The Fall of Russell Brand

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[@Bakedgoodza]

people prentend being anti politics is a valid position. if your anti institution regardless of who operates it, then your just a sheep of the other heard.

[@antlerman7644]

Very well written video, I hope this reaches those who are in Russels grasps, and they consider the many questions you raised.

[@izdotcarter]

Your production is a balm. I appreciate it. Particularly when you’re showing footage you put a blinds-like affect on the screen. The effect I experience is to be a bit less transfixed.

[@chancecatalyst47]

22:05 in the voice-over you misread "excluding all Ventavia subjects" as "INcluding all Ventavia subjects"... minor error, but pretty significant difference in meaning in context, especially if someone is just listening to this.

[@thetobyg]

Extraordinary work!

[@Snariasdqwada]

I think Brand is just extremely angry because someone stole the first three buttons on all his shirts.

[@Petunia3001]

😂😂😂

[@dianefleming9765]

That made me laugh out loud! 😂

[@WarFoxThunder]

LMAOOO

[@vihuelamig]

Definitely funnier than anything Brand has ever come up with!

[@Andyanddiana467]

That, and the Katy Perry Alimony money must be running out.

[@orion_13]

Phizer said it investigated claims and found no problems with the results that they reported.... this is the whole problem. There should be an outside 3rd party to investigate this, not the company investigating itself.

[@nancychandler3673]

Independent researchers did test the Pfizer vaccine. You just posted propaganda on a video about propaganda. The irony 😂

[@christianhofer6234]

There is... clinical trials are always under the oversight of regulatory bodies. And the doctors performing those trials are not employed by pfizer either. They work independently. Pfizer is the "sponsor" of the trial.

[@fawahi3684]

Pfizer* it's a German Surname but also comes from the Language: Latein/Latin.

[@fawahi3684]

It means to whistle in Latin☺️

[@cheesenbiscuits]

Phizer is paying everbody off. Corruption is rife.

[@bujinkanatori]

Government? no, it's COMPANIES that love monthly payments, saas services, where people dont BUY stuff, but subscribe into a service where they have unlimited access to services, but they dont OWN anything.

[@analogdistortion]

the WEF and other global wanna be dictators want this though

[@Alkatross]

Yes, Russell Brand is also a company. It's just a big grift.

[@mayakyen3695]

I have a hard time looking for a difference between companies (corporation) and government.

[@kcj1993]

That's a strange assertion. The service business model is not malicious, it's an alternative to ownership which in many cases has its own ongoing costs.

[@bujinkanatori]

World economic Forum throws ideas in the air for economists to think of, and low education people think they revealed their secret plan.

[@atomsk1972]

Sadly, there is no need for vast global conspiracy theories, as terrible things occur right in front of our faces; for example, the corporate capture of government agencies, such as, environmental agencies. (I just checked my own environmental protection agency members - 2 property developers, 1 corporate environmental lawyer, 1 business professor who advocates the cultural importance of mining, 1 prof who writes papers on oil and gas and mining issues. [10 years ago it was former employees of oil & gas and mining companies - is that progress or progress in hiding the manipulation of an agency that 20 years ago actually tried to protect the environment?]).

[@Undivided-X]

That's fucking dystopic.

[@youruler11]

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of people in society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorises it and a moral code that justifies it” (Frederic Bastiat)

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Cynicism is the wisdom of the dolt -- and only stupid people plunder close to home.

[@Dodgerzden]

This reminds me of the recent quote and its many versions, "When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

[@sirosagaming8228]

I.E Vikings and Tax Evaders

[@nope007_]

:] good guess but if ya know.. ya know

[@dcivicik]

And then the plebs come out defending that very system which is growing ripe at the cost of their lives.

[@thomasnussbaumer1556]

"Did Wendy really kill all the smurfs? I don't know, I'm just asking questions!" Eric Cartman 2009

[@Imperial_Squid]

That "just asking questions" line is so annoying

[@willbaro5879]

​@@Imperial_Squid Catechetical Method was put to great use by both Socrates & Cicero. Probably it's a matter of taste if found annoying.

[@Imperial_Squid]

@@willbaro5879 Do you mean the socratic method? Since that's about question and answer reasoning. All I can find for catechetical method is stuff about christian worship etc. And sure, the socratic method can be useful, but it requires that the person asking the questions is acting in good faith. But most of the time the people saying they're "just asking questions" are just trying to cover for the appearance of bias, while having a clear agenda to the questions, as is the case with Brand

[@helenaquin1797]

I believe the original poster was mocking the phrase for the very reasons you outline - and for humor, did so over the question of what happened to cartoon characters for emphasis. ​@Imperial_Squid

[@str.77]

@@Imperial_Squid catechesis means teaching, instruction. It has nothing to do with worship.

[@GenericScreenName808]

I’ve been having my own little bout with conspiracies lately, I’m off social media besides KZbin, am involved with sales and political campaigns and read way too many history books about the lead up to and rebuilding of Europe and WW2. The legalization of weed combined with my adhd and insatiable hunger for more information has made me feel legit crazy the last few months. BUT what your video showed me is why I’ve started thinking like this and helped me recognize it and chill out. It’s about control in my life and I really truly cannot thank you enough. This video needs to reach more people, please remake without Russell Brand as the main character bc I could give two f*cks about him but explaining why someone’s family member or themselves is starting to act like Charlie in the mailroom looking for Pepe Silvia would possibly save some people from making poor decisions this November.

[@Intact-gf5zz]

rofl at charlie in the mailroom

[@MattBooth]

I had ADHD. Get the medication (Adderall/Ritalin). It really does help, along with counselling.

[@Xind-te4rq]

Wdym 'this november' its january

[@rottnk9527]

​@@Xind-te4rqposter was referring to election month in the US which is Nov, not the actual date.

[@forensicdar]

The WEFFERS are still coming for you. But why worry? 😅

[@binnytheearthhero]

Thank you so much for making a video about this! I used to love Russell Brand. His older work on KZbin felt, to me, very anti-capitalist and collectivist. Then, he partnered with Amazon (a corporate monopoly he had critiqued) to release an Audible-only audiobook, and shortly after, his videos became more focused on conspiracies after he tapped into the right-wing audience and got millions of views. My sense of his integrity dissolved. I used to see a highly intelligent man rightly critiquing power structures… now I see a highly intelligent capitalist chasing dollars.

[@heartfullyhonest]

pure anitfa here; don't step on your own biases.

[@Rodrifuuu]

Yeah, maybe watch the video first? Not just this one but the ones he makes.

[@X862go]

You mean when he was on drugs? WTF are you even saying ?

[@heartfullyhonest]

@@X862go wtf you on about? It’s a very long time since he’s taken any drugs.

[@heartfullyhonest]

@@MattAngiono wise words. Coming from the really left myself I couldn’t agree more. I’ve always follows the principle of doing your best to understand your opponent instead of just judging them. That’s how I started to listen to people who I considered complete idiots due to manipulation we all were subjected to (the media). Typical example is Trump being edited to appear saying that drinking bleach prevents C19 complications. I watched the unedited version and immediately stopped my biases. After that I returned back to my old self which was not manipulated by the social media and mass hypnosis. And then 2020 came. That was just so plainly and painfully obvious that I didn’t require anything but downloading raw data from all official sources I could and analyzed it myself. A year later experts follows the same path and validated 99% of my conclusions. I was beyond terrified. Now I’m calm and confident again. But fully aware and awake.

[@thenobleandmightybeaver4411]

Jason Kenney is no longer the Premier of Alberta. He was removed from office last year by a vote of no confidence.

[@damiancampbell7534]

Yet the current Premier is even worse than Kenny. Way to go guys! I hate living in this province and knowing just how thoughtless my neighbors are.

[@husher5142]

@@damiancampbell7534 you deserve everything that is rolling out this year and next ... Your ignorance is astounding.

[@dennisalexander1397]

With respect as WEF becomes more prominent to what they are striving for, maybe Kenney was fairly accurate 🤔

[@bobo0202]

@@damiancampbell7534Then leave. All kinds of "better" province for you to go to

[@caseymckenzie4760]

To be fair I think it is safe to say that Brand and Lewis are coming from different perspectives when critiquing the "establishment". Brand assumes that power corrupts and the powerful should be critiqued vigorously with the assumption that they will abuse their power to manipulate media, science, institutions etc....and as they become more powerful they will tend toward totalitarian tactics to increase and hold on to their power. A very reasonable perspective with historical precedence to support it. Lewis apparently believes that powerful institutions should be mostly trusted and assumed to be uncorrupted agencies acting in good faith unless proven otherwise. The danger is paranoid individuals concocting wild unsubstantiated claims of corruption and conspiracy will lead to a malfunctioning society without well functioning institutions. Is that fair? Sort of a top down vs bottom up decline of civilization debate. Historically thinking, there is probably something to be said for both perspectives, however I don't think that the massive rise in conspiracy theories would be taking place in a civilization unless there was a whole lot of corruption rotting our institutions. In my humble opinion, Brand is absolutely right to point out lies and manipulations by the corporate establishment and connect dots using common sense and evidence even if the exact nature of the corruption is not known the fact that there is massive corruption is obvious. Pretending it does not exist or is not as bad as at looks only promotes more corruption and societal decay. Or maybe a totalitarian one world technocratic slave state is the utopia we are all secretly longing for. As far as I am concerned it looks like the most powerful governments, corporations, and military institutions around the world have been largely taken over by an elite criminal class of ultra wealthy gangsters who indeed want to rule the world with an iron fist. Just saying.... but that is just a theory.....or rather just my working hypothesis for now.

