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I was listening to radio the other week when they were talking about companies dumping chemicals into British rivers. The effects that they were talking about sounded awfully familiar to anyone who has ever heard Alex Jones open his mouth.
They're actually putting chemicals in the water that's turning the frogs gay! (kinda...amongst other things)
You know you've fucked up when you're making Alex Jones sound sane.
the thing is , what you're trying to imply the bad part is.
"They're putting chemicals into the water" > this should stop because it's pollution being done as a cost cutting measure.
or
"The frogs are turning gay" > being gay is bad, that's why we should stop people trying to make things gay on purpouse to stop homosexuality.
The top one is sensible, the bottom one is psychotic
Nothing wrong with being gay. Gonna have some population problems when everyone's gay.
That said, it'd be an interesting novel.
right, which is why putting chemicals in the water that turn the frikkin frogs gay is an example of something bad due to pollution.
The Foreover War has something like that in it
I mean it's bad for the frog population to turn them all gay?
right, which is why putting chemicals in the water that turn the frikkin frogs gay is an example of something bad due to pollution.
The short answer is that the pollution is bad, but so is it's effect of turning the frogs gay because it fucks with frog populations, which fucks with the entire food chain after a fashion.
Nothing necessarily wrong with homosexuality in any species (except maybe the ones who can only mate once, or the ones that engage in traumatic insemination where the males aren't as equipped to deal with being on the receiving end), until it's frequent enough to have population level impacts.
But that's how Alex Jones scam works, he read the frogs gay headline and then started ranting about how the global elite are trying to destroy masculinity with hormones in the water because only real men vote right...
Sure, but "THEY'RE PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FROGS GAY!!!" is the classic example used for Alex Jones sounding especially out there. To the point that there's a clip of just that line that's made the rounds for most of a decade to point out how crazy he is. Which makes it especially wild because it's one of the things he's said that's actually true.
Turns out the media and memes are pretty terrible at getting to the more complex truth and problem with things.
Alex is worse though, he uses this headline to push the idea the government is evil and the epa should be scrapped which is the exact opposite of what will help