Now he will get to enjoy a nice decade of interruption free Bible study time! This is actually a huge win for him.
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
I pray he finds many rods and staves to comfort him in there.
As do I …we love this for our holy men… and holey they are.
I will never understand how one can have so much money and success just to throw it all away for something so stupid and vile.
Money is power, and power corrupts. People come to think they are above law, and unfortunately, it is often the case.
I’d like to think I’d fuck off to some remote cabin personally, never to be heard from again.
Me too, if I suddenly ran into a lot of money, you just wouldn’t ever hear from me again.
The guy behind him is a copy. At least give him 5 years too, just to make sure shit doesn’t repeat itself.
He gets the Bill Cosby lifetime achievement award.
How bloody infuriating is it that I’m STILL arguing with people who are confidently saying that he was stitched up! They aren’t the brightest but still they seem to ignore his financial might thrown into his legal defences. What do those morons think they know that the court is missing?
Defending random celebrities is always weird to me. Can you believe that he would do that? Well yes, i’m not in a parasocial relationship with them.
The conservative sub was malding over this.
Like, was he even known for his politics? I knew him as a weird actor whose primary vehicle for comedy was just being a weird oddball. They really will just defend any sex criminal?
He was a very prominent left-wing figure, and then-Labour leader Ed Milliband visited him at home to ask for his endorsement in the 2015 election.
Since his behaviour became more publicly known, he took a dive to the far right and has appeared in public with the likes of Fucker Carlson.
He was an outspoken Leftist campaigner in the early 2010s. Then when more and more stories started getting spread about his rapey antics, nobody on the Left would talk to him any more and he had to go find some new friends.
He started being very US politics on his podcast for a bit and then he switched over to Christianity and conservative grift.
am I imagining it or did he do a baptism with jd vance?
I’m fairly sure he was being groomed to be peter thiel’s new pope
I guess I just missed all that. I would see a random clip from him on Fox here and there but didn’t realize he was “known” for politics
yea he is, at least the start of covid he pivoted hard, i kept seeing him on my feed unintentionally, and when not logging in youtube during that time. he probably suspected this was going to happen eventually.
Glad he’s doing Timey Wime.
Take a look at Stewart Lee’s standup routine bit on Russell Brand from years ago, it’s hilarious!
Do Jared Leto next!
Wait. Are they different people?! WTF?
Guess he didn’t fake Christian hard enough
He picked the wrong religion.
No, you don’t get it.
He’s gonna find that passage in Isaiah any moment now!
Jeez. I was about to say the opposite, that he fits the conservative xtian stereotype pretty well. But both statements look correct to me.
To be fair, conservatives are the best fakers of Christianity around.
I don’t remember very well right now but I think when I used to watch him in conversations from like 15 years ago I’m pretty sure he was doing the enlightened atheist stuff. At the very least I’m almost certain his philosophy ramblings never mentioned god, it would’ve turned me off him even way back then.
He was!!! Then the whole space turned against because of the rape stuff came out. Turns out people who think about morality don’t wanna follow a rapist.
he took too long to convert, shouldve done it before covid, then he has a base where he can gauge reactions from.
“Under English law, the maximum sentence for rape is life imprisonment, and 10 years for one count of sexual assault, according to Britain’s sentencing council.”
This guy got basically sentenced for one + half a year of the 3 assaults and not caunting the 1 rape
He got 10 more years than the epstein pedogang though.
With Brand’s history and lifestyle, 10 years night still be a life sentence.
just imagine how many religions he can get into now
Authentic picture of Russell Brand.
- 2036 (colorized)
he shouldve went hard into islam like tate is, especially with how woman are viewed under incel muslim/fundamentalism.
The fundamental Christian he was pretending to be don’t treat them any better.
Kegsbtrath’s pastor thinks if they’re married, they shouldnt vote.
It will be interesting to see how he goes.
I have found that, nowadays if media exposure gets taken away, a lot of people tend to chill out and drift more left leaning. Right leaning thinking for many tends to require constant nudging to keep people in that camp. So being isolated from that feed might do him some good. It will at least do the world some good.
I’m not saying, “take away the media and all is well” but there is a section of society that is heavily swayed by it.
a lot of people aren’t rapists either, regardless of media exposure
Very true. I don’t expect that drive in him to change much beyond any kind of self introspection. But maybe his divisive rhetoric changes. Or he just become vindictive and it just gets much worse.
Honestly, I am just sick of talking about Brand. He is a odd manipulative sex pest goblin, goodbye to him.
Being a high profile sex offender in a jail 18 months could turn out to be a life sentence
There are rumours that he already has a fan club in jail and cowers his way into the mess hall and back to his cell every day.
IIRC, he wanted it like that enough to find away to Spike his stay. Pun Buffilly intended.
he will be too old to peddle any pundits to gain back fame by then.
He probably won’t serve all ten years, assuming good behavior
7 years then the British equivalent of parole. It’s in the article.
Not the British equivalent of parole. Just parole. And that’s not automatic.
There’s a first time for everything!
Those are maximum sentences for Category 1 though, and would be given for extreme cases.
It looks like Brand was sentenced on a Category 2 rape, which has a starting point of 10y custody.
Good, one more rapey, creepy, rich cunt not walking the streets. Now if only the US would start doing the same things to our rich, rapey cunts. We should start with the orange molester in chief.