[@jimgaston9863]

I 100% agree with you 😊

[@jimgaston9863]

Steven crowder had 2 papers of complete jibberish per reviewed favourable resulting in offers to appear at conventions as an “EXPERT”. 😂😂😂😂. Proving the value of the per review validation as COMPLETELY USELESS 😢

[@youruler11]

It warms my heart to see so many waking up to the truth regarding those in positions of power and privilege. As you say the evidence is overwhelming, thanks to those brave whistleblowers, and if the truth be known we can no longer capitulate our collective right to live symbiotically as nature intended. Why we have allowed the powerfully connected to force their will upon the rest of us has always been my personal enquiry. Now that I finally think I understand why, I am eager to find like-minded, rational and intelligent people to discuss it with. In fact I have a viable solution I call the ROC (revolution of conscience) because that’s the catalyst, I believe, for creating a world the majority would like to live in. For me this video has proven to be synchronistic because your collective commits have reinvigorated my belief that the world is saying ‘enough is enough’. Thank you all for your comments, I appreciate them and this video too.

[@dumalucky]

Great comment by you..

[@FourteenWords-n4l]

Bang on comment. Fair play.

[@BlaaankOwl]

29:57 - The Austro-Hungarians' belief that the Serbian government was responsible for the Archduke's assassination was actually half-correct, though they didn't know that at the time. The assassins were supported by a clandestine faction within the Serbian military, known as "Unification or Death" or "the Black Hand", which sought to destabilise Austria-Hungary in furtherance of their goal of South Slavic unification under Serbia. The Austro-Hungarians, however, wound up pinning the blame on the civilian government of Serbia, rather than the Black Hand specifically. Mostly goes to show that even when conspiracy theories point in the right direction, they can still end up coming to disastrous conclusions.

[@gabikollau]

No, we blame GB

[@ssir5927]

The "civilian" government was placed into power by these same military intelligence officers when they hacked to death their pro-Austrian king and his wife a decade earlier... The Austrians were 100% correct, the REAL government of Serbia was absolutely responsible.

[@helenaquin1797]

Hmm.

[@str.77]

Well yes, but the correct analysis of that conspiracy did not itself lead to the war. Ther Serbian government actually accepted the Austrian ultimatum but, emboldened by German assurances, the war party in Austria pressed for war anyway. And even they didn't do so because of some conspiracy theory. but because everyone had was quite fid up with Serbian provocations for 11 years. Your "goes to show" is seriously wrongheaded. Ingoring actual conspiracies or denying them against the facts - as the video is doing - can be just as disastrous. In any case, the whole idea that World War I came about because of the Austrian-Serbian dispute is confusing the occasion for the war with the actual reasons, mostly the conflict between France and Germany.

[@nikolajignatiev6323]

@@str.77 What provocations, Serbs in Austria Hungary lived like a third rate citizens, so who was provoking who. Also, all of you seem unaware that Serbia was tired from hard won victory in Balkan wars, so it was in Serbian interest to avoid any conflict for foreseeable time. But Habsburgs just wanted to crush them when they were at their weakest. Of course, no one mentions that, I wonder why?

[@NinaGray-eq9on]

It wasn't the Telegraph who worked alongside Ch4 in reporting the allegations, it was The Times & The Sundsy Times - 2 different publications.

[@PostingCringeOnMain]

There was a Channel 4 'Dispatches' investigative journalism programme which is produced independently of Channel 4 (though regularly airs on C4), which Channel 4 still decided to air despite it being critical of Channel 4 and then C4 subsequently launched an investigation into it's self and sparked the BBC to do the same. The Times and The Sunday Times were also investigating historical claims against Brand and they are part of the same newspaper group - "The Sunday Times" being the Sunday edition of "The Times". In the UK "the Sunday papers" refers to a special 'Sunday Edition' of daily papers, such as The Daily Mail / Mail on Sunday, The Mirror/ The Sunday Mirror and The Guardian (week days) / The Observer (Sunday paper). The Sunday editions have seperate editorial teams and different and occasionally conflicting journalistic output (The Daily Mail supported Brexit, The Mail on Sunday opposed it!). They are usually much larger and contain far more photography, longer form investigative journalism and go deeper into stories that take longer to write and research and cover things the daily papers don't because daily publications tend to rely on throwaway articles that are sensational for a day and then end up as a nothingburger. The Sunday papers take time to go deeper into issues that, as they say in the business, 'have legs'. All major publications and broadcasters reported the allegations, but it was The Times and Sunday Times who did one investigation and Channel 4 Dispatches that did another which coincided and published together for maximum impact and likely to indemnify themselves against a highly litigious individual who has sued outlets in the past for trying to report on him. By two (*technically three) major insitutions "tag teaming" the allegations, he wouldn't be able to nix the story by threats of defamation, because the allegations will have been so thoroughly vetted and researched by so many different people that'd it'd be hard to get a judge and a legal team on side to take them all on at once. It's also exceedingly rare to see two politically opposed outlets (C4 being mostly left leaning and The Times being deeply Conservative) carrying the same story. It's also quite interesting that The Times Group is a subsidiary of NewsCorp (Murdoch Owned) and were still able to publish the story even as Fox were settling their defamation case brought by Dominion in the US. Their reporting must have been air-tight to get that past the editors.

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

One thing I'd add. Brand had an interview with Paxman *before* the viral one in 2013 that was less about politics and more about celebrity culture and fame (and the Andrew Sachs incident). For some reason this has been forgotten but it was this interview that set the stage for the viral 2013 one and convinced Newsnight editors he could do a 'serious' interview.

[@SorendeSelbyBowen]

@@MattAngiono If you think the world under the Tories + Republican is not different in so many substantial ways from the world under the Labour + Democrats, you're either not paying attention or stupid. Either way, I'm certainly fine with your not voting, and keeping your ignorance out of our governance.

[@michaelm.sinclair3205]

@@MattAngiono In America we believe in freedom, this freedom includes not to vote. Let people live their lives freely, what is the other option? Force ppl to vote? ha

[@dwc1964]

*The working class needs its own party.* The USA has never had one in power. We have been stuck with a capitalist duopoly since forever, the only difference being which _capitalist_ sectors & specific _capitalist_ interests & _capitalist_ ideologies are represented by each, and what kind of deal the working class can make with them. We continue to be in need of a brand-new party that can challenge both parties of the existing duopoly and either supplant one of them or force them to consolidate. There's a way to do that, but unfortunately, the only socialist organization involved in electoral politics on the national level with the capacity to do it, continues to bury its electoral activities inside the Democratic Party. There's a socialist party on the ballot in California since 1968 that is _shaped like_ a mass workers' party, but lacks only the mass workers. It has been apparent to me for a long time that the socialist org doing its thing inside the Democratic Party, and our party, are each other's missing piece; if only we could convince the former to move over to the latter, we'd be able to really shake things up. The UK has had one, and at least nominally still does - and around 2015-2017, it looked like it was getting real again. Since Starmer has effectively purged the left and made Labour a neoliberal party perhaps even more so than under Blair, those hopes appear to have been dashed. However, this has also created an opportunity: from what I understand, _all_ of the left MPs that have been stripped of the Labour whip remain immensely popular among their constituents, and could handily win re-election under a new banner and on a platform resembling the Labour manifestoes of 2015 and 2017, the basis on which they were elected in the first place. Likewise with a huge number of local councilors. And Israel's current attempt at a final solution to the Palestinian problem has created a huge rift between mass public opinion both within Labour and the electorate generally against Starmer & co's response, and vindicated the left precisely at the point where they were attacked and smeared in order to unseat them and place Starmer & crew in their place. *The iron is hot - **_strike NOW!_* The UK _cannot_ afford to allow itself to become like the USA - governed by a neoliberal duopoly.

[@dwc1964]

@@MattAngiono the only form of political activity less effective than voting, is not voting. At the same time, voting for the "lesser evil" and not voting at all are two sides of the same fundamental error: ceding the territory to the enemy. *The working class needs its own party.* And where attempts are being made to build one, those attempts require support. Don't throw away your vote - vote "third party".

[@FreshLyte]

@@SorendeSelbyBowen it's not about thinking it's the same under both it just factually is the same. Voting does nothing. But you go ahead and save the world with your little vote. By the way this snobby attitude is exactly why people are turned off by voting and politics in general.

[@stefonrogers5980]

Name a major corporation that hasn’t infringed on monopoly laws

[@cowflieswest3046]

You 'go first' and that will provide support for your claim.

[@Unlucky-Dube]

@@cowflieswest3046 You stop deep throating boots and maybe someone would give you respect enough to discuss anything with you.

[@shawnwales696]

​@cowflieswest3046 The comment makes the point, you'd be hard pressed to find a corporation that could legitimately claim not to have violated anti monopoly laws.

[@0mfgeeze]

Exactly.

[@johnyeta]

The one making the accusation has the burden to provide the proof and the examples

[@arnaudgerard1971]

I'm either completely wrong; but the great reset (at the WEF) as word existed (long?) before Covid19.

[@postmodernityarmageddon]

No it just entered your mainstream then because that's when you started paying attention to it among others. People were talking about it well before covid.@@MattAngiono

[@postmodernityarmageddon]

I misunderstood your "probably" with respect to the above comment. So I thought you were saying, 'probably you are completely wrong.'@@MattAngiono

[@JelqtronZero]

the new world order is something Bush Senior talked about in the late 80's early 90's.

