Steven Bonnell, aka Destiny, is a progressive political commentator and a live streamer on YouTube. Melina Goransson is a live streamer on Twitch. Please support this podcast by checking out Lex’s sponsors.
Lex gives us another great interview! He’s one of my favorite people alive or dead. I know his mother is very proud of him. I truly wish my sons would have a role model like Lex. Unfortunately, my sons are caught up in the black culture. Anyway, I can go on and on about my thoughts on Lex and how I think he’s a good human or the black culture. But, I’m not now on to Destiny…
Known for his sharp analyses of current events, memes, and news stories, Destiny is one of the most popular progressive political commentators on YouTube. I enjoy listening to him from time to time. I think he’s low-key/high-key smug and arrogant. I just think that’s what I find attractive in him, Aka his confidence. Even though we don’t agree on a lot of topics, I like how he defends his argument. He’s a good debater, and I like that. I also like how he has interesting points to make. He’s not just another YouTube personality who likes to talk about politics or social issues. He actually knows what he’s talking about.
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0:00 – Introduction
3:06 – Politics and debates
19:28 – War in Ukraine
32:37 – Trans athletics
35:46 – AI
48:29 – Lowest point in Destiny’s life
1:08:40 – Hate speech and language
1:45:02 – Misogyny
2:00:13 – Big government and institutions
2:39:57 – Hasan and Vaush
2:56:06 – Joe Biden
3:06:56 – Donald Trump
3:12:56 – Free speech
3:15:49 – Melina joins the conversation
3:19:03 – Melina and Destiny
3:29:34 – Open relationship
3:36:56 – Red pill community
3:47:10 – Sex body count
3:59:25 – Advice for young people
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0:00 – Introduction & sponsor mentions:
– True Classic Tees: https://trueclassictees.com/lex and use code LEX to get 25% off
– Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil
– MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex to get 15% off
– Blinkist: https://blinkist.com/lex to get 25% off premium
3:06 – Politics and debates
19:28 – War in Ukraine
32:37 – Trans athletics
35:46 – AI
48:29 – Lowest point in Destiny's life
1:08:40 – Hate speech and language
1:45:02 – Misogyny
2:00:13 – Big government and institutions
2:39:57 – Hasan and Vaush
2:56:06 – Joe Biden
3:06:56 – Donald Trump
3:12:56 – Free speech
3:15:49 – Melina joins the conversation
3:19:03 – Melina and Destiny
3:29:34 – Open relationship
3:36:56 – Red pill community
3:47:10 – Sex body count
3:59:25 – Advice for young people
I've been listening to Lex for awhile but only recently listened to the most recent episodes (I started at the beginning), I hope this episode is just an aberration, but it seems like Lex might be getting carried away with himself. As for Destiny – we're fucked if this is an example of who will be guiding the public intellect in the future.
Ok, what is the r word?
I come to Lex's pods for one of the best sources for open minded discourse but it was nice to see him push back on his opinions while still having a civil discussion. It felt more human and relatable with this conversation
From the very beginning we already have mixed up democratic and republic government forms.
Lex got a good conversation style and he's good at hearing, sometimes, but he's a poser when it comes to morals. He wants to be seen, and look, like someone with the virtues he talks about.
Come on Lex, don't be a sheeep. You feel offended by these words, because you've been told they're nono words.
Ivermectin actually does work for people with Covid. Idc if you don't believe me, myself and many people I know have taken when we had Covid and the results were usually within 24hrs. Government couldn't admit it helped, because if they did they couldn't shove their vaccine through without proper testing. That's why there's a lot of people that don't trust this vaccine. Bless you all, thanks Lex, and thank your Destiny for the great content. I wasn't sure how id feel about Destiny before this conversation, and now I have a lot of respect for him.
He's a lefty for sure I can't say far left though because there are whole groups wayyyy to the left of him
That's rich from Rogan. He'll let whackjobs foam at the mouth and just keep filming while not calling them out.
This was such a great episode. Completely unexpected. I've rewatched the entire pod several times. Destiny's sarcasm and witty humour is a great chance of pace for this channel. Loved it 😄
1:16:00
To think that people think that hate speech should be considered free speech. lol
I really appreciated Lex driving home the point that using the R word is ineffective.
Destiny is kind of a Libtard sometimes
lex, get of the xanax holy fuck
33k Likes, 1.2m Views, 2.4m Subs. The unseen dislike amount screams volumes.
AI art still has to get the art from somewhere from human portfolios. I find the idea of AI 'creating' art as ridiculous as God existing.
lex isn’t going to guilt destiny into changing his style.
lex, dude… stop preaching and ask interesting questions.
too much f’ing preaching and defense of language. words are just f’ing words. move on.
Jesus Christmas this is a good episode
Sooo, Lex is saying MAGA republican is just republican voter? Is he trying to be funny? Anyone who has followed US politics even for a few months for the last 8 years knows what MAGA republican is Vs. what a vanilla republican is. People who voted for Bernie, voted for Clinton, they're not all clinton democrats … most of them hate Clinton! Lex is just making argument for argument's sake!
