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Russell Brand is the exception that proves the rule.

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Often I've been utterly shocked to learn of a movie star's political leanings after watching their performance in a film where they played a character the complete opposite to their own. It's called "acting" for a reason. Actors and other performers make their living pleasing their audience... So, since money talks in this capitalist world, they do their best performances for their corporate masters. Ah, to be able to act, sing, write, paint, sculpt and not have to please freakin' capitalists to make a living!

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Thanks for the reminder about celebrity, Caitlin. I once listened to an interview Russell Brand did with Sadhguru and I couldn't stand the guy. So full of himself! And I've taken Bono with a mountain of salt since he wrote the preface for Jeffrey Sachs' The End of Poverty. But Steven King truly puzzles me. I just posted an episode on Nina Jankowicz the Warbling Warmonger here: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/nina-jankowicz-the-warbling-warmonger

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I have said it before:

If the establishment is good at nothing else, it is very good at deciding whom to co-opt, whom to buy off, whom to ignore, whom to neutralize.

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One of the best ways we can fight the onslaught of destructive rhetoric, and corporate censorship is to stop spending money on any business or celebrity who supports the anti American censorship of speech or political views and stop voting for the same idiots who for the past 40 years have put us in this situation. Why do you think Netflix has just attempted to warn its employees that they will tolerate more than one viewpoint? Their stock price has tanked and people have other choices of what to watch. America is not systemically racist and has welcomed people of all religions, races, and economic backgrounds and they have flocked to become Americans. Now we have idiots telling us we are not Americans but split into dozens of groups who should all fight with each other while they pick our pockets and play "Risk" which you know only relies on the roll of the dice to see who wins.

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To be a celebrity, there is no stated requirement for either intelligence or judgement.

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PS this may be help you appreciate that in the USSA there is no true free market capitalism, and that it is centrally planned crony capitalism and theft via social engineering (i.e. illegal "income" taxes):

https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/original-social-engineering-sin?s=w

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Some exceptions I can think of off the top of my head: Russell Brand, Roger Waters, Pamela Anderson. Struggling to come up with other names. One of the pivotal moments of my Twitter experience came in 2016 when I reminded John Cusack that he made the movie War Inc and yet was supporting the fake Russiagate scandal backed by the very MIC that movie satirized. He blocked me immediately. Back in the '80's when I was watching The Sure Thing, I never imagined I'd get to witness firsthand what a sad baby Mr. Cusack is. Tennessee Williams called fame the Bitch Goddess. Seems accurate.

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That was an excellent read!!!!!

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YOu continue to kick serious ass Caitlin....

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Alternate title: Celebs Assist in Manufacturing Consent

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It is all commercial art and pop culture in the end,

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My mom, try as she may, could not deliver adequate milk. Working mothers have a difficult time too. Scumbags is right.

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My first album I ever owned aged 14 was U2's War and I played the crap out of that cassette. I'm embarrassed my teenage self ever idolised that ludicrous poser for so long but they did generally seem sincere. He did have a great voice but that's gone now.

I think Vertigo was their admission that these erstwhile Christian boys had sold their souls to remain in the limelight after they had faded in the years previous to that. "All of this can be yours, just give me what I want and nobody gets hurt"

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Everybody turns. For the right price. Never thought I’d see U2 Bono shove his nose up a war criminal’s ass. Makes me glad we’re going extinct as a species.

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And then there is Roger Waters...

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