[@gregorteply9034]

Rich and powerful want to be richer and more powerful since the beggining of time.

[@M1ggins]

@@gregorteply9034 Exactly, nothing much has changed in the 6,000 years since the rise of Sumer.

[@aaron2709]

Great. Very thorough, as usual. One part of Brand's 'agenda' you only touched on gently is Russell's 'financial incentive.' I don't think he started his on-line presence this way but he became a grifter. He started pushing conspiracy videos hard because the views + money went way up. Eventually, he got high on his own supply, started drinking his own snake oil, believing his own propaganda. The more he acted like Alex Jones, the more affirming views & money he received and, conveniently, any criticism simply justified the conspiracy thinking. It became a causal loop.

[@dennisalexander1397]

Yeah hes just an unintelligent fake down to his last $20 million living a lie … have a look at the issues a bit deeper and you may understand he has some integrity imo

[@mrtambourineman6107]

Russell Brand - number 1 right-wing grifter and Trump fanboy in 2024!! Who'd of thunk it ey! Something big has really broken his brain 🧠

[@jenhasken]

That is so sad though. I believed in him once. I thought he was a good guy and a truth seeker. But I do believe you are right.

[@leslieprigmore2854]

I I didn’t know that Russell Brown had fallen. Is he all right?

[@dcivicik]

If a conspiracy is successful there is no way to tell what the origin of it was. The modern capitalist system we live in today has its foundations in many “conspiracies” where the owners of the capital were simply selfish, opportunistic men, seeking the maximal outcome for their endeavors with a blatant disregard for anything else including but not limited to public health, social dynamics, fair distribution of resources etc. People will always continue to conspire around even the smallest spheres of power, trying to milk it to their advantages and as long as this is the case, conspiracies will never cease to exist. I believe the outrageous conspiracies like the flat earthers and stuff are psyops to scare, discredit and turn people away from research to avoid being called “conspiracists”.

[@Rem_NL]

exactly, you don't need a plan or a conspiracy, all you need is people in power to be in the same room planning on how to get richer more powerful. George Carlins words still ring true to this very day. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKrZqadnqNurqdE

[@nataliashevchenko9684]

Exactly. The most surprising part how people who fancy themselves "left" at the same time believe what the media and the officials, controlled by the capital, say. "Oh, no, they would not do such a thing!" Why? They would do anything to keep and increase their power and wealth. And they do not think that lives of most people have much value. They proved it through thousands of years of human history. When did they change? Now they have to hide it better, as people have more porsibility to cooperate in masses. But their intentions and atitude towards us have not changed. We do not belive that we should obey somebody due to their blood (like king, nobility), so they figured out other ways to force us to obey, and keep most of the wealth and power to themselves.

[@althepsyphros3314]

So you're kind of saying that many things people see as conspiracy plots to kill everyone, are usually just corruption plain and bog standard corruption to make money? I agree mostly,. bujt I do think there are other agendas at play. That do enter the realm of a conspiracy and a grand plot.

[@bensullivan5398]

I think the world is shaped like a giant penis this why we are all getting fu

[@thealmightyaku-4153]

And you've just revealed that anti-capitalist/socialist thinking is literally a conspiracy theory at base. No, capitalism does not have its foundations in some nebulous conspiracies. It has its foundations in people buying and selling shit - and sometimes being really good at that.

[@janewaysmom]

Honestly what's so good about this video is also what's so frustrating about it - Russell Brand's minimally sourced points of view are something I can see pretty much anyone around me accidentally doing as well. I like to imagine he meant well by starting his channel and really intended to help people, but was just lazy with his research and his planning, and as a result has gone to a bad direction, and I could imagine anyone sitting near me in a restaurant or on a bus just doing that exact same thing by accident. (I can't imagine just anyone on a bus doing some of the things he's accused of, and wrote about in his book, but that's separate from this). I live in an area where I think most of the adults haven't gone to post secondary, and I hear a lot of conspiracies. It's frustrating to me that media figures like Brand and like the talking heads on Fox take advantage of that, and allow people to get more poorly researched info from them, so these people who may not know to keep researching, or who may not be able to do so (because of time constraints), still wind up not knowing the whole story. They make people continue to not be able to make up their own mind with all the info, which is clearly what these people want more than anything. It's a betrayal of the core desire of their audience.

[@thraxgagan1845]

Noooooooo. He’s encouraging research and for people NOT to receive all of their information and opinions from media and accept it as their own. Listen to all sides of the story, even the silenced/least accepted ones. But we’re brainwashed into thinking there’s some “correct” way to think. Everyone feels righteous but we’re all just judgmental.

[@AgeofCraccadilliaassent]

Cia

[@mrtambourineman6107]

Useful idiots to the likes of Putin

[@MercurialStatic]

Lol do you get paid for this? All you’re doing is trying to paint a narrative for people who are ignorant.

[@janewaysmom]

@@MercurialStatic no, tbh I just have complicated feelings about conspiracy theorists because I had a coworker who I cared about who died from his belief in conspiracies (he had a treatable illness and we're Canadian, but he opted not to get it treated by doctors). I also live in an area where it seems like these things catch hold really well, and I used to work with a lot of people who were unhoused, and they almost 100% seem to believe conspiracies across the board. It's hard to blame them when they don't have safe places to go at the end of the day, and it makes me pity them a lot.

[@RappeGAMING]

Turned off the video when I heard “ claims main stream media are censuring information, when in fact the opposite is true”

[@valerieangell7588]

Such a well thought out and measured video.I use to love Russel Brand,he was smart and funny and sexy…couldn’t get enough of him.But down the road he became increasingly shrill and paranoid in his ranting and I began to feel manipulated in a very unsexy way,and more than a little irritated by his new “persona”.Coming across like the consummate insider,while never providing that most essential bit of information,evidence.Finally I just gave up on him,he had ceased to interest me any longer.Thanks for your detailed explanation of this kind of behavior…I hadn’t bothered to actually sit down and think it through.I lost my admiration for him when he began to remind me of Tucker Carlson.

[@PopyCorn-f3i]

I don't know what's bad about somebody spreading awareness of the World Ec-ono-m-ic Forum agenda. That outweighs the negatives for me

[@RadiantSkin]

@@PopyCorn-f3i You didn't watch this video, did you? It's an hour and 18 minutes meticulously explaining what is wrong about Brand's spreading awareness of the World Economic Forum's agenda.

[@jenhasken]

Same. And now, late October 2024, he is a Christian and apparently a Trump supporter. I had lost track of him, and it’s all a bit shocking. Would have preferred your experience!

[@tonraqkorr230]

As someone who likes to question everything i like the video, even though i do not agree 100%, i do agree on a general point of not beliving anything blindly. Stay free

[@hsk2909]

Especially not everything that the msm keeps spinning on a daily basis. Agreeing with some of the things Russell says doesn't make me a "Russellist". I'm way older than him and 2 decades ahead in time of him in analyzing this human reality. Stay free.

[@justsomenobody889]

yes, I think it's as important to question the ulterior motives behind the actions of the most powerful entities controlling our lives (particularly considering they've been caught lying over and over) as it is to question the veracity of these theories about what's really happening. I strongly suspect that the most dreadful conspiracies and corruption are those that we have no way of knowing about because the details are too deeply hidden from public view

[@HeathenGeek]

What 'fall'? The guy gets more views on one vid than Newsnight gets in a week of programs!

[@StormCrownSr]

In terms of his morals, his ethics, his dignity. Take your pick.

[@TheMadmacs]

@@StormCrownSr his morals are we should be excellent to one and other, his ethics are, he should try to be fair to everybodys point of view to bring them to the table, and his dignity? you remember when he was a bit of an a-hole?

[@youngsalmon5188]

Yes I click on Russell’s vids I usually last about 2 minutes until I realise it’s his usual BS get board and view something else. I can usually make it through Newsnight. Measuring views is not a good measure of relevance😂 If I want news I don’t go to a comic!

[@TheMadmacs]

@@youngsalmon5188 yes i dont always agree with russell and i've critqued the style a few time, but if you can get through newsnight.... i kinda feel a bit sorry for you, i dont mean that as an insult please dont take it that way, its just that the msm is not on our side. it is not journalism. the fact that some people still think it is? is disheartening. and i while i agree views arent really a measure of relevance or accuracy etc etc, the lack of views are a measure. the msm died about 30 years ago, maybe more. maybe the 80s when msm took orders from thatchers government to lie about the number of miners going back to work at each mine in the country, i knew it was lies then, and it was exposed as lies quite a while ago. so, ok watch newsnight, but if its a genuine topic i guarantee it is spun for the government, and quite often the assumption it hands you (the soft sell) are the most dangerous. these guys are the goodies and these are the baddies of course, but what can we do?... as if theres no solution to a problem that is very clearly solvable, using morals logic ethic or laws. we sanction russia for ukraine and cripple the uk population with energy prices, and yet an even bigger crime is going on and we supply the goodies with supplies to enable it? we won. we wrote history. history defines the characters. and we grow up with a narrative so far away from reality its not funny. thats why we need a comedian. russell does really well at debunking the false narrative. and jon stewart was a vital voice of sanity for so long. peace is out there, but only one side has no use for peace.

[@kirielbranson4843]

@@TheMadmacsbut bringing everyone's views to the table is not a balanced view when one side is 10 out of a million. That side has no merit. Constantly questioning things based on views of not only a minority but such a small minority distorts things and makes it look like the issue is still open. I am not saying that whistleblowers haven't come forward and shown that the majority is unaware of all the facts but once a point has been made and then shown to be false it should be dropped.

