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Not a single person with a brain is surpriced. The guy is a GLOWING red flag.
Well it helps that they printed his face on one.
Never did like that guy. He seemed like a creep from the start, and I didn’t ever find him funny.
Apart from anything else, he always just looked to me like he didn’t bathe very often.
I’ve never met a person irl who didn’t think this guy was unfunny and a super creep. I could never figure out why he was famous cause I’ve never met a person who was even kinda a fan of his
He’s Katy Perry’s ex-husband.
I bet she’s got so much dirt on him.
Assume everyone in Hollywood has dirty on each other. If they don’t, they get real cancelled because they’re uncontrollable.
He was in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which is a pretty well-regarded movie. He probably gets a fair amount of residual respect just from proximity to that.
That movie and get him to the Greek are basically the only high profile things I’ve seen him in.
Didn’t he non-consensually post candid pics of Katy Perry without makeup? I thought he was an asshole ever since then. Not that she should’ve been ashamed, but it should’ve been her choice.
I don’t know the non-consensual bit for sure, but that’s how I recall it being presented at the time and why I’ve never liked him. I’d never heard of the fucker before that.
I hadn’t heard that until now but if he did that without her permission that’s a shitty thing to do to a partner. Whether you’re a celebrity or not there’s a certain expectation of privacy that needs to be established in intimate relationships.
Kutcher and Kunis’ phones ringing off the hook right now.
She worked with him in forgetting Sarah Marshall
So I’m sure she’ll defend him
There was a Dispatches program on about this tonight, and at some point they note that later in his career Brand would do charity work exclusively to benefit women, and Kutcher was my first thought.
Not saying he’s done anything, but so often men claim to be feminists as a smoke screen to hide abusive behaviour (“he would never, look at all the good he’s done!”) and/or access victims.
The idea that Elon Musk and Andrew Tate think that publically backing him helps quash any suggestion of bad actions is laughable.
These pieces of garbage all stick together.
Visceral
And viscous, but I still wish I hadn’t seen it.
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Not enough scientists involved, he can’t get it up he has to spew in a cup to get the job done.
“If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light.”
So business as usual for this guy
Russell, let me introduce you to Bill Cosby.
I like to tell myself this is part of why he had to buy Twitter.
And so close to elections Now nobody will believe anything he says… how convenient
lol imagine caring what Russell Brand has to say about an election anywhere on earth.
Can we make a list of right wingers that aren’t disgusting pieces of shit? Will be much quicker.
I thought he was socialist?
I am certainly not defending Russell of these accusations, but I do see but just a quick search that the Times UK is a conservative paper and would love to tales Russell down as he is a threat for sure right or wrong.
The same way that right wing media companies in America are scrambling to take Joe Rogan off the air?
The Times is a reputable newspaper, and in no way comparable to fox news.
Also, Russel Brand is now arguably alt-right adjacent.
Yeah The Times is right wing, but it’s no Torygraph, Daily Fail, or Sin. It’s like the respectable right wing paper, with at least some measure of journalistic integrity, at the top of the scale sliding down into tabloid rags.
Media Bias Fact Check calls them center-right with a high factual reporting score. For a case like this, that works for me.
It’s a co-investigation with Channel 4 who are probably our most progressive of the free-to-air channels, and Brand jumped the horseshoe to the alt-right ages ago.
Russel Brand uses a left wing aesthetic, but continually attacks and call for an end to the institutions that protect and preserve democracy.
He calls for an end to the systems that no longer serve us - only their own best interests. Take a look around at the world - climate change and capitalism run rampant. It doesn’t matter if team blue or team red are in charge. The whole establishment political spectrum are self-serving sheep in wolves clothing.
That’s the core of his message.
It matters so much who is in charge. Trump and the right have so much blood on their hands from COVID. People died because they made containing and stopping the spread of a potentially deadly virus a political spectacle that emboldened their idiot base to ignorantly fight medical science. If you don’t think it matters who’s in charge you either don’t pay attention and your opinion is useless or you’re just another fake centrist trying to convince people that both sides are the same to hide from the deeply shameful and disgusting behavior of the right.
Where the hell have you been? Russell Brand has been pandering to the Alt-Right for years now. He’s no threat to conservatives anywhere.
