Direct from the Lloyd Evans playbook:
Rule 2.4 – When attempting to assert intellectual dominance or moral superiority over others, dig up a Christopher Hitchens quote and attempt to apply it to your own situation…
Lloyd, you are NOTHING like Hitchens. You possess none of his sharp wit, and precious little of his intelligence, be it tangible or emotional. Hitch was not shy to debate others. In fact he regularly showed up to public debates with nothing more than a podium. He debated preachers, extremists, politicians, journalists and all types of fanatics. What’s more, he actually let them speak and didn’t try to stifle what they had to say. That’s how effective of a debater he was. The best you can do is invite the random and hapless JW or Mormon who is brave enough to show up on your channel and poke fun of him.
Inside and outside your pathetic Twitter echo chamber where only people you do not block can respond, you possess none of the qualities that Hitch had. He was a huge proponent of free speech and freedom of the press. Did you ever read his exposé on Princess Diana? Or his scathing rebuke of Prince Charles ever becoming King? Or how about his hard hitting obituary on Ronald Reagan that pulled absolutely no punches?
Do you remember how Hitchens railed against human rights abuses in Iraq, Israel, and elsewhere? Would you mind taking a gander at how he might have viewed the human trafficking problem in Thailand and your pitiful attempts to disassociate yourself from enabling those abuses?
The same kind of criticism Hitch routinely threw at others you’d dismiss as slander if it were ever addressed to you.
You resort to filing frivolous lawsuits and lame legal threats that make absolutely no sense and are an embarrassment. Hitch would say “bring it on” and if the argument against you was as bad as you suggest, it would fail on its own merits. Not you. You cannot bear to hear a contrary opinion and it is so bad that you’ve relied on a network of goon squad members that attempt to shout the argument down and wear people out.
Could you imagine if Hitch had hit rock bottom like you did and trotted out an assistant he’d interview personally who would start making accusations against his critics? That was some low ball shit that children in grade school engage in. You actually thought it was an effective tactic to regain your support! You’ve insulted most if not all of the very base you are relying on for financial support. Did Hitch insult his readers? Do you think he would have made a highly manipulative video that begged for donations and threatened to quit journalism if he didn’t get enough money from donors? He didn’t need to beg, nor did he need donations. Companies paid him for the content he was creating and it was both an honour and worth the price to have one of his columns printed in their publications. It’s called “talent”. It’s also called having a real job where you are paid for a product that sells.
In your book, you waxed on about how your mum would have been proud of you and trotted out your wife and young daughter as people she would have been happy to have met and known. Ask yourself this… What would your mum have thought had she read those vile letters you sent Dijana a year and a half ago? She’d be ashamed of you. In that, she’d find herself in line with the same criticism that has been leveled at you from the exJW community that you routinely swat away as slander. You are a bumbling fool and complete embarrassment. If she were the kind and genteel soul you portrayed her as in your book, I’d imagine she’d invite you to come home so she could attempt to get it through your thick skull that YOU are the problem here. The common denominator.
You can do without the Hitchens quotes for now. In a less enlightened age you’d be a prime candidate for a lobotomy. In the absence of Mummy coming back from the grave to assist in your “mental health crisis”, you just need a bitch slap and a reality check.