[@theseanwardshow]

Without voicing support for any specific conspiracy theory, I don't get why it's so easy for people to dismiss out of hand the idea that the smartest, shrewdest, most well-funded people in the world might use a global crisis to advance their own agendas. People say billionaires shouldn't exist, but then call someone a conspiracy theorist for offering an idea about why they shouldnt exist.

[@Theperezful]

The world is chaotic; so chaotic that our instinct to put an order on it, make sense of it, will ever be present, and it's even necessary for our survival; but simplistic ways of dealing with that chaos are never right, and we should be on guard with all the wisdom of skepticism, science and philosophy. Socrates "I only know that I know nothing" is always resonating.

[@loganlowe3731]

The world is seemingly chaotic; that doesn't mean there aren't intelligible laws in constant interaction underneath the appearances.

[@Theperezful]

@@loganlowe3731 I'd agree that, for example, science is a very good, systematic, way of finding the best patterns that explain our experience of the world. But it seems to me that the true nature of "the world as such", or reality, is still a matter of philosophical rather than a scientific debate, and in any case is not settled anywhere. I tend to think that those "intelligible laws" are a very precise kinds of ordering our experience of "the world", but more a part of human nature than that of "the world". To me science also suggests this when these "laws" also don't make sense at all in extreme scenarios (like black holes or in the quantum world), or for other forms of human experience. So, ultimately, science is just a very precise language for describing the world, but still a human language, and so I we can't know for sure whether in it's fundamental nature the world is chaotic (random) or well ordered by laws (deterministic). Phrased more simply, I tend to think like Schopenhauer, that we cannot really know the "thing-in-itself" so we don't know if that is lawbound; but maybe I'm wrong to asume that therefore the world as "the-thing-in-itself", the Will in Schopenhauer's terms, is chaotic, although I do think it is.

[@loganlowe3731]

@@Theperezful Yeah, it's fundamentally a subjective/objective-Idealism vs. Materialism debate. I'm firmly in the materialist camp and believe science to have revolutionary capacities. Have you read 'Feuerbach and The End of Classical German Philosophy' by Engels? It's relatively short, and lays out Engels/Marx's dialectical-materialist approach to history, along with competing philosophical viewpoints to it. I'd be curious to hear what your thoughts are about it.

[@Workingclassheros]

i second this

[@bigfoot8103]

How do you know that you know nothing? Wouldn't you need to know something about nothing? 😮

[@nunyabizznez2805]

The difference between established facts and conspiracy theories is about 3 weeks nowadays.

[@mrtambourineman6107]

Yeah, and all the people sitting at home on the Internet, found out ALL the scientists are wrong. Crazy, as most of them failed basic science at high school level.

[@handyman2233]

I know man and those conspiracy theorists who say it was a lab leak.

[@user-br2gi8kh5s]

Not at all. Keep coping, you idiotic conspiracy theorist.

[@thebetazone-km6xh]

so how do you feel about the late george carlin?

[@erinrenman1479]

There's a big difference between the kind of intelligent, thoughtful commentary that Carlin engaged in, and being a conspiracy-addled goofass like Brand. One of these people thought critically, the other fails to think.

[@general5503]

carlin was the greatest. Brand is not

[@willywonka7812]

That's offensive to Carlin's memory that you even mention Russell Brand in the same breath

[@lordcommandernox9197]

Carlin never adopted any conclusion based on speculation, but he did ask all the open ended questions. Governments lie to us, that does not mean they are run by reptile people.

[@thebetazone-km6xh]

as in "never ascribe to evil that which can be explained by stupidity"@@lordcommandernox9197

[@averageatom]

This is a bizarre promotion of the WEF disguised as a takedown of Brand. I don’t even like brand and agree with much of this. But to claim the great reset is brands idea is just disingenuous. You know that’s not true.

[@pho-King]

ikr..it appears this guy is bought

[@vivica8207]

Ya, I was considering subscribing, but if anyone things that the WEF is here to to help us, they must be insane. Not to mention, the WEF has been around wayyyyy before the lockdowns.

[@kokunaijin]

A friend of mine knew him at school. Apparently a bit of a dumb-dumb and habitual liar. He used to come up with fantastic lies to make himself interesting. I'd be suspicious that he just got better at that.....

[@kokunaijin]

@@MattAngiono I see it as at least an indicator. You'd be a fool to ignore it. It does add up when you think about the way he speaks and what he speaks about though, doesn't it? However, I suspect I'm only upsetting you further. Sorry.

[@BD-me4nk]

That friend? I know that friend you are talking about and they're an idiot with zero credibility.

[@beltcro]

Just a suggestion for accuracy, I think you should remame the title to 'The Rise of Rusell Brand'... It's where i get my daily news from.

[@mattkaz9604]

You would be well served not to make Brand your primary news source.

[@beltcro]

@mattkaz9604 He saved me from injecting myself with untested, experimental, corporate lead stupidity.... one nil to rusell so far.

[@leijten]

God help us all . . .

[@beltcro]

Well he did help prevent me from injecting my self with expensive defence state concieved, corporate backed, government captured, very dangerous experimental stupidity

[@mrtambourineman6107]

Bro, it's a rise of Brand only in terms of KZbin viewing figures because he now gives out easy answers where YOU are smarter than all those pesky doctors and scientists. Of course you are taken in by it. That's the point 👉

[@mikecavallaro466]

The video raises an important question: Is Then and Now funded by pharmaceutical corporations?

[@williammongoose3007]

why?

[@slackdee]

@@williammongoose3007 Because the guy who made it is a convid mug or promoter. 🤣

[@subs4794]

Cope. Brand lost his way again, not from drugs this time, but by throwing spaghetti at the 4th wall and following the right-wing hate-media money more often than not.

[@lwo7736]

Probably not

[@marvin2678]

Hmmm😂

[@Unqualifiedtake]

I think it is a bad idea to assume farmer are family owned, small operations. Many of them are huge corporate operations, which keep the small family farm picture in our mind

[@VonFels]

And also foreign ownership by government owned companies. Mass amounts of Canadian farm lands and energy and other industries in Canada are owned by private corporations and governments from outside countries.

[@ivx8345]

Aah yes, first force the family owned operations to become a business with an unending forest of rules and regulations. Then they are businesses, and they are bad.

[@thekeysman6760]

Pharma*

[@KO-bg9je]

The fall ? Tf are you talking about. He'd bigger now than ever before !

[@TheKingmagger]

He used to be funny tho

[@pauldhaasbroek]

The term "conspiracy theory" has no meaning anymore. Even alex jones is now widely respectfully regarded as a simple conspiracy reporter.

[@croozerdog]

as someone from the redneck farmer part of the netherlands, i haaaate when channels like that discuss the protests. they have no idea what it's about, which prolly means that his believable stuff is just stuff i know nothing about

[@tarqinquentinsson-obviousl957]

I can't remember what it's called, but there's a noted phenomenon whereby one will (for example) read through a newspaper reading every article with keen interest, until they get to an article about a topic they know a lot about. At which point they'll pick apart every last little thing that is wrong in the article. Then they'll turn the page and continue reading and taking most of what is printed at face value.

[@beenright5115]

Could you summarize briefly what they were really about? Or at least drop a link? It would be helpful.

[@Jay32954]

I often feel its a shame that conspiracy theorists channel their quite healthy scepticism into such bizarre, dangerous and wrong ideas, and turn healthy scepticism into unhealthy paranoia.

[@Karnickel93]

I read somewhere that it's more likely for septics to fall into conspiracies statistically. One of the proposed reasons is the "missing stopping point". As soon as you find a mystery and are inquisitive, you want to know more. At a certain point, you're falling victim of "there has to be more" instead of stopping and trying to analyse your hypothesis. Edit: From my own experiences, as soon as somebody is "in too deep" in their own beliefs, they're too invested to accept reality and will just float along with the narrative. E.g. ignoring evidence or finding possiblities to discredit counterpoints. Do not ask me for sources, I cannot find that study. Assume "Trust me bro" if in doubt.

[@Andyboy992]

Don't worry. The conspiracy theories are safe and effective

[@nakedguru6342]

you're abput to see the fall of your beloved culture.. i apologise in advance.. its pretty dark

[@AndreRMeyer]

@@Andyboy992 💐🥇🏆 Greetings from the wintry climes of Basle, Switzerland - home to the Bank For International Settlements, the mother hub of all central banks von God's green Earth. Why was the Bank for International Settlements created? The establishment of the BIS The BIS was established in the context of the Young Plan (1930), which dealt with the issue of the reparation payments imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War.

[@adam7802]

@@Andyboy992 🤣🤣

[@carolgrace6573]

Was Brand proven’ guilty’ for that sexual assault charge ???? I’ve heard nothing about it for months.

[@whatwhatyep]

It was never a charge either. An allegation is all it was. My abusive ex is constantly allegating about me and none of it is true hence the word.

[@thoughtlesskills]

Not hard to believe given his history and 'comedy'

[@ThisandThat___]

I have no care for RB so don't take this as a defence of him. But I will say your comment goes both ways. Not hard to believe? No conviction or case has been brought. That considered, isn't it then fair to say that it's not hard to believe you skipped school and your parents failed you given the level of intelligence on display? @@thoughtlesskills

[@emergentform1188]

The fact that the powers that be tried to discredit him with that is more evidence of his correctness and legitimacy .

[@ImAnOcean]

@@emergentform1188 or the fact that nothing has come of it means rb is actually part of the deep state...

