Maybe Louis C.K. had the Right Idea

Russell Brand is going away for at least 7 years. That’s what the Internet says, anyway. Could be wrong. He was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months for various sex crimes, and if my information is right, the best outcome he can hope for is to be released in 7 years and then get probation.

This case is interesting to me.

Do I think Brand is guilty? Yes. I haven’t looked at the evidence. I may be wrong. But a whole bunch of women accused him, and the finder of fact believed them strongly enough to take away his liberty and ruin his life. I have not seen any evidence that they were lying, unless you count letting him run wild for years after the alleged crimes, and then filing charges much later.

The weird thing is that I instinctively feel bad for Brand, but I had to force myself to consider the suffering of the victims so I could feel sympathy for them.

He seems like such a nice guy. I couldn’t stand him in the only Brand movie I saw, because he was annoying, but he seems nice in his videos.

I am very used to misandry. I am used to seeing false accusations exposed in the news. I’m used to seeing lying women on the web, posting videos falsely claiming oblivious innocent men in gyms were harassing them. Misandry has gotten so bad, it seems natural to assume it’s in play.

Women really do make a lot of false rape accusations. They get exposed all the time. My own sister falsely accused three different men; two in my presence.

My best guess is that Brand did what he was accused of, and if that is true, there are probably other women he has demeaned and made to feel worthless.

A lot of people refuse to accept the verdict. They say there was a conspiracy of leftists. They say Brand was accused solely because he moved away from the far left and became a Christian.

I have no idea whether any of that is true, but it is not reasonable to assume it is.

Here is what I don’t like about the case: assuming Brand is guilty, they let him run amok for over 20 years. While he was perceived as a reliable leftist and eroder of Christian and conservative power, they let him slide.

Why?

It’s just like the Cosby case. Cosby is definitely a rapist. People knew it for a long time. Why didn’t anyone expose him until he told black men to pull their pants up? That is literally what put the wheels of justice in motion.

In his old age, Cosby abruptly decided to break from the left on some small issues, and the next thing you know, leftists suddenly realized he had raped a whole bunch of women.

Showbiz is full of rapists and people who, if not guilty of rape, are guilty of egregious, chronic sexual abuse. Seems like the thing that makes conviction most likely isn’t rape. It’s disagreeing with the woke herd.

Strange times we live in.

I am trying not to feel sorry for Brand. I wouldn’t want him to continue harming women.

One big lesson here is that there is no free sex. Men and fathers love this saying, but for some reason, it makes a lot of women angry.

Fornication carries lots of risks, and some are worse than disease, pregnancy, and child support. Wealthy people who are highly promiscuous trust random individuals with their futures. Any consensual act can later be characterized as rape, and the kind of person who would allow a celebrity or tycoon to fornicate with them is also the kind of person no one should trust.

If you weren’t there, you don’t have to claim it was consensual. That’s the bottom line.