Yeah that was a weird comment. He wasn’t a piece of shit because a 12 year old had a crush on him lol. He was a piece of shit for various other things.
nah i’m not blaming you at all, i’m blaming the general media in this. i understand the comparison you’re trying to make completely and i’m sorry if this came off directed at you!
You made a statement about him being a drug addict and I corrected it. It's not that serious, there's no need to get bent out of shape and type up a multi-paragraph response.
Sorry if I offended you and I hope you have a good weekend.
That last paragraph is so condescending, I’m embarrassed to read it. You aren’t even right. You made a mistake, no need to be a passive aggressive child about it. Just say sorry, ya dunce.
Good job! You understand why calling Brand "the degenerate drug addict version of Johnny Depp" would mean he's SUPER bad. The everclear comment in the next sentence after that is an analogy to further explain that point
Russell Brand did that thing where he clearly had prepared rants with enough big words to seem smart to idiots and then just rattled them off as fast as he could. It always struck me as him caring more about people thinking he was smart and insightful than whatever points he was trying to make.
He admitted he didn't read books, just the cover and enough to blag a conversation to seem clever.
So Moby Dick? Melville. White whale. Call me Ishmael. Capt. Ahab. He's got a couple of phrases in his pocket to give the illusion of knowledge but he couldn't tell you anything in detail.
To the impressionable uneducated, he sounds clever.
Like the way Boris Johnson knows Greek mythology and fucking nothing else, but we think 'ooh. That sounded clever'
Yeah. He's not a great example, tbf. He knows a lot about one very obscure and fancy subject, as well as being a very good debater. He's able to thread little bits of his knowledge into his speeches and most of us go 'that sounded good' and he walks away having given the general air of someone who knows things.
Brand knows a little about a lot, and hits you (or used to. His style has changed) in the face, loudly with little details from a wide range of subjects, leaving your head spinning with 'how much he knows'.
They both climbed way higher than a fair world would have let them, but we are easily dazzled by brash people with 'knowledge'.
I guess Trump is the final boss of this. He pulled a similar trick without the vocabulary, which is impressive. He just tells people that he's intelligent, loudly. And it works.
While I don’t disagree what a vapid asshole brand is, it’s still very weird to me that you ascribed some negativity toward him due to your teenage celebrity crush like that’s literally anywhere near his control lmao.
It just seems weird even retrospectively displacing some of the accountability there. Sorry I felt inclined to tell you that.
His only really funny moments are calling out other vapid people and confusing them with his verbose responses. It's funny when he completely wrecked Morning Joe team and Mika for their typical crap. Everything else is just being a creep though. You're right that only immature inexperienced people would ever think that act is funny.
I'm sorry, but it's not that weird for a preteen to find themselves having a crush on an adult, man or woman for both sides. Hell, some preteens have a crush on the "boring and put together ones" as you put it for that simple fact that they seem mature and intelligent to them. The problem isn't when a preteen has a crush on an adult (nor is it necessarily/automatically the fault of said adult either), it only becomes a problem if the adult finds out and encourages it or intentionally tries to create the crush in the first place. I mean, have you never had a crush on one of your teachers? Cause plenty of kids do and again, unless the teacher finds out and encourages it or tries to take advantage of that crush then the teacher didn't do anything wrong. Again, man or woman. A preteen having a crush on an adult doesn't make the adult unrespectable if they did nothing to encourage or foster said crush because you aren't responsible for the way others view you, you are only responsible for your own actions. I say that as someone who was had a 21 year old woman take advantage of me as a teen and initiate a full blown emotional and sexual relationship with me from the ages of 14 to 17 and 21 to 24 respectively, so i find it really distasteful that you not only say this only about men when it's not about man or woman it's about everyone and women are just as capable of sexually predating young boys and girls too. But more importantly use a blanket description of all adults as unrespectable if a preteen/teen has a crush on them (without their involvement) or suggest there's something wrong with the adult for simply existing and finding themselves the target of a younger persons crush (especially when in your case the guy you're talking about literally didn't even know you existed) through no fault of their own when there are actual, real predators out there intentionally trying to create these types of relationships with children. It's distasteful and it's a disservice to all the kids that were actually taken advantage of in this manner to try and make it seem like men are somehow at fault if a teenage girl gets a crush on them and you trying to paint them out to be something they're not.
Why do you ask? I'm pretty sure i know why you're asking but with this being the internet i just want to make sure i know why/what you're asking about.