[@TheJodyShowdy]

Quoting Michael Shermer right after Brand's sexual assault seems like an oversight, considering Shermer's own credible accusations against him.

[@deadbeef576]

How can you make a video about the fall of him, when his sub numbers are steadily increasing? And he puts all his sources in his video.

[@BD-me4nk]

Because morons believe the more times and more ways you tell a lie the more it will somehow become true.

[@hillehai]

It's just more mud slinging from the side that has never been able to win through rational debate. It'll never end, trust me.

[@Marqan]

Don't think the "fall" is about the number of his fanatics, more about his fall as a decent human being. As far as I know Tucker Carlson for example is still popular, but clearly morally bankrupt (assuming he's smart enough to know that a lot of what he says and implies is not true). I personally don't think Tucker and Russel (among many others) are stupid or uninformed enough to believe everything they say, but sadly they make a living on the expense of "ordinary people" that they claim to serve.

[@deadbeef576]

@@Marqan Give me some examples on how Brand is not a decent human being anymore.

[@hillehai]

@@Marqan When you think all the people critical of the system must be morally bankrupt and no longer decent human beings you know you've completely lost the plot. Good luck in life.

[@Anne_Onymous]

Bro didn't fall, he woke up

[@jonemery8324]

He is excellent, especially judging by his detractors. Not everyone has a moral position more a virtual one and that includes yourself ,lol. Is he corporate, like yourself ? "There's no conspiracy in Government" Flat on your face ...

[@Maviel85]

I hear you, but when you said "If that doesn't make you angry, it should" I instinctively pulled back. Trying to appeal or affect emotions is manipulation, not presenting facts.

[@onesong2001]

@@MattAngiono In his defence, George Soros never told him he must use facts when he paid for this video.

[@TheMadmacs]

@@onesong2001 the whole feel of the vid and strangely the comments too is soporiphic, very odd.

[@mattkaz9604]

It's a simple rhetorical device, what an arbitrary thing for you to point out as the main flaw in this piece. Anyway, if you are against appeals to emotion or manipulation tactics, you probably need to apply that yardstick to Brand..

[@UncleRosie]

I love Russell Brand more and more every day.

[@Wings_of_foam]

Says a lout about your person.

[@Podcastforthewin]

​@@Wings_of_foamthis comment says more about you than his does

[@alimccheyne1320]

Wow, that's one way to cherry-pick information to suit your own narrative (which is essentially a hit piece)

[@gfbcholo]

Can’t cancel russel brand

[@KeepitABuck50]

Nah, he hasn't fallen. He's been TARGETED.

[@KodakKid]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MyIncarnation]

here has Russel Brand Fallen. Should be called the Rise of Russel brand.

[@patrickcole3850]

How about The Rape of Russell Brand.

[@michielvandersijs6257]

The dumb thing about the farmer protests is that farmers get framed as the innocent little people. They are in fact part of a multi billion euro industry with an extremely powerful lobby in the EU and get tons of subsidies. The average farmer runs a multi million euro business (though yes, most of that is locked up in assets). And the corporations sponsoring the protests are again multi billion dollar companies that sell food for livestock. This is not a protest by a bunch of poor farmers, this is a protest by big business owners who feel their business model is being endangered. On top of that, the nitrogen regulations don't even apply to all farmers the same way. Its livestock farming that causes the most nitrogen pollution. You know, the guys that are factory farming cows, pigs and chickens. Crop farming doesn't cause nearly as much nitrogen pollution and as a result most crop farmers would hardly be affected by these regulations. Finally, its important to realize that the reason the government went after farmers first is because the agricultural sector is responsible for 60% of the nitrogen pollution. Its again not the big evil government going after the little guy, but the government going after the biggest polluters. Yes, the government messed up because they knew about these rules for decades but kept pushing enforcement off into the future. And yes, the bank screwed the farmers over because they demanded farmers focused on growth even though they knew there was no more room for growth. But farmers are not the innocent victims getting screwed over by the mighty elites. They knew this was coming too and they didn't prepare either.

[@Drakoviche]

A better title would be The Unpersoning of Russell Brand, Russell Brand is still going strong bro.

[@cluelessbeats]

I'm sure he has plenty of fans, there's a lot of conspiracy nuts out there.

[@rossmudie9298]

He has played so many people and has shown his true colours, a narcissistic grifter.

[@leafmebee]

You will own nothing and be happy is such a scary quote.

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

That's why he said it, to get clicks by scaring people.

[@rgemail]

empty scares like this are all the right wing has in this country. They're all shadowboxing in the center of a brightly lit room, tears streaming down their face in fear, hand on their concealed carry - and we all look on in pity. What a sad life to be indoctrinated into.

[@raymonddunne7153]

I lost my job and had to move out of my home state because I claimed the right to informed consent regarding the injection of a substance into my bloodstream that had no animal studies or long term data-no credible risk benefit analysis. I know people that I know we're harmed by the vaccine based upon the timing of the injection, their health status and history. I have to go with that criteria because the government mandated a substance that it had not developed a medical criteria for determining adverse events. It irresponsibly acted like it's not possible. I witnessed the shut downs of small business in my neighborhood as a part of the largest wealth transfer in the history(see the book "the war on small business") Many credible experts believe this all started with a virus engineered in a lab with tax payer money (see the book "viral") Effective treatments for the disease caused by this virus were withheld from the public. The US government and media lied about fda approval on the vaccines in circulation and the Canadian government falsified data to take rights from it's citizens (see the book Frismans Faud). Are you kidding me? This video is slick talking nonsense. Brand is often over the top and his views are evolving but he'll tell you the truth and he won't do apologetics for the corporate elite who are nothing but a bunch of slick talking lying criminals!

[@mattkaz9604]

So, you lost your job and had to relocate as you uncritically devoured populist talking points. Gotcha.

[@raymonddunne7153]

@@mattkaz9604 populist talking points. You mean the things that matter to everyday people. What booster shot are you on Mr. critical thinker? You in the double digits yet?

[@mattkaz9604]

@@raymonddunne7153 Look who doesn't even know what 'populist' means. Also - nice work accusing me of not being a critical thinker then following it with the bog-standard conspiritard line about booster numbers. Well done.

[@raymonddunne7153]

@@mattkaz9604 I know what populist means. Anybody using the term the 'conspiracy theory' the way you just did is either ignorant about how media narrative is generated or willfully ignoring the reality of that for some reason other than truth. I care about truth. If you want to call me a name for it go ahead.

[@mattkaz9604]

@@raymonddunne7153 My undergraduate degree was in media analysis, if you want to flesh out the (deeply suspect) argument that anyone who doesn't believe in your conspiracy theories is ignorant of how media functions please be my guest.

[@kjdtm]

I don't know who you guys (youtubers) keep finding those awesome matching images (illustrations) to your stories... this video is like a BBC documentary...

[@artboy57]

You can buy or rent video clips and illustrations/graphics from stock services. Just search "Stock photos and video"

[@str.77]

Is "like a BBC documentary" a praise or a criticism?

[@kjdtm]

@@str.77 lol. was intended to be a praise.. would have better if i wrote "fancy good documentaries" "BBC" was the less brain energy usage output...

[@str.77]

@@kjdtm One never knows these days... well if you like manipulative illustrations, to each their own.

[@ModernSocialist]

High praise indeed, since the BBC makes the best documentaries in the world. Apart from that David Attenborough. It is an objective fact that penguins don't exist and are the form the Illugminauti take when they appear on the BBC to give us their commands.

[@ianmcleod44]

Brand has never been more popular, and thank God for that.

[@monharris28]

lol you believe everything he says don't you? one of his followers

[@roljavi]

@@monharris28 List me 5 sources of information you think people can trust? Just 5.

[@AnaLucia-wy2ii]

@@monharris28What has he said that you don’t believe? Can you be specific and provide links?

[@mirandashuwera3389]

I would enjoy it if this channel could do a breakdown of the Project Mockingbird issue that is still affecting media today. 🤔

[@onesong2001]

lol.

[@dressleradam]

Including the repeal of the Smith-Mundt Act which removed any and all restrictions of the US govt propagandizing the citizenry

[@SaintD382]

Do you mean _Operation_ Mockingbird?

[@onesong2001]

@@SaintD382 You know the answer to your question.

[@2JZwithabigsingle]

@@SaintD382 everyone loves a pedantic know it all

[@alvaroLguevara]

Huh? Millions now love Brand! And 1% media has shut him out.... how much like proof do you need ?

[@anarchistfuture]

That's true that's pretty true.

[@Heidenspross]

where there is smoke, there is fire

[@sunshine9993]

I stoped fallowing him because he has gone bananas. Had good points in the past but now he is extreme.

