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Tent Cities, Optics Over Reality, and George Gascón's Response

from A Victimless Crime with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show #359 · #359

4 min

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Tim argues society prioritizes optics over addressing real crime and addiction, then they cue up a clip of LA DA George Gascón being pressed on accountability for the flash mob robberies.

In this bit7 moments
  • Optics have become more important than reality in how cities address homelessness and drug addiction
  • Flash mobs driving stores out of San Francisco, then people don't want to live downtown anymore
  • Tim on lesbians as the Marines of gentrification and their role in urban development
  • This kind of decay in a city is the beginning of rot that signals bad omens ahead
  • Legislators hijacked by gotcha politics, all personal attacks instead of policy debate at every level
  • People claiming they're starving while selling Fendi bags to buy groceries
  • George Gascón, Los Angeles DA, asked about the flash mob problem and looks confused
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