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Riots, Property Destruction, and the State's Monopoly on Violence
from Boomer Bashing & Campus Protests | The Tim Dillon Show #391 · #391
4 min
He argues that breaking laws and property invites police response regardless of the cause's legitimacy, using the Seattle CHAZ autonomous zone and post-George Floyd backlash as examples of how riots erode public sympathy.
- Tim wanted to attend Columbia journalism school as a kid because he wanted to be a journalist.
- Breaking private property and using violence means the state will respond with arrest and force, because society has laws.
- Riots don't make people more sympathetic to a cause; when violence starts, people see agents of chaos and want order instead.
- After George Floyd, people agreed police treatment of suspects was a problem, but months of city riots changed the narrative entirely.
- Most people see the riots as chaos, not progress—24-year-olds in Bushwick support it, but the vast majority want order.
- Tim describes a bleeding rioter at Columbia as aesthetically hot, embodying the archetype of a vegan Hamas activist covered in blood.
- College is supposed to be fun, and there's a lot of antisemitic violence happening right now that nobody wants to discuss.
- There's apparently great sex happening at Columbia and across colleges during the protests, but nobody wants to talk about it.