How is PragerU Getting Worse? (ft. Jordan Adika) 

I love how she completely glossed over the effect pipelines have on indigenous communities. That “pinhole” sized leak can contaminate MILES of land and sources of drinking water that are already so scarce on reservations.

"furchtgott" translates from german to "feargod" btw have fun with that information

When I was growing up, instead of teaching me how to socialize with other kids, helping me with my homework, and letting me do stuff I wanted to participate in like girl scouts, my dad would give me political lectures and feed me propaganda like PragerU. He's very right-wing and hates anyone who's a """liberal""". It's videos like these, dissecting and criticizing PragerU that are helping me unlearn the unhealthy and harmful mindset I grew up with, thank you

This how I like my commentary channels: cute, funny, and overtly leftist.

"Draw your own conclusions." "No, you elaborate." I love that style of cooperative joke where one participant says something comedically empty and the other participant forces them to confront the emptiness of it by pursuing the idea further.

"that wasnt an accident" how would the president accidentally cancel a pipeline

Trampling over native land, dehousing, and not to mention sex trafficking. Enbridge workers have been caught in a sex trafficking ring, and those are just the ones who have been caught. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that indigenous women and girls go missing constantly while their land is being exploited. Those two things have always gone hand in hand, sigh. There is unfortunately a whole other realm of problems that arise from pipelines that aren’t environmental

She gives generality when talking about the "Few" deaths related to pipelines, without specific examples, and gives very specific examples for truck related incidence, but no general info.

“The left needs to start lying!” -Jordan, 2022 But honestly I think about this SO OFTEN. It works so well for the right.

Oh god she really thinks the oil is just spewing up out of the earth, lady, WE are taking it out wtf

It's not surprising that a person who's name is "feargod" is conservative.

Do you ever notice that conservatives can't ever just find clips of leftists acting how they want to tell people that leftists act? that they have to act it out themselves? But when we go to make fun of them it's pretty easy to find clips of them acting like we say they act gee go figure

This lady sways even when she's staying still. My theory is that she's an old timey ghost on her bottom half and it makes her floaty

"Pipelines are clearly the safest, here's why: they don't move!" Quick correction there Doc Fergie-Rod: they're not *supposed* to move. But things like shoddy construction, neglected maintenance, poor foundations, groundwater level, seismic activity, sudden temperature changes, seasonal weather, soil erosion, poor building materials, sudden pressure spikes, digital and mechanical faillures and even friggin wildlife and falling trees can suddenly cause your immobile pipeline to move maybe an inch or two too much at a previously unknown weak point. That's the whole point and one of the big factors why pipelines start to leak: when the thing that really wasn't supposed to move *STARTS TO FUCKING MOVE.*

Since people are 70% water, does that mean if you walk on someone you are 70% Jesus?

As an Indigenous person, here’s the comparison I always use when it comes to protecting sites Indigenous People consider sacred: what if they built a resort around Jesus’s tomb instead of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre? Why are Indigenous cultures and religions seen as less valid than other religions? People treat us and those we consider sacred as just fun little made up things we’ve created, when in reality, the complexity of Indigenous religions and philosophies is far more difficult to understand than any other, at least in my opinion. Defending Indigenous Lands from extractive industries saves Indigenous lives by preventing MMIW cases from rising, by keeping the air, soil, and water clean and usable, by keeping native wildlife alive, and prevents the displacement of Indigenous People from their homes. And it protects what tribes consider sacred to them, which isn’t any less valid than if a site were sacred to Christians. Please join us in the fight against extractive industries and US imperialism, and start decolonizing your lifestyles, habits, values, and mindsets.

You guys are being pretty insensitive. One time I was using the toilet and an entire geyser of oil came out of it and gave me an unwanted oil enema.... It really does have to come out of somewhere :/

Conservative's interpretation of libs is such a deep fried meme at this point. It's been passed around for so long that it's totally out of touch and incomprehensible.

