I disagree with your interpretation of Alex's sincerity on environmental issues. To me, he seems like an open book. He has no ability to "filter" what he says. If all he cared about were selling vitamins, he'd probably just end up yelling "buy my goddamned penis pills, you morons!" And I don't see how his less-than-encyclopedic knowledge of environmental science makes his take less valid. He's asking obvious questions more laymen should be asking (or should be allowed to ask).

Alex and I do differ on how the "gay frog" issue should be fixed. If anything, he's nicer about it than I am. He seems to think that some combination of corporations acting more responsibly and consumers supporting more responsible corporations can fix the issue. I think action by the armed state is likely necessary. That's a valid disagreement that can be discussed without resorting to inventing "phobias" and making ad hominem attacks.

Doesn't sound relevant to Alex or the hatred he peddles.

I specifically raised it in the context of not wanting to debate Alex personally. You have no good answer for why democratic, Western societies are more punitive toward right wing transgressors so you brought it back to Alex.

one of his listeners put a mail bomb in George Soros' New York mailbox

Good.

I am not behind the writing styles of those outlets.

You wrote the word as "white" in your own next sentence. You could disavow this practice, but you do not.

If you see some outlet writing like that, look on their website for a style guide which might answer your question.

I don't have any question here. I've read the style guides. They say things like "Black people have a shared culture whereas white people do not." In their next breath, were told things like punctuality, public order, and transparent pricing are distinctly "white" characteristics.

They know we have a damned culture and they admit it. They're just too lazy to succeed within our culture so they resort to hatred and destruction instead.

From what I have heard, deciding to inform all of your colleagues that you are trans is not a spontaneous thing that people might do.

It happened at my workplace in the 1990s and they walked that guy right out the door with his personal effects in a box.

I can tell you that I have a trans colleague, who was born female and now presents as a man, he has a girlfriend, a totally normal life, if you weren't told you wouldn't know. The idea that he could be fired just for that doesn't make me feel good. Like, in your world, does he have to keep it a secret from his superiors, because it's a firable offense?

Yes, I would fire someone like that if I were allowed to, for her actions. There are plenty of other places where such people are accepted. I can avoid patronizing those places, and I shouldn't be compelled by the armed state to employ those people. I find a woman taking testosterone in order to grow more masculine objectively disgusting and disordered. That chemical is objectively wrong in her body, and wanting to transform into the opposite sex is a known fetish. Forcing me to participate in it by validating this transformation is sexual violence.

You've brought this discussion pretty inescapably to this bullshit "gender" topic. Frankly I don't think it's worthy of a response from decent people beyond the way it was dealt with in Ace Ventura or Austin Powers.

Feminist women have no choice but to engage on the topic, though. Their female spaces just evaporate when gender ideology takes hold. Try finding a lesbian bar, for example. Try finding a lesbian sub on Reddit where the moderators don't actually have penises.

To a radical feminist like Isabella Malbin or Jennifer Bilek, these people are men appropriating a stereotypical form of femininity in an act of sexual violence and female erasure. Moreover, this is being pushed on us by medical profiteers. Bilek in particular writes well on the topic, e.g. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers

My final thought on that topic is that it is truly amazing what a supposedly mainstream news site like MSN looks like now. The headlines and ads would look utterly incomprehensible to someone from 20 or 30 years ago. "Top surgery for transmen"; "Dead-naming"; "Demi Lovato changes pronouns"; "Police department disbanded after racist joke"; "Wikipedia changes mind about definition of a recession"; "My son is a white supremacist incel"; all this crap about pedophilia...

How did these things, about which we scarcely cared 20 years ago, suddenly become so all-encompassing and central? That's the thing about progressivism, and gender ideology in particular: it sucks all the oxygen out of the room and allows for nothing else.

We have a society to run here. Resources are inherently scarce. We cannot simultaneously figure out how to stop burning oil, how to clean up the environment, how to pay the national debt, how to get everyone public medical insurance and education, how to house all these insane people on the streets, etc. all at once, particularly if we're also completely deconstructing language and culture at the same time and wasting hours and hours of public radio and miles of film on the non-existent problem of white supremacists.

Leftists think these things can be accomplished if we'll all just go along with the plan and stop being bigoted (and print a bunch of Yankee funny money, presumably). That's total nonsense. That's the thought process of a child. At the end of it all, people like you are basically children who won't grow up. I fully support your right to have your own country with a big fucking wall between it and my country.