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Once upon a time I actually liked Russell Brand. Thought he was intelligent and quite in touch with the ways of the world despite his eccentric character. He truly lost the plot when covid came around, although it wasn’t the first time he’d talked absolute shite.

In hindsight, it’s not really a surprise that he’d be this kind of person.

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Yeah, I know a lot of people thought he was a reasonably smart dude with some interesting insights. But when you think about it he’s always been very superficial. There’s not much depth to any of his takes. He’s just charismatic and speaks like he keeps a pocket thesaurus in his jacket.

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He a junkie you would see rambling at a bus stop incoherently. The difference is an expanded vocabulary and a he’s been on TV.

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He was funny at one point. But he never grew past the need for the attention and didn’t branch out of teenager years.

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When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m starting to think they just don’t want to talk about inequality. —Russell Brand

Still one of my favorite quotes, it’s unfortunate that I won’t really be able to use it any more.

Brand used to be a legit socialist back in the day. The longer he had money, the harder I think was for him to continue to understand the struggle of the common people. Either that or its audience capture like what happened to Dave Rueben.

The YouTube channel the Kavernacle has done some good coverage on his drift to the right.

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He definitely didn’t come up with that line, I’m sure you could find an attribution to something virtually identical said a century ago, and several times since.
I just watched a program about this, and he was a creep from the get go.
A guy vaguely understanding class struggles doesn’t make him a socialist nor a good guy.

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39 points

So many people I used to watch on youtube lost their fucking minds in 2020.

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This is shit he was doing more than ten years ago.

You can’t blame this shit on lockdown, he’s always been a failure of a human being, it’s just now we’re finding out details.

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I never liked him much, and that’s not a “I knew he was out there raping”, that I didn’t know. But personality-wise he was basically an egocentric rockstar who thought he knew it all and everyone not agreeing with his views and sense of humour were just too stupid.

And turns out, he is behaving even more like a 80s rockstar than I thought.

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Perfectly cast in Get Him to the Greek, but at the time I thought it was acting, not just rolling out of bed.

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Yeah I always thought he was hilarious because he was doing a shtick but as it turns out, that’s just him.

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I noticed that people who are using recreational drugs are disproportionally concerned about vaccine safety, which I find quite amusing.

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I never said that’s the only group though.

It is just surprising to me that you would get concerns about injecting yourself with not well tested medicine from that specific group.

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Religion is their drug, which is way stronger than conventional drugs.

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Yeah I’ve seen this as well, all the drug users I know went hard on the conspiracy train.

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8 points

I liked his old podcasts back when he was still on drugs but pretending he was clean.

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I’m just waiting for the study that shows COVID infection makes certain people less empathetic and more paranoid. There’s just too much of it happening to not be biological IMO.

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