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2016 Postmortem

Waiting For Everyman

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22. Liking people has nothing to do with what's true.

Reply to emulatorloo (Reply #21)

Thu Jun 2, 2016, 12:15 AM

Jun 2016

I don't decide who to trust, and then assume that what those trusted people say is true. I evaluate what's true via my own thinking, entirely separate from who the messenger is. Source snobbery has nothing to do with validity.

It's irrelevant.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] amborin Jun 2016 OP

Wasn't he a huge George W Bush supporter? Doctor Jack Jun 2016 #1

Pro Iraq war, but virulant Clinton hater emulatorloo Jun 2016 #2

Christopher Hitchens was a life long socialist who went a little nuts after 9/11. bjo59 Jun 2016 #3

And then when he was in a room with Andrew Sullivan shit would really go off the rails Recursion Jun 2016 #12

Yes he was still_one Jun 2016 #7

Hitchens was pretty weird on all of it Scootaloo Jun 2016 #11

What an interesting video! Waiting For Everyman Jun 2016 #4

Fascinating as fuck if you like drunken Bush apologists who smear mothers of fallen soldiers. emulatorloo Jun 2016 #21

Liking people has nothing to do with what's true. Waiting For Everyman Jun 2016 #22

Liars lie. emulatorloo Jun 2016 #23

Don't know anything about Hitchens do you? JoePhilly Jun 2016 #5

He's a drunken, Islamophobic, warmongering sexist mwrguy Jun 2016 #6

you nailed it. still_one Jun 2016 #8

No. He's dead. He WAS all of those things, but he was more than that. DisgustipatedinCA Jun 2016 #16

+1 emulatorloo Jun 2016 #18

Very concise, very accurate. okasha Jun 2016 #20

that was enlightening, thanks. grasswire Jun 2016 #9

You'll find this even more enlightening emulatorloo Jun 2016 #13

Savor It: Transcript of Jon STEWART's Smackdown of HITCHENS emulatorloo Jun 2016 #10

thanks rbrnmw Jun 2016 #14

You are damn welcome. emulatorloo Jun 2016 #15

I know I couldn't stand him rbrnmw Jun 2016 #19

That raging drunk? RandySF Jun 2016 #17