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Words Regarding Iran · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  Hello. I don't have good words for you, but I've
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  got words anyway. I would normally be posting
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  a video tomorrow, but I didn't want to wait that
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  long. So here we go. Baseline. Israel bombed
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  Iran during talks that were supposed to be about
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  not bombing each other. Netanyahu, the prime
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  minister of Israel, made a claim that he's been
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  making for like 30 years that Iran is weeks away
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  from having a usable nuclear weapon. There is
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  debate. Among the international community as
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  to whether or not that was true I say debate
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  like that because most places seem to indicate
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  that's not the case there's a very big difference
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  between weeks away from the bomb and whatever
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  the state of their uranium enrichment process
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  was and Also, there are countries that have nukes.
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  I didn't check in the Bible myself But I don't
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  think it says that we are the divine arbiters
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  of who's allowed to have what weaponry forever
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  Let's not forget that Israel made the first strike
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  in this war. Like, they're the ones with the
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  nukes. Obviously, this has destroyed any notion
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  of diplomacy and Iran is already saying, how
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  can we possibly trust that the US is acting in
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  good faith with anything? As a refresher, during
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  Trump's first term, he pulled out of the Iranian
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  nuclear deal and they actually adhered to the
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  deal for like at least a year afterwards. Now
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  he's back and he's upset about what they're doing.
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  and bombed them. He then asserted afterwards
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  that as long as Iran does nothing in response,
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  everything is hunky dory, which is not how anything
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  works. That's just war, my guy. Bombing foreign
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  soil and then saying if you do anything else,
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  we'll bomb you more is war. So despite headlines
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  coming out about various figures in the White
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  House and Pentagon officials saying, oh, we don't
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  want a war. It was just one targeted strike.
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  to support, you know, the war that's going on
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  that Israel started. But I want to I want to
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  pivot real quick and point out that there's a
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  lot of conversation right now around whether
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  or not this strike was legal. And let's let's
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  first just say bombing another country isn't
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  legal. Regardless, we were not at war with Iran
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  and then we dropped multiple of some of the largest
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  munitions ever dropped. And now we're trying
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  to say we're not at war with Iran still. During
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  Trump's address about all of this, he said that
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  it was an unconditional success. And again, he
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  asserted that Iran cannot retaliate or the U
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  .S. will make more strikes, which to me sounds
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  like aggression. The multiple stealth bombers
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  dropping bombs on Iran after Israel did a surprise
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  attack on Iran also feels like aggression, for
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  the record. But whether or not it's legal, whether
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  or not it went through Congress, like, for one,
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  when has this administration done anything the
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  right way? And for two, that doesn't make it
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  better. And also there is precedent for this.
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  Not that it makes it okay. It's not okay. It's
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  extremely not okay. But basically every president
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  has bombed countries without congressional approval.
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  At least recent presidents, most presidents.
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  And none of that makes it okay. None of it. If
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  the issue that the Democrats have isn't with
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  the bombing and is with the way that the bombing
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  happened, that's a problem. And knowing that
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  they're never going to hold him accountable and
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  knowing that the Republicans aren't going to
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  hold him accountable, I want to take this moment
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  to remind you that accountability only matters
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  if there's the will to enforce it. And the current
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  administration and Congress and Supreme Court
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  have shown time. And again, there is not that
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  will to enforce it. Like, who's going to get
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  who's going to get the order to who and. How
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  is not going to stop like we knew. that this
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  was going to happen. We knew that a second Trump
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  presidency was going to be disastrous. That doesn't
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  make it okay, but we need to be prepared for
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  this. We're already seeing retaliatory strikes
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  from Iran. Israel is still striking Iran. This
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  isn't over by a long shot. The rest of the world
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  is condemning us, as they well should, as we
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  continue to stand behind a pariah state that
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  is the one causing the destabilization in the
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  region it's complaining about destabilization.
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  And don't let this get spun. These are deeply,
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  deeply unpopular moves. Even Trump's own base
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  don't want to get dragged into a war in the Middle
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  East. But propaganda bots are already out in
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  force. Our own intelligence said that Iran didn't
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  have a path to nuclear weapons in the near future.
