russell brand - C or D?

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.

Every still picture of this guy looks like there should be a chyron below: “Dangerous mental patient escaped”

Danni and Dom knew

https://i.imgur.com/WxZxRTX.jpg

Dannii

well he now looks more like Bin Lafen than ever

Guess the late mark fisher called this one wrong huh

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!

Yes Vampire Castle is on my timeline again lol

Wasn’t that essay also inspired by people rightfully calling the swp out for enabling a rapist

Yeah, never thought that Escape From Castlevania essay was worth much.

It was always obviously a bad and silly essay and it’s insane that it became a touchstone for some

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

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

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.

EVC discourse is much less depressing than watching tonight's Dispatches and then commenting on it tbf

xp does it stop the content of the essay being repulsive?

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.

xp does it stop the content of the essay being repulsive?

― 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.

The people who were right about the claims he was dismissing, I imagine.

are any of these meant to be new revelations?

Like do you get it yet? That this stuff continues and propagates because of apologism and people willing to cover for their mates?

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

are any of these meant to be new revelations?

― Covfefe and TV (ken c), Saturday, 16 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Yes, it's a researched and properly reported piece.

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.

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.

Jesus @ the clips of this odious cunt performing his stand up, why were the audiences laughing? What a revolting specimen.

"why were the audiences laughing?"

that's a question for the ages for about 99.9% of stand up comedy