Brand claims that the UK Government and “the media” are out to get him!
“Is this the consequences of my actions? No, its a government conspiracy!”
FAFO
Russell Brand admits ‘extraordinary and distressing week’ and floats media conspiracy over sex assault allegations
Submitted 1 year ago by BobTheBoozer@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
athos77@kbin.social 1 year ago
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.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 year ago
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.
Tatters@feddit.uk 1 year ago
He has brought it all upon himself, by his past behaviour.
athos77@kbin.social 1 year ago
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.
noodle@feddit.uk 1 year ago
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.
theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 year ago
What a loathsome piece of shit.
13esq@lemmy.world 1 year ago
(allegedly)
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No the rapes are alleged, Brand being a lothesome piece of shit has always been true.
lemonflavoured@kbin.social 1 year ago
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.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Damed impressive level of evil. The media moguls manage to get 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.
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 year ago
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.
Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I could have sworn he was already a convicted sex criminal.
FatLegTed@feddit.uk 1 year ago
He just looks like one.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 1 year ago
tHe MeDiA
drekly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mate the government would have turned against you when you were spouting left wing nonsense ten years ago, not now that you’re spouting right wing nonsense that aligns with their beliefs.
theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 year ago
There's a 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...
Hyperreality@kbin.social 1 year ago
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.
ReCursing@kbin.social 1 year ago
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
theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 year ago
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.