Brand claims that the UK Government and “the media” are out to get him!

  • ReCursing@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    He’s gone right wing? I didn’t know that. I’ve not listened to anything he said in… well… ever. I was vaguely aware of him shouting lefty stuff a few years back but never paid much attention

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      1 year ago

      He jumped the horseshoe. The fringes of right-wing extremism and left-wing extremism often end up having rather a lot in common - it’s easy for people who define themselves against the mainstream first (and only for something second) to find themselves agreeing a lot with people who are notionally at the other end of the spectrum.

      In Russell Brand’s case, that meant embracing anti-vaxism, Covid denial, climate change denial, 5G conspiracies, etc. George Galloway did it by embracing Farage and trying to get selected as a candidate for the Brexit Party. Claire Fox went from a pro-IRA Revolutionary Communist Party activist and co-publisher of the Living Marxism magazine to a Brexit Party MEP. In the US, you see a lot of notionally right-wing US Republicans now starting to spout anti-capitalist narratives. At the fringes of politics, this sort of horseshoe-jumping happens all the time.