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The Permanent Distrust Left by 9/11 and COVID
from The Presidential Debate & Eating Cats | The Tim Dillon Show #409 · #409
5 min
Tim argues the lasting legacy of 9/11 and COVID is generational distrust of the federal government on foreign and domestic issues, and connects this cynicism to how Ukraine aid and endless war are being sold today.
- 9/11 left us with a legacy of buffoonery and the false belief that American capitalism could solve ancient cultural conflicts.
- Tim argues you can't solve Sunni-Shiite wars with a McGriddle — capitalism won't end conflicts that have existed forever.
- His generation became isolationist about foreign policy because they remember what happened 20 years ago and learned the lesson.
- Someone explained to Tim that war operates like interest rates — someone decides when to tick it up or down based on profit.
- Tim says we need another 9/11 because at least it contextualized our lives and gave us something we understood.
- The permanent legacy of 9/11 is that we have to forget every negative thing about our current ally whenever we're told to support them.
- People warned that invading Iraq wouldn't work because Americans didn't understand the culture, but those voices were erased from memory.
- When Kamala Harris talks about commitment to allies, she's really talking about permanent, unending, ceaseless war for profit.