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  They just made shit up again, just like they
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  did with Iraq. And you can scream about 60 %
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  enriched uranium as much as you want, but that
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  doesn't justify bombing another country. If it
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  did, we would be bombed a lot. There was a recent
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  job approval rating poll about Trump and there
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  was one part of it that it blew my mind. I guess
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  I should have expected it, but it turns out that
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  the youngest generation, the 18 to 29 year old
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  generation, Just three months ago had a plus
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  eight net approval rating of Trump. The youngest
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  eligible voters had a net positive view of Trump.
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  Now, three months later today, It's at negative
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  39 among the same cohort. Which, like, yay, welcome,
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  you made it eventually, but it just tells me
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  that the propaganda worked. Why would they have
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  believed that? Why would any young person truly
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  believe from any objective reality that Donald
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  J. Trump, a barely alive, lifelong con man with
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  a disastrous first term, would do anything to
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  improve the quality of life for young people
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  in a second term? The amount of people who were
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  flailing. during the past election arguing that
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  this wasn't going to happen. It's mind boggling.
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  And why do I think that propaganda happened?
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  Because as I mentioned, the propaganda bots are
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  out in force. Where is that youngest generation?
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  They are online. They are on TikTok. And if you
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  recall TikTok during the past election cycle,
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  it was hell. It was entirely arguing. It was
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  entirely bullshit. And it was entirely astroturfed
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  crap in the comments. The amount of people who
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  were asserting that RFK Jr. was not an anti -vaxxer.
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  Ridiculous. Propaganda bots or farms, whatever
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  you want to call them, they don't need to make
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  sense. They just need to be so omnipresent that
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  sense is no longer a major factor in the equation.
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  They just need to create enough scenarios where
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  someone saw a thing about a thing that made them
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  associate two things together or internalize
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  some belief that they never even thought about.
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  And they've won. When they can answer something
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  easily, for example, why did we bomb Iran? With
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  an answer like, well, they were close to nukes.
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  Wow, that's very acceptable. That's so internalizable.
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  No further nuance necessary. Absolutely no further
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  attention required. If you were duped by this,
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  I don't know what to tell you. You were duped.
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  And it happens. Propaganda is rampant in the
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  United States. You're not alone. I fall for and
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  have fallen for propaganda plenty, which is why
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  I have learned to cross -reference things and
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  read sources that I've been told not to trust
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  by the ones who are telling me to trust them.
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  Does that make me a conspiracy theorist? No.
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  It makes me someone who wants to gather more
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  information from further perspectives than the
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  American empire. Is Iran the good guy? No. I
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  mean, not the government of Iran. The people
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  of Iran are just people, but the government is
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  not good. And also the United States just conducted
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  another bombing campaign halfway across the world
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  because we said that it's the right thing to
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  do and then invoked the name of God repeatedly.
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  So tell me who's the big scary religious political
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  entity that's going to destroy the world because
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  I've not been bombed once by Iran. But we're
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  about to see a whole lot more people dead from
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  our tax dollars. As I said, I didn't have good
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  words for you. I'm very, very sorry. There's
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  just not. There's not much of a silver lining
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  to find here. I can look for the good news I
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  can try to spin it some way, but we are again
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  at war in the Middle East Despite what our leadership
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  wants you to think despite how much they wish
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  that they could just Launch a bomb and not worry
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  about what happens next That's warfare and the
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  rest of the world is calling it out as such Never
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  let them convince you that you hate a random
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  human being across the world Because of stories
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  that you've only ever heard from the people telling
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  you to hate them Are those stories completely
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  meritless and should be 100 % thrown aside? No.
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  Not necessarily. But if someone tells you that
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  literally everything that they've ever done is
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  righteous and correct and we should ignore the
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  wrongs from the past and this time it'll be different?
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  Yeah, that's worth questioning. Because I once
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  held a hope for a peaceful future. But stuff
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  still happened. Take care.