Is Russell Brand the smartest dude in the media right now ? (srs)

[NeverGiveUp87]

He's a weirdo. Slays so much poon somehow lol.

[Mattash2g]

He likes to think he is.

[Thunderkunt99]

ITT bunch of haters hating on the fact that his charisma, charm and intelligence scores him gallons of 'tang on the reg that most bodybuilders could only dream of.


dont worry guys i hate him too.

[magog704]

if you're a critical leftist you think that humans are perfect and that entrenched institutions prevent them from achieving their final form.

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

no, anyone who believes that the solution to too much government is more government is misguided.

[Fist-Of-Freedom]

Best charisma on TV? Bet your ass..

Smartest? Just LOL

It's funny to see people get woo'ed by someone articulate.

[doctoroctopus]

and im certainly not for his alternative. but i understand why he advocates this. he meditates a ton and speaks heavily on us all being "one" in a lot of his videos. whether or not you believe we are all the same thing at a base level if you accepted the fact we are all god living in various forms why would massive redistribution of wealth to allow every single human (each and every life you live) to be free of financial worries be a bad thing.

Um because we're not all the same?

[ironicinori]

"Wherever there is profit there is also deficit"

[SHBarton]

dont understand how people can disagree with that video, i mean theres a lot he left out and he certainly isnt the smartest but he's right our political system caters to the elite and third world countries resources exploited for corporate gain. then again most people are dumb as fuk so these replies make sense

Agree. What he's asking for is feasible and it just makes sense.

[Fist-Of-Freedom]

Agree. What he's asking for is feasible and it just makes sense.

lol.

this country is fuked.

[jro9999]

I don't think you are anywhere near knowledgeable enough on this topic to have a conversation with, highlighted by what you said here;

"similar people from similar poor backgrounds are quickly realizing that there is a bigger problem going on and that the system that's been in place for hundreds of years is not working for the greater sum of people but instead only for a tiny fraction."

This is entirely wrong. Read up on the proletariat and bourgeoisie from the Marxist theory. The understanding that capitalism leads to a small percent of people owning the vast majority of the wealth has been around for hundreds of years. It's not a new revelation that came about a few years after Dharma and Greg went off the air. So no, Brand is not right.

I did watch the interview in it's entirety, and my point still stands. He doesn't offer any ideas regarding how to fix the problem, he just points out the well-known problems. People have been discussing the problems with capitalism forever. Saying discussion is a valid solution is retarded. Capitalism is not a new phenomenon.

You're the type of person who would fart into a wine glass then bring the glass to your nose as you take a big whiff to breathe it all in, just basking in your own smug arrogance all over this thread

"you're not smart enough to have a conversation with me so I'm gonna go ahead and tell you you're wrong, then name drop and masturbate my ego some more"

How am i "entirely wrong" - the "proletariat" you're creaming your pants over referencing might have been exploited and over worked but there was never a global platform for any type of discussion. Information has never been available like it is now. How is brand wrong? The second you claim he's wrong is the second you claim criticism and critical thinking is wrong. Even if you try to discredit his personal opinions, you cannot possibly discredit being critical and challenging status quo by invoking discussion.

[BjornTheBear]

[nzgs]

Agree. What he's asking for is feasible and it just makes sense.

I must have watched a different video because he didn't ask for anything, he just made a few vague complaints and acted like a victim of evil white greed. The guy is a millionaire who would be nothing if it wasn't for free-market capitalism. He'd still be doing drugs probably, total loser. I especially found it funny how he pointed out Conservative party funding as if it is some evil conspiracy, when the british broadcasting company spends THREE TIMES as much on covering the Labour party than it does on the Tories who are the dominant political party. He's a total mug who probably got all his views from marxist T-shirts with catchy slogans.

He's the archetypal left-winger; doesn't know what he wants, doesn't know how economics work, doesn't understand the consequences of his own vague belief. He just has a childish bitterness towards free-market economics and people in positions of power. What's sad is that despite not saying anything with any substance, he can fool millions of people into agreeing with him. That's the magnetic power of charisma.

[beepec]

'redistribution of wealth' to me just sounds like 'the waitress who dropped out of school to be an actress should get some of the guy who studied 10 years to become a neurosurgeon's money'.

yeah it's a bit unfair the world works now but lessening the financial gap between people who don't work very hard and those who do work hard just discourages people to work hard.

[i1983]

"Wherever there is profit there is also deficit"

lol'd hard when I heard that

[JonnyStead]

He is a guy who spouts ideological solutions which whilst sound sort of interesting until you think about them (a bit like nailing ******** - worthy of a thought but immediately dismissed when thought through) are actually just philosophical diatribes where he has pinched theories from different sources and then mashed them up. I have a friend who told me non-stop from about 2000 to 2007 that the economy would crash and the told me how right he was when it did. Problem is - during that period he couldn't intelligently explain WHY it would collapse - it was a guess and actually was inevitable at SOME point because of the nature of a cyclical world economic environment. Is he a genius? No - he's actually about one IQ point above moron, but now he thinks he is.

Just like Russell Brand.

[Babalu1]

How am i "entirely wrong" - the "proletariat and bourgeoisie" you're creaming your pants over referencing might have been exploited and over worked but there was never a global platform for any type of discussion. Information has never been available like it is now. How is brand wrong?