[@alvaroLguevara]

@sunshine9993 - Extreme is U.S. decimating Ukraine, in unwinnable war, to simply "weaken" Russia . Extreme is US homelessness at all-time highs. Extreme is Democrats acting/voting like Republicans, and YOU still support them

[@teamcosmicseeds]

​@@sunshine9993how do you fallow someone? 😂

[@Aceface101]

you don't get to tell this story

[@Athena-vs4cv]

Great video. The thing with Brand is that he told on himself long ago in his autobiography "My Booky Wook". In the book, he set out the reasons why he is deeply insecure and addicted to attention and this underlies his need to perform in any way possible in order to seek the validation he needs. Right now, he knows his needs are best met by the conspiracy theorists so he's playing them like a flute. Does he actually believe the conspiracy theories? It's unclear but in a way irrelevant - whether he believes them or not, he knows the power he's wielding by peddling his sort of content and the potential harm it could cause. Case in point: when he pre-empted the Channel 4 documentary by releasing his video insinuating that it was an effort on the part of mainstream media to silence him because he speaks the truth. In doing this, he knowingly weaponised his huge following against the women accusing him of r*pe and SA before they had even had their stories broadcast, priming his audience to discredit them and perhaps even track down and harass them. It's appalling. On the topic of the "Great Reset" etc, these conspiracy theories of a grand, secret elite are usually rooted in antisemitism. Ask conspiracy theorists who "they" are and it often results in the old prejudices and stereotypes. Other conspiracy theories such as adrenochrome in Hollywood track back to the ancient antisemitic "blood libel". Brand must surely be aware of the devastation caused by his type of rhetoric but he simply doesn't care as long as the ad revenue and tour ticket sales keep coming in, as well as the profits from the expensive cult-like festival he's created featuring him as the keynote speaker... He's clearly made a conscious decision to act the way he does, because only a few years ago his "The Trews" YT videos were entertaining, progressive explorations of socially-relevant issues such as men's mental health and equality. Now he's spiralled into a whirling tornado of rage and ire unable to apply objective reasoning or deal with difficult times. It's comparable to an angry mob in the 1700s burning the village "witch" because their crops failed. Anyway, I'll now go and watch your other videos - I'm so glad to have discovered your excellent channel!

[@_Pauper_]

Yeah, Russ is now addicted to himself. I loved him when he was a train wreck because I was too. Found inspiration when he stopped his chemical abuse. But I’m not following him here. Bruv needs a good looking into without him glamorizing his own introspection. Reminds me of borderline personality disorder tho I’m very not well read in that subject.

[@everything777]

Nailed it. He's become insufferable

[@jenhasken]

It’s so sad though. I thought he was a good person.

[@jenhasken]

He just attended Trump’s hate rally in NYC, filled with racism, xenophobia, blatant lies and attacks, all the usual Trump,fare amped up unapologetically. The Russell Brand I used to love would have gone home and taken a long hot shower to get the dirt and horror off of him.

[@freeradt]

My loved one died 2 weeks after the 2nd Pfizer shot. How would you feel?

[@denofpigs2575]

Never happened according to these people. Just sweep the information under the rug. Your pain is inconvenience to them and nothing more. They'll tell you to your face "Sorry for your loss" and then turn right back around and scream for more forced injections. For the greater good, they say.

[@freeradt]

@@denofpigs2575 Yep, you’re absolutely 💯 right.

[@denofpigs2575]

@@freeradt I wish I weren't. Every day I pray that I'm wrong and I'm just crazy. It'd be preferable.

[@truenorth1355]

That’s terrible, what did your loved one die from?

[@freeradt]

@@truenorth1355 The 2nd Pfizer vaccine shot

[@speedy_o0538]

I really like your documentaries, and I'm not even a fan of Russell Brand, but I think you're grasping at straws a bit here. I personally have "connected the dots" on a lot of things prior to even hearing what Brand had said. I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any means, I work in STEM and believe in the rigours of empirical research. However, our brains are very good at connecting the dots given both context and probability. For example, if you heard a "bang!" in the room next door, you walk into the room and someone is holding a smoking gun and standing over a body, your brain can very easily connect the dots despite not actually having witnessed the event with your own eyes or gathering any empirical data. Speculation is healthy, and I would argue, as a third party that again isn't even a fan of Brand: The likelihood of him being character assassinated due to his outspoken criticism of mainstream media is VERY HIGH. There's motive, and that can be seen given the context! Even if none of what he says is true and complete conspiracy, there is STILL motive to character assassinate and deplatform the guy as he has amassed a large following and constantly accuses mainstream media of dishonesty. A good example connecting the dots would be Epstein's "soo-iiside " (misspelled intentionally). The camera's were off, the seciurity gaurds weren't present, and he had no soo-iisidal tendencies. Is it a conspiracy theory to "connect the dots" even though there were probably 50 or so powerful people who had a EXTREMELY strong motive not to be associated with him? If so, call me a conspiracy theorist idc.

[@steves1015]

As someone who is working in STEM you should also be painfully aware that people are not good at assessing probability and risk. Your gun analogy works only because everything you mention is immediately obvious and falls on the high end of the probability scale. The ideas presented in this video fall on the opposite end - a more fitting analogy would be that out of the billions of people on the planet, living in different places, there will, by chance, be a location where quite a few people get the same type of cancer at about the same time. In that scenario, we cannot innately understand the effect of chance, and think there must be a definitive cause, even when probability tells us that given enough opportunities then it can happen purely by chance. Having said that, I am not sure if the accusations against Brand are real or not, but I always find it a little strange how these type of accusations come out so long after the event (when proof is much harder to come by) and it highly likely that the media are capitalising on the damage it is doing to his reputation. However, is the timing deliberate or chance? He has been talking about his conspiracies for a while, so why does the allegations coming now suggest it is a deliberate attack? Or were the investigations begun when he started to become a "problem" and they have only managed to unearth the allegations recently? Difficult to know either way.

[@TerenceKearns]

The term "conspiracy theorist" is fine. People who think its a slur are spoon fed their world view from corporate mass media. Its okay to speculate on corruption. That's all the term really means. I agree that it's healthy to have that.

[@Johnconno]

Brand has all the worst characteristics of a dry drunk/addict. He's stark staring sober.

[@chaotic_doom3281]

“The fall of Russell Brand” yet he’s killing it on KZbin rn.😂😂😂you can’t make this shit

[@Wings_of_foam]

Yeah, ordinary flock animals like you love him. Btw, ever thought about going to emoji rehab? Those smileys doesnt make you look too clever.

[@repkar5828]

I think the title suggests, the fall of Russell Brand's mind.

[@Ddddonnn]

What fall?

[@teamcosmicseeds]

Exactly...click bait...Russell is doing fine waking up 🐑 sheep

[@Sanemanis21]

I think he meant rise.

[@wiplatvia6818]

he's an anti vaccer bro there's nowhere further to fall 💀

[@HazeOfWhearyWater]

KZbin demonetization, basically.

[@HazeOfWhearyWater]

@@wiplatvia6818 Is he against all vaccinations or just one in particular?

[@dinbits9763]

Meanwhile, Brand has nearly 7 million subscribers and over 130 million views on his videos in the last 6 months alone. That's a pretty nice fall.

[@accesscrimea]

Completely missing the point...

[@03056932]

if you knew of one you would have written it. that doesn't pass anymore.@@accesscrimea

[@fletchlives1812]

People commenting on this video before analysing RB’s videos for themselves. Go to his channel, choose a handful that appear interesting to you and watch them. Then come back and make some comments.

[@cspace1234nz]

.....the guy is an idiot desperately trying to stay relevant, such is his insatiable need for attention. You only have to watch a few bits of a few of his nonsensical ranting videos to realise that, it's hard for anyone with reasonable intelligence to actually watch much more than a few minutes at a time anyway. But then if you are an emotionally stunted Brand-cult follower you won't want to see that.

[@mattkaz9604]

I've seen a few. They are insane.

[@fletchlives1812]

@@mattkaz9604Sure thing. The level of corruption is insane.

[@lwo7736]

I've seen loads of his videos. He's a conspiracist that starts with the conclusion then finds the evidence to support it

[@mattkaz9604]

@@fletchlives1812 Totally - Brand was a seemingly likeable comedian and talking head until something went deeply wrong with him.

[@SometimesCompitent]

What is interesting is that there are so many real conspiracies that these people don't seem interested in. I think that reveals a lot about their relationship to power and what they actually see as the enemy.

[@BigSmiley0TV]

​@@MattAngionowho is "us"? You just completely assumed that you are part of the group that was being mentioned in the comment, without complete context to who they even mean, other than definitely people who believe in false conspiracy theories and also ignore real conspiracies. If you believe that you believe in real conspiracies, than you shouldn't even consider yourself to be part of the group they are pointing their finger at, but you do, which tells me you might do well to watch the video again, and ignore the name Russell Brand, but pay attention to all of the discussions about humans and our mental traps that have us falsely connect dots to create patterns that somehow make us so important that we are prone to fall for false conspiracy theories, as you just here connected dots that made you assume you were part of a group that's main criteria, as given in the person's comment, was to ignore real conspiracies and believe false conspiracies, which I would imagine, is not a group you actually believe you are a part of, but yet even spoke up as an "us" of that group

[@marvin2678]

Which conspiracies ?

[@idontwantahandlethough]

@@MattAngiono I think the OP makes a very cromulent point: generally speaking, the people who believe in conspiracies don't tend to believe in the real, proven, legit conspiracies. The most obvious and recent example of this phenomenon regards that time a U.S. president about to leave office conspired to do a whole range of wild things. A LOT of conspiracy theories don't care about that, and a lot even have conspiracies ABOUT the conspiracy

[@TheQuixoticRambler]

​​​@@BigSmiley0TV Maybe he's just not disingenuous like you. Some of us appreciate that-in reality-the term is simply the latest smear for people who have an opinion we don't like. Usually applied by people like you, to any dissenters from prevailing establishment narratives e.g. those who merely suggested the lab leak hypothesis may be a valid option--back in 2020.

[@TheQuixoticRambler]

Well, good to know we have someone omniscient here to tell us which conspiracies are real, and, which are not 😂!

[@Observette]

So many Brand glazers in the comments. It’s absolutely incredible how many people would rather trust the word of a liar, than do some actual research and education.

