[Ads-l] beta

[dave@wilton.net]

It's a play on "alpha male." I haven't seen "beta" used to mean second-rate except in "beta cuck."
 
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Second-rate?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gavin-newsom-fires-fresh-shots-022336853.html
:

On Thursday, Cheung called Newsom a “coward and beta cuck” for being “too
chickens---” to answer press questions, following a speech he made that
day.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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