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ZeroCool@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Comedian Russell Brand charged with rape

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Comedian Russell Brand charged with rape

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ZeroCool@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault
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The 49-year-old denied he was ever "a rapist", adding: "I've never engaged in non-consensual activity."
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  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Something was always “off” with this guy. You could feel it during his “sexy socialist Jesus” era and it was practically confirmed with “conspiratorial Ghandi” revamp.

    Here’s a Channel 4 documentary that goes into further detail about this man’s deranged proclivities.

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      He always seemed like a cult leader disguised as a comic, using it to attract followers.

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    3 months ago

    gasp

    really?

    /s

  • BadmanDan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    He’ll be in Joe Rogan in about a month

    • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Freudian slip, but true nonetheless

    • Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee
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      He’s been a regular on Bro Brogan for years. That’s where his shift to the right-wing began a few years ago, shortly after his sex pest behavior became public knowledge.

  • Sk3rgi0@lemm.ee
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    Charged with rape again, right? Didn’t we-the-people already cancel this idiot once?

  • llama@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    People think Russell Brand is funny?

    • Alaknár@lemm.ee
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      He used to be.

      • Suite404@lemmy.world
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        I had vaguely remembered him and saw him on YouTube a while back. I thought, hey, I think I liked this guy. Clicked into his video and was pretty shocked and immediately wrote him off.

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          Yeah. I think he either went insane, or just smelled an easy con. Sad thing, really.

    • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      he does look like a crazy homeless person, because his eyes is always bugged out on the youtube thumbnails.

  • kemsat@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Again?

  • demizerone@lemmy.world
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    I can’t believe I bought this guys book. WTF was I thinking.

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      How can this book be more than interesting and novel grammatical constructs saying a lot of bull shit at 200kmh?

    • insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world
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      What was it like?

      • demizerone@lemmy.world
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        Pointless honestly. I should have read the jacket. It was a book about him overcoming addiction using the 12 step program and finding religion.

    • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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      Dude has charisma and is skilled at improv. He had a story of overcoming addiction and had some good things to say about social issues back then. That kind of thing sells, so lots of scumbags put it in their bios.

  • sploosh@lemmy.world
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    Further coverage from The Onion

    • Glytch@lemmy.world
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      In an article from 2 years ago LMAO

    • nkat2112@sh.itjust.works
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      LOL, my thoughts exactly.

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Haha my thoughts exactly

    • 18-24-61-B-17-17-4@lemmy.world
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      Man that’s fucking great.

    • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works
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      Okay but seriously… this actually has come up before though right? I distinctly remember there being major allegations against him years ago

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    You’re kiddin’! HIM? …Nahhh. He’s always seemed like a super stable, reliable guy. You just never know about some people, you know?

    • 404UsernameNotFound@lemmy.wtf
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      Don’t worry, he can buy a Trump Gold Card, become a U.S. citizen, and Trump will offer him the position of Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues.

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        This is depressingly spot-on.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      It’s always the ones you mostly suspect…

      • sunflowercowboy@feddit.org
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        Wait… Is racism back on the table guys??

        That irish fucker with the marshmallows is gonna get it

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    The moment someone starts going all “anti-woke” you know they’ve got something to hide and they are trying to get acquainted with the pardon-dealing industry.

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      Pardon dealing industry? In the UK?

      I’m pretty sure only 4 pardons have been given in the last 25 years. 1 was posthumous (Turing) and the other 3 were given to convicts who saved people’s lives while incarcerated.

      I don’t think being anti-woke is going to help anyone get a pardon in the UK.

      I do think it’s a grift, just not convinced it’s a grift for a Royal Prerogative of Mercy.

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        I don’t mean in the UK. He probably has done some of that in the US too.

        He could flee and seek political asylum or something. The US has extradition treaties with the UK since 2003, but they are pretty much ignoring all laws and treaties anyway.

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      Yeah. Forcing himself on women was entirely consistent with his public persona, but shifting hard right just to seek cover makes it so much scummier.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      Nah. It was the moment he turned to Jesus and got baptised I realised he was guilty.

      The right wing shift was for the money.

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      I need to just stick off other social media, nice that this is the consensus here

    • ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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      The moment someone “gets jesus” it’s time to alert the authorities.

      • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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        So he’s also into kids?

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          Let’s not pedo-smear buddy, it’s not a can of worms YOU want to open

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    Hard to believe someone who looks like a rapist and acts like a rapist is a rapist.

    • ZeroCool@lemmy.caOP
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      Right? The guy whose acting range was limited to “smarmy creep with an accent” turned out to be a sex pest. Weird!

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    I consider his transformation into a double-Christian to be a confession that all the accusations are true. The biggest pieces of dogshit always face consequence mumbling prayers and missives.

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    It’s ok though. He’s given his heart to Jesus now. Makes it all ok.

    • Sirus@lemm.ee
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      Yeah but it’s republicunt jesus, not you know… the good one.

      • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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        There is a good one?

        • catloaf@lemm.ee
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          Yeah the “love thy neighbor” one

        • theneverfox@pawb.social
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          Yeah, read the new testament sometime without commentary. It’s short, Jesus is based as hell, and it gives useful tips like how to resist an occupying force that is looking for people to make examples of

          Like if you actually followed Jesus’s teachings, in America today you might gather your community together, build a mutual aid network with the intention to become self sufficient, and when ICE comes around everyone swarms them offering to help guide them around and shoving their IDs in their faces without being asked (with suspicious knowledge of the law and careful documentation of them breaking it to report them later) (and obviously with the people at risk nowhere to be found)

          Jesus was killed as a revolutionary for a reason, they later massacred the early church communities entirely because it actually became a threat to Rome

        • 18-24-61-B-17-17-4@lemmy.world
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          Yes, his name is Satan.

          • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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            Well, no that name would be Lucifer.

        • Sirus@lemm.ee
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          We the one that isn’t about guns and country is probably better…

          • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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            Better doesn’t mean good.

            • Sirus@lemm.ee
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              Don’t be an over-analytical douche. What the fuck are you getting at? Out with it! Are you an edgy atheist or what mf? Tell us what you want us all to acknowledge about you Captain pick-me.

              • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
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                What are you on about?

                • Sirus@lemm.ee
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                  What are you on about?

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    After watching Kathy Perry’s documentary and what he did to her, I fucking hate this asshole.

    • Lady Butterfly @lazysoci.al
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      I never watched that, what did he do?

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        He divorced her over text, minutes before she was about to get on stage on her premiere tour. Then ghosted her after.

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          It’s like seeing two turds collide

        • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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          Holy FUCK. You know back when he was pretending to be a queer leftist, he had me genuinely fooled. He’s a truly scary fucker.

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            he would definitely be that creep to get closer to women.

        • Lady Butterfly @lazysoci.al
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          God that’s awful. And calculatingly cruel.

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          Huh, women intuition is never wrong

          Until it is

          • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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            What the fuck?

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      Kathy Perry

      lul

      • Worx@lemmynsfw.com
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        “names may have been changed to protect people’s privacy”

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    Colour me shocked

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