russell brand - C or D?

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

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"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"

it's because the left rejected him for being too sexist this is why we never win

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.

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Russell Brand has been accused of rape and sexual assaults by women who have broken their silence on alleged attacks between 2006 and 2013

This 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

He really looks like Jordan Peterson in a bad wig these days

here's the non-paywalled version

https://archive.ph/nS2wu

That's made me feel physically sick.

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

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.

think the warning bells have been ringing about this fella for the guts of a decade (if not since day one tbh)

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!

This is one occasion where saying, "I never liked them anyway" is completely justified.

So, yes, this charmless gobshite's entire career has been a mystery to me from day one.

I liked him in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and that was it.

good lord

🤯 pic.twitter.com/idFkmRed2G

— Andy Dawson (@profanityswan) September 16, 2023

If you can bear to listen to it. WARNING: May cause nausea.

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

Flashed forward to me remembering my life as it was before I clicked play on that, and after.