Right on the nose. My wife sent me the news when it broke and my response was… “again?”
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They published another piece https://www.theonion.com/men-s-rights-activists-defend-russell-brand-1850850435
“He waved his hands enough in that video for me to consider him innocent.” - Gregory Marsh, Animal Control Officer
“I would stake my reputation on the fact that Russell Brand is a good man.”
Andrew Tate, Trafficker
Chefs kiss
“Look, I don’t know what to tell you, I love sexual assault and I hate women, and that’s just how it is.”
I recognized Andrew Tate and (obviously) Russell Brand in there. Were any of the others real people? I'm bettng there were probably at least a couple others I'm just too out of the loop to recognize.
My favorite was the last:
"His long hair and tight pants make him too feminine for me to view him with any empathy."
Man, I've made 4 sexual predator predictions of which now 1 (kevin spacey) is convicted, 1 is suspected (brand) 2 to go (jared leto and quentin tarantino, you old perv).
I should do this for a living
That has literally zero bearing on whether or not he's a predator. Jesus christ.
I respectfully disagree. He isn't even hiding the fact that he has a foot fetish and uses his power dynamic to coerce actresses to do whatever he wants to them. His actions paint a portrait of someone I would suspect of being a predator.
Yes, except in this specific case that isn't what happened at all. This scene was pretty much improvised. Still a creep, though.
Leto has been long suspected and accused https://www.themarysue.com/jared-leto-controversy-explained/
I had no idea about Jared Leto. I was a huge 30 Seconds to Mars fan. This article, if true makes me upset I thought so highly of him.
quentin tarantino
I'm not sure we agree on what a prediction is.
Well, he's a freaky little man, that's clear. We're predicting criminality. Proof, or at least clear accusations.
And yeah, you kind of assume he's already been to court over something, and you just missed it somehow. He's the kind of white guy who looks for excuses to holler the N-word in his movies while Sam Jackson puts up with it, there's no way he's not putting roofies in drinks.
I genuinely did!! Or at least that he'd been credibly accused and everyone already knew that. I've been very confused by some people's reactions to this news.
The ones defending him are just scummy rape apologists and they do it in every thread that talks about a rape or sexual assault.
I've had a couple conversations in which I expressed how surprised I was that he had been uncancelled from previous sexual assaults, just to do it all again.
The people apologising fall into 2 camps.
- Sex pests & misogynists. Many with their own legal run-ins. e.g. Andrew Tate is a rapist and sex trafficker and Elon Musk attempting to impregnate anyone including flight attendants.
- Conspiracy idiots who will believe their guru over reality. It must be some global conspiracy to silence him rather than the more obvious reason that he raped at least one woman and had inappropriate contact with others.
Definitely not one of those times anyone is thinking "Really? I never would have expected that from him."
At some point it suddenly occurred to me one as actually thinking about Leto. Still... Tho... Wasn't there something?
Sounds like it was an open secret in the productions he worked on that he was a sex pest. It makes me wonder how he managed to escape so long before allegations were made public. I watched the Dispatches documentary and the complaints all seemed credible and doubtless there are receipts if Brand is foolish enough to sue. Even footage of his own on-air demeanour around the same time was awful and worse in hindsight.
Whatever the truth to the allegations there is no doubt that Brand is a narcissist with an addictive personality and he uses people to get what he wants. He's been addicted to sex, alcohol, porn, and heroin. Conspiracy theories are his new fix. Don't be surprised if he finds Jesus next. Gotta chase that high.
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