He makes them look bad though. Maybe they’re eager to throw him under the bus because he’s “Hollywood” and that serves their narrative about west-coast celebrity elites.
Nah they cling to every mainstream celebrity they can get.
But Russell Brand is a long-haired hippy type. Doesn’t fit their brand.
He’s “one of the good ones”.
Because he’s a rapist? Since when do conservatives distance themselves from rapists?
I’m saying they’re distancing themselves because he doesn’t fit their desired image, not because he’s a rapist.
The right wing make themselves look bad all the time, he’s playing their song.
You are 100% defending him
That is your opinion, but from what I understand he attacks big centralized organizations all the time on his socials and thus I think we need to take that into consideration until a court says he is or is not guilty. Smear campaigns are a real thing.
Yes, smear campaigns are a real thing but we’re talking not only about the right-wing Times, but also Channel4 which by no stretch of the imagination can be thought of as right leaning.
On the documentary, 4 different women who apparently don’t know each other and haven’t been paid and who tell stories that relate very similar behaviours by Brand, all of whom have witnesses corroborating their stories and at least one who has phone records confirmed by phone companies to be accurate make claims of abuse and/or rape.
There is also a lot of material from former colleagues, employers and industry insiders supporting the idea that Brand is a controlling, vindictive narcissist, which whilst not in itself criminal, certainly lends a lot of credence to the already very believable claims his accusers make.
Taken together its most definitely on the same level of authenticity that Saville is now judged by.
Once upon a time I actually liked Russell Brand. Thought he was intelligent and quite in touch with the ways of the world despite his eccentric character. He truly lost the plot when covid came around, although it wasn’t the first time he’d talked absolute shite.
In hindsight, it’s not really a surprise that he’d be this kind of person.
I never liked him much, and that’s not a “I knew he was out there raping”, that I didn’t know. But personality-wise he was basically an egocentric rockstar who thought he knew it all and everyone not agreeing with his views and sense of humour were just too stupid.
And turns out, he is behaving even more like a 80s rockstar than I thought.
Perfectly cast in Get Him to the Greek, but at the time I thought it was acting, not just rolling out of bed.
Yeah I always thought he was hilarious because he was doing a shtick but as it turns out, that’s just him.
Yeah, it’s also why his movie career (at least as a comic lead) started in 2008 and was dead by the middle of 2011. He’s got no range and audiences were only willing to pay to see Russell Brand being “Russell Brand in a different outfit” so many times before he wore out his welcome.
I noticed that people who are using recreational drugs are disproportionally concerned about vaccine safety, which I find quite amusing.
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I never said that’s the only group though.
It is just surprising to me that you would get concerns about injecting yourself with not well tested medicine from that specific group.
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I find it entirely unsurprising.
The amount of vegan, organic, health-obsessed, non-GMO twats I know, who happily snort coke or do ecstacy during the weekend is huge.
I can only surmise they’re not true believers, they’re just boring people who think going on about it makes them more interesting than they actually are.
High people not thinking things through?
Hmm, maybe you’re on to something.
Fair trade cocaine and organic crystal meth are a thing.
Religion is their drug, which is way stronger than conventional drugs.
Yeah I’ve seen this as well, all the drug users I know went hard on the conspiracy train.
I liked his old podcasts back when he was still on drugs but pretending he was clean.
Yeah, I know a lot of people thought he was a reasonably smart dude with some interesting insights. But when you think about it he’s always been very superficial. There’s not much depth to any of his takes. He’s just charismatic and speaks like he keeps a pocket thesaurus in his jacket.
When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m starting to think they just don’t want to talk about inequality. —Russell Brand
Still one of my favorite quotes, it’s unfortunate that I won’t really be able to use it any more.
Brand used to be a legit socialist back in the day. The longer he had money, the harder I think was for him to continue to understand the struggle of the common people. Either that or its audience capture like what happened to Dave Rueben.
The YouTube channel the Kavernacle has done some good coverage on his drift to the right.
He definitely didn’t come up with that line, I’m sure you could find an attribution to something virtually identical said a century ago, and several times since.
I just watched a program about this, and he was a creep from the get go.
