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Ben Dreyfuss
Personal blog · calmdownben.compoliticsculture
Ben Dreyfuss writes Calm Down, a personal blog at calmdownben.com about politics and culture. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a Pizza Box”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ben Dreyfuss's posts questioning reports about Andrew Tate's Romanian arrest, specifically the claim that police found evidence in a pizza box. The comments cite them as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A substack about how the internet is making us all crazy.
Most-linked posts?
- No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a Pizza Box4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-30
What Hacker News says?
Didn't. Or didn't just on pizza box. See https://www.calmdownben.com/p/romanian-cops-did-not-find-and...
Comment linking /p/romanian-cops-did-not-find-andrew
on “Andrew Tate reveals location, gets arrested in Twitter exchange w Greta Thunberg”Submitted No, Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of a Pizza Box as a story · 51 points
HN discussionAnother skeptic (only for the record): https://www.calmdownben.com/p/romanian-cops-did-not-find-and... it seems like the only source for the pizza box thingy is this tweet by Alejandra Caraballo (and her source is not clear at all).
Comment linking /p/romanian-cops-did-not-find-andrew
on “Andrew Tate: influencer detained in Romania on organised crime and rape charges”Submitted The Anti-Israeli Left Is Turning into QAnon as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Romanian Cops Did Not Find Andrew Tate Because of His Greta Thunberg Video as a story · 3 points
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