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
Yeah, never thought that Escape From Castlevania essay was worth much.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 16 September 2023 19:33 (eight months ago) link
It was always obviously a bad and silly essay and it’s insane that it became a touchstone for some
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Saturday, 16 September 2023 19:36 (eight months ago) link
it perhaps never occurs to them that one of the reasons that Brand might be ‘unstable’ is just this sort of patronising faux-transcendent ‘assessment’ from the ‘left’ bourgeoisie.
just checking to make sure I remembered this howler accurately, lol yes I did
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 16 September 2023 19:55 (eight months ago) link
it was what a lot of men on the left wanted to hear and it all sounds very intellectual
the anti-idpol left still regards it as a foundational text and I doubt that will change after this
― Left, Saturday, 16 September 2023 20:00 (eight months ago) link
Not great that these horrible reveals are being used to reignite the discourse around an essay again, when we also know what happened to MF.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 September 2023 20:27 (eight months ago) link
EVC discourse is much less depressing than watching tonight's Dispatches and then commenting on it tbf
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 16 September 2023 20:41 (eight months ago) link
xp does it stop the content of the essay being repulsive?
― ydkb (gyac), Saturday, 16 September 2023 20:56 (eight months ago) link
For the moralisers, the dominant story was to be about Brand’s personal conduct – specifically his sexism. In the febrile McCarthyite atmosphere fermented by the moralising left, remarks that could be construed as sexist mean that Brand is a sexist, which also meant that he is a misogynist. Cut and dried, finished, condemned.
― ydkb (gyac), Saturday, 16 September 2023 21:04 (eight months ago) link
― ydkb (gyac), Saturday, 16 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Nope. But it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Who gives a fuck about the essay at this point.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 September 2023 21:10 (eight months ago) link
The people who were right about the claims he was dismissing, I imagine.
― ydkb (gyac), Saturday, 16 September 2023 21:10 (eight months ago) link
are any of these meant to be new revelations?
― Covfefe and TV (ken c), Saturday, 16 September 2023 21:12 (eight months ago) link
Like do you get it yet? That this stuff continues and propagates because of apologism and people willing to cover for their mates?
― ydkb (gyac), Saturday, 16 September 2023 21:12 (eight months ago) link
xp idk it seems that everyone has now agreed that these things are actually bad and not good like they were in 2007 or whenever it was
― kinder, Saturday, 16 September 2023 21:14 (eight months ago) link
― Covfefe and TV (ken c), Saturday, 16 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Yes, it's a researched and properly reported piece.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 September 2023 21:28 (eight months ago) link
I don't really get the relevance of how new the information is. He was committing these rapes, sexual assaults and child abuse offences over a 20 year period. The timescale of the crimes within this period has zero bearing on witness credibility or how evil the crimes were. This cunt used his lawyers to intimidate victims.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 16 September 2023 22:23 (eight months ago) link
never before heard of this essay, thankfully, but quick perusal shows that any good points it might make are eradicated by a long defence of Brand that makes my eyes cross.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 16 September 2023 22:27 (eight months ago) link
Jesus @ the clips of this odious cunt performing his stand up, why were the audiences laughing? What a revolting specimen.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 September 2023 22:29 (eight months ago) link
"why were the audiences laughing?"
that's a question for the ages for about 99.9% of stand up comedy
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 16 September 2023 22:43 (eight months ago) link
i have long known he is scum of the highest order. hiding in plain sight with a Saville-esque level of stories circulating about him, for years.
he stalked an ex lover of mine; sent her literally thousands of text messages and threatened to kill himself unless she had sex with him. it's a great loss to humanity that he didn't follow through with that threat.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 17 September 2023 04:41 (eight months ago) link
Christ on a bike
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 September 2023 05:42 (eight months ago) link
jesus. sorry stirm.
― kinder, Sunday, 17 September 2023 07:14 (eight months ago) link
What was the profanityswan tweet above - I think it's gone now?
I think it was about him offering to take his female PA in a naked state to meet Savile on his radio show.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 17 September 2023 07:28 (eight months ago) link
his agent, Tavistock Wood, has only just dropped him yesterday. Three years after first hearing about the allegation that he had raped a school aged child. Claims that he was misled by Brand.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 17 September 2023 07:40 (eight months ago) link
Xp
https://x.com/streetphantom/status/1703105042343993362?s=61&t=AL5DD_4iz350KGtptOz8ew
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 17 September 2023 07:58 (eight months ago) link
https://x.com/snlhostsintro/status/1703186137374916710?s=46
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 17 September 2023 08:46 (eight months ago) link
Replace 'x' with 'twitter' in the URL and it will post here.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 September 2023 09:21 (eight months ago) link
Trial by media can ruin people's lives.This so-called documentary had all the hallmarks of a smear operation against someone with a big following who challenges the neoliberal status quo and the war machine.The same playbook was used against Julian Assange, Jeremy Corbyn et…— Chris Williamson (@DerbyChrisW) September 17, 2023
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 17 September 2023 12:34 (eight months ago) link
Wish I didn't.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 September 2023 12:55 (eight months ago) link
I think in this case, you can actually blame Corbyn!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 17 September 2023 12:59 (eight months ago) link
*retch*
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/russell-brand-gets-standing-ovation-214438421.html
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 September 2023 13:07 (eight months ago) link
The kind of people who have followed this guy into his anti-vax rants and fawning Ron DeSantis interviews are unlikely to abandon him over this.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 17 September 2023 13:10 (eight months ago) link
Who do you think are going to his shows in 2023? Fantasists and flat earthers.
― ydkb (gyac), Sunday, 17 September 2023 13:11 (eight months ago) link
Yeah, ppl have been suggesting that the turn to right wing conspiracy shit was a calculated move from Brand to cultivate an audiencd that would not be affected at all by these kinds of revelations. I don't think he's that smart tbh.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 17 September 2023 14:44 (eight months ago) link
Things are not going too well for DL either
You literally went out of your way to smear people who came forward about Nick Cohen. You are the problem.— Bottle Opener (@BottleOpenerMan) September 17, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 September 2023 14:49 (eight months ago) link
xp i think its all of a piece with how wonderfully exceptional he is and how everything that occurs to him and that he does is brilliant
any pushback against that will drive a person like that to weird fucking places very quickly
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 September 2023 14:58 (eight months ago) link
Good to see Dorian getting cooked on Twitter.https://i.postimg.cc/1zp826pQ/IMG-9591.jpg
― ydkb (gyac), Sunday, 17 September 2023 15:02 (eight months ago) link
Think it's much more likely his turn to right wing conspiracy shit is because he makes shitloads of money from it xps
― groovypanda, Sunday, 17 September 2023 16:04 (eight months ago) link