>>18876711Let's talk about Christopher Hitchens. Christopher Hitchens' entire career was saying leftist things 90% of the time and then suddenly saying something wildly inconsistent and rightwing in order to draw attention. He was mostly just an entertainer, presenting subverting the reader's expectations as integrity and impartiality. The only thing he was probably consistent on was opposition to organized religion.
>Pro-women but anti-abortion, but also opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade>The Vietnam war was a criminal act of US aggression founded on lies but the Iraq war was justified>Member of the Labour party but abandoned it when it went "too far right" in the '60s and '70s. Then "secretly hoped" Thatcher would become PM, then voted for the Labour party again under Tony Blair, then abandoned it again under Gordon Brown.>Hates genocide but Columbus day should be celebrated since the extermination of the Americas was not unique, since it "happen to be the way history is made," "to complain about them is as empty as complaint about climatic, geological or tectonic shift," and the creation of the US was good for the world in the long term and it was worth the price.>Worried the GOP's tendency to build a colossal deficit each time they were in office and then leave behind a massive recession for everyone to clean up while distracting the country with trivial cultural divides and tribal hatreds would wreck the country in the long term, but kept supporting them>US was the world's "last, best hope" against the rising tide of Islamofascism, even while the US had been overthrowing democracies in the Middle East (and the rest of the third world) for half a century in favor of setting up tinpot dictatorships and funding religious extremists>Economic libertarianism is bad but our neoliberal policies designed to reduce third world countries to feudal states dependent on us is actually good>Had to be waterboarded personally to find out it was torture 
