rant · moment 10 of 17
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.
- 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.