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Quotes from the late Christopher Hitchens.
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It always makes me suspicious when you have these “apolitical” businessmen saying:

“I just wanna put the country back on its feet and restore incentives…If the country could be run like USA Inc…with a real can-do guy....”

There’s a whiff of fascism to that, I think.
Christopher Hitchens on business men running for president (1992)
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The late Claud Cockburn, one of the most generous and charming men I have ever encountered, exposed me to the anti-Orwellian view of the Spanish War and other matters when I was twenty years old, and very patiently taught me more than he probably suspected about how to argue dialectically.
March 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as the brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.

["Minority Report," Nation, 10/21/91]
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Minority report. - Free Online Library
Free Online Library: Minority report. (language and politics) (Column) by "The Nation"; News, opinion and commentary Ethics Political aspects Jargon (Terminology) Language and culture Language and et...
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March 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Antonia Hitchens reports from the D.C. Central Detention Facility, which has held some of the January 6th rioters for the past several years. It became a site of celebration and frustration after President Trump pardoned more than 1,500 of them.
Donald Trump Throws the Doors to the Patriot Wing Open
More than fifteen hundred of the January 6th rioters were pardoned by the President. What will they do next?
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January 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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No kidding, this is a line of dialogue from a 1970 movie funded by the Russian government.
February 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It always makes me suspicious when you have these “apolitical” businessmen saying:

“I just wanna put the country back on its feet and restore incentives…If the country could be run like USA Inc…with a real can-do guy....”

There’s a whiff of fascism to that, I think.
Christopher Hitchens on business men running for president (1992)
YouTube video by Christopher Hitchens Youtube
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM