russell brand - C or D?

i don't think the extent to which he believes this stuff is particularly knowable or important, but i think that about a lot of belief. it's functionally useful to think you believe in things that are making you money, but why would he need to think deeply about it as long the money rolls in?

I think another reason for his shift to social media guru, or whatever the fuck he was doing, was simply that his career in showbusiness was going nowhere. The phone had stopped ringing.

In US terms, he basically played himself in a couple of movies here and was married to Katy Perry and that was about it, as far as I can remember.

Facebook lefties liked sharing his quote memes.

I watched Catherine Called Birdy just a few weeks ago and forgot he has a cameo. At least he wasn't playing Paul Kaye's character I guess :/

Of course Russell Brand's followers deny the allegations. He has groomed an audience to deny/disbelieve everything they see and hear, which is very different from healthy skepticism. This knee-jerk denialism is precisely why people with plenty of skeletons in the closet love…

— Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) September 18, 2023

Wow. Naomi Wolf sounding reasonable for once.

lol

was about to correct you then

If your naomi be klein,
Ye be doing just fine

If your naomi be klein,
Ye be doing just fine

If your naomi be wolf
Throw yerself in the gulf

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/18/russell-brand-shows-postponed-after-allegations-of-sexual-assault

Let's postpone these gigs until this all gets cleared up

London police have received a report of sexual assault tied to recent allegations made against Russell Brand. https://t.co/nDAxrDMd1R

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 18, 2023

Additionally, the promoter behind Brand’s “Bipolarisation” tour decided to postpone the remaining three dates of the run. “We are postponing these few remaining addiction charity fundraiser shows, we don’t like doing it — but we know you’ll understand,” the promoter said in a statement shared with Rolling Stone UK.

Oh sorry wrong paste - historical accusation dating back to 2003.

the fine folks on the site previously known as Twitter have informed me that this is a direct result of him going after "big Pharma"...I guess there's a reason nobody ever criticizes them

Already fed up seeing clips this talentless unfunny cunt on every news programme.

Wasn't that the recent defense of Roisin Murphy as well?

Big Pharma...and Ukraine, apparently...

Things you can't talk about...without raking in a lot of money

So I think we can safely put him down as "dud."

He'S inspiring potentially millions of people, highlights social causes corporate media does not, and using his huge platform to spread awareness of inequality and fostering a spirit of disobedience to power.

― Raccoon Tanuki, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 14:59 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

That's the calibre of person he was inspiring EIGHT years ago!

well that's it all sorted then, put Russell Brand and Raccoon Tanuki in a helicopter and drop both the cunts into abyssal ocean

Throw in Catturd for extra ballast

Racoon Tanuki, a sock that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Put Russell Brand and a rabid Racoon into a large sock together

This has none of the hallmarks of an MI6 operation. For a start, it actually reached its target https://t.co/mcYSf2EIy0

— Tom (@TPGRoberts) September 18, 2023

His new book is being paused.

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/bluebird-to-pause-brand-publishing-as-tavistock-wood-cuts-ties?

Recovery this, recovery that.

"Having published a bestselling autobiography, My Booky Wook, with Hodder & Stoughton in 2007, and a book on politics with Century in 2014, Brand has been publishing titles with Pan Macmillan imprint Bluebird since 2017, beginning with Recovery: Freedom from our Addictions. A new title, Recovery: The Workbook, was scheduled for publication this December."

My Fucky Up

like one of those guys that always posts about "mental health" in a perfunctory manner and you know they've spent their entire life fucking up other people's

it always makes me laugh when these guys are like, "let me tell you the TRUTH about our Government!!!" as if there isn't a single person out there who believes it isn't rife with corruption. Obviously he is, like all conspiracy theorists, absolutely full of shit, but it always amazes me that this is always the de factor starting position for these people and it's portrayed as a radical perspective

otherwise: fuck this guy, and fuck the shitty culture that allowed this to happen yet again and will probably keep enabling these beasts forever more

https://t.co/0222bwcZ3n

— The Onion (@TheOnion) September 18, 2023

Wow. Naomi Wolf sounding reasonable for once.

I mean, fr, the Good Naomi is now going to have to put up not only the genuinely confused people, but also a million shitposters deliberately doing it for laffs. It feels like an obligation now.

put up *with*

She doesn't have to let them stay at hers

Having just watched Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey I'm wondering if Naomi Wolf refers to herself as Evil Naomi.

youtube have suspended payments from Brand's channel because violation of "creator responsibility policy". Apparently he was making a million a year from it, like wtf?

Well he has 6.6 million Youtube subscribers, despite having Rumble as his main platform apparently

I just can't put myself in the mindset of these hundreds of thousands of marks pressing the thanks button to make a wealthy creep richer. They really must hate themselves.

The knowledge that you're being gulled is all part of the attraction for these bozos! Then they can feel like the dogs they are.

I think the difficult thing with tackling conspiracism is the grain of truth that gets denied so much that you have people latching onto anything that seems like it might reflect what they’re seeing with their own eyes. Stopped clock/blind squirrel theory. Like who hasn’t walked past one of those sandwich board guys saying the government is shit and thought “Man’s got a point,” even as you avoided eye contact? Same principle.

Internet brain breaking a lot of gen x & boomers who are digitally illiterate is exacerbating this. Even my own parents who don’t spend much time in these kinds of places, my mother linked a tweet in some group chat that was complaining about…idk…water charges? She had just seen something she agreed with and blindly shared, I had to be like, you know that’s a white nationalist you shared right? She was pretty horrified; I had to explain I recognised the account name from Twitter poisoning. It just wouldn’t occur to her to look further, and I think by the time a lot of people are at that stage they might be too far in.

I remember reading the first My Booky Wook and finding it a compelling read but thinking the protagonist was an absolute wanker who wasn't painting a very pleasant picture of himself. Think it was a while after it came out but probably a decade pus ago during which he's done several things that make him look a bit of an a-hole outside of this. But i guess taht's already widely known

when he made that unblinking denial vid, of which any skilled body language analysis expert (if there is such a thing) would call it as a bizarre performance in the context of what was happening and also 100% GUILTY af and LYING! There isn't even any anger in it, if you were getting fitted up by the deep state for getting too close to the truth or whatever his followers believe - you'd be furious. Anyone that bought that will buy anything, aside from other celeb rapists who have their own agenda.

all of these weirdo "truth-tellers" are posting vids saying, "This may be the last time you hear from me. They'll be coming after me next."

See that's exactly their game right, they create a false atmosphere of paranoia and then react to it with fear and go into hiding and it doesn't matter that no one is actually looking for them, that's enough for their audience of redpilled galaxy brains.

(xp) Fingers crossed.

I just can't put myself in the mindset of these hundreds of thousands of marks pressing the thanks button to make a wealthy creep richer. They really must hate themselves.

Apparently the vast majority of his income is from advertising rather than the credulous numpties who follow him.

Lol lmao I stand with Brand obviously https://t.co/BW9o3afTIp

— Anna Khachiyan (@annakhachiyan) September 16, 2023

wow, so edgy

I'll probably regret asking, but what's the basic contention she's making? She retweeted this reply: