Mate if the government would have turned against you, it'd be when you were spouting left wing nonsense ten years ago, not now that you're spouting right wing nonsense that aligns with their beliefs.
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There's an interesting suggestion by Matthew D'Ancona in TNE that Brand's actions of recent years in embracing far-right personalities, promoting a range of online conspiracy theories and building a weird cult of personality around himself are a direct response to the #MeToo movement emerging six years ago - knowing that eventually his own actions would come to light and so he needed to build a 'digital stockade' of useful idiots who would jump to his defence when the time came.
Now THAT'S a conspiracy theory I can buy into...
The guardian is reporting that he's on youtube complaining about being censored.
The utter gall to complain about censorship while your videos reach millions and are reported on by multiple national newspapers.
He's gone right wing? I didn't know that. I've not listened to anything he said in... well... ever. I was vaguely aware of him shouting lefty stuff a few years back but never paid much attention
He jumped the horseshoe. The fringes of right-wing extremism and left-wing extremism often end up having rather a lot in common - it's easy for people who define themselves against the mainstream first (and only for something second) to find themselves agreeing a lot with people who are notionally at the other end of the spectrum.
In Russell Brand's case, that meant embracing anti-vaxism, Covid denial, climate change denial, 5G conspiracies, etc. George Galloway did it by embracing Farage and trying to get selected as a candidate for the Brexit Party. Claire Fox went from a pro-IRA Revolutionary Communist Party activist and co-publisher of the Living Marxism magazine to a Brexit Party MEP. In the US, you see a lot of notionally right-wing US Republicans now starting to spout anti-capitalist narratives. At the fringes of politics, this sort of horseshoe-jumping happens all the time.
Theories like this sound ok on the surface but as soon as you start digging into it, it falls apart.
I'm open to your alternative explanation of the observed pattern of horseshoe-jumping: e.g. Russell Brand, George Galloway, Claire Fox, Piers Corbyn, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Wolf, Melenchon voters backing Le Pen in the 2022 2nd round, etc - regardless of what theory explains the observed facts, there are a disturbing number of examples of it.
You listed six people out of eight billion plus.
It’s a rounding error that doesn’t need a theory.
I listed six politically high-profile individuals out of the set of politically high-profile individuals, which is a much smaller set than every person on the planet. If I knew the political views of every human on the planet then of course I would prefer to give you a more comprehensive picture.
I also listed the 16% of Jean-Luc Melenchon's 7.7 million 1st round voters who indicated they were backing Marine Le Pen in the 2nd round of the French presidential election last year - literally leaping direct from the far-left candidate to the far-right candidate in preference over the moderate candidate.
I shared a source that you can get into if you’d like to.
“Is this the consequences of my actions? No, its a government conspiracy!”
FAFO
He has brought it all upon himself, by his past behaviour.
No, let's be honest - his current denialism and persecution fetish, along with his current misogyny and right-sing rhetoric are also playing a part.
Brand then urged his followers to follow him on Canada-based Rumble, the only social media platform where he is still able to monetise his videos. “I need your support now more than ever and more than I ever imagined I would,” he said.
Man has like $33,000,000 and doesn't need any more money. Man should shut up sand disappear into well-deserved obscurity, but continues the grift and complains about persecution and oppression.
I’m guessing that George Soros personally ordered the torrent of rape allegations as payback for Brand blowing the lid off the Gates/Fauci 5G biolabs and the secrets of breatharianism or something.
If I had any doubts about his guilt they were eradicated as soon as he called this a deep state conspiracy. Nobody is conspiring against has-been comedians.
I hope that the police look into these allegations. Chasing his monetisation is not a punishment since he is already wealthy.
What a loathsome piece of shit.
(allegedly)
I could have sworn he was already a convicted sex criminal.
He just looks like one.
He's not really suffered much personal consequence from this, and most likely won't, so of course he's continuing the grift any way he can. Fucking arsehole.
tHe MeDiA
Damed impressive level of evil. The media moguls manage to force cooperation. From both the police and multiple people Brand had intimate relationships with. Before publishing any accusations. Because lets fac it. If these people had not been convinced to accuse him. Then it would be so obviose the media was just out to get him. Pretty hard to blame the news media for printing actual news.
Damed impressive level of evil. The media moguls manage to force cooperation. From both the police and multiple people Brand had intimate relationships with. Before publishing any accusations.
It's even better than that - they somehow managed to get Brand to implicate himself:
The BBC announced on Friday that it was investigating a claim that Brand exposed himself to a woman at the corporation’s Los Angeles office building before laughing about it on his radio show.
Probably some Manchurian Candidate level brainwashing. Or he's a nonce.