Because if you believe in conspiracies you're an idiot. People can barely manage to organize a D&D game without it falling apart, and you think some global cadre of schemers is going to keep shit together without people spilling the beans? That's not how humans work. Just look at MKUltra or the Catholic church. Shit gets found out because people can't help talk (or know they should despite the danger to themselves).
I don't think you can just go around and believe the opposite of whatever 12-year-olds believe because 12-year-old girls are dumb or whatever the logic is. sometimes they do get things right here and there so you shouldn't disregard the entire age and gender of that group LOL
Yikes. Imagine making a bold claim about the entirety of a population of 260+ million people while linking to a resource that mentions that the average reading level (not maximum) is at a specific level.
Sounds like you could brush up on some literacy skills yourself.
That would be a valid retort if your initial response implied any sense of generality whatsoever.
If you are in the 'US of A' then your reading is stuck at a very specific level...
However, your omission of any kind of broad adverbial modifier (e.g. "probably"; "likely") in this instance,
As much as i want to agree with you, EVERYONE who is an influencer of any kind, in 'show' or not, must now run at this level.
and your bizarre emphasis on "everyone" in this instance conveys specificity and comprehensiveness, not generality. If you were truly speaking to averages, you did not communicate it effectively.
I'd also like to make the claim that there's more than enough entertainment in the U.S. that doesn't feel the need to solely appeal to the lowest common denominator and happily respects its reader/audience's intelligence. Brand just made the choice to... not be that.
There seems to be this fanatical drive to win shit in your country. You now have an orange president that seems to defy all logic and reason and be very keen to somehow... win... by annihilating the economy and then telling Faux News that he did the goodly thing and has all the best people.
Perhaps it isn't a literacy issue. Perhaps i am wrong. Perhaps it is the problem on both sides is that we have folks, like you, that avoid the entire understanding and seek to naggle and pester over the most totally banal and stupid points.
You know what? You win. Yay. Have a hero biscuit and please go away. Wow.
I had a superior in the navy who had a habit of baselessly accusing people of using drugs and stirring up trouble for them over it. Guess who eventually popped for cocaine on a piss test?
A thief suspects a thief. A liar suspects a liar. A rapist suspects a rapist.
You mean they drank my milk and that's why I didn't have any for my cereal this morning. Here I was blaming my kids for drinking it all before I woke up.
Well, according to Republican election ads, they will steal your job, rape your wife and kids, and kill your dog, so... stealing your milk is not far-fetched.
Yeah, but those are the sort of people who hate down a line, Women (nope cant hate anymore) Black people? (nope) ok ok the gays? nope.....ok well....have you ever heard of transexuals before?
I'm listening to talking heads and actual sitting representatives in federal and state government saying this. You're incredibly nieve if you think it's just the terminally online.
99% of people regularly touching grass never even have seen a fuckin' drag queen irl.
That ain't stopping my MAGA bosses from bitching about them constantly. Can they even name one, aside from maybe RuPaul? No. But you better believe drag queens and transgendered people are coming for them and their grandkids and only Trump can protect them.
I've always said a fair compromise on the whole bathrooms situation was to make three bathrooms: one for men, one for women, and one for conservatives and priests.
You know, if we really want to protect children and vulnerable women.
The whole thing never made an ounce of sense. Their argument is that people WOULD be willing to rape/sexually assault someone, but those same people will 100% comply with bathroom policies? What kind of a moron would give that argument even an ounce of thought
Off the top of my head I think there was one drag queen that was in the news for being a pedo over a 15 year period.
Edit to give more context that 1 was compared to the 50,000 priest in the same time frame.
That might be wrong but I dont feel like looking at the site again it is depressing. Comment with corrections below.
Not true. 17 years ago there was one drag queen in Milwaukee who ended up being a real creep. This, of course, means each and every drag queen for the rest of time is also a creep. It's just logic.
Hyperbole is lost on some people. Conservatives have been labeling drag queens pedos and groomers while they themselves have been the ones getting arrested for it.
The amount of drag queens on RPDR that have since been accused of or have received sexual assault claims/charges; in comparison to the amount of men and women on TV in general, the percentage is higher for drag queens.
I’m in no way saying that all drag queens are rapists or anything of the sort. I enjoy drag & RPDR.
That’s a wildly false and dramatic statement. There have been over 700 queens across all the international Drag Race franchises, and more than 200 just on the U.S. version. And out of all those queens, only about three have ever been accused of sexual misconduct. Let’s not act like the whole franchise is a problem because of a few bad apples.
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u/probablyuntrue 22h ago
It’s always the people you most suspect