rant · moment 5 of 29
Willful Ignorance About Homelessness and LA's Homeless Population
from Ari Shaffir | The Tim Dillon Show #323 · #323
4 min
Tim declares he doesn't care about geopolitics or homelessness, then goes on an extended riff about LA's homeless population, weed-homeless versus heroin-homeless, and a theory that homeless people are secretly responsible for California wildfires.
- Tim argues the best approach to homelessness is to bury your head in the sand and not think about it.
- Tim questions why homeless people don't just get a home, suggesting they're choosing to live in tents to make a point or be special.
- He declares he won't tolerate any discussion of homelessness and will pretend it doesn't exist until he becomes homeless himself.
- LA has 40,000 homeless people, which Tim describes as a Kansas City's worth of homeless concentrated in one city.
- Homeless people in LA aren't organized, which Tim identifies as probably their biggest problem.
- Different homeless populations in LA don't mix—weed homeless and heroin homeless keep separate from each other.
- Tim recalls going to rehab for Percocet and being embarrassed because everyone else was addicted to harder drugs like oxycodone and heroin.
- Homeless people starting fires is just camping; if you're going to camp, you need a campfire.
- Tim concludes that climate change is caused by homeless people fucking around with fire, and they're bringing back the plague through fires.
- Homeless people start forest fires for fun because they're bored and don't have a community to protect, so they just leave.