Who is Russell Band ?
and…cue the attacks on the British Justice system by right-wing supporters of misogyny!
I’m glad that thumbnail makes him look sad and dishevelled.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy
The guy behind him is a copy. At least give him 5 years too, just to make sure shit doesn’t repeat itself.
Honestly he should be in jail for 100 years, 10 years are just rookie numbers
Now he will get to enjoy a nice decade of interruption free Bible study time! This is actually a huge win for him.
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
I pray he finds many rods and staves to comfort him in there.
As do I …we love this for our holy men… and holey they are.
I will never understand how one can have so much money and success just to throw it all away for something so stupid and vile.
Stop thinking of money as an abstract thing, its simply power. And power has many forms, ability to influence and control others, control governance, do what you want as you want, have your opinion heard over others, control others, etc. People need to stop considering rich people as people with money, theyre people with unfretted power and those people are generally wicked.
I guess…he was a celebrity comedian, not a politician or asshole billionaire. I was honestly surprised to hear about the sexual assault allegations when the first came out.
He had crafted a careful delibrate public image i guess.
He didn’t exactly have fuck you money. Celebrities lose everything they have all the time bcz their money is at the whims of being likeable and getting people to buy their shit.
You don’t understand why successful people would sleep with groupies? Or that if you sleep with 400 groupies a year, for several years, and then become politically inconvenient, that someone is going to be able to organize convincing 1 or more in 6400 women to retroactively reverse their consent 20 years later?
To me it all seems pretty easy to understand.
Spoken like a true incel. Disgusting.
Anyone can see how gross and handsy he was while other people were present AND ALSO while being filmed.
It’s not hard to imagine how much worse he was behind closed doors.
“become politically inconvenient”
Brand is not politically inconvenient. He just steered right when he saw the money.
Shitheads who spread this “women are liars” incel garbage are why so few rapes ever reach trial in the first place.
You really need to get yourself removed from whatever manosphere poison you’ve found yourself in, because it’s turning you into a terrible person. There’s no reason to believe a completely unfounded, unsupported conspiracy theory over the sworn court testimony of six victims plus many others who spoke out in public, other than pure vile misogyny.
Fame and fortune corrupt
I feel like assholes who want fame and fortune are the core issue. When they get it, they’re then able to be assholes to other people and get away with it.
Money is power, and power corrupts. People come to think they are above law, and unfortunately, it is often the case.
I’d like to think I’d fuck off to some remote cabin personally, never to be heard from again.
Me too, if I suddenly ran into a lot of money, you just wouldn’t ever hear from me again.
He gets the Bill Cosby lifetime achievement award.
So he’s gonna be convicted in a preformative manner and let go a few months later?
I hope not. I however am unfamiliar with the UK justice system, praying that they’re not as susceptible to the wealthy wiggling their way out of punishment like in the USA.
How bloody infuriating is it that I’m STILL arguing with people who are confidently saying that he was stitched up! They aren’t the brightest but still they seem to ignore his financial might thrown into his legal defences. What do those morons think they know that the court is missing?
Defending random celebrities is always weird to me. Can you believe that he would do that? Well yes, i’m not in a parasocial relationship with them.
Glad he’s doing Timey Wime.
Take a look at Stewart Lee’s standup routine bit on Russell Brand from years ago, it’s hilarious!
Meanwhile, on IMDB, this rapist is more popular than Sir Patrick Stewart. He is Trending. People are sick. Disclmer, I know that IMDB algoritm is “per click” but still, people are making list of movies to avoid? Anyway, I can’t remember a good movie with this actor.
This just means he’s in the news and people are searching to check who is he. Exactly because he’s not popular enough for everyone to know who he is.
Keira Knightly… But who is she in the day time!
Dawna Daley, obviously.
Someone trying to figure out who Russel Brand is when the name sounds familiar isn’t being “sick”. It just means they’re looking at his IMDB profile. That’s it.
That’s me. I’m horrible with actors names and faces.
I saw parents post screenshot and thought "wait is that the ‘stroke the furry wall’ guy?
Yeah. It is. Also Dr. Nefario.
And both those characters were the same year. Well, at least Get Him To The Greek & Despicable Me. Forgetting Sarah Marshall was a couple years earlier.
The funniest thing about them posting that is that they end with this
Anyway, I can’t remember a good movie with this actor.
Oh, I can’t either, let me check his IMDB page for a list to jog my memory. 🙄
Ngl Get Him to the Greek was a great movie. Partly due to him playing the loveable sleazeball.
Not so loveable anymore, though. Worth a good pirating tho.
Really hoping Jonah Hill isn’t running around raping folks.
It was not even a good film
Everyone knows who Patrick Stewart is. Many are thinking wtf has Russell brand been doing for the past decade or who is he
I’m sure I contributed to the clicks, when I saw these articles floating around I had to look this guy up as i had no idea who he was. Definatley seen something with him in it before, but couldn’t recognize him strictly off name from the news.
I saw a Facebook story about his convictions and there were so many people in the comments saying he is just being silenced for his views and he’s an innocent man being done wrong by attention seekers.
Facebook is such a bin fire sometimes…
Only sometimes??
The conservative sub was malding over this.
Like, was he even known for his politics? I knew him as a weird actor whose primary vehicle for comedy was just being a weird oddball. They really will just defend any sex criminal?
A brilliant Aussie comic called Brendan Burns said “he looks like the personification of hepatitis” and I hear that every time I see these headlines
He started as an Essex new-age festival kiddie type with hippie-left politics. Then he went down the conspiracy rathole (staring with anti-vaxx bullshit) and ended up a fascist. It’s not clear to me if that was mainly due to drug-induced massive gullibility or the realization that there were lots of opportunities for grift on the right.
I don’t accept horseshoe theory in general, but it is definitely possible to traverse the fact-free fringe all the way from peace and love to full-scale fascism.
Edit: the profile he really fits (leaving out the rape) is “I used to be all fucked up on drugs. Now I’m all fucked up on the Lord.”
He was a very prominent left-wing figure, and then-Labour leader Ed Milliband visited him at home to ask for his endorsement in the 2015 election.
Since his behaviour became more publicly known, he took a dive to the far right and has appeared in public with the likes of Fucker Carlson.
He was an outspoken Leftist campaigner in the early 2010s. Then when more and more stories started getting spread about his rapey antics, nobody on the Left would talk to him any more and he had to go find some new friends.
yea he is, at least the start of covid he pivoted hard, i kept seeing him on my feed unintentionally, and when not logging in youtube during that time. he probably suspected this was going to happen eventually.
He started being very US politics on his podcast for a bit and then he switched over to Christianity and conservative grift.
am I imagining it or did he do a baptism with jd vance?
I’m fairly sure he was being groomed to be peter thiel’s new pope
