, Andrew Tate is 90% red-pilled, but hasn’t quite swallowed the whole bottle. He’s mixed-race (¼ black) and thus maybe struggles to take race-realism seriously. As far as I can tell, he doesn’t give a damn about the demographic replacement of Whites, and there are certain topics he will not dare touch.
Perhaps this is so he can stay on social media, but as someone who prides himself on being able to say what he wants, that shouldn’t be the case. To be fair, his content isn’t supposed to be overly political anyways, but I’m just saying: he’s not really our guy.
__________________________________
This all sounds quite bad, but with that out the way, let’s get to his ideas that might be more useful to the dissident right. I won’t get into basics like the fact that discipline is more important than motivation, a man must do things he doesn’t want to do, patriarchy is favourable to feminism, or the fact that a man has a moral imperative to defend his woman to the death. As traditionalists, we already understand these basic tenets. I will focus on the insights which may prove useful to the movement.
Strong Point 1: Band of Brothers Mentality
Andrew Tate has an extremely close relationship with his brother. They live together in the same house, push each other to be the best, spar together, run businesses together and have each other’s back no matter what. On top of that, the two brothers have a close-knit crew of friends which value loyalty above all else. Apparently, if the group ever get into an altercation, they carry an “either we all die, or no one dies” mindset.
This intense, mafia-level male camaraderie has been all but lost in the emasculated West, but if we ever want to win politically, it will need to be revived. We must go through life as a tightly-knit, highly loyal band of brothers rather than as individuals. Dissidents should be striving to have a close ride-or-die crew by their sides, prioritizing quality of friends over quantity.
Strong Point 2: A Conquering Mindset
Tate is unapologetic about his drive to dominate others. When speaking of his experience knocking some German fighter out in the ring, he said that “he didn’t give a shit”; in fact, he rather enjoyed seeing the shaken look on the man’s wife’s face when she saw that her husband had been owned. Just look at the way he conquered social media with his ruthless and strategic marketing campaign. This ruthlessness has become somewhat foreign mindset for most Whites.
But why shouldn’t we have the same mindset when dealing with those who hate us? I think we could use a more aggressive mentality. One way or another, we’re going to have to clear the current ruling class out – there are no 2 ways about it. We can stop being nice.
Strong Point 3: Leveraging Money
The dissident right needs to confront the reality that if we ever want real power, we will need money – and lots of it.Of course, wealth comes in many forms beyond just money, but the reality of the world is that money is power, and without large amounts of it, we are but leaves in the wind politically speaking. A whole world of opportunities and possibilities will open up to us should we as a group become wealthy.
Tate has acquired a lot of money in his day and is unafraid of using it to gain power and forward his goals. We should do the same. Yes, acquiring wealth is an uphill battle these days which is why it is imperative that we begin working together as a pack to create generational wealth over time.
It is worth mentioning that entrepreneurship is not for everyone. But if you do feel called to become rich or have the ability to do so, having some extremely wealthy people in the movement would make a world of a difference.
Strong Point 4: Fighting and Confrontation
One of the reasons that Tate can run his mouth and criticize whoever he wants is because he is a world-class fighter. He will never have to face the embarrassment of backing down if push comes to shove, because he has the goods to back it up. Regardless of whether or not one has to actually use their fighting skills, being able to hold this frame of extremely powerful. Fighting and intense competition teach you how to be confrontational and stand up for yourself even outside of the ring.
If Whites are to be feared and respected as a group, we’re going to have to find our warrior side. Just imagine how much better off would we be as a collective if each and every one us and our sons had to formally compete in a fight at least once as a coming of age ritual. Even joining a fighting gym to spar or train without the goal of formally competing would do wonders for our mentality.
Strong Point 5: Multiple Grids vs Off-Grid
Many in dissident circles have defaulted to the position that going off-grid is the best resiliency strategy, but perhaps being on multiple grids is a better strategy. Putting all your eggs in one basket living under 1 government is especially risky these days. (Of course, in order to pull this off you need money).
Tate emphasizes the importance of having multiple passports these days alongside international connections such that one can always make a pivot if circumstances dictate. Nationalists will justly criticize this deracinated mindset, as it ultimately leads to the abandonment of one’s people. But perhaps it is wise for us to have backup plans, a few extra passports and some flexibility in this regard. Who knows, we may get to a point where we are simply going to have to do what it takes to survive. The concept of being on multiple grids as a resiliency strategy is food for thought at the very least.
Strong Point 6: Become a High-Value Man to get a Compliant Woman
Tate specifically calls out Roosh for the way he pursued women during his years as a pickup artist. Rather than becoming the best version of himself and excelling in his personal life, Roosh learned “Game”. Basically, he learned all the ways to socially manipulate women into sleeping with him without any of the masculine pursuit of excellence outside of womanizing to back it up. I believe this is a fair criticism of Roosh: perhaps could have lived a much happier life and had the choice of several amazing wives had he gone with the personal development approach rather than the game approach.
It’s not an original idea, but choosing to work on yourself first and foremost is the superior long-term strategy to attracting and maintaining commitment from women. Once you become a man of real-world excellence who can provide for and protect a women, you earn yourself the patriarchal right to have authority over her as well as compliance and loyalty from her. But you don’t deserve that authority if you are not fulfilling your potential and upholding your responsibilities as a man. Tate goes a little bit extreme with the level of compliance he demands from his women, but they accept it because the high level of material success he has achieved in the world has earned him the right to do so.
________________________________
Overall, Tate is a polarizing but respectable man who has found great success in the material realm. He has significant moral failings and should be called out for his freeloading of religious behaviour. Due to this freeloading, I doubt his ability to have a genuinely positive an effect on a real-life community in which he lives.
That said, he is wealthy, smart, athletic, funny, well-connected, and relatively powerful with a loyal crew: many qualities that we in the dissident right should be striving for. And he does provide some good advice for young men. I believe that Tate has the potential to form the beginnings of a genuine counter-elite against the current ruling class… if only he would raise some progeny and stop being ruled by his sexual vices.