russell brand - C or D?

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

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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

Wish I didn't.

I think in this case, you can actually blame Corbyn!

*retch*

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/russell-brand-gets-standing-ovation-214438421.html

The kind of people who have followed this guy into his anti-vax rants and fawning Ron DeSantis interviews are unlikely to abandon him over this.

Who do you think are going to his shows in 2023? Fantasists and flat earthers.

Yeah, ppl have been suggesting that the turn to right wing conspiracy shit was a calculated move from Brand to cultivate an audiencd that would not be affected at all by these kinds of revelations. I don't think he's that smart tbh.

Things are not going too well for DL either

You literally went out of your way to smear people who came forward about Nick Cohen. You are the problem.

— Bottle Opener (@BottleOpenerMan) September 17, 2023

xp i think its all of a piece with how wonderfully exceptional he is and how everything that occurs to him and that he does is brilliant

any pushback against that will drive a person like that to weird fucking places very quickly

Good to see Dorian getting cooked on Twitter.
https://i.postimg.cc/1zp826pQ/IMG-9591.jpg

Think it's much more likely his turn to right wing conspiracy shit is because he makes shitloads of money from it xps

let's just say that deep long-term plan or not he's certainly making use of the army of marks he's built up

and perhaps more importantly his fellow travellers in the celebrity/journo culture wars axis

he may also believe all that bunk which is even worse

i don't think the extent to which he believes this stuff is particularly knowable or important, but i think that about a lot of belief. it's functionally useful to think you believe in things that are making you money, but why would he need to think deeply about it as long the money rolls in?

I think another reason for his shift to social media guru, or whatever the fuck he was doing, was simply that his career in showbusiness was going nowhere. The phone had stopped ringing.

In US terms, he basically played himself in a couple of movies here and was married to Katy Perry and that was about it, as far as I can remember.

Facebook lefties liked sharing his quote memes.

I watched Catherine Called Birdy just a few weeks ago and forgot he has a cameo. At least he wasn't playing Paul Kaye's character I guess :/

Of course Russell Brand's followers deny the allegations. He has groomed an audience to deny/disbelieve everything they see and hear, which is very different from healthy skepticism. This knee-jerk denialism is precisely why people with plenty of skeletons in the closet love…

— Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) September 18, 2023

Wow. Naomi Wolf sounding reasonable for once.

lol

was about to correct you then

If your naomi be klein,
Ye be doing just fine

If your naomi be klein,
Ye be doing just fine

If your naomi be wolf
Throw yerself in the gulf

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/18/russell-brand-shows-postponed-after-allegations-of-sexual-assault

Let's postpone these gigs until this all gets cleared up

London police have received a report of sexual assault tied to recent allegations made against Russell Brand. https://t.co/nDAxrDMd1R

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 18, 2023

Additionally, the promoter behind Brand’s “Bipolarisation” tour decided to postpone the remaining three dates of the run. “We are postponing these few remaining addiction charity fundraiser shows, we don’t like doing it — but we know you’ll understand,” the promoter said in a statement shared with Rolling Stone UK.