"Yeah so what, we're talking more land from indigenous groups, homes from them and other people for dumb reasons, but we need oil!" Summary of her argument

The “rainbow elephant” sketch is SO close to be an actual good parody of annoying out of touch liberals, but it misses the mark because they misunderstand the real reasons people like that are annoying. Like, it would work as a bit in like an Abelina Sabrina video or something but I feel like as a prageru sketch it just comes off as “the left criticizes us for being racist, but look how racist THEY are too”

Oof, that "comedy" sketch was more potent cringe than the worst "Orange man bad" jokes from 2018. Thank you guys for turning this painful Pragerganda into something actually funny and worth watching.

A pipeline leak in Canada was a massive problem a couple years ago. It was devastating for the first nation tribes that lived nearby.

PragerU's go to "we aren't racist, actually" bit is to have the people of color talk about those issue. It's so weird and ass backwards.

Also I've noticed a lot of conservative parodies of how liberals look also includes black people, Hispanics of various shades and other minorities. It looks diverse. But when they portray themselves it's almost always just white people. Says a lot.

This PragerU video is extra funny cause Biden has approved a ton of pipelines

absolutely incredible duo. literally in love with both of you. please. more. the dynamics are too good.

The issue with big oil is we need to treat it like we are weening off a hard drug. It has obviously been proven to be the most efficient way to produce energy, albeit all of its horrific flaws. What we need to do is dump a lot more money into researching the alternative forms of energy solar, nuclear, wind, hydro etc. Over time as those become more efficient and, capable they can then finally replace the crude oil industry we have been relying on for far too long. Just my opinion though

can't believe we missed the part at 17:29 where someone ran away from the fauci doll

Prager U kids is honestly terrifying. Think about how easy it is to convince a kid about something that he knows nothing about, and think about how much easier it will be in the form of child cartoons.

“Oil and gas have to be transported from point a to point b” not if point b switches to sustainable sources of energy. She talks about using oil and gas as if the mega rich companies are being forced to use it, when they could absolutely switch to sustainable energy, they just don’t want to because that would cost them money. It’s the same reason why they refuse to pay workers livable wages.

I love that the solution to just not use it anymore just simply isn't available as an option. It's almost like they are funded by oil companies.

if y’all want an oil pipeline don’t do it through indigenous land, if it doesn’t matter where it comes out of the ground then go straight through a metropolis, no problem with that right?? at least in the city they’ll actually do something about hazardous leaks

19:30 "fighting FOR racial injustice" genuinely cant tell if that was a deliberate joke or a fuckup on their part

Only prageru could manage to completely avoid the literal nuclear elephant in the room when talking about a need for more energy.

Pipelines are also an expensive giant land consuming piece of infrastructure that only works for oil. At least you can use a set of train tracks for all sorts of things once you build them

That's not even... why even... why did they bring up a fictional rendition of Al Capone (of all people!) for a quote on a damn oil pipeline AND THEN GET THE QUOTE WRONG TO BOOT?! Oh god I don't think I want to make it past 2 minutes here

I don't understand how conservatives only make one joke (make up a guy and get mad at him), and still find it funny every single time. I mean, it's done so much that it's cliche just to point it out. Why can't they try out some puns, or make funny cartoon noises? Maybe come up with an actual set-up --> punchline formula? Comedy is hard but it's not THAT hard.

That last segment is 100% a rip off of a bunch of different episodes of "the office" almost like one of these PragerU aliens watched that and thought Michael Scott wasn't supposed to be a joke

Say what you will about Prager, but that idea for Black lady Santa is a great idea for a superhero concept. Think a holiday themed Storm meets Beastmaster; snow powers and all that, can command reindeer (and other arctic critters?) Has a sweet base in the north pole. I can't pull any good name ideas off my dome; but it should have a heavy metal and threatening tone to it. But her origins can be sorta along the lines of Tim Allen's Santa Claus; Santa dies, she takes the mantle. I'd read that comic.

so weird how theyre like "no indigenous people have to give up their land and homes so *I* can have *MY* oil"

"It's endemic. You just said it. ~Institutional~ racism." - I laughed so hard I woke everyone up

CRT officially stands for Cool Race Time. Thank you, Jordan.

"It's in our natural interest to continue using outdated technologies that cause countless problems" No it isn't PragerU.

The way shes explaining the relative safety of pipelines is PRECISELY what makes them dangerous. A monolithic vessel that fails dumps SO MUCH more oil than a truck in an accident.

