Oh its perfectly OK to die for your personal beliefs, just not ideology or religion.

A revolution by definition leads to a change of government, just not by vote, so the guys who want to be the new government should be expected to promise you something if you help them. Do they ever deliver?

If you take part in a revolution for your own personal reasons, no ideology involved at all (like Russell :-) and no trust in any promises promised, than that is OK too. Im pretty sure fighting for freedom is OK, so if a side-effect of a revolution is more freedom for individuals, fine.

Which revolutions have had positive outcomes? Which new government installed by a revolution has had a better long termish (more than just opening the safe and handing out the money) track record than the one overthrown?

Actually I can easily think of some revolutions that have had positive outcomes overall, but they were really counter-revolutions, reinstating some form of democracy where a revolution or coup had previously "succeeded".

Dont worry, hardly anyone cares what I think :-)

I enjoy listening to Russel Brand as a comedian very much but people should not die for ideology or religion.

People die and useful stuff gets destroyed in revolutions. Also which revolution has ever actually brought about the implementation of what was promised to start it, in a good way? I mean besides the industrial revolution, obviously :-) And independence wars dont count as revolutions.

Your video, Russell Brand to Jon Snow; "Listen you, Let me Talk", has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This comment stream shows that the interviewer succeeded in what he apparently set out to do -- derail the conversation into something other than what Russell Brand came to talk about.

Changing society's approach to drug laws and drug treatment.

It is a complete canard to say that Brand can't talk about using the existing system to change the drug situation because Brand doesn't like the current system. So what if he doesn't like it? He is going to stop trying to fix things?

So far, all the comments aren't about Brand's perspective on drug laws. They are off and running on a side issue.

And that is how the system doesn't change. False equivalencies, derailment from the topic, and nobody even notices.

Fuck.

Your video, Russell Peters - Chinese, Indians, Jamaicans, Italians, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Ya, Reverse Racism would be a white person making white jokes, or Black making black one...

Racism is Racism
I have nothing against race jokes, as long as they aren't done with Hate.
Russell Peters does the best race jokes!
http://videosift.com/video/Russell-Peters-Chinese-Indians-Jamaicans-Italians

You've never been near a Jack Russell Terrorist have you?

The problem would be getting him to stop before passing out.

WOW RUSSEL IS A GENIUS. To think he was planning this for over a year! Truly a visionary. The next M Night Shyamalan???/

I had a neighbor with a 6 foot wooden fence and an electric wire on top. His Jack Russel Terrier would climb over it. He whimpered and cried all the way, but he got out, again and again.

And one day, he got out and a pack of coyotes ate him.

Not sure of the moral of this story.

Actually, I'm an atheist because my local pastor was a cool guy who used to play table football and billiards at my grandmother's pub. And when he realized that many of us couldn't take the stories of the Bible seriously, he never pushed any of his beliefs onto us. So you might say it never took root with me.

The humanistic education of a German gymnasium did the rest. When the internet came along at the turn of the century, with its ready access to the likes of Bertrand Russell and, much later, Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, deGrasse Tyson, it merely pushed my attitude from not caring about organized religion into open confrontation with it. Though to be honest, I prefer not to bring up religion in a discussion, ever. It has the uncanny tendency to derail any conversation.

That said, science, specifically my training as a computer scientist, had no part in it. I was a passive atheist long before I took any of my education seriously, aka university.

Upvote again because ChaosEngine hated on it (edit: Russel Brand's comedy sucks balls but he has great insights (sometimes funny) as he's been through many wringers-

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Eventually, you'll end up on the receiving end of rants of mine that are neither informative nor entertaining. Rage and anger is my very own recipe to prevent depression, so it's bound to happen sooner rather than later.

But hey, Russell Brand will be on this side of the Channel in early February, maybe that'll be enough to lift the spirits for a couple of months.

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