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Burn It All Down If LA Fakes Being Good

from LA Fires Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #426 · #426

4 min

Tim argues LA's identity was never about genuine charity and that the city should embrace becoming right-wing, lowering taxes, and removing the homeless rather than pretend to be virtuous.

In this bit7 moments
  • Tim explains the LA wealth aesthetic: Persians want visible luxury, but wealthy whites in the Palisades play a guessing game with modest facades while tweeting liberal ideals.
  • Persian Jews pushed whites out of Beverly Hills, driving them to create a fantasy land in Brentwood and the Palisades full of cognitive dissonance.
  • The houses where people's lives fell apart—affairs, family confrontations, desperate meetings with writers—are still those people's homes, and they deserve sympathy for that.
  • Tim warns that if LA becomes a town where people genuinely help each other instead of performing charity, burn the rest of it down.
  • If someone hands a bottle of water to a first responder, gas can them and throw them out, because that's not what the city is actually about.
  • Disasters teach people the government has failed them, making them rightwing; time to throw out scumbags, lower taxes, and remove the homeless.
  • Entertainment industry needs to stop raping and pillaging and start making funny, good drama and creative stuff that actually captivates people again.
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