I think the difficult thing with tackling conspiracism is the grain of truth that gets denied so much that you have people latching onto anything that seems like it might reflect what they’re seeing with their own eyes. Stopped clock/blind squirrel theory. Like who hasn’t walked past one of those sandwich board guys saying the government is shit and thought “Man’s got a point,” even as you avoided eye contact? Same principle. Internet brain breaking a lot of gen x & boomers who are digitally illiterate is exacerbating this. Even my own parents who don’t spend much time in these kinds of places, my mother linked a tweet in some group chat that was complaining about…idk…water charges? She had just seen something she agreed with and blindly shared, I had to be like, you know that’s a white nationalist you shared right? She was pretty horrified; I had to explain I recognised the account name from Twitter poisoning. It just wouldn’t occur to her to look further, and I think by the time a lot of people are at that stage they might be too far in.
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 12:29 (one year ago) link
I remember reading the first My Booky Wook and finding it a compelling read but thinking the protagonist was an absolute wanker who wasn't painting a very pleasant picture of himself. Think it was a while after it came out but probably a decade pus ago during which he's done several things that make him look a bit of an a-hole outside of this. But i guess taht's already widely known
― Stevo, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 12:31 (one year ago) link
when he made that unblinking denial vid, of which any skilled body language analysis expert (if there is such a thing) would call it as a bizarre performance in the context of what was happening and also 100% GUILTY af and LYING! There isn't even any anger in it, if you were getting fitted up by the deep state for getting too close to the truth or whatever his followers believe - you'd be furious. Anyone that bought that will buy anything, aside from other celeb rapists who have their own agenda.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 12:49 (one year ago) link
all of these weirdo "truth-tellers" are posting vids saying, "This may be the last time you hear from me. They'll be coming after me next."
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
See that's exactly their game right, they create a false atmosphere of paranoia and then react to it with fear and go into hiding and it doesn't matter that no one is actually looking for them, that's enough for their audience of redpilled galaxy brains.
― omar little, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
(xp) Fingers crossed.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
I just can't put myself in the mindset of these hundreds of thousands of marks pressing the thanks button to make a wealthy creep richer. They really must hate themselves.
Apparently the vast majority of his income is from advertising rather than the credulous numpties who follow him.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
Lol lmao I stand with Brand obviously https://t.co/BW9o3afTIp— Anna Khachiyan (@annakhachiyan) September 16, 2023
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
wow, so edgy
― jmm, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
I'll probably regret asking, but what's the basic contention she's making? She retweeted this reply:
― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
The only IQ test that matters in 2023 is if you believe journalists when they publish a metoo story. If you do, you are an imbecile— Pericles 'Perry' Abbasi (@ElectionLegal) September 17, 2023
i believe the contention is "please continue to acknowledge the dimes square scene"
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
I'll probably regret asking, but who the fuck is Anna Khachiyan?
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
I think the basic contention she is making is that she and everyone associated with her are garbage
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I know she is part of the post-left / anti-anti-anti-feminist whatever, I'm just trying to figure out the logic.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
There is no logic beyond "fuck you! ha ha, made you look".
― read-only (unperson), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
Anna Khachiyan is from the anti-everything Red Square podcast
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
Brand was defended by various conservative public figures, including Anna Khachiyan of Red Scare, the Tate brothers, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Ian Miles Cheong
She definitely has found her people
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
She also hangs with Greg from Succession, who has allegations similar to Brand's against him
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
I have yet to understand why anyone thinks Red Scare is something worth paying attention to.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
It’s the pull of anti-establishment being a good view in and of itself. Same reason 4chan is popular
― H.P, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link
https://x.com/rosemcgowan/status/1704041704800616665?s=46&t=bJOqpCuQneT7ju08y55VSA
― piscesx, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
I’ve no idea why my links to tweets aren’t showing up properly anymore.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:30 (one year ago) link
You have to replace x with twitter
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:32 (one year ago) link
twitter dotcom embeds work but not x dotcom embeds, aiui
xp
― I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:33 (one year ago) link
I can't hear anything at that link (probably because I nuked my account), is she talking a bunch of nonsense? because she seems like someone who could go that way.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 02:19 (one year ago) link
Talking a bunch of nonsense. People shouldn't be able to accuse abusers anonymously. "Those are the rules, I didn't make them."
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 02:57 (one year ago) link
lol
Are you sure? He’s a rapist not a racist— The IP Respecter (@ericthewheeler) September 16, 2023
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 08:38 (one year ago) link
Russell Brand's dad in 1970?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvFdFBblGQs
― Alba, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 10:45 (one year ago) link
The voice is spookily similar. Great video!
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 11:07 (one year ago) link
I just don't think anybody could be afraid of someone talking with a megaphone through the sunroof of a brown Mini.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link
russell re-branding himself as a philosopher guru reminds me a bit of neil strauss trying to make the pivot into positive lifestyle influencer after years of being a rancid detriment to society. it's all just a grift, and they still try to trade in on their bad-boy image as giving them bonafides of a different sort, it makes them a veteran of certain wars, allows them to reflect upon their behaviors as if they're at a complete remove while enjoying still having the image of people who have had those experiences.
― omar little, Thursday, 21 September 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link
There’s an explicit connection too, I remember being 🤨 at seeing brand’s blurb on one of Strauss’s sex pest manuals (this being post rb’s supposed reformed character)
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Thursday, 21 September 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
see also Bill Cosby
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 21 September 2023 19:48 (one year ago) link
Born again
― anvil, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 15:52 (five months ago) link
LOLOLOL it’s like a bad version of The Ruling Class.
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 15:53 (five months ago) link
Standard trajectory for cunts. Andrew Tate becomes a Muslim, Russell Brand becomes a Christian.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 15:55 (five months ago) link
Don't forget Shaun King
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:05 (five months ago) link
quite appropriate that he was baptised in a river of sewage
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:34 (five months ago) link
The 48-year-old comedian had previously called baptism an “opportunity to leave the past behind”
So just let it go ladies, let's move on shall we
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:36 (five months ago) link
Just had a look at his comments section. Most of them seem to be from people who are also born again
― anvil, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:01 (five months ago) link
They're burying the lede that Russell Brand has finally bathed.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:10 (five months ago) link
my bibley wibley
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:13 (five months ago) link
Well now he's probably fit to marry Katy Perry
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 18:02 (five months ago) link
Irl lol @ bizarro
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 2 May 2024 01:47 (five months ago) link
This guy looks more and more like if Jordan Peterson got stranded in the desert for a year.
― omar little, Thursday, 1 August 2024 13:39 (two months ago) link
just saw the thumbnails of his latest YT vids and jeez - I didn't know his Musk/Tate-type rightwing BS had become so bad
― StanM, Thursday, 1 August 2024 13:47 (two months ago) link
Thiel can sure pick the creepy weirdos
― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 1 August 2024 13:50 (two months ago) link
It's "interesting" 🧐 to see which of your Instagram friends follow this guy, or I should say still follow him at this point
― omar little, Thursday, 1 August 2024 14:04 (two months ago) link