Thread: Harvey Weinstein Charged With Rape and Other Sex Crimes, Barred From Travel

cyrille you silly old twat, weinsteins women willingly fucked him and sucked him for favours. both parties are at fault. same as the goldigger who happily banged prince andrew and boasted about it, until the prevailing culture of the day changed and she then realised that now she was a victim she had literally won the lottery.

brand, (a right wing loon these days b.t.w.), if the rumours and accusations are true used his impressive powers of argument and persuasion to control and manipulate impressionable young girls and women to submit to him.

whether it is right to charge these men years after the "offences" because societies value have changed is another argument altogether, weak women have always been manipulated by men using their power be it money or status, and weak (and not so weak) men have always been manipulated by women using their innate powers, powers that have little to do with money or status ..... just look around you.

but i thoroughly detest brand and thats why i hope the fucker is shamed, humilated and ends up in court like winestain for rape.

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you are such a bore cyrille.

the torch and pitchfork route is much more fun.

Russell Brand’s evolution from left-wing comedian to podcast hero of the alt-right
Brand has slowly evolved from an anti-establishment comedian into an anti-woke podcaster

By
Jack Rear
16 September 2023 • 4:31pm
THE TELEGRAPH

Once known for the comedy which he used to skewer the political establishment in the early-2010s, how has Russell Brand evolved into an anti-woke podcast hero of the alt-right with a subscriber base of 6.59m on YouTube?

Brand grew up in Essex with his mother after his parents separated when he was six months old. He was diagnosed with ADHD and developed bulimia at 14. At 16, after disagreements with his mother’s boyfriend, Brand left the family home and began taking drugs. In 1991, he was accepted into Italia Conti drama school on a scholarship from Essex County Council but was expelled due to drug use and poor attendance.

Brand made it onto the London and Edinburgh comedy scene in 2000, aged 25, and began a presenting career with a stint on MTV’s Dancefloor Chart where he toured clubs in London and Ibiza, projecting himself as a figure of anarchic mirth. He has always courted controversy and was fired after coming to work dressed as Osama Bin Laden.

In 2002, Brand began bringing counter-cultural views into the mainstream with a short-lived television series RE:Brand on the now-defunct UK Play, in which he aimed to challenge taboos by meeting a neo-Nazi, inviting a homeless man to live with him, and masturbating another man in a public toilet.

He returned to the Fringe in 2004 with a one-man show discussing his heroin addiction, which received critical acclaim. A nationwide tour of a show about his caddish reputation hastened his move from counter-cultural outsider to ubiquitous mainstreamer: in 2007 he performed for Elizabeth II at the Royal Variety Performance.


By then a Guardian columnist, he published his autobiography My Booky Wook, detailing his drug abuse, troubled relationship with his father, promiscuity and sex addiction.

As his star was on the rise in America, Sachsgate – when Brand and Jonathan Ross left a series of lewd messages for Andrew Sachs, about Brand’s relationship with his granddaughter – resulted in a BBC suspension and Brand stepping away from his presenting role to focus on film roles.

With mainstream success, Brand’s politics came to the fore. In a 2013 Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman, Brand described British democracy as ‘ineffectual’ and encouraged viewers not to vote.

Asked in another Newsnight interview whether 9/11 had been perpetrated by the US government, Brand replied: “we have to remain open-minded to [that] kind of possibility”.

He guest-edited an issue of the New Statesman where he railed against capitalism and supported environmental issues and he continued to make frequent appearances at political demonstrations, criticising austerity, the war on drugs, and UK independence from the EU. In another book, Revolution he expounded on these points.

In 2015 he was still aligned with the left: ahead of the general election, Brand interviewed Labour leader Ed Miliband on his YouTube show ‘The Trews’ (a portmanteau of ‘true news’) where he encouraged viewers to vote Labour or Green. Later Brand supported Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership bid, but when the Covid-19 pandemic struck in 2020, Brand pivoted to his current persona, sharing anti-vaccine talking points and pro-Russian conspiracies in relation to the war in Ukraine. Brand’s TikTok channel was a source of Covid-19 misinformation: in 2022 he was forced to retract a claim that the drug ivermectin was an effective treatment.

He currently has more than 13m subscribers to his accounts on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and the right-wing streaming site Rumble, with more than six million on YouTube, where he posts daily and has been sharing videos for more than a decade, filmed from his home in Henley, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. About 300,000 watch his Rumble show daily.

He was making political videos for YouTube regularly long before the current generation of influencers; what’s changed is the intensity and frequency of his output (making multiple videos a day), and the kind of guests he features (increasingly those from the hard-right).

His success at building such a strong online audience is partly that his persona has remained the same, using the same passionate-but-mocking delivery, and the same rhetoric about capitalism; the elites; the mainstream media. Increasingly, his content attracts and panders to an alt-right audience.

Originally Posted by taxexile

Harry, spare us your analysis, be a good lad and stick to your cut and pastes, its what you are good at, because you seem to know very little about what actually goes on in the sordid world of entertainment, sport, music, tv. etc.

I realise a misogynistic halfwit like yourself might find it hard to believe, but Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault against two women, and that's why he's serving the rest of his life in prison.

You demented old fool.


* And the only reason there weren't more is because the court needed unanimous, not majority verdicts.