News · moment 12 of 19
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.
- 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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