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Galloway vs Hitchens War

Just another perspective on the preacher styles of Galloway :) I love the Hitch! (Even tho i am not on 100% agreement with him)

  • Lord-69
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  • Date 7/6/2008 12:01:38 PM
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ratbag1410 : LVL 27: VP 3.6: said:

ratbag1410

7 votes NegativePositive

55 days 12 hours ago...

Where`s the rest? 5/5 for the first part.

Lord-69 : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

Lord-69

5 votes NegativePositive

55 days 9 hours ago...

Does anyone see my point about Galloway now? :P I agree with him on Iran but hes too fuking nuts and talks to people as a preacher :P

Lord-69 : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

Lord-69

4 votes NegativePositive

55 days 9 hours ago...

this is Part 8/10 or 12 i think , its REALLY long - i could upload em all if youd like.

boldfart : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

boldfart

11 votes NegativePositive

55 days 9 hours ago...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10286.htm

For the whole debate

Gimli000 : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

Gimli000

5 votes NegativePositive

55 days 7 hours ago...

These two both have excellent points. I can see why Hitchens would support a war against fascism in the middle east because he`s a liberal hawk. But on the other side of the equasion is Galloway`s point that the private enterprise is getting very rich off the back of the war.

Listen very closely though because they will both try to obviscate the questions by speaking around the issue and bringing in unrelated issues.

Überfuckerwit : LVL 65: VP 5: said:

Überfuckerwit

6 votes NegativePositive

55 days 3 hours ago...

yep, if I would want to find an intellectual debate between two intelligent figures on spiked I would definitely write "jetpackdinosaurninjas"

klavlav : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

klavlav

9 votes NegativePositive

54 days 19 hours ago...

Lord 69

Yes, I see your points, and agree to a point (the frustrating thing about admiring both Hitchens and Galloway is having to admit their ample faults as well).

As for Galloway`s style, I think we can attribute that to some degree to his generation. He was born and raised at a time and in a culture where that style of political oration was de rigueur, very "Old School". If you listen to speeches by the great British PMs and MPs, or American activists and politicians like Dr. King, you find similar hyperbole, repetition and preachy-ness.

Lord-69 : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

Lord-69

1 votes NegativePositive

54 days 17 hours ago...

Klavlav :
I totally agree there are a ton of instances where i disagree with Hitchens but at least he doesnt scream at me with talk made to make me somehow feel guilty for things that happened b4 i was born :P

cheers!

Jetpackdinosaurninjas is an old inside joke sorry !

Lord-69 : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

Lord-69

0 votes NegativePositive

54 days 17 hours ago...

Im just into hating my enemies - I dont pity them.
Thats the main point i always give to hitchens, to try and be understanding of people trying to kill you is mad.
Although I do think the relationship with the West and the East is complex and cant be nailed down to 1 or even a few hundred problems.

There was a reason Columbus wanted to find a new way to china :)

On March 2, 1815, ten weeks after the end of the War of 1812, the United States formally declared hostilities against Algiers. Retribution, long delayed but richly deserved, was dispatched in the form of ten tall ships under the command of the scourge of Barbary, Stephen Decatur (Pike, 2001).

The punitive expedition arrived off Algiers in June. Decatur promptly shot up the flagship of the Dey`s fleet, capturing it with 486 prisoners. He then sent an ultimatum to the Dey: Free every slave at once, pay an indemnity of $10,000 to the survivors of the brig Edwin, and cease all demands for tribute forever.

For some reason this all seems so familiar :)

klavlav : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

klavlav

2 votes NegativePositive

54 days 17 hours ago...

^^ Yes, Hitchens is too English for that. Galloway has that Celtic fulminating going on. You win points as much for volume as you do for logic (and lacking logic, just go for volume!).

Hitchens is more likely to just mutter crudely but quietly at you over the rim of gin & tonic, like the lecherous drunk uncle everyone tries to ignore at family reunions. My hero.

Lord-69 : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

Lord-69

2 votes NegativePositive

54 days 17 hours ago...

Well galloway and hitchens have something in common - they are never wrong ;)

Tho i think the hitch is at his best in religious debates - especially vs his christian younger brother!

I`ll upload those today actually.

Smoking Kills : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

Smoking Kills

2 votes NegativePositive

54 days 11 hours ago...

Joey Naylor: ...so what happens when you`re wrong?
Nick Naylor: -Whoa, Joey I`m never wrong.
Joey Naylor: But you can`t always be right...
Nick Naylor: -Well if it`s your job to be right, then you`re never wrong.
Joey Naylor: But what if you are wrong?
Nick Naylor: -OK, let`s say that you`re defending chocolate, and I`m defending vanilla. Now if I were to say to you: `Vanilla is the best flavour ice-cream`, you`d say:
Joey Naylor: No, chocolate is.
Nick Naylor: Exactly, but you can`t win that argument... so, I`ll ask you: so you think chocolate is the end all and the all of ice-cream, do you?
Joey Naylor: It`s the best ice-cream, I wouldn`t order any other.
Nick Naylor: -Oh! So it`s all chocolate for you is it?
Joey Naylor: Yes, chocolate is all I need.
Nick Naylor: Well I need more than chocolate, and for that matter I need more than vanilla. I believe that we need freedom. And choice when it comes to our ice-cream, and that Joey Naylor, that is the defintion of liberty.
Joey Naylor: But that`s not what we`re talking about
Nick Naylor: -Ah! But that`s what I`m talking about.
Joey Naylor: ...but you didn`t prove that vanilla was the best...
Nick Naylor: I didn`t have to. I proved that you`re wrong, and if you`re wrong I`m right.
Joey Naylor: But you still didn`t convince me
Nick Naylor: It`s that I`m not after you. I`m after them." ***Points into the crowd***

thinkbolt : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

thinkbolt

1 votes NegativePositive

54 days 4 hours ago...

On the subjects of Atheism and freedom of speech, Hitchens is aces, but when it comes to politics and war, he`s a total shit. I don`t know much about Galloway, but what I`ve seen of him, I find refreshing. We need more people who say what they really think, and with passion.

Nightmare80 : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

Nightmare80

4 votes NegativePositive

54 days 3 hours ago...

^^ @smoking kills, Excellent!

and as a middle-eastern myself, I can tell you that Galloway was SPOT ON!

I am a well-educated person, I lived in more than 4 different countries in 3 different continents, so believe me when I tell you this about the region where I lived most of my adult life,
There are rarely any people who are terrorists or who want to blow themselves up in the middle east. Those are the smallest of minorities there. There are, HOWEVER, a lot of people who are willing to sacrifice their lives to defend their country, their land, their families, and their freedoms.

To give you an idea, imagine this: USA government gets corrupted and becomes a dictatorship (it`s not that far-fetched, now, is it?). Would you like, say China, to free you? How would you feel with Chinese troops landing on your soil and imposing THEIR freedom and democracy on you? and although you may hate your unjust government, wouldn`t you fight against that with your life?

JimCarrSavannah : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

JimCarrSavannah

2 votes NegativePositive

54 days 2 hours ago...

Smoking Kills:
If I say 2 + 2 = 7
And You say 2 + 2 = 9
My being wrong, hardly makes you right now does it.
But I suppose that if your audience is the fox news crowd, you might have them convinced at that point.

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