russell brand - C or D?

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

i have long known he is scum of the highest order. hiding in plain sight with a Saville-esque level of stories circulating about him, for years.

he stalked an ex lover of mine; sent her literally thousands of text messages and threatened to kill himself unless she had sex with him. it's a great loss to humanity that he didn't follow through with that threat.

Christ on a bike

jesus. sorry stirm.

What was the profanityswan tweet above - I think it's gone now?

I think it was about him offering to take his female PA in a naked state to meet Savile on his radio show.

his agent, Tavistock Wood, has only just dropped him yesterday. Three years after first hearing about the allegation that he had raped a school aged child. Claims that he was misled by Brand.

Xp

https://x.com/streetphantom/status/1703105042343993362?s=61&t=AL5DD_4iz350KGtptOz8ew

https://x.com/snlhostsintro/status/1703186137374916710?s=46

https://x.com/snlhostsintro/status/1703186137374916710?s=46

Replace 'x' with 'twitter' in the URL and it will post here.

Trial by media can ruin people's lives.

This so-called documentary had all the hallmarks of a smear operation against someone with a big following who challenges the neoliberal status quo and the war machine.

The same playbook was used against Julian Assange, Jeremy Corbyn et…

— Chris Williamson (@DerbyChrisW) September 17, 2023