Russell Brand charged with rape and sexual assault
www.bbc.com
The 49-year-old denied he was ever "a rapist", adding: "I've never engaged in non-consensual activity."
    • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Dude has charisma and is skilled at improv. He had a story of overcoming addiction and had some good things to say about social issues back then. That kind of thing sells, so lots of scumbags put it in their bios.

    • LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      How can this book be more than interesting and novel grammatical constructs saying a lot of bull shit at 200kmh?

      • demizerone@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Pointless honestly. I should have read the jacket. It was a book about him overcoming addiction using the 12 step program and finding religion.

  • jaschen@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    After watching Kathy Perry’s documentary and what he did to her, I fucking hate this asshole.

  • Charlxmagne@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Well as always, if he’s guilty may he have fun rotting in jail and hopefully drops the soap, if he’s innocent I hope he bounces back from such life ruining accusations.

    • satans_methpipe@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      What the fuck is wrong with you? Rape is horrific. That’s why he is bring charged. Now you plod into this thread with rape fantasy.

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The moment someone starts going all “anti-woke” you know they’ve got something to hide and they are trying to get acquainted with the pardon-dealing industry.

    • cucumberbob@programming.dev
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      1 month ago

      Pardon dealing industry? In the UK?

      I’m pretty sure only 4 pardons have been given in the last 25 years. 1 was posthumous (Turing) and the other 3 were given to convicts who saved people’s lives while incarcerated.

      I don’t think being anti-woke is going to help anyone get a pardon in the UK.

      I do think it’s a grift, just not convinced it’s a grift for a Royal Prerogative of Mercy.

      • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        I don’t mean in the UK. He probably has done some of that in the US too.

        He could flee and seek political asylum or something. The US has extradition treaties with the UK since 2003, but they are pretty much ignoring all laws and treaties anyway.

    • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I need to just stick off other social media, nice that this is the consensus here

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Yeah. Forcing himself on women was entirely consistent with his public persona, but shifting hard right just to seek cover makes it so much scummier.

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    after a police investigation into allegations made following the broadcast of a Channel 4 documentary

    "The Crown Prosecution Service reminds everyone that criminal proceedings are active, and the defendant has the right to a fair trial.

    Were the allegations not brought to the police before the tv documentary? Why didn’t the police investigate before? If so there should be an investigation and prosecution of those involved in the “non-investigation”.

    This failure to investigate is an outrage, many people including me listened to Russel Brand in the 2010s, but the police failed to investigate and now has the gall to say “the defendant has a right to a fair trial”? Does the public not also have a right to a fail investigation and prosecution?

    • Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      Were the allegations not brought to the police before the tv documentary?

      I might be speaking out of my ass here, but it could be that the allegations were brought to the police first, but there wasn’t enough evidence at the time for the police to file charges, and then the documentary investigation turned up more evidence than the police had.

      • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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        28 days ago

        Quite possible it’s just a fuck-up. But really the police should be able to do what a TV documentary crew can do. I mean what is the police there for? (Socialist answer is obviously to protect the rich and powerful)

        How many cases were not pursued because it wasn’t profitable and opportune to make a popular documentary for them? Inequality based on identity like gender is the core belief of fascism, so this is a serious problem to leave unfixed.

      • Suite404@lemmy.world
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        30 days ago

        I had vaguely remembered him and saw him on YouTube a while back. I thought, hey, I think I liked this guy. Clicked into his video and was pretty shocked and immediately wrote him off.

        • Alaknár@lemm.ee
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          29 days ago

          Yeah. I think he either went insane, or just smelled an easy con. Sad thing, really.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      30 days ago

      he does look like a crazy homeless person, because his eyes is always bugged out on the youtube thumbnails.

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Islam, everyone’s favorite popular cult, is very rapey.

      Catholics have been very rapey since a long time ago, Buddhists and Muslims as well

      I’d wager whichever new faith this guy adheres to has no sway in their behavior as there are bad actors in basically everything

      • AreaSIX @lemm.ee
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        1 month ago

        Let’s just not mention that the “whichever new faith” we’re speaking of is the very rapey evangelical Christianity, while making sure that we randomly emphasize that Islam is rapey, which is then expanded into Muslims being rapey. All in a post that has nothing at all to do with Islam or Muslims or refugees or whatever other bogeymen we regularly like to demonize.