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Before I forget: Fuck you, Russell Brand. (Original Post) LuvLoogie Jun 2018 OP
What happened? madville Jun 2018 #1
What did Brand say? brettdale Jun 2018 #2
Huh?! InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2018 #3
What is the point of these without explaining why JI7 Jun 2018 #4
Beyond marrying, divorcing Katy Perry... what has he done? hlthe2b Jun 2018 #5
CeeLo Green - FUCK YOU (Official Video) stonecutter357 Jun 2018 #6
The Same Russell Brand That Hates... Grassy Knoll Jun 2018 #7
Does it have to be all? BlueStater Jun 2018 #8
I know, right.... ornotna Jun 2018 #9
We are striking out at a lot of people today 4now Jun 2018 #10
He advocated not voting. Onyrleft Jun 2018 #11
Great Johnny ! lunasun Jun 2018 #13
Russell Brand isn't even as creative as the stoner who sits on the dorm room telling grantcart Jun 2018 #19
Now he can clue us as to why he is not funny lame54 Jul 2018 #25
What an idiot.. anyone who says that is FULL Cha Jun 2018 #12
I agree with Russell Brand. Are you going to be abusive to me too? Doodley Jun 2018 #14
Are you a rich kid telling poor kids not to vote? LuvLoogie Jun 2018 #18
just for that remake of ARTHUR. TeamPooka Jun 2018 #15
Stopped listening to him when he began urging people not to vote. betsuni Jun 2018 #16
Russell's "theories" and diatribes are pretentious, self-important nonsense. Oneironaut Jun 2018 #17
He's Britain's problem, not ours. Totally Tunsie Jun 2018 #20
He advocated for sitting out the vote. Got a lot of press. We had a vote in 2014 LuvLoogie Jun 2018 #21
I know. I thought he was a Brit too. n/t Zing Zing Zingbah Jul 2018 #28
well damn, I hope he gets your message. nt JCanete Jun 2018 #22
Hot damn, I certainly hope the OP gets your message, too. nt LanternWaste Jul 2018 #27
I think you forgot too much. By 2015, he was advocating voting muriel_volestrangler Jun 2018 #23
Good to know. n/t demmiblue Jul 2018 #24
Who's Russell Brand? NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2018 #26

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
8. Does it have to be all?
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 10:30 PM
Jun 2018

Because I haven't the slightest idea why you're mad at him. Some detail would be nice.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
19. Russell Brand isn't even as creative as the stoner who sits on the dorm room telling
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 12:59 AM
Jun 2018

People not to vote

Oneironaut

(5,504 posts)
17. Russell's "theories" and diatribes are pretentious, self-important nonsense.
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 12:12 AM
Jun 2018

See the video another user posted above for a reference. His statements have the depth of a frat bro who just smoked a bowl, and now wants to talk about "politics maaaaan!"

He has the douchey smugness of someone who believes himself to be so smart, evidenced by his grating use of words that he probably doesn't even know the meaning of just to try and sound like an intellectual. "Paradigm! Disenfranchised underclass! Blah, blah." You can tell he really doesn't know what he's talking about, and is just talking out of his rear end.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
20. He's Britain's problem, not ours.
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 04:13 AM
Jun 2018

He's not the only person in the world who doesn't vote. Why should he matter to us?

LuvLoogie

(7,011 posts)
21. He advocated for sitting out the vote. Got a lot of press. We had a vote in 2014
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 04:20 AM
Jun 2018

He had no skin in the game. never did. still doesn't

fuck rich revolutionaries

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
27. Hot damn, I certainly hope the OP gets your message, too. nt
Mon Jul 2, 2018, 04:32 PM
Jul 2018

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
23. I think you forgot too much. By 2015, he was advocating voting
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 05:58 AM
Jun 2018
Russell Brand changes mind about voting and urges support for Labour

Comedian and previous ‘Mr Don’t Vote’ backs Ed Miliband after interviewing him, telling his viewers of importance of getting Tories out of government

In a newly released video on his YouTube channel, The Trews, Brand said: “What I heard Ed Miliband say is that if we speak, he will listen. So on that basis, I think we’ve got no choice but to take decisive action to end the danger of the Conservative party.

“David Cameron might think I’m a joke but I don’t think there’s anything funny about what the Conservative party have been doing to this country and we have to stop them.”

He said Miliband understood that people were “pissed off” and welcomed pressure from below demanding changes to society. But there were some qualifications to his endorsement regarding Scotland and the Green party.

“If you’re Scottish, you don’t need an English person telling you what to do,” he said. “You know what you’re going to be doing. If you’re in Brighton I think it’d be a travesty if we lost the voice of Caroline Lucas in Westminster.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/04/russell-brand-changes-mind-about-voting-and-urges-support-for-labour

And in 2017:

Comedian Brand, who famously interviewed Labour candidate Ed Milliband back in 2015, wrote a blog for Huffington Post endorsing Corbyn.

“Jeremy Corbyn won’t be perfect, he is a human being. We have a chance to elect a politician who is committed to serving the people of Britain. To supporting the NHS, public services and educating the young people to whom the future belongs,” he wrote.

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/general-election-2017-the-celebrity-vote-from-russell-brand-to-stephen-hawking-here-s-who-your-a3559431.html
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