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        He is an edge lord, yeah. Although he sometimes he tries to appear like there is some greater message behind all of that. Like he is a jester with wit, but he is just a clown.

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        He has a good turn of phrase and is a good speaker. His views are often more teen edgy than practical, or, they were. Think 80s anarchism and pink in the UK but in the 00s and with an Oliver twist sensibility.

        Last number of years, he’s gone from hard left to hard right and crazy conspiracies.

        He was always attention seeking and made it look like it was a statement rather than obnoxious. He moved into obnoxious as a brand.

        He has always been relatively open a out addiction to hard drugs and sex acts. Previously he insisted they were consensual. Howeythere has always been an underlying current that they were not always. He seemed contrite in his sober state but it was always dubious.

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      “I would stake my reputation on the fact that Russell Brand is a good man.”

      Andrew Tate, Trafficker

      Chefs kiss

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        “Look, I don’t know what to tell you, I love sexual assault and I hate women, and that’s just how it is.”

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        I recognized Andrew Tate and (obviously) Russell Brand in there. Were any of the others real people? I’m bettng there were probably at least a couple others I’m just too out of the loop to recognize.

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        My favorite was the last:

        “His long hair and tight pants make him too feminine for me to view him with any empathy.”

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    Man, I’ve made 4 sexual predator predictions of which now 1 (kevin spacey) is convicted, 1 is suspected (brand) 2 to go (jared leto and quentin tarantino, you old perv).

    I should do this for a living

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    I genuinely did!! Or at least that he’d been credibly accused and everyone already knew that. I’ve been very confused by some people’s reactions to this news.

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      The ones defending him are just scummy rape apologists and they do it in every thread that talks about a rape or sexual assault.

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      I’ve had a couple conversations in which I expressed how surprised I was that he had been uncancelled from previous sexual assaults, just to do it all again.

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      The people apologising fall into 2 camps.

      1. Sex pests & misogynists. Many with their own legal run-ins. e.g. Andrew Tate is a rapist and sex trafficker and Elon Musk attempting to impregnate anyone including flight attendants.
      2. Conspiracy idiots who will believe their guru over reality. It must be some global conspiracy to silence him rather than the more obvious reason that he raped at least one woman and had inappropriate contact with others.
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    At some point it suddenly occurred to me one as actually thinking about Leto. Still… Tho… Wasn’t there something?

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    Sounds like it was an open secret in the productions he worked on that he was a sex pest. It makes me wonder how he managed to escape so long before allegations were made public. I watched the Dispatches documentary and the complaints all seemed credible and doubtless there are receipts if Brand is foolish enough to sue. Even footage of his own on-air demeanour around the same time was awful and worse in hindsight.

    Whatever the truth to the allegations there is no doubt that Brand is a narcissist with an addictive personality and he uses people to get what he wants. He’s been addicted to sex, alcohol, porn, and heroin. Conspiracy theories are his new fix. Don’t be surprised if he finds Jesus next. Gotta chase that high.