>>507378846I’m very successful, more so than him, and I even helped him out a lot when he struggled in college. I know it because of years of interactions. It wasn’t necessarily him being an asshole to me but I knew he was a hardcore Zionist, saw the world as Jews and the others (goyim) and so on. He also had this disdain for morality and looking back I can see the Christian via Judaism division in this respect. In short he would always favor his kind over others and it bothered me and there were plenty of examples that reinforced it. I never thought twice about him being Jewish but it’s obvious it was a central part of his identity to the exclusion of others.
>>507377766You get older and one of the sad realizations is that you can’t help most people and at some point you need to focus on your sphere of influence (yourself, your family et c). It doesn’t necessarily mean you cut people lose and ditch them but you just can’t squander too much energy and concern over those who cannot be helped and won’t hell themselves. It sounds heartless but it is just a fact of life and you can’t exhaust yourself and become bitter and exasperate by the people around you. Help those who seek your help and be a good husband/father/son/friend/neighbor/coworker but learn to let go.
It sounds like your friend is probably a lost cause. Trooning out is the symptom of a larger problem (apathy? sense of being lost and disconnected?) but he will pour all of his energy and attention into this new thing to the detriment of actual progress and soul searching. He will convince himself that his gender dysphoria is the root of all his problems, why he’s a loser and never amounted to what he should have been, and then he’ll be lost in online echo boxes and researching “treatments.” He might snap out of it before he’s done irreversible things or he might stay the course. I would try not to lose too much sleep over it if you can’t get through to him.