If you’re feeling upset about the length of the sentence, think about where you were ten years ago and you’ll quickly realize that ten years go by very slowly. That’s a huge chunk of life when you really think about it. It’s only the number itself that looks small
There’s something to say about the fact he will be only 61 when he gets out, though. It does give one anxiety, doesn’t it? It’s not like he’ll be old and frail
Some people have a warped view of punishment and will always demand more punishment. Especially for lighter offenses, they think people should go to prison for decades, it’s insane. They’d have people quartered again if they could have their way
I’ve seen plenty of folks argue for the death penalty for rapists. Blows my mind a bit, speaking as a survivor. I’m also against the death penalty in general, though, and that’s unfortunately not the most popular opinion. Gallup puts it at 49% in support for people convicted of murder as of this year, and Pew Research has it at a whopping 66%.
Wait’ll you get older. I still think of covid like it ended last year.
The last 10 years feel simultaneously like an eternity and like a blink of an eye…
Still… seven woman… And probably more out there… And ONLY 10 years?
Still… seven woman…
*women. So far. Apparently more are coming forward, maybe his sentence will increase.
Yeah sorry, as a non native speaker these sorts of things trip me up sometimes. :-). Very dependent on auto correct…
This punishment is for one count of rape and three of sexual assault. There were two other rape charges he was cleared of. I assume he would have gotten the maximum sentence otherwise.
That’s not really how sentencing works. He’d have been sentenced for three counts, but wouldn’t get the maximum for each unless they were extreme, talking busting into houses, beatings, abductions, ultra violence etc.
The sentencing guidelines for the category of rape Brand was convicted of are 6-9yrs or 9-13yrs, depending on category.
Yes but no. 10 years should be the absolute minimum in a “singular” rape charge. But come on, to rape 7 women (that we got proof of) & only do 10 years is blasphemous.
Well that’s the thing. He wasn’t convicted of seven counts of rape. This punishment is for one count of rape and three of sexual assault. There were two other rape charges he was cleared of.
Yes but in peoples eyes the accusation is enough and they never follow up past the big headline.
Uhhh, pretty sure most people would consider one rape conviction a pretty goddamn big deal so it’s arguing semantics about the rest.
I’m waiting for the picture of him without sunglasses and his hair shaved off.
What do you call a serial rapist getting ten and a half years?
A GOOD START.
Honestly 10 years feels like roughly the right amount of time, assuming it’s actually 10 years in prison and not 18 months in a celebrity daycamp.
People change a lot in prison. Even a year or two. 10 years of prison later he will be a very very very different person, and I don’t think an additional 5+ years would really make much of a difference.
Yeah, it just also needs to be focusing on rehabilitation during those 10 years. We need to work to ensure the changes are for the better
I was reading that in the UK this translates to 5 years before being eligible for parole.
Which is still a lot for someone who is used to the lifestyle / comfort that Brand had.
I personally feel like 10 full years in prison isn’t enough, but I’m not a judge. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I really just goes to the “Is prison a punishment, a rehabilitation system, or a deterrence”. If someone isn’t rehabilitated after 10 years, then they also won’t be after 20 (IMO). And there are lots of studies that show lengthy sentences don’t really function as a deterrence due to human brains poorly conceptualizing 5 vs 10 vs 15 vs 20 years. At some point it’s just “A long time in jail” and advocating for 10 vs 20 years doesn’t benefit the deterrence aspect. Also, your average violent criminal isn’t thinking “Well I WOULD rape her if it was only 5 years, but since it will be 10, I won’t”
So then it’s just about punishment. And 10 years in jail is a very very intense punishment. Forced to choose, I would take a LOT of other punishments to not have to spend the next 10 years in jail which, for what it’s worth, often leads to rape from others in the prison.
So then it’s just about punishment.
Well, no. It’s mainly about keeping the public safe from his continuing predations.
Amazing you left that out, when not being free to roam and hurt others is the primary issue survivors care about, and they ALL sleep better when their attacker is behind bars. How is that benefit to society even missing?
I don’t give two shits what happens to him personally, but from the moment of remand forward, the number of women he will be able to rape drops immediately from unlimited to pretty much zero.
Yeah that’s a fair point. No point in being a dick about it though.
I don’t give two shits what happens to him personally
So, if there was a magic wand that made every rape convict magically incapable of sexual violence, you would be ok with them being set free with no time served?
That’s a nonsensical equivalence. Saying I don’t care about what happens to Brand personally != not caring about his personal effect on other individuals or society. That I do, and specifically how, I have already made clear.
From working in some prisons not in America the rwpe isn’t really a thing anymore. There are enough willing people.
According to this
The survey of 27,541 state and federal inmates found that some 4.1 percent of adult prison inmates reported being sexually victimized in state and federal prisons during the prior 12 months
So yeah still quite common. At least in American federal prisons.
Real numbers are higher for sure than 4.1%, but i actually expected it to be worse if you look at how US prisons are run.
Yeah, he’ll probably be disappointed.
The judge stated a minimum term of 7 years before he can apply for release on licence. He will be on the sex offenders register for life, forever having to report his whereabouts, every time he moves address etc.
Does that follow you if you move countries?
The better question is which countries actually give a sentenced, high-profile rapist without a cent on him and on parole the opportunity to move to them.
I was more meaning that there are other cases coming. But yeah, the sentence seems… sentencing is difficult. Can any time truly make up for violent crimes? But yet there must be serious consequences.
There’s already two more women who have come forward, and more are being encouraged to as well, so you got this right
yeah, exactly what I was meaning to reference. I mean, who knows, maybe these were the only incidents and he’s completely innocent of all the others.
…seems extremely unlikely, though
I’m surprised it is that much. I know someone who went down for rape with someone under age and sexual misconduct with someone else underage and he got 6 years. Probably serve 4 years I guess, for permanently destroying two peoples’ lives. Ridiculous.
I saw a Facebook story about his convictions and there were so many people in the comments saying he is just being silenced for his views and he’s an innocent man being done wrong by attention seekers.
Facebook is such a bin fire sometimes…
Only sometimes??
