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Russell Brand was a columnist for the ultra-woke publication The Guardian. He also spoke in some capacity for Turning Point, which is a right wing conservative platform.
Here's the difference.
When Brand was embraced by the left and fawned over by people like Owen Jones and George Monbiot, it was at a time when he was known and celebrated for being a womaniser and a sex pest.
He was crowned "shagger of the year" three years in a row, he went on a radio show and mocked a national treasure by bragging about having sex with his granddaughter, and was invited onto flagship shows on the BBC to giggle and titter about his promiscuous ways. He was also gushed over by the left for being a junkie. In other words, the left loved him when he represented degeneracy.
But then he disappeared from the limelight for a few years, left his addictions behind him and got more disciplined, discovering Christianity and practicing martial arts. That's when the right started to listen to what he had to say. In other words, the right gave him the time of day when he was apparently a reformed character who cleaned up his act.
In my personal opinion, he was never really either of these two things. He was never funny as a comedian, he was never a good performer as an actor, he was just a charismatic, glorified TV presenter, a grifter who played up to certain caricatures in order to make a generous living from whatever idiot corporation was willing to pay him a fat salary.
But regardless of who he hoodwinked, you can't escape the fact that the Russell Brand saga makes a good analogy for the left/right divide.
The left couldnโt get enough of him when he was a promiscuous, drug-addled dickhead, whilst the right only became interested when he appeared to have grown up, kicked his addictions and discovered a bit of morality, which tells us a lot about the values of the modern left and the modern right, and the sort of people each side considers worthy of admiration.
@iamrobothead What is "MandoVerse"? Does it just mean Star Wars TV? Because Skeleton Crew is pretty far removed. If it does, they need to add Andor, which again, is nothing to do with it other than same universe
@ArchRose90@JakeBerry What is she talking about? Of course we paid the slave owners. We bought the slaves and set them free! If we paid the slaves they would still be slaves and the owners would confiscate the money from the slaves they still owned.
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