Comment on Russell Brand posts video online denying unspecified criminal allegations
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
While he has always been a contrarian, the Forgetting Sarah Marshall actor has drifted from being a mainstream comedian with leftwing views to something of a figurehead for the online alt-right in recent years
Really? I’d have said he’s a figurehead for the alt left
I guess the shift would have been around the time he began
promoting an energetic blend of conspiracy theories, COVID denial, and the liberal use of capital letters, with videos like “The TRUTH About Pfizer” and “The CDC Are SPYING On You,"
promoting ivermectin for viral infections, and hanging out with Tucker Carlson.
www.vice.com/en/…/russell-brand-ivermectin deadline.com/…/tucker-carlson-fox-firing-reaction…
Yep, that’ll do it
genuinely curious, what is the alt left in your view?
It’s a term reactionaries invented to promote horseshoe theory bullshit and general whataboutism. It’s basically a dogwhistle
Look at the hexbear community and find out.
hexbear is garbage but “alt-left” is made up reactionary bullshit and if you have any leftist tendencies you’ll do well to keep that out of your vocabulary unless you want to share theories with fascists. That said, if you’re not a leftist, i don’t give a shit what you think and you can say alt left all you want
Alt right = baddies Alt left = imaginary baddies
Got it. Thanks i am glad I have you to clear these things up for me. Its a good thing hexbears dont use liberal as a slur or hate on anyone that uses non hard left platitudes. Anyone that calls themselves true leftists but has a picture of Che engraved on their eyeballs and fluent in chinese anti west propoganda is not alt left. Gotcha. If you dont see that this anti west sentiment is alt left then I dont know what to tell you.
What’s the ‘alt-left’ when it’s at home?
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 9 months ago
He sort of could’ve been if he stuck with his psudo-hippy crap. Then he started decrying science and vaccines, and the left actually believes in science, so his audience shifted.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve known an extreme hippy be antivax before, so maybe that was the route he took
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 9 months ago
More like was hoping to drag more vulnerable tacitly-left people to the right with him. He clearly decided to shift his rhetoric. There was no way in hell his audience was staying the same. He also shifted way too hard to make it subtle, so anyone with strong axioms was right out too.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Thanks, I haven’t followed his stuff since he found god
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 9 months ago
It’s always the religious lot… tssk.