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BLM, Abolish the Police, and Political Obsession as a Personality Flaw

from #208 - Let's Have A Party | The Tim Dillon Show · #208

10 min

Tim argues both QAnon and 'abolish the police' movements are ways for people to be controlled or to seize what isn't theirs, and criticizes people who let political tribalism consume their entire identity for years on end.

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  • Tim argues that activists fundraising under the guise of racial justice are essentially old-school Marxists and megachurch pastors repackaged, ultimately funneling money to Republican country club guys.
  • Smart people phase out of politics after five years once they realize their beliefs won't materially change outcomes.
  • Political tweeting and activism amounts to banging pots and pans for nurses—performative noise with no real effect.
  • Tim advises turning off political content mid-life, suggesting getting murdered or tortured sounds more appealing than spending years invested in an algorithmically-created world.
  • People drawn to politics typically lack any other discernible skill and use it as a revenue stream without producing actual results.
  • Abolishing the police won't fix anything; reply guys from Twitter will simply start attacking people with knives instead of keyboard arguments.
  • Tim predicts blue-check Twitter users in major cities will get disemboweled when police abolition policies take effect, and says they deserve it.
  • Living in New York or LA now is stupid; people should leave and help build scenes in places like Omaha instead.
  • Johnny Gosch is probably alive somewhere tweeting AOC retweets, and Tim would be mad if he came out of hiding instead of staying disappeared.
  • Woke activists function like the religious enforcers in Game of Thrones' final seasons—forcing purity tests and repeating the same boring arguments in an endless death spiral.
  • The same fundamental political divisions—economic inequality, cultural issues, abortion, foreign policy—have cycled repeatedly since at least the 2000 election with identical power factions rebranding themselves.
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Joe RoganAlexandria Ocasio-CortezNancy PelosiJohnny GoschGame of ThronesAlex JonesJoe BidenDonald Trump

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