A guy vaguely understanding class struggles doesn’t make him a socialist nor a good guy.I’m pretty sure he described himself as a socialist once upon a time. I’m not one to gate keep what people call themselves.
But yeah just because he’s a socialist that doesn’t make him a good person. Marx probably had an unclaimed child with his servant girl.
Marx was an utter piece of shit in many ways. He just had some very good ideas. I’ve always wondered how many of them can be attributed to Engles though.
Hitler called himself a socialist too, that’s a pretty low bar… 🤦♀️
All you’ve done so far is attempt to derail the conversation about Brand being a rapist…
I’m sorry that’s not my intention. Do you think it would be best if we delete this thread?
I was just working through how my perception of him had changed over the years. I don’t want to downplay his alleged crimes.
I appreciate that you didn’t mean to, but making it about him and whatever good he supposedly did, in a conversation about the several women he raped (and however many more he “just” assaulted), is at best highly inappropriate (and at worst is a well known derailing tactic used by those looking to defend a rapist and/or discredit his victims). Deleting the thread probably won’t do much, but learning from this for the future will.
Part of rape culture is the massively false idea that “nice guys” don’t rape, ignoring the fact that many rapists and abusers are experts at manipulating everyone around them (rapists “infiltrating” leftist circles, especially feminist ones, to gain access to victims, as well as the language to disarm their defences, is sadly not at all unusual).
I would highly recommend watching the Dispatches episode that aired about this last night if you can. In several of his performances/appearances he basically admits to putting an act on to get people to ignore how shitty he really is (as well as graphic descriptions of what we now know were some of his assaults, which he used as part of his comedy routine).
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He a junkie you would see rambling at a bus stop incoherently. The difference is an expanded vocabulary and a he’s been on TV.
He was funny at one point. But he never grew past the need for the attention and didn’t branch out of teenager years.
I’m just waiting for the study that shows COVID infection makes certain people less empathetic and more paranoid. There’s just too much of it happening to not be biological IMO.
So many people I used to watch on youtube lost their fucking minds in 2020.
This is shit he was doing more than ten years ago.
You can’t blame this shit on lockdown, he’s always been a failure of a human being, it’s just now we’re finding out details.
He lost the plot well before Covid, it’s just that it wasn’t noticed outside the UK as it largely revolved around our election in 2015 when he was encouraging people not to vote, then when he realised at the last minute this would just lead to he Tories winning by default, backed labour at the eleventh hour, leaving a lot of his followers confused and aimless so the alt-right could swoop in and win them over.
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What I found interesting about Brand was how he turned on a dime a few years back. From argent leftie to all of a sudden rightwing conspiracy theorist attacking the media. It is always interesting how often people who work in the media seem to attack it. Trump did it. Savile did it. Rolf Harris even did it during his final Glastonbury performance when allegations started getting traction.
Who else have we seen suddenly behave like this? I can think of a few GB News presenters, a couple of youtubers.
I too would also be against the government if the government was preparing a case against me for several counts of rape.
Fuck Brand. Hope he fucking rots in prison.
From argent leftie to all of a sudden rightwing conspiracy theorist
That’s because things are in a circle. Go too far left and you end up on the right… All the wacko-commies are essentially fascists.
Horseshoe theory is a farce mate.
What a stupid take
I found the wacko-commie!
What he did to Katy Perry is when he became dead to me. Now I hope he dies in jail.
Out of the loop here can you give me tldr on this?
TLDR: he was married to her and pretty much a major douche and was a horrible human being. After watching the Katy Perry documentary you will understand.
You know we have a real problem in our society when these women haven’t been able to come forward with these allegations until the press have contacted them.
If they fear coming forward after being assaulted by someone who is hardly discreet about being a sexual predator, what must it be like for the victims of more outwardly respectable public figures?
I’m sure the sort of people who fall for his dog whistle conspiracy brain damage will take these allegations seriously. Oh wait, of course they won’t.
And in news that surprised absolutely no one…
I swear there’s a dark triad for “free thinkers” like him.
He used to be good but like many they started doubling down on their beliefs during the pandemic and quite frankly they become mentally unwell.
Was he good, or was he just grifting a different group before?
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