So you think the poorest people in the world, those who are exploited for labour, live in terrible conditions and are forced to work under fear of death have the same access we have? These kids in sweatshops have twitter accounts? They phone other poor people around the world and plot ways of starting a revolution? You think these people have a "global platform for discussion"?

WE have the readily available information, WE have the enhanced platform for discussion. You think exploited workers are only now realising the situation? As I said, what is happening now has been happening for centuries and isn't going to change through Ipads and Smartphones.

I apologise if I offended you, I'm not being smug, it's just frustrating that you have such a strong opinion on something that you don't know much about.

[xibalba]

he talks a lot but doesn't really say anything

british accent + large words used out of context = intelligent sounding apparently

[magog704]

So you think the poorest people in the world, those who are exploited for labour, live in terrible conditions and are forced to work under fear of death have the same access we have? These kids in sweatshops have twitter accounts? They phone other poor people around the world and plot ways of starting a revolution? You think these people have a "global platform for discussion"?

he didnt really say anything about impoverished emerging economies though. no ones talking about marange diamond mines.

a critical leftist says "if we can save just one" without ever coming to terms with "at the cost of wat?"

[Uncle-Phil]

I said this once, and I'll say it again:

He seems pretty cool and witty until you realize what he's actually saying.

He's a living cliche of Hollywood celebrities who has strong political opinions based on his warped views out of his multimillion dollar mansion windows.

No disrespect, but go get a job. Earn some money and gain some life experience. Watch your measly earnings get taxed out the ass, then tell me if you still want his autographed poster on your wall.

BRB Talk **** about companies for making profits
BRB Has his own company called " Vanity Projects" to make profits

[magog704]

you got that frum vikeez, wark in essex cawnee? yeh i read that too.

[MaximosJ]

please be trolling ausbrah, he is the definition of pseudo intellectual.

Not too keen on him. He deliberately tries to use unnecessarily long words in order to confuse people and try and make himself look more intelligent than he really is.

Keeps going on about how the underclass or whatever aren't represented at the elections. Well what is his alternative?

Superfluous use of complex and unusual vocab in order to appear smarter than he really is. Good at speaking, but the things he says have that there idealistic naiveté that you'd expect out of a 15-year-old teenager who thinks that they can solve all of the world's problems and then some with unrealistic ideas that sound somewhat plausible when they're far from it.

^All of these. I said it in another thread here: he has a really impressive ability to respond to questions/comments very rapidly using phrases that sound deep and employ good vocabulary, but I ultimately think he's full of it and that there's not much below the surface. Legitimately think that he could lead tons of people into a cult, though, if he decided to try that.

[Ragana]

he talks a lot but doesn't really say anything

british accent + large words used out of context = intelligent sounding apparently

Pretty much this exactly. He took 10 minutes to say something that could have been said in 30 seconds.

[magog704]

if you liked what he had to say, there's tons of free reading material here:

http://www.marxists.org/

[Ragana]

if you liked what he had to say, there's tons of free reading material here:

http://www.marxists.org/

Yes, let's all turn to Communist now..

Seriously, STFU. I lived in a Communist country and these ideas are fuking moronic.

[weightsbrah]

lol@anyone impressed with his verbose and facile verbal diarrhea. economics, not even once.

[wgoodman]

A lot of truth in his words, but a lot of shady stuff as well, and he still doesn't seem to actually understand the problem.

"Alternatives", a different "system". People just aren't getting it. There can't be a system, it's the "system" which is the problem in the first place. Go ahead, devise a new system with a new set of leaders with good morales and good principles for the people. Guess what, it's going to fail, because the very ideology behind a few select group of leaders dictating the rules and norms for the rest of the population is irrational and doesn't make any sense what so ever. It doesn't matter if they have good incentives to start out with, in the end, it always leads to tyranny.

How about no system, no centralised power, freedom for every single individual walking planet earth. Shove your systems up your ass, because none of them fcking work.

[dixon]

Pictures like that perpetuate the nonsense that economics is a science or more than a social science which is patently untrue. I've studied economics so I know this and I will say that economics is so biased if it were a science it'd be akin to conducting every experiment in your livingroom and being graded by your best friends.

In other words, you disagree with the conclusions of economics (such as free trade) so therefore you think there is no such thing as opportunity cost, people can be everywhere at once and taking two contradictory actions at once, that certain regularities like specialization and the division of labour don't lead to productivity gains.

Newsflash: You take the position of the German historical school, who were defeated in arguments on the epistemology of economics a long time ago. Please read before taking a position on the epistemology of economics. Human Action by Ludwig von Mises thoroughly repudiates the ideas of the German historical school which claims that there are no economic regularities.

[dixon]

"Wherever there is profit there is also deficit"

Yeah its a laugh. In a way he's right though--there is a deficit of the good being supplied. The profits indicate that the producer should make more of that good. That's one of the reasons why profits are a great thing--they drive production into the goods that consumers desire.

Without profit, there is no way to know how to allocate resources. http://mises.org/econcalc.asp

[weightsbrah]

Yeah its a laugh. In a way he's right though--there is a deficit of the good being supplied. The profits indicate that the producer should make more of that good. That's one of the reasons why profits are a great thing--they drive production into the goods that consumers desire.

Without profit, there is no way to know how to allocate resources.

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