Current Events > Russel Brand on Sweden Banning Sexist Commercials

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXe1Vy8hSsk

Are they right?

Typical armchair psychology/spiritualist bullshit.

People have been drawing attractive females since humans discovered you could put pigments on cave walls. Why? Because they're the ones that make babies and therefore way less expendable than men. It makes sense for us to be tuned to appreciating healthy and attractive women.
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something about his voice and/or accent just make me want to go deaf
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Russell Brand should basically be ignored for any sort of vaguely political opinion since he actively encouraged people not to vote.
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Didn't this dude fuck Katy Perry?
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50Blessings posted...

Didn't this dude fuck Katy Perry?

And a slew of other famous/attractive women, yeah.

He's a complete idiot in his political opinions, so should ignore anything outside of his comedy/films.
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I dunno, a guy that gets tail like that has to know something about the way the world works.
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He's extremely pretentious
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I didn't watch the video because fuck that guy
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Funkydog posted...

50Blessings posted...

Didn't this dude fuck Katy Perry?

And a slew of other famous/attractive women, yeah.

He's a complete idiot in his political opinions, so should ignore anything outside of his comedy/films.

His perspective on addiction and recovery are well-founded and genuinely helpful, but I agree that his other political views come off pretty uninformed.
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Celebrities in general need to shut up about politics. Or, at the very least, we as a society need to stop acting like their opinions on politics are any more valid/important than those of the guy who rotates your tires.
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Everyone is so mad at this guy.
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DippinSauce posted...

His perspective on addiction and recovery are well-founded and genuinely helpful, but I agree that his other political views come off pretty uninformed.

That's true, yeah. He is pretty great in that from what I recall of them.
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s0nicfan posted...

we as a society need to stop acting like their opinions on politics are any more valid/important than those of the guy who rotates your tires.

If you really wanted to enforce this, you'd have to clamp down on campaign finance rules, else celebrities are going to hold far more sway than mechanics anyways. (I'm speaking of the U.S., I'm unfamiliar with the UK or Sweden's restrictions.)
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Antifar posted...

s0nicfan posted...

we as a society need to stop acting like their opinions on politics are any more valid/important than those of the guy who rotates your tires.

If you really wanted to enforce this, you'd have to clamp down on campaign finance rules, else celebrities are going to hold far more sway than mechanics anyways. (I'm speaking of the U.S., I'm unfamiliar with the UK or Sweden's restrictions.)

I'd LOVE to clamp down on campaign finance rules. In an ideal world, all candidates who pass some initial bar are given the same amount of money and forced to be smart about how they spend it.
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