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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

So it goes something like this:

  • Man rapes
  • Man gets away with it for a while
  • Man gets charged for it
  • Man joins the far-right
[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And his right-wing transformation is now complete.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not entirely sure it wasn't the other way around.

He probably knew some charges were coming years ago, and started adapting his output accordingly.

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Oh for sure. He's been soft-pedaling his right-wing transformation ever since the initial allegations went public years ago. The hard turn recently is probably exactly as you say, he knew charges were coming.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

the suddenly "baptism" was obvious, because he mustve knew charges were going to be brought against him eventually

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[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 51 points 2 days ago

Rapist Russell Brand charged with Attempted Comedy

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 25 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I never watched that, what did he do?

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)

He divorced her over text, minutes before she was about to get on stage on her premiere tour. Then ghosted her after.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Holy FUCK. You know back when he was pretending to be a queer leftist, he had me genuinely fooled. He's a truly scary fucker.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

he would definitely be that creep to get closer to women.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 10 points 2 days ago

God that's awful. And calculatingly cruel.

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

The only guy guy in the world who was less annoying when he was on crack

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 50 points 2 days ago

It’s always the people who you expect the most.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 329 points 2 days ago (6 children)

It's always the ones you most expect.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 104 points 2 days ago (11 children)
[–] noride@lemm.ee 81 points 2 days ago (4 children)

No way, there's absolutely nothing fishy going on with Leto. It's a totally normal, completely above board, women only island cult.

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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 251 points 2 days ago (9 children)

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.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 days 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.

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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

How did his newly found faith in God not spare him of this????????

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[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago

It's always the ones you most suspect.

[–] llama@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

People think Russell Brand is funny?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I was wondering why they labeled him comedian, he's walking cancer.

[–] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You’re kiddin’! HIM? …Nahhh. He’s always seemed like a super stable, reliable guy. You just never know about some people, you know?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's always the ones you mostly suspect...

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[–] 404UsernameNotFound@lemmy.wtf 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Don't worry, he can buy a Trump Gold Card, become a U.S. citizen, and Trump will offer him the position of Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues.

[–] suite403@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

This is depressingly spot-on.

[–] tikifire@lemm.ee 52 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This explains his sudden turn to Christianity last year. He's going to try the "God forgave me" defense.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 16 points 2 days ago

Actually it was his turn to the right wing grifting. Christianity was just icing on the cake to make evangelicals acceptable to him

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago

it was pretty obvious when he started to trying to hide behind the pro-rape party of conservatives.

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[–] BadmanDan@lemmy.world 90 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

He’ll be on Joe Rogan in about a month

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago

Freudian slip, but true nonetheless

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[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 143 points 2 days ago (6 children)
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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 90 points 2 days ago

"Rapist Russell Brand charged with attempted comedy"

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 80 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well, I've seen this coming for a while now, but I must admit, I actually liked him once upon a time. His comedy specials weren't just funny, they made you think about the abstract ideas of religion and consciousness. He was like a handsome rockstar comedian, the sort of person I wish I could be. Smart, sexy, cool, interesting. Hell, when I got sober from alcohol, reading his book that re-imagined the twelve steps into something less religious actually helped.

But then I heard the rumors, and it kind of fit with the image he gave himself. And then he made that abrupt turn into right-wing conspiracy and that all but confirmed it. To be honest I thought he'd already been charged with something and had just celebrity-ed his way out of it. Sucks, man.

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[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That’s very unsurprising

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