News · moment 12 of 26
Daniel Defense's Tone-Deaf Tweet and Mental Health Scapegoating
from #300 - A Unique Experience with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show · #300
4 min
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Tim reads a gun manufacturer's since-deleted Bible-quote tweet featuring a child with a rifle, then argues that blaming mental illness alone ignores the lack of actual healthcare and stigmatizes the mentally ill.
- The military-industrial complex isn't a problem, it's a baby with a gun in Texas.
- Notice the child in the Daniel Defense tweet isn't reading a book or playing sports or at church—just sitting on the floor with an AR-15.
- Daniel Defense tweeted that image on the day an 18-year-old murdered a bunch of kids—at minimum, a marketing disaster.
- People defending this always blame mental health, but they never follow up by saying we should have healthcare.
- Tim worked in mental health and notes that mentally ill people don't walk into a psych ward and get shot—you need a gun in your hands.
- While a small percentage of mentally ill people are violent, blaming mental illness for mass murder shits on the entire mentally ill population.
- We've spent 50 years poisoning the population, hooking them on drugs to keep them productive at work while stressed to nervous breakdowns.
- Tim isn't that upset about the gun thing and won't be doing a lot of content about it this summer.
- Podcasts are ending because people are exhausted by the same 20 people discussing the same things over and over.
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