I’m glad that thumbnail makes him look sad and dishevelled.
and…cue the attacks on the British Justice system by right-wing supporters of misogyny!
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy
I’m not a bit surprised
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.
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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.
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.
Or maybe you want people to disbelieve women because you’ve got an unfortunate history of your own?
(edit: for those who joined after mod removed the post: user x0x7 @lemmy.world claimed that Brand was set up by these women as part of an organized conspiracy to take him down for supporting right wing politicians)
“become politically inconvenient”
Brand is not politically inconvenient. He just steered right when he saw the money.
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.
Fame has it’s own kind of power to.
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.
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?
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.”
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 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.
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
I guess I just missed all that. I would see a random clip from him on Fox here and there but didn’t realize he was “known” for politics
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.
The guy behind him is a copy. At least give him 5 years too, just to make sure shit doesn’t repeat itself.
Do Jared Leto next!
Wait. Are they different people?! WTF?
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!
“Under English law, the maximum sentence for rape is life imprisonment, and 10 years for one count of sexual assault, according to Britain’s sentencing council.”
This guy got basically sentenced for one + half a year of the 3 assaults and not caunting the 1 rape
With Brand’s history and lifestyle, 10 years night still be a life sentence.
just imagine how many religions he can get into now
Authentic picture of Russell Brand.
- 2036 (colorized)
he shouldve went hard into islam like tate is, especially with how woman are viewed under incel muslim/fundamentalism.
The fundamental Christian he was pretending to be don’t treat them any better.
Kegsbtrath’s pastor thinks if they’re married, they shouldnt vote.
It will be interesting to see how he goes.
I have found that, nowadays if media exposure gets taken away, a lot of people tend to chill out and drift more left leaning. Right leaning thinking for many tends to require constant nudging to keep people in that camp. So being isolated from that feed might do him some good. It will at least do the world some good.
I’m not saying, “take away the media and all is well” but there is a section of society that is heavily swayed by it.
It does sound, though, like you’re saying “take away the propaganda channels and the right will dry up and blow away.”
That might be true. Nice if so.
a lot of people aren’t rapists either, regardless of media exposure
Very true. I don’t expect that drive in him to change much beyond any kind of self introspection. But maybe his divisive rhetoric changes. Or he just become vindictive and it just gets much worse.
Honestly, I am just sick of talking about Brand. He is a odd manipulative sex pest goblin, goodbye to him.
Being a high profile sex offender in a jail 18 months could turn out to be a life sentence
There are rumours that he already has a fan club in jail and cowers his way into the mess hall and back to his cell every day.
IIRC, he wanted it like that enough to find away to Spike his stay. Pun Buffilly intended.
He probably won’t serve all ten years, assuming good behavior
7 years then the British equivalent of parole. It’s in the article.
Not the British equivalent of parole. Just parole. And that’s not automatic.
There’s a first time for everything!
he will be too old to peddle any pundits to gain back fame by then.
He got 10 more years than the epstein pedogang though.
Those are maximum sentences for Category 1 though, and would be given for extreme cases.
It looks like Brand was sentenced on a Category 2 rape, which has a starting point of 10y custody.
Good, one more rapey, creepy, rich cunt not walking the streets. Now if only the US would start doing the same things to our rich, rapey cunts. We should start with the orange molester in chief.
