Russell Brand on Revolution

[Belushi]

I bet it's his cock.

Maybe we should have a poll?

 

[Diana9]

So, um, to bring the discussion back on topic -- did any of you read this article?

After New Era, it's harder than ever to mock Russell Brand as a hypocrite
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...han-ever-to-mock-russell-brand-as-a-hypocrite

 

[cesare]

Maybe we should have a poll?

Make it so ...

 

[Jean-Luc]

I hadn't realise that there was a difference between "cumuppance" and "comeuppance". At any rate Butchers got both.

 

[Pickman's model]

So, um, to bring the discussion back on topic -- did any of you read this article?

you can fuck off and all you dull troll

 

[brogdale]

So, um, to bring the discussion back on topic -- did any of you read this article?

Yes.

British writer and comedian Russell Brand was key to this victory. His support of the campaigners on the ground and on social media led The Independent to describe New Era as “Proof that [his] revolution may actually be working”.

Bollux, isn't it?

 

[Diana9]

you can fuck off and all you dull troll

Wow, your erudition is awe inspiring. Your mother must be proud.

 

[Diana9]

Yes.



Bollux, isn't it?

Your opinion, based on cherry picking one passage, doesn't say much.

 

[brogdale]

Your opinion, based on cherry picking one passage, doesn't say much.

You did ask.
Why don't you have a go, then?

 

[eatmorecheese]

Oh good, another 10 pages then

 

[Diana9]

Ok, since reading and comprehension isn't your thing...

Watch this cartoon Dexter posted earlier and see if you can recognize yourselves.

 

[brogdale]

Ok, since reading and comprehension isn't your thing...

Watch this cartoon Dexter posted earlier and see if you can recognize yourselves.

No, really Diana; rather than re-posting cartoon clips, why don't you (cherry)pick a passage from that Loewenstein piece that would say much?

 

[elbows]

Yes.

Bollux, isn't it?

Quotable bollocks.

He is convincing a legion of followers that there’s more to life than, “do a gram, drop a pill, download an app, eat some crap, get a slap, mind the gap, do a line, Instagram, little grope in the cab”. He acknowledges his luck and wealth while constantly taking the piss out of himself. He likes having money but fears losing it.

Case in point: he is making a documentary about inequality that’s reportedly funded by some of the big bankers he’s going after. Does this neuter his anti-capitalist message? Surely it could instead be seen as a savvy way of culture jamming an establishment that thrives on extravagance.

So what if people like Brand and Moore are sometimes pompous, or narcissistic, or populist, or inconsistent? Or if they don’t correspond with the cliche of the ascetic Marxist revolutionary? What matters is what these multi-millionaires do with their money.

Yes, thats what matters, sure it is. Especially when encouraged to view his 'audience' in terms of supposing them to belong to a certain generation. Then give that generation a silly name, and suppose that without influentialists like Brand, members of this generation would remain too busy munching drugs and the internet to notice important stuff. And lets try to get away with this sloppy narrative without mentioning that this is at least the third of these so-called generations (baby boomers, gen X, gen Y/millenials) to be indulging in this sort of mix of politics/counter-culture/new age stuff, hardly a new phenomenon.

People writing these articles are part of the problem, their initial enthusiasm for the 'leaderless' protests and uprisings and the levelling potential of the internet having given way to this sort of personality-driven pap. The revolution must not be boring says the article and Brand, perhaps confusing superficial excitations with the prolonged excitement of meaningful change.

 

[Pickman's model]

Wow, your erudition is awe inspiring. Your mother must be proud.

my erudition is awe-inspiring. your trollery isn't. your mother must be rather ashamed of your online fuckwittery.

 

[Orang Utan]

Maybe we should have a poll?

Or even a Pole

 

[eatmorecheese]

Ok, since reading and comprehension isn't your thing...

Watch this cartoon Dexter posted earlier and see if you can recognize yourselves.

I'm suitably chastened by your erudition.

 

[Jean-Luc]

Or even a Pole

We should definitely Czech that out.

 

[Diana9]

Quotable bollocks.







Yes, thats what matters, sure it is. Especially when encouraged to view his 'audience' in terms of supposing them to belong to a certain generation. Then give that generation a silly name, and suppose that without influentialists like Brand, members of this generation would remain too busy munching drugs and the internet to notice important stuff. And lets try to get away with this sloppy narrative without mentioning that this is at least the third of these so-called generations (baby boomers, gen X, gen Y/millenials) to be indulging in this sort of mix of politics/counter-culture/new age stuff, hardly a new phenomenon.

People writing these articles are part of the problem, their initial enthusiasm for the 'leaderless' protests and uprisings and the levelling potential of the internet having given way to this sort of personality-driven pap. The revolution must not be boring says the article and Brand, perhaps confusing superficial excitations with the prolonged excitement of meaningful change.

There's nothing confusing about it. An American multi-billion dollar company like Westbrook Partners withdrawing from London's New Era estates, thereby saving the whole community from eviction before Christmas, is very meaningful. That three women could organize a community to accomplish this is meaningful. That Russell Brand could use his celebrity to get mainstream attention for what ordinary people can do when they work together as a community is not only meaningful but also sends a message to the powers-that-be. It's the same message the American patriots sent the British empire when they said: "Don't tread on me!"

Maybe you have to be an American to understand the meaning.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

All that Romains is to try and shoehorn some Latvians into this Bulgering sack of Europuns

 

[Pickman's model]

All that Romains is to try and shoehorn some Latvians into this Bulgering sack of Europuns

irish you a merry xmas and a happy new year

 

[Pickman's model]

There's nothing confusing about it. An American multi-billion dollar company like Westbrook Partners withdrawing from London's New Era estates, thereby saving the whole community from eviction before Christmas, is very meaningful. That three women could organize a community to accomplish this is meaningful. That Russell Brand could use his celebrity to get mainstream attention for what ordinary people can do when they work together as a community is not only meaningful but also sends a message to the powers-that-be. It's the same message the American patriots sent the British empire when they said: "Don't tread on me!"

Maybe you have to be an American to understand the meaning.

you seem to have missed the coverage they'd previously in, inter alia, the pages of the guardian

 

[brogdale]

irish you a merry xmas and a happy new year

Is this really germane?

 

[DotCommunist]

Is this really germane?

I'll greer no more of this punnery

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Norway can I stand any more of this

 

[DotCommunist]

I think you have misunderstood the mogadishu

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Italia what, let's call it a day and we'll say no more

 

[eatmorecheese]

Take this Spain away

 

[DotCommunist]

Ok, since reading and comprehension isn't your thing...

Watch this cartoon Dexter posted earlier and see if you can recognize yourselves.

is this video supposed to show how all the jealous little normal birds won't be nice to the very tall one with plumage? If so it says more than you recon.

 

[brogdale]

Italia what, let's call it a day and we'll say no more

Such slovenly speech.

 

[rekil]

I'm finnish with this thread.