His Brand is on Brand
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 September 2023 20:56 (eight months ago) link
hussell brand
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 15 September 2023 21:13 (eight months ago) link
Awake and aware of the current agenda xps
― groovypanda, Friday, 15 September 2023 21:19 (eight months ago) link
i couldn't remember this guy's name last week for a whole day and that was a nice day
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 15 September 2023 21:24 (eight months ago) link
I didn't know that he had swung into the alt-right orbit, but not terribly surprised
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 September 2023 21:26 (eight months ago) link
something tells me this will be a timely revivehearing this too
― vashti funyuns (sic), Friday, 15 September 2023 21:26 (eight months ago) link
They're coming after him because he speaks the truth... apparently.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2023 22:25 (eight months ago) link
Is RB really going to be what is dispatched tomorrow? Bit of an anticlimax if so, has anyone given a shit about him for the past few years?
― kinder, Friday, 15 September 2023 22:36 (eight months ago) link
The replies to this are just extraordinary I don’t think I realised just how full on his audience were
https://x.com/rustyrockets/status/1702810015176794318?s=46&t=bJOqpCuQneT7ju08y55VSA
― piscesx, Friday, 15 September 2023 22:36 (eight months ago) link
"I was always transparent about the shagging - almost too transparent" Looool is this actually meant to be a parody of those guys who say "Well I told you from the start I have issues with jealousy"
― kinder, Friday, 15 September 2023 22:43 (eight months ago) link
This cunt been arrested yet?
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 15 September 2023 22:55 (eight months ago) link
makes you wonder if he's been playing the long game with the conspiracy bullshit as cover/distraction for historic noncing
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2023 23:01 (eight months ago) link
Indeed. The left wing woke media at, er, The Times are out to get him.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2023 23:05 (eight months ago) link
he's a victim of soycumstance!
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 15 September 2023 23:08 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JkJMTklTUk
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2023 23:14 (eight months ago) link
gotta say this is the most boring possible reveal to the "mystery ep of Dispatches" hype
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2023 23:14 (eight months ago) link
capitalists promote conspiracy theories in order to create sort of a "loyal opposition" or "official dissident consensus" that is easily to control and channel in predictable directions like this please like and subscribe― Left, Friday, 15 September 2023 20:02Yeah but the whole big manufactured impetus behind conspiratorial thinking wasn’t really a thing in the west until the surge of Russian disinformation on corporate social media. The stated aim of disinfo is to create doubt in the institutions of democracy and civil society. Of course there’s also just toxic information pollution of social media itself, not sure they (Elmo aside) really care a lot what people think, as long as it keeps us ‘engaged’.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 16 September 2023 05:37 (eight months ago) link
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2023 23:01 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
genuinely the first thought yes
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 September 2023 07:28 (eight months ago) link
I’m wondering if he’s moved to my neighbourhood recently - a few sightings at [local Italian place].
Guessing he’s not the only comic/author who can’t stop thinking about tomorrow - Wavid Dalliams laying low for some reason…
― steely flan (suzy), Saturday, 16 September 2023 07:41 (eight months ago) link
Yeah but the whole big manufactured impetus behind conspiratorial thinking wasn’t really a thing in the west until the surge of Russian disinformation on corporate social media.
lol wut
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 16 September 2023 08:00 (eight months ago) link
“I’m happy to have it, but it’s a litigious minefield because lots of people have tried to nail this person down for their alleged crimes and this person has very good lawyers, so am I going to put my mortgage on the line by saying who this person is or entering into any conversations like that?”
so he most likely was the unnamed "industry open secret" predator who Katherine Ryan was referring to last year, it's hardly surprising. He is one of these masters of the super-injunction so Dispatches must have some solid dirt on him.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 16 September 2023 08:05 (eight months ago) link
if this was the plan then he's succeeded in getting the world's richest and stupidest man to side with him, which could be helpful
(Brand) then suggested that the investigations were part of a “coordinated media attack”, “like with Joe Rogan, when he dared to take a medicine that the mainstream media didn’t approve of”.Musk replied to Brand’s tweet, writing: “Of course. They don’t like competition.”
Musk replied to Brand’s tweet, writing: “Of course. They don’t like competition.”
