#russell brand

[animentality]

#twitter #russell brand #tw sex abuse #tw sex offenders

[nothing0fnothing]

"Innocent until proven guilty."

Yeah bro. I agree.

So when 5 different accusers and 20 different colleagues all agree he's a rapist guess what? That's proven to me that he's guilty.

#russell brand #dispatches #Channel 4 #Russell Brand Dispaches #sex offender #innocent until proven guilty #male manipulator #Fuck men #fuck the patriarchy #feminist #men are trash #i hate men

[mysharona1987]

Qanon conspiracy theorists trying to figure how the deep state went back in time and forced Russell Brand to make these quotes when he was nominated at the MTV Teen Choice Awards:

#russell brand #mtv #news #twitter #twitter x #teen choice awards #democrats #republicans #politics #qanon #rape tw

[thingstrumperssay]

Elon is so fucking desperate he has to beg rapists to use his website instead of other sites.

#twitter #x #elon musk #russell brand #queue

[useless-englandfacts]

maybe i’m wrong but the times putting their exclusive about russell brand sexually assaulting multiple women behind a paywall seems pretty insane to me

#russell brand #the times #news #admin dominique

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

Interesting that when it’s only one person who comes forwards with a rape or abuse allegation against a famous male celebrity, it’s “oh it’s only one person, if it were true there’d be a pattern!”, yet when MULTIPLE people come forward with these allegations it’s suddenly “a coordinated attack to silence someone speaking the truth/for money/for attention” - it’s almost as if people don’t give a fuck about victims and just want to defend their faves as well as excuse their own shitty behaviour.

#scared to tag tbh in case crazy stans come for me lol #this is about Russell Brand but it’s applicable to so many people #russell brand #ansel elgort #harvey weinstein #bill cosby #percy hynes white #danny masterson

[everything-maxriemelt]

#russell brand #the right response

[liberalsarecool]

#russell brand

[supercalifragipopculturevomit]

That's Cillian Murphy, Graham Norton, Alan Cumming, and Russel Brand at the 2006 GQ Men Of The Year Awards. Always love a photo with a random mix of some favorite celebs. This one scores 3/4—care to guess which one didn't make the cut?

#cillian murphy #graham norton #alan cumming #russell brand #gq men of the year #2006

[notwiselybuttoowell]

In 2014, the Guardian asked me to nominate my hero of the year. To some people’s surprise, I chose Russell Brand. I loved the way he energised young people who had been alienated from politics. I claimed, perhaps hyperbolically, he was “the best thing that has happened to the left in years” (in my defence, there wasn’t, at the time, much competition).

Today, I can scarcely believe it’s the same man. I’ve watched 50 of his recent videos, with growing incredulity. He appears to have switched from challenging injustice to conjuring phantoms. If, as I suspect it might, politics takes a very dark turn in the next few years, it will be partly as a result of people like Brand.

It’s hard to decide which is most dispiriting: the stupidity of some of the theories he recites, or the lack of originality. He repeatedly says he’s not a conspiracy theorist, but, to me, he certainly sounds like one.

In 2014, he was bursting with new ideas and creative ways of presenting them. Today, he wastes his talent on tired and discredited tales: endless iterations of the alleged evils of the World Economic Forum founder, Klaus Schwab, the Great Reset, Bill Gates, Nancy Pelosi, the former US chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, Covid vaccines, medical data, the World Health Organization, Pfizer, smart cities and “the globalist masterplan”.

His videos appear to promote “natural immunity” ahead of vaccines, and for a while pushed ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as treatments for Covid (they aren’t).

He championed the “Freedom Convoy” that occupied Ottawa, which apparently stood proudly against the “tyranny” of Justin Trudeau’s policies. He hawks Graham Hancock’s widely debunked claims about ancient monuments.

A wildly popular clip from one of his videos about the Dutch nitrate crisis offers a classic conspiracy theory mashup: a tangle of claims that may be true in other contexts, random accusations, scapegoating and resonances with some old and very ugly tropes. He claims that “this whole fertiliser situation is a scam”. The real objective is “to bankrupt the farmers so their land can be grabbed”. This “shows you how the Great Reset operates”, using “globalist” regulations to throw farmers off their land. He claims it’s “connected to the land grab of Bill Gates” and the “corruption of companies like Monsanto”.

