Yeah, like when he stopped talking about evolutionary biology and started talking about how awful islamic people are, right?
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right?
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the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
What a fucking fall from grace. I used to (possibly wrongly) believe he was a very intelligent man but the more he opens his mouth the more convinced I get that he is an absolute moron.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s at least one bullet point in a very long list.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
They correctly answered the easiest question in the universe, but because it wasn’t very popular thing to do we collectively decided that they’re smart af.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
I firmly believe the only reason we still (at least kinda) respect Hitch was because he’s fucking dead, and we didn’t see him show his whole ass like the rest of the “new atheism” movement…
canniest_tod@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
His support for invading Iraq was pretty bad.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Christopher “Fuck it man, waterboarding is nothing, do it to me brah, oh no, it actually does feel like I’m drowning, oh well, I guess the propaganda damage I did is irreversible, I guess I shouldn’t have been such a cocksure arsehole” Hitchens?
That one ?
GelatinGeorge@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
At least he put his damp cloth where his mouth was. And then conceded he was categorically incorrect and it was absolutely torture. I disagree with a lot of his takes (Iraq war was justified?) but that one I actually respect him for