― soref, Saturday, 16 September 2023 08:40 (eight months ago) link
super injunctions are always the mark of a clear conscience
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 September 2023 08:54 (eight months ago) link
something tells me this will be a timely revive
― boxedjoy, Friday, 15 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Lol
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 September 2023 10:59 (eight months ago) link
I'm currently fascinated by once ostensibly leftist people who get conspiracy-pilled and fall quite unwittingly into the arms of the far-right as if any sort of self-awareness they might have once had has totally left them
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Saturday, 16 September 2023 13:55 (eight months ago) link
key word there is "ostensibly"
― whatever happened to gravy brain? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 September 2023 13:56 (eight months ago) link
it's because the left rejected him for being too sexist this is why we never win
― Left, Saturday, 16 September 2023 13:58 (eight months ago) link
What's wrong with being sexy etc. I fear a guy I used to work with, who I really liked, has gone down this path - he started raving about big Pharma and was a big follower of R Brand - he seems to have dropped off the radar though. Never trust a hippy basically.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 September 2023 14:24 (eight months ago) link
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand has been accused of rape and sexual assaults by women who have broken their silence on alleged attacks between 2006 and 2013This is a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and @C4Dispatches✍️@RosamundUrwin@char_wace@pmorganbentley— The Times and The Sunday Times (@thetimes) September 16, 2023
― groovypanda, Saturday, 16 September 2023 15:26 (eight months ago) link
He really looks like Jordan Peterson in a bad wig these days
― omar little, Saturday, 16 September 2023 15:27 (eight months ago) link
here's the non-paywalled versionhttps://archive.ph/nS2wu
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 September 2023 15:29 (eight months ago) link
That's made me feel physically sick.
― Slays two. Found gassed. Thinks of cat. (Chinaski), Saturday, 16 September 2023 15:45 (eight months ago) link
How horrible
BREAKING: Russell Brand - In Plain Sight #C4dispatches will air at 2100 on Channel 4. We will hear testimony from 5 women who make allegations including rape, sexual assault and controlling and emotionally abusive behaviour - which he denies. Collab with @thetimes - watch at 9pm pic.twitter.com/1wH6bJKhnI— Louisa Compton (@louisa_compton) September 16, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:06 (eight months ago) link
I always thought this guy was grotesque .. but jfc ... the only reason he hasn't been prosecuted and put on the sex offenders register is money, power differentials and super-injunctions.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:10 (eight months ago) link
think the warning bells have been ringing about this fella for the guts of a decade (if not since day one tbh)
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:24 (eight months ago) link
Great to see though that all the institutions who protected him now have far more robust procedures in place to stop anything like this from happening again. We're in good hands!
― the arkansas ruggerclub (Matt #2), Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:32 (eight months ago) link
This is one occasion where saying, "I never liked them anyway" is completely justified.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:37 (eight months ago) link
So, yes, this charmless gobshite's entire career has been a mystery to me from day one.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:39 (eight months ago) link
I liked him in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and that was it.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:44 (eight months ago) link
good lord
🤯 pic.twitter.com/idFkmRed2G— Andy Dawson (@profanityswan) September 16, 2023
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:50 (eight months ago) link
If you can bear to listen to it. WARNING: May cause nausea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHfHQwffOXU
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:54 (eight months ago) link
Flashed forward to me remembering my life as it was before I clicked play on that, and after.
― omar little, Saturday, 16 September 2023 16:55 (eight months ago) link
Every still picture of this guy looks like there should be a chyron below: “Dangerous mental patient escaped”
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 16 September 2023 17:34 (eight months ago) link
Danni and Dom knew https://i.imgur.com/WxZxRTX.jpg
― Alba, Saturday, 16 September 2023 18:11 (eight months ago) link
Dannii
― Alba, Saturday, 16 September 2023 18:12 (eight months ago) link
well he now looks more like Bin Lafen than ever
― nashwan, Saturday, 16 September 2023 18:23 (eight months ago) link
Guess the late mark fisher called this one wrong huh
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 16 September 2023 19:08 (eight months ago) link
he actually posited in EVC that "‘left’ bourgeoisie" condescension towards Brand might be the cause of his instability and why he jumped around a lot while spewing out rapid fire verbal diarrhea, that was some incredible class analysis!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 16 September 2023 19:25 (eight months ago) link
Yes Vampire Castle is on my timeline again lol
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 September 2023 19:27 (eight months ago) link
Wasn’t that essay also inspired by people rightfully calling the swp out for enabling a rapist
― ydkb (gyac), Saturday, 16 September 2023 19:28 (eight months ago) link