Bring on Andrew Tate or Tristan
The defense of Joe Rogan is just ridiculous! Joe had COVID, used unnecessarily ridiculous medicine rather than saying to people to get vaccine! And when people talk about vaccine anywhere, there will be Joe worshippers replying with how Fauci is the devil!
I can't tell how many of these people are bots. With how stupid these comments are.
The hate speech segment was incredible, good job
Good old right-wing Lex Fridman. One of the most powerful forces for the alt-right on the internet. Deep analysis of what Biden said to try and figure out a way in which if you ignore what he literally said you can find a dog-whistle that might mean all republicans are bad (even though he verbatim said “not all republicans, not even a majority”). It’s very funny how that’s not even compared with the fact that Trump has said dozens of times “all Democrats are liars”. When Trump says something clearly fucking heinous we get a “oh what do you think that he meant here”?
Jesus Christ you push the right-wing agenda so fucking transparently.
When this guys talking about white men he sounds extremely dated and ignorant. This isnt the 1980s anymore. When you're playing a game with a bunch of other white men of course youre generally not going to be insulted for being white or male. Go be a white man and play a game where all of the other people are black females or native females and see how well you fit in. See if they dont make some jokes that cut. If you're a female you have HUGE advantage over a man in this world. Way more companies want to hire women, they are better tempered and interact with people better eg servers, telephone, flights, medical etc. If theyre attractive they have everything handed to them. They dont even have to work, they can just take a few pics and post them online and make money and theres no shortage of men willing to give them what they want.
Also racism is just as prevalent against white people as every other coloured person in todays world.
There are a lot of hiring requirements for minorities that give them an advantage over a white man. The case could easily be argued that a white man in todays world has it the hardest.
i think people who are discussing a word should be able to say what a word is so that other people dont have to google what the r word is to figure out what the hell you're talking about lol
I really don't see Lex's point about retard. I'm an Aspie and people saying retard even directly at me has no negative consequence to me and doesn't "hurt my experience", and someone else being called a retard doesn't affect me as a 3rd party.
Also to Destiny's argument about "misogyny" on the internet, he acts as if we don't hear "all men are trash" "men aint shit" "men are pigs" etc from women because they had a bad experience dating, the same way women get "women are crazy" when someone sees a woman say/do crazy shit.
I bet this Destiny character is really upset about Twitter allowing free speech now.
So confused so they're just interviewing people who stream now?
Melina’s a 9 and Steven’s a 4. And I factored in fame to his rating! Does he ever wonder why???????? She didn’t grow up hoping to meet a pasty 4. I would have trouble with that. I’m sure she likes the money and fame, BUT that’s tough. He’s weird and ugly, I doubt she’s super in to that. Lol
Destiny trying to talk about geo politics 😂 not enough emojis to express my pain at this attempt to appear knowledgeable.
Lex is so intolerable gosh darn
2:25:18 have never heard Lex say fuck
on the part about "hate speech and language", i'd say it comes down to the individual's resistance to it. which really depends on their reactions, which really depends on their personality, which really depends on their psyche, which really depends on their conscious state (or variations of it) during any given moment. personally, i think it might have to do with intent. one can only assume someone else's intent, unless they're probed for a response. some people are polite enough to respond and state their intent, but not all will. a big problem is the ability to block or otherwise mentally erase people from one's life. if A.I. was nurtured to think this was good–it may lead to Stalin-and-friends types of issues, where you're suddenly not on the photograph anymore (just to call back to history, of course).
Their marriage sounds lovely SMH. A slow motion car crash. Theyve always got hope I suppose, bob hope and no hope.
Government has not been responsive when it comes to majority opinion of going to war. I personally attended a town hall with my representative to voice my opinion on getting involved in Syria. The majority opinion of Americans was to stay out. The two parties did an end run around the people and we ended up there.
His lack of sophistication and nuance on Russia and Ukraine issue is astounding. I stopped listening after that.
43:00 ish Lex showing who's really got the big brain.
this destiny guy is full of shit?
dr. malone was signed under 9 patents related to mrna vaccine.
he is a brilliant man. and who is destiny? some whacko who play games a lot
This guy is such a clown “you shouldn’t compliment women in a position” wtf
A simp that never pulls women talking about misogynistic stfu
Lex, you said you will discuss religions on your channel. So far you have invited a Christian and a Jew to discuss Christianity and Judaism. Is time to bring a Muslim on to discuss about Islam.
I personally feel Milena has gifts of beauty, youth and beautiful body. It would be almost an end to all of her advantages if she gets into a serious relationship and have nothing to offer apart from those gifts to her audience (anyone who pays attention to her for her gifts).
Destiny is the epitome of those annoying entitled keyboard warriors.