ZeroCool@feddit.ch to News@lemmy.world · 10 months agoRussell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abusewww.thetimes.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square142fedilinkarrow-up1599arrow-down124
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minus-squareZeroCool@feddit.chOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up51arrow-down2·edit-210 months agoWhere the hell have you been? Russell Brand has been pandering to the Alt-Right for years now. He’s no threat to conservatives anywhere.
minus-squareCeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down17·10 months agoHe makes them look bad though. Maybe they’re eager to throw him under the bus because he’s “Hollywood” and that serves their narrative about west-coast celebrity elites.
minus-squareZeroCool@feddit.chOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoBecause he’s a rapist? Since when do conservatives distance themselves from rapists?
minus-squareCeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·10 months agoI’m saying they’re distancing themselves because he doesn’t fit their desired image, not because he’s a rapist.
minus-squareNeve8028@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoNah they cling to every mainstream celebrity they can get.
minus-squareCeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·10 months agoBut Russell Brand is a long-haired hippy type. Doesn’t fit their brand.
minus-squareBlack AOClinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoThey’re accepting of converts “outside the brand” all the time. They call them ‘unicorns’, apparently; my brother became one.
minus-squareTWeaK@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoThe right wing make themselves look bad all the time, he’s playing their song.
Where the hell have you been? Russell Brand has been pandering to the Alt-Right for years now. He’s no threat to conservatives anywhere.
He makes them look bad though. Maybe they’re eager to throw him under the bus because he’s “Hollywood” and that serves their narrative about west-coast celebrity elites.
Because he’s a rapist? Since when do conservatives distance themselves from rapists?
I’m saying they’re distancing themselves because he doesn’t fit their desired image, not because he’s a rapist.
Nah they cling to every mainstream celebrity they can get.
But Russell Brand is a long-haired hippy type. Doesn’t fit their brand.
He’s “one of the good ones”.
They’re accepting of converts “outside the brand” all the time. They call them ‘unicorns’, apparently; my brother became one.
The right wing make themselves look bad all the time, he’s playing their song.