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Kill Them or House Them: The Duterte and Singapore Option
from #302 - Put Them In A Big Pot | The Tim Dillon Show · #302
2 min
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Tim floats extreme binary solutions to drug addiction, citing Rodrigo Duterte's drug war killings in the Philippines and Singapore's death penalty as one extreme versus legalization and compassionate housing as the other.
- Tim outlines the two options for dealing with homelessness: kill them all like Indonesia does, or build affordable housing and get high with them.
- Homelessness has multiple causes ranging from crippling drug addiction to being a horrible podcast producer.
- Over 7,000 killed in the Philippines in six months under Duterte, yet Tim says he keeps being told not to like this guy and finds him a very interesting person.
- Duterte ordered police to kill anyone connected to the drug trade, resulting in 7,025 deaths between July 2016 and January 2017.
- Tim frames killing everyone, even people near drug dealers, as a hardline approach and acknowledges there's got to be a better way than that, perhaps.