russell brand - C or D?

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:

The only IQ test that matters in 2023 is if you believe journalists when they publish a metoo story. If you do, you are an imbecile

— Pericles 'Perry' Abbasi (@ElectionLegal) September 17, 2023

i believe the contention is "please continue to acknowledge the dimes square scene"

I'll probably regret asking, but who the fuck is Anna Khachiyan?

I think the basic contention she is making is that she and everyone associated with her are garbage

Yeah, I know she is part of the post-left / anti-anti-anti-feminist whatever, I'm just trying to figure out the logic.

There is no logic beyond "fuck you! ha ha, made you look".

Anna Khachiyan is from the anti-everything Red Square podcast

Brand was defended by various conservative public figures, including Anna Khachiyan of Red Scare, the Tate brothers, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Ian Miles Cheong

She definitely has found her people

She also hangs with Greg from Succession, who has allegations similar to Brand's against him

I have yet to understand why anyone thinks Red Scare is something worth paying attention to.

It’s the pull of anti-establishment being a good view in and of itself. Same reason 4chan is popular

https://x.com/rosemcgowan/status/1704041704800616665?s=46&t=bJOqpCuQneT7ju08y55VSA

I’ve no idea why my links to tweets aren’t showing up properly anymore.

You have to replace x with twitter

twitter dotcom embeds work but not x dotcom embeds, aiui

xp

I can't hear anything at that link (probably because I nuked my account), is she talking a bunch of nonsense? because she seems like someone who could go that way.

Talking a bunch of nonsense. People shouldn't be able to accuse abusers anonymously. "Those are the rules, I didn't make them."

lol

Are you sure? He’s a rapist not a racist

— The IP Respecter (@ericthewheeler) September 16, 2023

Russell Brand's dad in 1970?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvFdFBblGQs

The voice is spookily similar. Great video!

I just don't think anybody could be afraid of someone talking with a megaphone through the sunroof of a brown Mini.

russell re-branding himself as a philosopher guru reminds me a bit of neil strauss trying to make the pivot into positive lifestyle influencer after years of being a rancid detriment to society. it's all just a grift, and they still try to trade in on their bad-boy image as giving them bonafides of a different sort, it makes them a veteran of certain wars, allows them to reflect upon their behaviors as if they're at a complete remove while enjoying still having the image of people who have had those experiences.

There’s an explicit connection too, I remember being 🤨 at seeing brand’s blurb on one of Strauss’s sex pest manuals (this being post rb’s supposed reformed character)

see also Bill Cosby

Born again

LOLOLOL it’s like a bad version of The Ruling Class.

Standard trajectory for cunts. Andrew Tate becomes a Muslim, Russell Brand becomes a Christian.

Don't forget Shaun King

quite appropriate that he was baptised in a river of sewage

The 48-year-old comedian had previously called baptism an “opportunity to leave the past behind”

So just let it go ladies, let's move on shall we

Just had a look at his comments section. Most of them seem to be from people who are also born again