Russell Brand, that ever-controversial comedian-commentator, has just set off another rhetorical grenade in the digital square. His latest tweet? Such a contents question: ‘Why so many people bother about DOGE? Not a good thing to cut government expenditure?’ Cue net loses its collective mind-as it does when Brand gets into political debate.
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The tweet is so brand: provocative, vaguely philosophical, and dripping with that classic skepticism toward mainstream narratives. The replies, though, oh man, the replies are the muddled things.Sometime it appears like some one has the secret of life and sometimes it lured actually by them.
Thus, Fred Cote, shooting back: ‘This is the control the mockingbird media has on our society, so sad.’ Short, bitter, and to the point; like shot espresso with conspiracy theories. Here is MicStanz17 turn outright partisan: “Because they’re demorats and hate hard work.” Misspell, yet, it’s clear: this is no longer about DOGE; it’s about a war of ideologies.
Well, he is not just on his cultist path. Madboar also offered a much more qualified take such as: “The process for doing so is what matters. There is a right way to do this and a wrong way. Appointing a billionaire and his team to cut and burn through the books of the United States government is the absolutely wrong way to make these cuts.”
Fair enough, it is perhaps not so simple as “cut spending, save money.” Then there are also the wild card type replies-like Scottie11379, who chose to pivot hard with: “Did you really rape all those women? Would u remember if u were extremely under the influence of drugs and alcohol?”-yikes. That’s… definitely not where we thought this was going. But hey, when you’re Russell Brand, every tweet is an Rorschach test from the internet’s id.
Besides, let’s not forget about daha muckers who directly mocked him. Sean Keller quipped: ‘instead of really doing something useful to society like (checks notes) podcasting.’ Ouch. But also… kinda fair?
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What would be the summation message of here? This tweet of Brand, like much of his other stuff, is really just meant to expose. And it has indeed done some exposure. Whether condemned or hailed, the thing about DOGE is one that people take personally, downright personal. And in this modern world, social platforms are worth dollars in feelings.
This story originally appeared on Celebrityinsider
