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CHAZ, Abolishing Police, and Who Fills the Power Vacuum
from #209 - Don't Curse Me | The Tim Dillon Show · #209
3 min
Tim argues that toppling government or abolishing police without a real plan leads to power vacuums filled by gangs, cartels, or private security, using CHAZ as his example of failure.
- CHAZ lasted only two weeks before falling apart.
- Tim explains why abolishing police doesn't work: government has money, power, and weaponry that citizens don't.
- The idea that Americans could topple the government and collectively design a new one is childish fantasy.
- When police are abolished and private security fills the gap, poor communities get ex-Mossad and ex-CIA operatives with even less accountability.
- Without state monopoly on violence, criminal enterprises and gangs will fill the power vacuum in poor neighborhoods.
- Anarchists who fetishize chaos on Twitter panic over pronouns but feel comfortable with buildings burning and streets on fire.
- Adults and celebrities with money genuinely believe violent insurrections in cities lead to something good.
- Tim finds it insane that wealthy, prominent people are serious about these mass violent uprisings producing positive outcomes.
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