Russell Brand convicted of 7000 rapes (approximately)

[Snarky Oracle!]

Sounds like he was railroaded.

Discuss...

 

[Crimson]

Man who acts like a creep turns out to be a creep. News at 11.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Man who acts like a creep turns out to be a creep. News at 11.

Lazy. That's not the story.

 

[Crimson]

Lazy. That's not the story.

Your endless misogamy and conspiracies are tiresome.

 

[Willie Oleson]

What a coincidence that all the rapers are celebrities.

 

[CeeCee72]

Sometimes if it walks like duck and quacks like a duck, it's just a duck. Brand was convicted in a court of law and police are still investigating other allegations. In this case, sounds to me like the only thing he got was justice.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

It's interesting when intelligent people don't realize that using the term "conspiracy theorist" as a slur has become a bit outdated (to the point of being tone deaf-ish) and marks them as selectively anti-intellectual when they apply it to topics they know little about (or, sometimes by their own admission, care little about) and then try to pose as the adult-in-the-room for doing so.

It's almost like they need to be told to stop sending you emails.

Brand was targeted for his political speech. And his outrageous personal promiscuity was used against him, like all those collegiate "gang rape" cases which turn out to be something else. Except these European courts seem to be getting even worse than ours.

And some of these women have changed their stories over the years.

Like with Kavanaugh on the American Supreme Court a few years ago: I did not want him on the court -- he was far too conservative for my tastes. And when the preposterous rape allegations against him fell apart, still other women lined up to add more rape accusation to supplement the ones that had fizzled... It was obviously a scam to anybody paying attention, and some of those Janie-Come-Lately accusers quietly went down for perjury later.

It's organized today, and used as a political hatchet with increasing frequency.

But I guess that's 'misogyny' when it all seems too complicated to maintain one's interest.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Sometimes if it walks like duck and quacks like a duck, it's just a duck.

Oddly enough, he does indeed walk and quack very much like a duck.

 

[Angela Channing]

Russel Brand is a rapist and sex abuser. I'm thinking about his victims and the bravery of the women who told their story so this vile man could be put behind bars. He wasn't targeted for his political speech, he was targeting women to abuse them. He wasn't railroaded, he was exposed as a predator. Some of the testimony that was presented by the prosecution was truly horrific. Now he is in prison, maybe he will learn what consent actually means.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Russel Brand is a rapist and sex abuser. I'm thinking about his victims and the bravery of the women who told their story so this vile man could be put behind bars. He wasn't targeted for his political speech, he was targeting women to abuse them. He wasn't railroaded, he was exposed as a predator. Some of the testimony that was presented by the prosecution was truly horrific. Now he is in prison, maybe he will learn what consent actually means.

Thanks for clarifying. Now we know the truth.

 

[Willie Oleson]

He wasn't targeted for his political speech, he was targeting women to abuse them.

Well.....yes...and no.

There's currently a lot of gloating going on and I get the impression that it's masquerading as "feeling for the victims" and "it's about time this monster gets what he deserves".
It's in the additional comments "he's always been a creep or a weirdo (or whatever)" that tells me they're judging him for being exactly that, and the rape allegations/convictions are merely covenient tools to punish this "outrageous person".

I'm not defending Russell Brand I'm just saying that there's a strong undercurrent of hands-wringing and pearls-clutching hypocrisy in these comments, a sense of satisfaction in the "I told you so!" regardless of how informed they actually are.
I mean, for exactly the same reasons people are inclined to support the accused criminal who has a pleasant and level-headed profile.
"Burn the witch!" was never about eliminating danger & disaster, it was about that bitch they hated.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

There's currently a lot of gloating going on and I get the impression that it's masquerading as "feeling for the victims" and "it's about time this monster gets what he deserves".
It's in the additional comments "he's always been a creep or a weirdo (or whatever)" that tells me they're judging him for being exactly that, and the rape allegations/convictions are merely covenient tools to punish this "outrageous person".

I'm not defending Russell Brand I'm just saying that there's a strong undercurrent of hands-wringing and pearls-clutching hypocrisy in these comments, a sense of satisfaction in the "I told you so!" regardless of how informed they actually are.
I mean, for exactly the same reasons people are inclined to support the accused criminal who has a pleasant and level-headed profile.
"Burn the witch!" was never about eliminating danger & disaster, it was about that bitch they hated.

Yes.