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Russell Brand accused of rape and sexual assault

That will be Neil Oliver who once presented half decent programmes about the coast of the UK.

He's now become a raving right-wing, conspiracy believing dickwad. You name it he's on the wrong side of the argument. Semi-pro contrarian.
 
TurkeysGhost said:
It's interesting to note how many people have these kinds of personal scandals, especially sex abuse scandals, be a radicalizing moment where they pivot hard into right wing politics and whatnot. Whether it's sex pests getting "me too'd" or other generic "cancel culture" nonsense, personal and professional failure seems an express lane to right wing radicalization for so many.

Right wingers are so hungry for high profile personalities on their side, especially those from the entertainment industry which is generally seen as dominated by liberalism, that they are more than willing to overlook bad behavior and vigorously defend their own. The right wing base never gets tired of the "I used to be a liberal, but now I'm a frothing at the mouth reactionary" routine. There's nothing these freaks love more than an aggrieved, embittered personality doubling down on anti-social tendencies in the highest possible profile. Hard to say how much of this is purely cynical and how much of this is more "community of last resort" for people who find themselves unwelcome in more decent company, but the right wing leper colony is always accepting new members.

In this case I wonder if Brand could see the writing on the wall regarding his past behavior and decided years ago to be proactive by building up a right wing fanbase that we see circling the wagons around him today. There was certainly a quite pronounced pivot for him, like you point out.

If you're a sex pest it's extremely clear what side of the partisan divide is more willing to not only overlook, but stridently defend their own.
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Brand became a reich-wing shock jock very quickly after he tried being a left wing influencer, largely because nobody on the left was buying his incontinent nonsense. He tried being a left wing leader, was ridiculed for being intellectualy lazy and deeply uninformed and ran headlong into the arms of the far right.
 
sinnikal said:
That will be Neil Oliver who once presented half decent programmes about the coast of the UK.

He's now become a raving right-wing, conspiracy believing dickwad. You name it he's on the wrong side of the argument. Semi-pro contrarian.
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Thanks. Waters is Oliver only twenty years further along.
 
He always irritated me with his dodgyness and ability to use hundreds of words to say nothing of substance like an irritating ********, but it seems the media are already cancelling this and that and treating him as already guilty, which isn't good.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
Oh and anybody who's ever paid attention to Brand would have known he's got something like this in his closet. Only surprise for me was that it took so long to come out.
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Intimidation. Surprisingly, most of his victims aren't excited about his army of "awakening wonders" promising them violent rape and murder, while posting their names, home addresses and work numbers. I can't imagine why.
 
trustbutverify said:
Hopefully he keeps uploading anyway. I need more fawning Tucker Carlson interviews.
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Sidebar: I rather enjoy Tucker staring blankly at his guests with drooping eyelids and his mouth open as if stuggling to understand a cop's instuctions during a roadside sobriety test. A picture is indeed sometimes worth a thousand words.
 
Thermal said:
Sidebar: I rather enjoy Tucker staring blankly at his guests with drooping eyelids and his mouth open as if stuggling to understand a cop's instuctions during a roadside sobriety test. A picture is indeed sometimes worth a thousand words.
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That's the patented Tucker Carlson "I can't believe I'm hearing how evil da libs are right now " douche stare. Greenwald has it down almost as well.
 
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historically, the kind of diet alt right wing-ish grifter-y podcaster fandom has been pretty accepting of accused sexual misconduct/rapists. of course, the support isn't "russell brand didn't do it" but "well the timing is pretty suspicious"


also i don't think going alt-lite is necessarily something that he planned for. it's just they make a really low effort podcast possible. not too many people are going to sit through 6 manscaped ad reads in a 90 minutes podcast, but those guys get it done.
 
Nessie said:
Brand has drifted out of fashion, in the same way Bernard Manning did.
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In other words, Brand's act/shtick got old. The problem with building your whole career on shocking people is that sooner or later people expect it and it looses it's shock value and becomes boring.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
Brand became a reich-wing shock jock very quickly after he tried being a left wing influencer, largely because nobody on the left was buying his incontinent nonsense. He tried being a left wing leader, was ridiculed for being intellectualy lazy and deeply uninformed and ran headlong into the arms of the far right.
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Pretty much correct, though you give the left too much credit. They can support some pretty intelleutally lazy figures.
 
In the C4 (cough) documentary "Nadia's" actual voice is heard relating her experiences.

Her voice is very clear, obviously close miked and there is no ambient noise of any kind, but it's been noted that there's also a curious lack of any breathing sounds whatsoever.

Very difficult for most people to accomplish this, although voice training and and expert use of top-notch studio equipment and DSP's can reduce it almost to inaudibility.

However, this lack of breathing is also a distinct characteristic of AI generated voices.
 
IsThisTheLife said:
In the C4 (cough) documentary "Nadia's" actual voice is heard relating her experiences.

Her voice is very clear, obviously close miked and there is no ambient noise of any kind, but it's been noted that there's also a curious lack of any breathing sounds whatsoever.

Very difficult for most people to accomplish this, although voice training and and expert use of top-notch studio equipment and DSP's can reduce it almost to inaudibility.

However, this lack of breathing is also a distinct characteristic of AI generated voices.
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This is bollocks.

I have a degree in sound recording, and being able to spot this bollocks as being, well, utter bollocks may be the only time it has come in useful.

Hooray.
 
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Anyone who has being paying the slightest attention will have noticed the absence of breathing sounds in artificially generated voices, and some will understand why this is so.
 
AI voices don't have breathing, but not all recordings without audible breathing are AI voices. It's not difficult.
 
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What? What am I full of?

Feel free to provide any material to support your bollocks claims regarding audio recording of the human voice, especially in the context of a professionally produced and edited documentary.
 
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