There's a strange trend that's been happening recently in the man-o-sphere podcasting world lately where male guests and bro-podcast-hosts from Russell Brand (in the post), Joe Rogan, and Andrew Huberman have all recently made strange confessions of faith. I have a feeling that the Christian nationalism that is trending in America is starting to suck in all of the gurus.
Surely no-one can be surprised that #TikTok which is surely exemplary of #celebrity 'culture' has been more lenient in its moderation of 'top' accounts... as the #RussellBrand case has demonstrated, if you're famous the normal standards of behaviour don't seem to apply (which TikTok seems to have happily colluded with).
If you get an hour and change, Then & Now is a good subscribe and this particular episode is incisive as shit not just as to how an ostensible progressive-ish person like #RussellBrand can become sufficiently facile and up-his-own-floral-scented-ass to go full fucking fascist but how similar coagulations of personality disorders, nurtured and amplified by the validation of bad-actor (Murdochian) media he himself presumes to rail about (while an actual American neo-Nazi capitalist signs his paychecks), conditioned nearly every surly, shit-talking, malevolent twat you ever encountered who then became a Trumpista.
Fascism is truly dumb mundane insidious shit because all it has to do is say "Everything wrong with you is good and worth having Klan rallies around, we'll just call them something different."
Son, in his live stream, #RussellBrand not only blew the far right 'Free Speech' dog whistle, but also railed against 'globalists'. And we all know what that is shorthand for.
Oh, and it's all a conspiracy against hardworking, honest sex offenders. How dreadful.
Russell Brand has said that YouTube’s decision to demonetise him is in the ‘context of the Online Safety Bill’.
While ORG has concerns about the Bill’s powers for censorship and surveillance, it’s misleading to blame a Bill that's not yet received Royal Assent for this decision.
Our issue with the #OnlineSafetyBill is that tech companies will have to use algorithms to decide whether content is illegal and remove it before it’s even been posted.
This isn’t about demonetisation, it’s about platforms being forced to block or take down more of your posts.
We’ll never know how many ordinary people have their content censored by the Bill once it is implemented.
Unlike #RussellBrand it’s very likely you won’t have a high profile to raise awareness.
The Online Safety Bill grants extra protections for legacy media outlets as a ‘recognised news publisher’, like a fast-track complaints procedure if their journalistic content gets censored.
But you, the ordinary user, won’t have the right of complaint or power to appeal wrongful censorship.
So we should be very worried about the Online Safety Bill and the impact it will have on our freedom of expression.
But we shouldn’t confuse it with the chair of a non-governmental Parliamentary committee writing to a company and asking them to demonetise a particular person.
"FPOTUS is a predator and his now-ex attorney is a predator (who preyed on women during the Insurrection!), and the skeevy British 'comic' was outed as a serial predator and defended by other predators a week after an actor who is a predator was sent to prison for decades for his crimes."
"...This is what nefarious #Cult leaders do, rely on cultural tropes that have become normalized to drum up support among followers they've groomed. I began the week hoping these allegations would mean a #MeToo-style reckoning for influencers across the board, now I can only imagine how far he's willing to go to save his own skin, with a growing group of followers..."
This may sound like a weird hill to choose to die on, but I'm really uncomfortable with the calls for Youtube to demonetise #RussellBrand videos.
Firstly, we shouldn't hand the responsibility for justice to these big tech companies.
Secondly, if Brand has committed a crime I hope he is tried and jailed.
But as long as he's not profiting off his crime, he shouldn't be starved. This is the same instinct that stops poor Black ex-cons from ever finding work. And I don't like it.
Talking of #conspiracy theorists, what exactly is it about every male accused sexual harrasser/
offender or similar, who happens to be a right wing talking head or conspiracy grifter, that makes them line up behind them without a second thought.
Brand's #Grooming of the #AltRight and #Conspiracy nuts is paying off handsomely. They will see a plot in every twist and turn. The grubby #Rumble site, meanwhile, basks in free publicity.
"Russell Brand: Rumble rejects MP's 'disturbing' letter over income..."
This risks criminalising young people at worst, and confusing them even more at best.
The real issue is vulnerable people being preyed upon at any age, and a staggered age of consent will not prevent this. It has to be dealt with directly.
"Calls grow to reassess age of consent laws after #RussellBrand allegations
"Woman who alleges star sexually assaulted her when she was 16 calls for debate about staggered ages of consent..."
When Russell Brand started veering right and parroting talking points we hear from Rogan, Ben Shapiro and Alex Jones, I didn’t understand. He had always seemed like he leaned left before that. It didn’t seem on-brand for him, no pun intended.
Now, however, it makes total sense. He was building an audience of misogynists so he still had doting fans after this story broke. And it has worked.
The idea a man with such obviously massive self-regard as #russellBrand was EVER left wing is laughable..... such people never accept the validity of a collective view of the world - whatever they say