In reality, the Dutch government was forced to act by a legal ruling, as levels of nitrate pollution, largely from livestock farms, break European law. Its attempts to curb this pollution have nothing to do with the World Economic Forum and its vacuous rhetoric about a “Great Reset”. Or with Bill Gates. Or with Monsanto, which hasn’t existed since 2018 when it was bought by Bayer. So why mention them? Perhaps because these terms have become potent click triggers.

Brand is repeating claims first made by far-right conspiracists, who have piled into this issue, claiming that the nitrate crisis is a pretext to seize land from farmers, in whom, they claim, true Dutch identity is vested, and hand it to asylum seekers and other immigrants. It’s a version of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, itself a reworking of the Nazis’ blood and soil tropes about protecting the “rooted” and “authentic” people – in whom “racial purity” and “true” German identity was vested – from “cosmopolitan” and “alien” forces (ie Jews). Brand may not realise this, as the language has changed a little – “cosmopolitans” have become “globalists”, “aliens” have become “immigrants” – but the themes have not.

On and drearily on he goes. He manages to confuse the World Health Organization’s call for better pandemic surveillance (by which it means the tracking of infectious diseases) with coercive surveillance of the population, creating “centralised systems of control where you are ultimately a serf”.

Some of his many rants about Bill Gates are illustrated with an image of the man wearing a multicoloured lapel badge, helpfully circled in red. This speaks to another widespread conspiracy theory: those who wear this badge are members of a secret organisation conspiring to control the world (so secret they stick it on their jackets). In reality, it shows support for the UN sustainable development goals.

Such claims are not just wrong. They are wearyingly, boringly wrong. But, to judge by the figures (he has more than 6 million subscribers on YouTube), the audience loves them.

Some of his theories, such as his recent obsession with UFOs, are innocuous enough. Others have potential to do great harm. There’s the risk to the people scapegoated, such as Fauci, Schwab and Pelosi: subjects of conspiracy theories often become targets of violence. There are the risks misleading claims present to public health. And bizarre stories about shadowy “elites” protect real elites from scrutiny and challenge.

While I’m not suggesting this is his purpose, it’s a tactic used deliberately by powerful people to disarm those who might otherwise hold them to account. Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, had a term for it: “flood the zone with shit”. As Naomi Klein has shown, the Great Reset conspiracy theory was conceived by a staffer at the Heartland Institute, a US lobby group that has promoted climate denial and other billionaire-friendly positions. It’s a bastardisation of her shock doctrine hypothesis, distracting people from the malfeasance of those with real power.

#russell brand #british comedy #conspiracy theories #george monbiot #uk politics

[duchessofostergotlands]

Over three years ago British female comedians had a brief MeToo moment on Twitter and made it very clear that the women on the circuit knew Russell Brand was a rapist. Tweets were deleted, he’s apparently got excellent lawyers, but he’s had it coming

#fern Brady was the first person I saw saying it #and she is an icon #non royal #Russell brand

[prideandprejudice05]

this thought about the russell brand doc is just playing on my mind rn

the way he like came out early and said “big media” were coming after him when the dispatches doc repeatedly said “we asked the bbc/channel 4/insert big media production company here for a freedom of information request on the complaints made against russell brand but they said no in order to protect russell brand”

like dude you can’t be out here ranting about big media when the only thing protecting you now AND then was big media

#russell brand #dispatches #plum.txt

[mysharona1987]

#russell brand #news #conservatives #rape tw #twitter

[samueltanders]

That dispatches documentary made me feel sick. Russell brand is a truly vile, disgusting man who has pivoted into an "anti media" Internet personality, probably because he knew this day would come and he wanted right wing nut jobs behind him to back him up and say the media is working against him and its all lies ( which he did yesterday).

It's been said that comedians have put jokes in their sets about Brand, a way to bring to light what he did and his lawyers made them remove it. What else has he done that wasn't in yhe documentary because women were scared into keeping quiet because of Brand's lawyers? Massive respect to daniel sloss being the only comedian willing to speak out.

#the scary thing is finding out he's currently fronting events that support vulnerable women... how has that been allowed to happen #im worried for those women #russell brand #dispatches

[maaarine]

@NaomiAKlein

#naomi klein #russell brand

[artemisia-black]

The pivot towards courting a more conspiracy theory believing (and thus mainstream media questioning) fanbase is actually a chillingly Machiavellian move

#dispatches #uk #russell brand