[0:00]Stick around till the end for the Easter egg. Hey, I'm Jason, this is wrong enough to know better. This video isn't about one specific news story, global event or breaking headline. This is just me being honest about how I'm feeling watching the United States right now. Because over the last month, watching what the US is doing and watching how Americans are or aren't responding to it has crossed the line from frustrating to infuriating. This is just a rant because I'm getting tired of hearing we support you from people who are doing nothing to stop any of this. Americans love to say we support you, or we stand with you, or we would never let this happen. That might work inside the United States, but the rest of the world isn't buying it anymore. Because if you would never let this happen, then why does it keep happening again and over and over and over again? Support that doesn't interrupt anything isn't support. It's just comfort words. Let's not go back years, let's not do history, just the last month. The United States has been blowing up boats and killing people off the coast of Venezuela. A couple of days before Christmas, the United States openly threatened to take Greenland by force. On Christmas Day, the United States dropped bombs in Nigeria. That's not rhetoric, it's not spin, and it's definitely not a debate. That's violence. And the real question here is, what are Americans doing to actually stop this? There's no general strikes, no shutdowns, no refusal of service. No pressure that actually costs the people in charge anything at all. What there is are statements, posts, comments, hashtags and reassurance that the next election will fix it. As if lost lives are waiting on the midterms. Instead of opposition, Americans are defaulting to ritual, another permitted march, another Saturday rally, another set of picket signs, no kings, no fascism, no whatever. As if chanting slogans stops this administration, or as if cardboard signs interrupt the war machine, as if Trump gives a flying fuck about your feelings. That's not resistance. It's just performance. You don't get to say we stand with you while your country is actively killing people and you're doing nothing to interfere with it. You don't get to say this isn't who we are when it's what your country keeps repeatedly doing with zero resistance. At some point you have to acknowledge that this isn't about ignorance. Americans know what's happening. They've just become complicit on mass and not just emotional complicity, but functional complicity. All of this continues because Americans do nothing to stop it. Each new act of violence just becomes their new baseline for what's acceptable. Outrage lasts for one day, and then their attention span moves on. The Trump administration has learned that resistance will be loud but temporary and harmless. So he just continues to escalate. And Americans sit back waiting for permission to be upset. There is never an escalation from the citizens. No general strike, no true economic refusal, no sustained disruption.
[5:00]And then the citizens try to outsource responsibility to courts that don't stop it or to elections that don't stop it. Or hope that at some point Trump will care about what history has to say about him, but the fact of the matter is he never will care about that. Waiting is not opposition. This matters because United States inaction doesn't stay domestic. People off the coast of Venezuela are dead. Nigeria was bombed on Christmas Day. Greenland was threatened with force.
[5:41]Those are not abstractions. They're our bodies, and there is damage. And every time someone asks where is the opposition? Americans reply, we support you. Support in American language has now become a feeling, a posture, a sentence that people say to feel decent while doing nothing dangerous or inconvenient. But narcissists don't respond to feelings. They respond to interruption, and so far there is no interruption. If Americans actually oppose this, it would be harder for their government to get away with it. If Americans actually stood with victims, there would be consequences, but there aren't, which means the phrase we support you has become a lie that people tell themselves to avoid responsibility. So, don't tell me what Americans believe because belief is cheap. Tell me what they stopped. Tell me what policy they interrupted, what violence they blocked. Or what power was forced to back down because of them, because from my vantage point, the threats keep coming, the bombs keep coming, and the machinery keeps moving without any real resistance. Americans keep offering language instead of pressure, ritual instead of disruption, and patience instead of opposition, and until that changes, we support you doesn't mean solidarity. It means that nothing is going to stand in the way, and nothing is going to change. Just a quick second to say super thanks for all the super thanks. It is literally because of you folks that I'm able to do this channel without having to get sponsors like virtual private networks, pubic hair shaving devices, or luggage that might fall apart in a week. And I truly appreciate that because I don't want to take responsibility for any of those things. So thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. Anyway, those were the squirrels running through my brain today. Have yourself a great day, great night, great morning, great evening, and I'll catch in the next episode. The Easter egg, the Easter egg, what about the Easter egg? Okay, here's your Easter egg. And it stems from this meme that I saw that was a couple of days before Christmas, claiming that Muslims wanted to change the name of the Christmas tree because they hate Christianity and they hate Christmas. And so I thought I would share with you my genuine experience in a genuine Muslim neighborhood in India. So, it was two days before Christmas and this neighborhood right over here, it's a Muslim neighborhood, and so I walk through it every day. Anyway, two days before Christmas, I was walking down the street and I saw these three Muslim mothers with about five children and they were all about five years old. Three of them were wearing Santa Claus masks. Now, there's a couple of things I should point out here. One is is that the myth of Santa Claus in India is that he's white. Um obviously anyone who dresses up as Santa Claus isn't because, well, there's not white people to dress up as as Santa Claus. So, but the the the the myth, the idea, the the concept of Santa Claus is that he's a white dude with a gray beard. And so I'm in this this this Muslim neighborhood in a non-tourist part of India. And so there's the entire possibility that these little kids wearing the Santa Claus masks have never actually seen a white person in person before. And so, anyway, I decided I was going to walk up to them. So I walked up to one of the little boys and I said, And then I went, And I started to walk away. And I looked back and I could see one of the mothers laughing behind her hijab. Um, and then I looked down at the little boy and his eyes lit up like he was the only person in India who knew the secret that he had met Santa Claus in person. So,
[10:49]yeah, those memes, they're bullshit. Um like most people of most religions. Nobody cares what anybody else is worshiping or celebrating at worst and some of it gets culturally shifted and exists even in other religions. So don't believe it when you see memes like this that tell you that there's some great divide that doesn't actually exist. Anyway, I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season. I'll catch in the next episode.