They actually have such great comedic chemistry??? I love how they joke with eachother I want more of them especially ab politics

The Keystone XL Pipeline project support makes no sense. The Keystone Pipeline already exists, the Keystone XL Pipeline is just a shorter, wider pipeline that bypasses the part of the original pipeline that avoided a protected area. This is also a pipeline which transfers tar-sands which are notoriously more harmful and harder to clean up. In fact the Keystone Pipeline has already leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of these tar-sands. It only hurts Americans/America and literally the only benefactor is an oil company, and a non-American oil company at that. Then there's this BS line 5 by Enbridge in Michigan where they're trying to run a pipeline across the great lakes. Infuriating!

"Furchtgott" means fear-god or in context "god fearing". Lol thats so fitting. (Furcht is an old, less common used word for "Angst" (fear). As a linguist I couldnt resist to give a lil German lesson. :) Also great video of course!

“prager me or prager you?” oh my god i’m losing it

prageru has forgotten how real people act - both leftists AND conservatives

Did they just not bring up contaminated water reservoirs when talking about pipelines? Isn't that like the main point of critique?

This lady is insane, bregging about all these big numbers like it's a good thing.

UGHAGGHH I SCREAMED WHEN THAT ONE DUDE JUST SO INCORRECTLY PRONOUNED CHANNUKAH I feel like I just took psychic damage the same way when people ask me how I'll celebrate Christmas when I've talked with them for like months and they know I'm Jewish and don't celebrate it Note: the "Ch" sound in Yiddish and Hebrew is pronounced more like "hhhh" near the back of your throat

I'm 36, and I'm really proud of this upcoming generation. Y'all are gonna shake shit up in the best way ✊🏾

I live in a semi-liberal area. My (black woman) manager dressed up like Santa for one day of an event bc our other Santa flaked and we got multiple complaints to corporate about it. I would love some of whatever they’re smoking.

"The very first thing he did in office was to cancel the Keystone Pipeline, THAT WASNT AN ACCIDENT" I mean, i sure hope he didnt trip and fall into a stack of papers while his hand, gripping his favorite royal blue pen, just happened to shake in a way that perfectly imitates his signature

i love how everything they’re saying is irrelevant because it should never have been an option to put the pipeline through land that doesn’t belong to us

i dont mean this in a hate-y way towards others but you two might be the funniest commentary youtubers i’ve seen and i’m so excited for this collab 🧍

can't believe anti-spiderman is complaining about gas prices

Also, that diagram of oil being moved within the US is so crazy. According to the graphic, oil travels almost as far as possible from point a to point b. It shows one from (roughly) OR to LA, TN to MT, NM to MA, and WI to GA, when the cheapest and so most likely way it would be set up would be from OR to MT, NM to LA, TN to GA, and WI to MA. I mean surely they aren’t going all the way from NM to MA; the only longer option than that would be OR to MA. That’s crazy.

two good men with good laughs as good opinions 👯

I can't wait to manifest Jordan to get some sweet laughs

I didnt know PragerU was trying to turn into the office lmao

There tends to be an uptick in the number of MMIW whenever new pipelines are being laid. I think they just glossed over or completely ignored all of the reasons indigenous protestors were giving during not only the Keystone, but also Line 3 protests last year.

To power the entire US on solar power, we would need a solar power plant the size of the Mojave desert (roughly 22,000 square miles). That’s not much considering that’s purely solar power, if we use more wind power and hydroelectric power that amount of land needed for a solar power plant would diminish.

This video is my groundhog day. The amount of times I've watched this video solely because my little ant brain goes "Jordan and Ethan!!! :O" and then halfway through it hits me. This is my formal request that you guys collab again to effectively save me from my pragerU fueled decent into madness.

as someone from Sacramento every straight man looks like that and its painful

i have this problem where i get really high and can't stop watching ethan's videos, it's called being a fucking genius and it's incurable

Shoehorning in the line from the untouchables actually made me spit out water. Something about the absurdity of applying it to kurzgesagt for bigots just killed me.

