0:12 is a Freemasonic hand gesture. It's documented in official Freemason literature which dates back to the 18th century. "There's something in this 👌 man you admire, something in his writings to which you adhere". Observe the professor in the beige coat. Does he seem uncomfortable? Atheists should live by logic, facts and reason. Knowledge doesn't scare atheists. They welcome all facts. Peter Robinson was a speech writer for late ex-president Ronald Reagan. There is a photo of Peter shaking Regan's hand using the official Freemasonic handshake. George Washington was a Freemason. "Freemason and first President of the United States". In my opinion, being the first POTUS should have been mentioned before Freemason. Could you imagine if someone etched into stone "President Trump, Boy Scout and 45th POTUS"? Why in the hell would Boy Scout be more important than POTUS? Logic, reason, facts, uncensored open dialog and debates with 100% transparency is how we evolve. If my theories do not stand up to the slightest bit of scrutiny, if I can't articulate a logical rationale for my beliefs, explain it in a way reasonable people can understand, or rebut an argument without using ad hominem, actual science is not on my side. Opinions and perspective are subjective, truth is not. There is no "my truth", "your truth", or "their truth". There's is only *the* truth. Freemasons appear to run the world. Is there any way you can refute that statement? Atheists aren't scared of knowledge and truth. Research for yourself. You might want to consider scrolling down past all of the Wiki, corporate and .gov websites. Please read them by all means. But also consider reading those who undermine the corporate and government narrative. Atheists aren't corporate and government establishment shills.

Still waiting for a rebuttal. Trust me, I don't want to be correct. Your admission isn't a win for me. Like you, I still have to live in this crappy world, ruled by an elite class.

Hahaha someone that calls themselves a Trotskyist cannot be a gargantuan intellect. But I guess the bar’s a bit lower over in Brexit-Land

Wishing hitchens to rest in peace??? Irony committed suicide by jumping off of the flat earth..

'There is no peace for the wicked'. It would be wonderful to hear that he had repented at the last moment, but we have no news of that to date.

@@jesusislordsavior6343 0:15 Freemason hand gesture. They can't hide themselves. Watch how Christopher and the man to his left react. "There's something in this man 👌you admire, something in his writings to which you adhere". Observe how the man in the beige coat reacts. He looks noticeably uncomfortable once the 666 hand gesture is made, which is well documented in official Freemasonic literature. Can't believe these things have been in front of my eyes for so long, yet I couldn't or wouldn't see.

@@derp8575 Interesting observation. I've paid very little attention to such things myself. But the gesture couldn't be clearer. Someone might say, 'Big deal, people talk with their hands all the time.' I thought nothing of it when I first saw the video. But why make such a specific gesture in the course of an ordinary conversation?

Are you a Freemason? Your username made me curious.

Education has nothing to do with it, I don’t think. Genetics is most of it; he wouldn’t have been held back from being a genius writer simply by not having taken political science 201.

@@derp8575 you realize that Mason is just a name that people have right?

@@kommi7658 As a matter of fact no. Thank you for the information. Freemasonry is a group that peaks my interest.

@@Tehownilator He wouldn't have had time to write, nor would he have had time to become so knowledgeable if he was working in a sweat shop or went to prison because he turned to selling crack to help keep a roof over his family's head. there are a lot of really smart guys. What there aren't a lot of are really smart guys born into at least enough security to allow guys like Hitchens to blossom and be less inclined to all the pit falls of poverty i.e. alcoholism/drug addiction, having to drop out of school, having to resort to crime to keep a roof over your head, etc. Now imagine how many Hitchens' we'd have, how much better society would be, how much faster we would advance, if we all had at least the security of healthcare, housing, and education?

I am impressed by the mental hoops you jumped through to convince yourself a trotskyite persepective could lead you to support regime change at the hands of the american military.

@@t00bgazer all of the neo-cons were reformed trostkyists and in that sense only did hitchens align with that camp. i suspect he realized he'd found his tribe. this is not my argument. but, why do you think that trotsky - who was pro-american to his core - would have seen the united states as having some kind of manifest destiny to be a capitalist hegemon? let us not mix up trotsky's clear-thinking with the later muddled thought of anti-colonial theory. trotsky's intellectual lineage was looking for the most advanced capitalist state, as that is where communism would develop. he would have no time for the specious backwardsness of anti-colonial theory, and you can hear that contempt in hitchens when he speaks.

