Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "The Russell Brand divide: Could both sides be right?" video.

  1. ​ @angelrojo6466 Not sure if you're simply a provocateur, but why should the content he puts out - whether you agree with it or not - be grounds for removing his liberty and livelihood simply on the basis of as yet unproven accusations?
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  2. Two legacy media organisations, one owned by Murdoch the other essentially by the state, spending 4 years and huge amounts of precious, allegedly squeezed resources trying to bring one single anti-establishment new media figure down isn't an orchestrated effort? Pull the other one it's got bells on it😂
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  3. I like Mary Harrington a lot, but her constant references to 'priapic excesses' are very clearly meant to suggest a male power dynamic in which women are ALL somehow fragile paper boats powerless to resist its treacherous overwhelming currents. It is a matter of record that thousands of women make it their business to actively pursue people like Brand with a view to getting a notch in their proverbial bed posts. This isn't automatically always a one way street policed solely by an oppressive male patriarchy as Mary Harrington is disingenuously seeking to imply.
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  4. Russell Brand, certainly in the past, was an unreconstructed, frequently appallingly behaved d!ck and I suspect he would freely admit that now. Sachsgate was a real nadir and is something that should haunt him and 'Wossy' to their graves. At least Brand had the vague excuse of addiction there, unlike Ross. That said, there seems to be this bizarre refusal to understand that literally thousands of young women in his less than glorious heyday were literally throwing themselves at him on a daily basis. They weren't his victims. They weren't mindless automatons. They weren't cynically manipulated idiots. They were, and let's be brutally honest and grown up here, after a sh@g and, ideally, a relationship with the openly admitted sex addict and bad boy Russell Brand. They weren't after his autograph or a cosy fireside chat FFS. They were after a piece of the man and he inevitably duly obliged. Yes, it's sordid, but all those pearl clutchers out there feigning shock and disgust that he should apparently be taking advantage of these supposedly sweet innocent souls either need to grow up or ask themselves what it is that's truly motivating their animus.
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  5. In terms of the time factor in these matters Democrat NY actually changed its statute of limitations specifically in order to pursue the Trump civil rape case. His accuser couldn't even remember when the alleged assault took place and it was basically her word against his. To make matters worse if no other women come forward to avail themselves of this law change within 6 months it will revert to its original state. Hence the reason they've been imploring other women to come forward to try and justify its change so that it doesn't look like the political move to get Trump it so obviously was.
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