This video was literally "we can’t stop oil extraction because oil extraction is happening"

Great job guys! You two are super funny and play well off of each other. The Collab I didn't know I needed 💕

Conservatives think reparations is like, their black neighbor coming over to their house and demands $100 in cash. Like, that's not what reparations are? No one has ever said that

2:58 Oh my god, the irony of Diana's last name..... "Furchtgott" is german and literally means "the god of fear". "Roth" is an old spelling of "Rot", which means "red", and usually had the meaning that someone had red hair, but sometimes it was used to describe someone who was fake & full of lies.

she really said "fossil fuels are ruining humanity and that's why we need another pipeline!"

3:00 fun fact! "furcht" is german for "fear" and "gott" is german for god.. her name is "diana feargod"

collab of the century

love you hilarious kings 💃 the oil is always watching 👁👁

I lowkey forgot Jordan wasn’t exclusively apart of Jarvis’s existence

"Fine bitch, lobby to put the pipeline through your neighborhood then" is the only response I can muster

adore this combo, you guys play off each other really well!

Uh oh, the Throat and Eye are trying to kill my ability to watch this! My phone has never struggled to load a video like it is with this one.

The second video is bad because it's another example of conservatives twisting leftist gripes with liberals (assuming they know liberals and leftists are different in the context of American politics) and putting them into a bigoted message. Yes there are some liberals that do pull performative shit like this to make them feel better about themselves, without considering the repercussions on the people they claim to be helping. But I'm sure everyone here damn well knows that Prager U doesn't actually care about protecting the rights of minorities and wanting a more just society. Leftists crap on performative crap like those shown in the video because 1. It doesn't actually have a major impact or any impact at all, sure it might make a few feel a bit more safe and comfortable, but that means shit when it is mostly temporary. 2. It can sometimes harm the people that are "being helped". (See how the blackout hashtag done during the start of the BLM protests nearly 2 years ago on social media completely blocked out helpful information and fundraising events for days. And when that died down a shit ton of people stopped caring to even look up those helpful posts.) 3. The people behind those actions when push comes to shove, like when the rights of minorities are being stripped away or a protest they could join happens will, at best, do the bare minimum, more often, do nothing, or, at worst, be a straight up hypocrite and gladly support people that harm minorities. Does Prager U care about any of that? Of course not. The video basically says that this is how all leftists act (which it blatantly isn't true) and that because they are leftists it is stupid and should be made fun of. And also because it doesn't matter if the support was performative or not, it was support of a leftist cause period, so therefore it is bad. Conservatives get incredibly whiny during Pride month, because any support, genuine or not, is bad. It's so fucking aggravating because it's like, I agree that liberals that do shit like this are fucking stupid and annoying, but for completely different reasons that aren't bigoted.

There is no fracking in Ba Sing Se

I was just watching this and I go to twitter, turns out a pipeline in Arizona caught fire

the ladys name "Furchtgott" is german and means "dread god" or "god of fear" which is rlly badass i never heard it before

This was so much fun to watch! The two of you make for an excellent and hilarious video! Love you both ✌️

You guys really amplified each other in this video, both your senses of humor came out very well. Love it, bud keep it up

just started watching your videos and i’m obsessed. keep up the great content!

i rlly liked this collab, y'alls evergy is perfectly matched the whole time. super entertaining video!!

THE COLLAB WE NEEDED THANK YOU

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as a person who's worked with flammable liquids moving through a pipe, there's actually a massive safety issue. especially as the pipe gets longer. sounds like this professor needs to go back to school

I think the main point of people being against pipelines is that it symbolizes and promotes fossil fuels being our main energy source. The Keystone XL Pipeline was also getting oil from the tar sands in Canada, an extremely dirty and energy intensive extraction source. Conservative are arguing the logistics of using an energy source that should be mostly outdated by now.

The amount of times I ugly laughed I love this video

it's not a matter of *if* pipelines will leak, it's a matter of *when*

I’ve watched this 7 times. You guys have the best comedic chemistry, pls collab more!

I'm glad I found Jordan through this video. You're both incredible.

Not me being shown a Prager u ad under this video 💀

Btw Furcht-Gott are two German words, meaning Fear God. PragerU scares me.

Have you guys seen the pipeline that broke in the Amazon. Yeah, so environmentally sound. You can spill a truck of oil. But a pipeline dumps magnitudes more oil than any truck could ever carry.

I love listening to you guys talk, it would be amazing if you did more videos together ☺️