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We Need a Little War: The Turbulence Theory
from The War At Home | The Tim Dillon Show #367 · #367
7 min
Tim argues America secretly needs conflict and turbulence like a plane needs it to feel time pass faster, and apologizes sarcastically to Yum Brands for his Pizza Hut/Hamas joke that got him restricted on Instagram.
- Tim argues that negativity about the current war is self-defeating and claims there are actual benefits to examine.
- He proposes that societies need turbulence the way airplane flights do — it makes time pass faster and keeps people from thinking too much.
- Tim says turbulence is necessary; since 9/11 it's been either manufactured or natural, and it's what the country has built its entire infrastructure around.
- He insists the time has come to stop pretending war isn't good, even while acknowledging substantial loss of life as a drawback.
- Tim compares citizens to passengers on a plane in coach — nobody controls the direction, nobody landed it, nobody knows where it's going.
- Tim apologizes to Yum Brands for implying in a video that Pizza Hut supported Hamas, while listing the company's role in poisoning citizens with processed food.
- He elaborates that the satire should have been obvious — Pizza Hut and Hamas are similar, as are Pizza Hut and Palestinians, but Pizza Hut isn't running anything.
- Tim jokes that if anyone would endorse Hamas it would be Pizza Hut, which has lost ground to better-funded expansionist operations like Papa John's and Domino's.