@Schnozzle a key part of the marxisfest was translated wrong in english, thats y the confusion about free speech 6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. and 6. Centralização do sistema de transportes nas mãos do Estado and 6. Zentralisation des Transportwesens in den Händen des Staats" . (In the 1848 revision he adds after the first " Des " the expression " alles " which means " all " .)

@Schnozzle no chap, i only mentioned the effect that this diference had on the reader. I have no idea which version these asias read, but an order being expressly given in this checklist makes a great difenence

Useful Idiot.

Adam Smith oh get the fuck over yourself

The left is all asthetics. Trotsky was worse then Stalin in every way.

Orwell is a rapist who belongs in the trash.

Are you shitting me?

Socialism/marxism always equal governmental bullying & always the socio-psychopath gets in & rules with their psychopathic ways crammed down the throats of the common man in any society! In any socialism/marxism the bullying psychopaths will 100% always rule to totally control!!!!!

@@RonSafreed I take it youre a Nazi?

@@pobbinista What a dishonest remark! If you object to leftist butchery, you must support right-wing butchery? Wow. You know, there's this other philosophy, it's not around much anymore, but they used to call it 'liberalism'... And if you know your history, you know that Nazism -- which is short for "National Socialism", a system where the government controls what remains of the private economy -- would never have existed without Marx's making the stock for that soup: Benito Mussolini had been one of the leading Communists in Italy when he basically created fascism around the end of WWI; he kept Communism's economics, the working-class appeal, and the idea of the total state, and added extreme nationalism to it -- voila, Fascism. Hitler kept all of that, then added the racism, the imperialism, and the genocide, and called it National Socialism. Thank you, Karl Marx. (Who was also an utter scumbag to his 'friends' and family, and a screaming anti-semite.)

I consider myself a liberal conservative but I can flux and I will call out stupidity from so called conservative politicians if ever the Tories are actually conservative, but I always had a big admiration for Orwell and at least Trotsky wasn't in it for himself like Stalin or Lenin. Their is a very interesting interview where C Hitchens where he even announces that politically he belongs to no party to the point he said he wasn't really a socialist in what we may think. I think he was too intelligent to just blindly stick to an allegiance. I think this came from his Hegelian thoughts about the past and so forth. I kinda get what he means, politics changes a lot and the to stick to one side is not always wise. I do think the modern day woke left have put a stain on the left and I would be great to have seen Hitchens call them out. Most leftists today are really gutless , not all but most. We need to get the balance back.

You definitely have the "guts." As did both Orwell and Hitchens. As what these guts entail or lead to, only the country knows.

Cryptonymicus Sure, it took the Bolsheviks a lot of 'moral courage' to slaughter 'class enemies', to commit mass rape of bourgeois women, etc., and Trotsky was one of their principal leaders. Away with this romantic nonsense about revolutionary 'purity'. Stalin did not invent the Terror. GOD is Judge even of those who do not acknowledge His existence. Hitchens neglected this fact at his own peril.

Animal farm, I see you haha

You should support Marxism.

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This is a test. This is only a test. If this was an actual nuclear war, I'd be out breaking into our local gourmet foods store.

He was tired a lot apparently...Hitchens defended Trotsky on multiple occasions.

Nothing "unfortunate" about it, wider perspective leads to reorientation and course correction. Perhaps you should be so fortunate.

A bit of a reactionary is a bit of an exaggeration. He supported turning Iraq into a barely functioning warzone, driving it into poverty and causing people to be unable to support their most basic needs. He also supported the same outcome in Russia and Eastern Europe, and the bombing of Yugoslavia which left Serbia with the highest cancer rate to this day as a result. The amount of misery and death those policies caused is probably incalculable.

@@puddintame6310 I think they were speaking specifically about him becoming reactionary (which I strongly disagree with), not about having a wider perspective in and of itself.

cyranothe2nd What do you mean by 'reactionary'? Are you referring to his defense of the Iraq war? Don't be deceived: Saddam Hussein's ideology was a Middle Eastern variant of fascism. We all know NOW that some clique within the American government cooked up the justification for war. But I can't blame Hitchens when I myself was deceived. So was Tony Blair, who was more my cup of tea ideologically at THAT time. Within a year or so of the invasion it became clear to me that the project was fundamentally dishonest, and my opinion of the USA began to plummet. I do not need to judge Hitchens as a reviler of God and of Christ. His own statements condemned him. They indicated a LACK of intelligence. A smartypants may still be a fool. 'The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." ' How can any serious intellectual wax poetic about Communism? Lenin and Trotsky were killers, just like Stalin.

@@jesusislordsavior6343 Towards the end he stated that he "had to give it up", meaning socialism.