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America's Birthright Is a Boston Duck Tour

from The War At Home | The Tim Dillon Show #367 · #367

4 min

Tim contrasts Israeli Birthright trips with the American equivalent of an eighth-grade Boston duck tour and Holiday Inn dance, then returns to the theme that no one will ever ask Americans to sacrifice for war, even nuclear annihilation.

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  • America should have its own Birthright program instead of just eighth-grade school trips to Washington DC.
  • The American version of Birthright is a seventh-grade Boston Duck Tour—an amphibious vehicle that shows you buildings and some Constitutional history before you eat at the Holiday Inn.
  • The government isn't engineering national unity anymore; the sacrifices Americans make are domestic—family members going insane, cancer from factories dumping near homes.
  • World War III will be the most entertaining thing before Americans get vaporized by a Chinese nuke; no one will be asked to actually fight.
  • The only duty in a nuclear war scenario is that call centers stay open, still trying to scam elderly people with dementia as the nuke arrives.
  • America won't ask much of its citizens because it knows better; the real war is domestic, not foreign.
  • The domestic war is mild compared to what happens in Gaza—college kids arguing and people chanting in streets, but not surrounded by constant mass death from politics.
  • The actual war at home now is about what to post on social media and whether your silence has been noticed by people online.
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