russell brand - C or D?

Well, yeah. America kind of deserves a botched tool like Brand to be a spectacle or "good tv" on telly. "Good tv" isn't as good as it used to be.

(gotcha rip)

It's just this whole self-fabricated cult around him, and that people fall for it, that annoys me. We all know he's in it for the money/ego/money/money. And yet "we" choose to play along and welcome him into our homes as some sort of savior or "fresh" voice. Knowing the cynical machinery of television reality only makes it worse. Nothing means anything any more. It's about grades, numbers, money, ego oh and money. Perfect fit, really. I'm so tired of that shit.

If the Brands of the world are the "intersting guests" on telly nowadays, that's a sad state of affairs. #societyisinthegutteretc

I mean don't get me wrong I've hated this yutz ever since he came on my screen years ago, I think for some crap NBC fill-in around the London Olympics, and he was explaining the Union Jack and talked shit about the blue part because it was the Scottish bit, ha ha, yuck, Scotland. Nobody is going to miss this idiot when he disappears at sea.

Actually I guess his "mum" will since she cried when Graham Norton asked him a question on "good tv" that one time six years ago

thanks your *unpredictability* there, it was genuinely heartening + angry agitprop!*

*if you were a martian!

he makes me feel like I'm still in high school

Was gonna update “things you just dont care about” thread but i like lbi and tombots and if they care, i can care.

There’s worse fake-lebrities, i think.

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 (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gets you right here.

his Ed Miliband interview was quite a boon to Cameron in that election campaign, he was definitely inspiring lots of people there.

Ye'll both get a timeout lads there's important work to be done itt in calling brand a shallow nothing distraction of a cunt

it's jabbering cunts like him and Izzard that convert hesitant voters into Tories/Brexiters. I'm convinced of this.

I'll leave it up to the individual to decide whether the fact that his most passionate defender on this thread turned out to be an alt-right poshboy twat is of any significance or not.

so many punchlines and nobody I actually want to be mean about

Slade>>former Slade students>>former Goldsmiths wankers

nothing to do with Brand, but former Slade alumni piss all over the Goldsmiths brats, that include various Blur members and loads of shite YBA debris.

xxp Nah, Dom was actually quite down on him.

We all know he's in it for the money/ego

he readily admits this tbfttsndoac

Yes, which makes it all the more problematic. Russell Brand isn't the problem really, us is the problem.

He may as well still be on the gear, given that his default mode is endless opinion on serious issues he can't be arsed learning even the basics about. It's the audience which is the problem, cf much of the Western world at present.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/internet/61724/tarnished-brand

“He possesses the power of critical thinking,” she tells me. “I like the humanism of his show… I love anyone that can think for themselves. When you listen to the regurgitated news, it is so refreshing to hear someone that can apply critical thinking. So many people simply follow along, and we are worse off for it.”

is she AI

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

"thinking for yourself", or "believing any old bollocks you see on Youtube" as it's also known

something tells me this will be a timely revive

Today, the Russell Brand empire is monumentally wide-reaching: he runs annual wellness retreats promoting alternative medicine, streams daily from his shed near Henley, posts conspiracy-minded TikTok videos; he’s even done an anti-woke comedy tour and appeared on TV panels sympathetic to conspiracy theories. He, of course, also podcasts.

YES to all this

needs a poll

His Brand is on Brand

hussell brand

Awake and aware of the current agenda xps

i couldn't remember this guy's name last week for a whole day and that was a nice day

I didn't know that he had swung into the alt-right orbit, but not terribly surprised

something tells me this will be a timely revive

hearing this too

They're coming after him because he speaks the truth... apparently.

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?

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

"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"

This cunt been arrested yet?

makes you wonder if he's been playing the long game with the conspiracy bullshit as cover/distraction for historic noncing

Indeed. The left wing woke media at, er, The Times are out to get him.

he's a victim of soycumstance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JkJMTklTUk

gotta say this is the most boring possible reveal to the "mystery ep of Dispatches" hype

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― Left, Friday, 15 September 2023 20:02

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. 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’.

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 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

genuinely the first thought yes

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…

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

“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.

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 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

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.”

super injunctions are always the mark of a clear conscience

something tells me this will be a timely revive

― boxedjoy, Friday, 15 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Lol

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

key word there is "ostensibly"