While he has always been a contrarian, the Forgetting Sarah Marshall actor has drifted from being a mainstream comedian with leftwing views to something of a figurehead for the online alt-right in recent years
Really? I’d have said he’s a figurehead for the alt left
Edit. I stand corrected. Shame, I used to like his stuff
He sort of could’ve been if he stuck with his psudo-hippy crap. Then he started decrying science and vaccines and hanging out with rightoids. The left actually believes in science and doesn’t like obnoxious charlatans like Peterson or Rogan, so his audience shifted.
More like was hoping to drag more vulnerable tacitly-left people to the right with him. He clearly decided to shift his rhetoric. There was no way in hell his audience was staying the same. He also shifted way too hard to make it subtle, so anyone with strong axioms was right out too.
I guess the shift would have been around the time he began
promoting an energetic blend of conspiracy theories, COVID denial, and the liberal use of capital letters, with videos like “The TRUTH About Pfizer” and “The CDC Are SPYING On You,"
promoting ivermectin for viral infections, and hanging out with Tucker Carlson.
Really? I’d have said he’s a figurehead for the alt left
Edit. I stand corrected. Shame, I used to like his stuff
He sort of could’ve been if he stuck with his psudo-hippy crap. Then he started decrying science and vaccines and hanging out with rightoids. The left actually believes in science and doesn’t like obnoxious charlatans like Peterson or Rogan, so his audience shifted.
I’ve known an extreme hippy be antivax before, so maybe that was the route he took
More like was hoping to drag more vulnerable tacitly-left people to the right with him. He clearly decided to shift his rhetoric. There was no way in hell his audience was staying the same. He also shifted way too hard to make it subtle, so anyone with strong axioms was right out too.
Many hippies I know are completely anti western medicine so being antivax is kind of a given for them.
Thanks, I haven’t followed his stuff since he found god
It’s always the religious lot… tssk.
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I guess the shift would have been around the time he began
promoting ivermectin for viral infections, and hanging out with Tucker Carlson.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34zd9/russell-brand-ivermectin https://deadline.com/2023/07/tucker-carlson-fox-firing-reaction-russell-brand-interview-1235431938/
Yep, that’ll do it. Thanks, happy to be corrected :)
genuinely curious, what is the alt left in your view?
It’s a term reactionaries invented to promote horseshoe theory bullshit and general whataboutism. It’s basically a dogwhistle
What’s the ‘alt-left’ when it’s at home?