[@DeMenteMinds]

One of the best videos about Brand I've seen. Thanks for this work, I'm sure it will compel a lot of people to look at Brand for what he's really been doing as of late.

[@scythermantis]

RIGHT NOW the Davos Forum literally has this lady Nina Farahany talking about mind monitoring of employers reading employees brain waves... is that just a "conspiracy" too?

[@davepubliday6410]

Advertisers should be allowed to pull out of certain content, but KZbin shouldn’t be making that decision for them. KZbin should make it easy for advertisers to avoid showing on any content they don’t like. One of the good things about this disassociation between advertisers ad content producers is that it allows production of content that would not be allowed on other media. Except for some publicly funded broadcasters, TV is not able to produce pro-consumer shows that criticize products lest they loose advertising. On youtube content can be very critical, on this and on politics and industry. If KZbin chooses who gets funded and who doesn’t based on general advertising worries, then there is no use or purpose to KZbin, it just becomes TV all over again. The medium is the message.

[@postmodernityarmageddon]

People should be allowed to make their own decisions of their own accord, but should journalists and "NGO"s be able to call these corporations and threaten them unless they do what they want. What we're seeing is coordinated and unanimous actions taken by companies at the same time and in the same manner as if they were acting as one. You're going to piss on my head and tell me it's raining.

[@precisedime1377]

Yea, this is going to / is already burning them hard. (People already hated advertisers BEFORE the Vox thing & modern youtube's draconian and selectively-enforced demonetization) One of the best surefire ways to ensure I never support any product or anything you do is to be complicit in targeted censorship.

[@njandrews4105]

He does become a lot more animated and has that step right up folks circus vibe going on quite quickly

[@claudiasimpson9606]

I love Russell Brand, and you should too !!!. He speaks the truth on sooooo many topics !!.

[@bu5589]

I did about 10 years ago. He went completely mental with COVID . A lot of people like that though

[@daveisbrill]

​@@bu5589what specific covid points from brand were 'mental '?

[@TorbLlorts]

you are mental@@bu5589

[@roganroberts8789]

@@bu5589 I'm also curious about this - What has he been "mental" about regarding COVID? He's been vindicated numerous times on this. The only mental part is so few are reluctant to ask the relevant questions.... This just shows how effective blanket propaganda is.

[@jordanetherington1922]

He clearly doesn't though. Or at least leads people to untrue conclusions

[@quekumber]

I don't really listen to him long form, but I've seen a handful of short form (3-15 min clips). Russell Brand is the GOAT. People who are blind to the weaponization of social media, corporate media, and government to misrepreasent and defame, to destroy people who give the billionaires and military industrial complex grief....are sad. 5 years ago, I had no idea. After everything that has happened now...especially after COVID...people who are blind to it, they CHOOSE to be.

[@YouAreStillNotablaze]

There's plenty of people that do what he does and they don't get the crap he does, probably because they don't do it in the dumbest way possible, and also they don't actually have any skeletons in their closet.

[@quekumber]

@@YouAreStillNotablaze or they just not as popular as him

[@YouAreStillNotablaze]

@@quekumber Yeah, maybe a fundamental difference in how they operate, I suppose if that many people were getting the 'truth' they might have figured out what to do about it by now, right? Hmmm... But wait if that many people are getting the 'truth' .. then how are 'they' hiding the truth? On Google's KZbin of places.. HMMM...

[@caseymckenzie4760]

Calls Brand an unhinged "conspiracy theorists" then pionts out he left out the context of th "trusted news" initiative. That context? Melitious false information "designed to destabalize"? Exactly who is the conspiracy theorist?

[@philosophicaltool5469]

believing people don't conspire is at best naive. Not in the least for the fact that there's a whole judicial branche that works on dealing with that sort of behavior. ☝🤓

[@guamconservatoryofarts5551]

This video will not age well. In fact, it is already discredited.

[@str.77]

"The MSM have to sift through all with a fine comb..." If only they did...

[@realtijuana5998]

Yep, that's the point at which Mr T&N began to strain credulity. Never a fine-toothed comb; usually a meat axe wielded for editorial policy. Even half a century ago we used to give the motto of NYT as _All the news that fits, we print._

[@randolphshafferknacker6819]

Can you please give me all the links to all the facts and documents that prove Russell to be untrue, please?

[@ja9.b73]

Can you give me all the links to all the facts and documents that prove Russell to be true, please?

[@ja9.b73]

@@MattAngiono Fine, then can you please give me all the links to all the facts and documents that show a high probability of veracity on Russell's part?

[@ja9.b73]

@@MattAngiono Actually, making snarky comments is doing me the world of good. It is also the point. The original poster made a ridiculous statement, the implication of which, is that it is the duty of the essayist to provide "all the facts and all the documents that prove Russell to be untrue". And so I countered with an equally ridiculous statement. Just like you don't have the time to prove the likely veracity on every claim ever made by Russell, neither does the essayist have the time to prove falsity on every such claim. The original poster is simply acting in bad faith, as I suspect are you. The essayist did provide a cogent argument, supported by some facts and evidence, that lead one to believe that Russell Brand is not a good source of reliable information (in that he shows an inability to self-reflect, a tendency to use mainstream media reports to create conspiracy narratives not supported by the source material, etc).

[@ja9.b73]

@@MattAngiono I said I suspect you are acting in bad faith; and I made that statement based on your responses both to me and to others elsewhere under this video. You appear to have an emotional investment in Russell Brand and are unwilling to even consider the evidence presented in this video. Some of your other comments elsewhere also makes me think you're a Covid anti-vaxxer. And I have no time for indulging Covid anti-vaxxers. These were some of the most well tested, widely used and followed up vaccines ever used. And buying into the anti-vax narrative just led to countless deaths worldwide that could have been avoided. And I just think it's pointless to engage any further with you because I don't think you really are open to considering an alternative to where you currently are at. But if I am incorrect and you are not anti-vax, then I apologise and am genuinely happy to stand corrected. Otherwise, if you are anti-vax, and really are of good faith and of an open mind, then I suggest starting with the following channels: Debunk the Funk (Dr Wilson, a molecular biologist) Back to the Science (with Dr Susan Oliver, she has a distracting presentation style, but is really good at breaking the science down and showing her sources) Beyond the Noise (with Dr Paul Offit who helped develop the Rotavirus vaccine) Hbomberguy also did a really good video essay on the MMR vaccine and the doctor who ran a falsified study linking it to autism, showing how he did it for financial gain and lied about his results. Cheers.

[@runethorsen8423]

@@ja9.b73 Burden of proof reversal fallacy you absolute dimwit.

[@mrtambourineman6107]

Brand is turning into Trump. They both just say literally ANYTHING if they calculate it benefits them personally. Both are world class psychological

[@hydrogenbombb]

And the media doesn't? Please.

[@princegobi5992]

@@hydrogenbombbwhat does that even mean, lol?

[@michaeldebuque7092]

Did this guy seriously say that the JFK assassination was commited by one lone gunman? This guy says that it's generally right to be suspicious of mainstream media but still unironically endorses the Warren Commission.

[@terrigleeson7384]

Russell Brand is awesome.

[@20th_century_Ghost]

I remember Russell being shoved around a bit. But I don't recall him falling.

[@thekeysman6760]

Correct! 👍

[@franzb69]

More famous now than ever

[@rsb8653]

Brand hasn't fell

[@yourfriendoverseas5810]

That view // like ratio is very damning

[@i0W4N]

so many bots in hear trying boost this shite smear video

[@hithisisnotpaul]

What was the problem?

[@yourfriendoverseas5810]

A typical video has about 15-20% likes. A popular video 20-30%. If it's less than 10%, it's a very unpopular video.

[@PaulLefebvre]

@@yourfriendoverseas5810 Could be real... Or could be Brand fans trying to bury it.

[@yourfriendoverseas5810]

​@@PaulLefebvre How can they prevent other people from liking a video? Think about what you just wrote.

[@xs10tl1]

The assumption that Conspiracy theories are a real thing is the "tell". The term serves to reinforce propaganda by scapegoating those who call out the things that "don't add up". Truth is that there are low probability explanations and higher probability explanations. This is a remarkably clever defense of manufactured consent at the meta level. It's possible that Brand knowingly provides the tension required to move the "overton window" to a stable position. I don't know. But I do know when the collar doesn't match the cuffs.

[@brylythhighlights4335]

"This is a single third party center in Texas" isn't a fair thing to say when we consider the allegations include retaliation for reporting problems. It's not evidence of widespread issues on its head, but it certainly suggests that they could exist. If they did exist, we'd likely only get the evidence we have until there's a very in-depth investigation, so it's understandable for people to be worried that the story is being ignored.

[@TheHighlanderprime]

But Brand uses it as though a thorough investigation was conducted. He does this habitually to overemphasize his angle.

[@PaulLefebvre]

It's definitely important to investigate issues like this. But when you read proper analyses of the claims, many of the problematic points were procedural and not something that would impact findings. On top of that, as mentioned, it was three testing centers, out of over 100. Russell presents it without context. I remember going and reading up on the claims back when Russell brought this up. He presents it as a done deal to support his narrative, when the truth was not nearly as clear as what he presented.

[@Marqan]

It is not a fair thing to say without context. But he said that in the context of Russel's conspiracy theory, which makes all the difference. He wasn't arguing against people who think it's possibly a serious issue, he was arguing against Russel's crazy implications with that sentence. The part where you say "suggests that [widespread issues] could exist" is very true, but Russel clearly didn't handle that information as a mere suggestion.

[@PaulLefebvre]

Part of the problem is that Russell claims that there was no investigation.... When there WAS. Just because it didn't come to the conclusions he WANTED does not mean there wasn't an investigation. I've done original research in the past. Sometimes you don't find the results that your hypothesis suggested you would. That's life. You move on, maybe adjust, etc.

[@justinreilly1]

Great points!!

[@AnonYmous-uw2qm]

hang on a minute ... was titled as being about the fall of Russell Brand, and new we're being lectured on what a 'conspiracy' is.

[@TheLivingoodLife]

Brand is spot on.

[@GhostSal]

🎯

[@lealmelisa]

As a r@pist??

[@TheLivingoodLife]

@@lealmelisa as a journalist. I’ve yet to see a real person come out against Brand. Regardless, he’s definitely a different person than who he was and I believe in forgiveness if someone walks the walk.

[@007kingifrit]

@@lealmelisa its so childish you still take unfounded claims by the media seriously. how primitive

[@TheLivingoodLife]

@RYCBARM123 character is something outside the realm of judgement here. I’m interested to see where a trial goes if one happens at all. As it pertains to dissemination of truth regarding news, Brand is actually doing the job the journalists should be. Instead major journalists are focused on trying to bring him down rather than going after the pharma corps, and government propaganda. I worked in the hospital and saw the many more stroke and organ failure patients due to the vax than from the disease itself. Search for truth and truth you shall find.

[@GaetsKrop]

I could debate many points of this video, but the narration is convincing. You seem to want to believe that the world is better than it is and I can respect that, though at some point of the video you mix conspiracy theories with factual conspiracy. These are his exact words: "It is not conspiracy theory, I'm gonna read the actual facts here". That doesn't mean it isn't a conspiracy, that only means a part of it is public and written down as an agenda. Doesn't mean behind that agenda there's no conspiracy. Also mentioning a subject in the media, quickly, without really going in depth and presenting facts in a way that doesn't incriminate your sponsor, can be a defense mechanism used to avoid the criticism and backlash in case you didn't even mention the issue. That's how the system works, you pay for media coverage that suits your goals. That's more diluting information to keep people confused between different contradicting narratives. A fact would be "It's a conspiracy" and a media information replies to it "Some people spread conspiracy theories". Well, that's a way to keep your audience confused, round the corners and diminish the impact of the factual claim "It's a conspiracy".

[@onesong2001]

you won't get a reply because he's not genuine. He was paid to make this crap. Job done. Ker-ching! He's moved on, probably busy writing a speech for Michelle Obama now or making a video about how wholesome Joe Biden's children are.

[@dennisalexander1397]

Extremely well expressed……can i pinch your explanation

[@jemshadow123]

The arm movements are just magical...

[@commentsarefree4311]

Wonder if he is related to Mr Accordion Hands...perhaps its the narcissism..

[@donnagodfrey1924]

Interesting how this clarified why I stopped watching Russel Brand because I started feeling uncomfortable with his narrative. I believe in free speech but there's a fine balance needed with hate speech, lies and fear mongering, which need to be monitored and exposed.

[@hrhjoan]

I felt the same way

[@irieite9666]

I preferred fun conspiracy theories like Big foot or fake Paul McCartney tbh.

[@donnagodfrey1924]

Matt, you are right, but Inciting violence and verbal abuse etc is unacceptable. All rights have limits. Harming others cannot be an unfettered right. Sadly, humans need to know the boundaries.

[@EricMacLennan]

there is a conspiracy to discredit those who talk about conspiracies

[@mkkrupp2462]

Conspiracies exist for sure but conspiracy thinkers see them everywhere - often without significant proof and detailed investigation.

[@Bakedgoodza]

dozens of soyboys alr dissing th vid in the comments when it was posted literally 8 minutes ago. so much for critical thinkers

[@tomfurstyfield]

I was worried this would be some mad conspiracy video about Russell Brand but I was pleasantly surprised

[@thekeysman6760]

What do you mean by "conspiracy video", please? Conspiring against Brand in some way? It makes no sense in relation to proper English language usage.

[@ajc373]

Calling a suspicion that something isnt what youre told it is can simply be dismissed by calling it a conspiracy theory much like questioning the imigration policy or any opinion on Israel and Gaza can be dismissed by calling you a racist.

[@iOddWorld28]

"Laziness fosters conspiracy because thoroughness exposes truth"

[@emergentform1188]

I'd suggest that calling facts a "conspiracy theory" is the real laziness. Those who think and dig into the facts are far from lazy, and their conclusions are usually far more correct than those who just dismiss whatever they don't want to hear.

[@emergentform1188]

@@MattAngiono Absolutely dude. It blows my mind on the daily how intellectually lazy, delusional, and hopelessly clueless these sorts of people are, while they congratulate themselves as being so knowledgeable and rational. Speaking to them on even the most surface level reveals immediately that they have absolutely no clue about anything they are pretending to know about. It's like they get all their information from CNN and MSNBC or something, lol. Also, I notice they have tendencies toward conceit in that they get a little thrill denouncing and demeaning truth tellers and knowers, calling them crazy and "conspiracy theorists" lol, with zero self-awareness about how dumb and ridiculous that comes across to anyone with even a drop of factual understanding of these topics. They don't even know how badly they are embarrassing themselves with those sad attempts at suggesting intellectual superiority. Fortunately the incredible obviousness of the covid nonsense has triggered a massive global political awakening, so humanity has shed a lot of ignorance in the last couple years, and the awareness is still growing by the day. It's a great thing to see, finally. It amuses me greatly that some people still think that political trickery and tyranny were something that was the norm for most of human history but has somehow fallen off a cliff in our modern era. Meanwhile, just a cursory glance at what the WHO and WEF are doing at this very moment proves that to be a complete delusion. On the bright side, we don't need a majority of people to be aware and resisting/blocking the tyrants for humanity to be the victor in this current war we're in, and I believe we have well passed the threshold of political awakening for humanity to prevail against these lunatics. The sheep will deny, comply, and continue to be proud in their ignorance and delusion, but people like us are literally saving humanity against the most egregious and ubiquitous tyrannical threat we've ever faced. The WHO is literally trying to pass a treaty right now that removes all our basic rights, and the sheep aren't even aware of this fact, and even if they were they would just ignore or deny it because that's what sheep do. But we will protect and save them because that's what lions do.

[@emergentform1188]

@@MattAngiono I think a lot of their intellectual failing in this regard stems from fear and ego. They are terrified of reality and denying is just easier for them. Also, they feel silly for having been so wrong for so long. For example, I know several people who were clearly warned to stay away from the injections, participated in the experiment anyway, got seriously injured (one almost died) and are STILL in denial about it all. The human mind is quite remarkable in its ability to partition facts and dwell in delusion. Richard Dawkins says this is a survival strategy, so I guess there's good biological reasons for it, but wow does it ever lead people down a path of ruin. But I do believe that's what's going on with many of those in denial. It's like a girl who was raped as a child and has blocked the memory because it's too traumatic, same mechanism at work I think. Reality is just too scary for them, delusions are far more comforting and ignorance is bliss as they say.

[@emergentform1188]

It's interesting that, when you look for the source of these so called "conspiracy theories" you always find the most intelligent, educated, and reputable whistle blowers you can imagine. University professors with phd's, doctors, high ranking military guys with high level clearance, sitting and retired politicians, etc. But the sheep like to think it's all weirdos in their basements with some sort of paranoid delusional illness or something, because that's what they've been brainwashed to think.

[@emergentform1188]

@@MattAngiono Yea this video is quite ridiculous and I would go as far as to call it intentional propaganda intended to mislead. It intentionally glosses over numerous hard facts in its attempt to discredit Brand. I'm not sure if the video creator is a liar or an idiot, but I"m leaning towards the former because it would take a very special kind of stupid to actually believe a lot of what this vid is saying. But he could just be that delusional however, who know, the mind is a wild thing and it can make itself believe almost anything.

[@cromwelljones53]

This smells fishy. The creators insistence that the mass media does not censor itself is ludicrous. They snipe at the picayune edges of the concept of what and Argument is, without refuting....anything. The presenter should trade the accent and serious tone for a pepper-pots' dress and a disapproving stare, worthy of all gossip mongers.

[@mattkaz9604]

Can you give us a timestamp where the presenter makes this claim?

[@cromwelljones53]

And what will i get if I tell you what you already know? @@mattkaz9604

[@cromwelljones53]

and, i really don't want to watch this thing again...yeesh.

[@onesong2001]

@@cromwelljones53 I don't blame you. The title is nonsense. His popularity has grown since the mainstream media ran their smear campaign on him.

[@daviddinunno5238]

The pretense of objectivity in this video is ultimately transparent. This is just another hit piece on Brand and an attempt to validate mainstream media which any reasonable person understands is a lost cause. The repeated claim that "This is not to deny" whatever was just extensively denied is a bit sickening. It's interesting that I have the same sick feeling in the pit of my stomach from watching this video that I also get when I'm exposed to the speech of propagandists like "Morning Joe" or frauds like Rachel Madow. I did, at least, like the quote, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

[@moonasha]

I mean, like it or not, Brand has all but turned into alex jones as far as conspiracies go. That's going to make a lot of people dislike him. I think the problem arises when you start labeling literally everything a conspiracy, and failing to apply Occams razor or Hanlon's razor

[@runethorsen8423]

@@moonasha Occam's razor tells you of a TENDENCY.... dimwits.

[@janewaysmom]

And to think I just came on here to find out what Russell Brand had been doing in the past ten years while I thought he'd fallen off the face of the earth lol.