rant · moment 17 of 27
Austin Haircut Story and Chamath as a Placeholder
from #239 - Anna Khachiyan | The Tim Dillon Show · #239
3 min
Tim tells a story about a hairdresser in Austin warning him against liberal politics, riffing on Austin's actual weirdness and Silicon Valley colonization, before Anna frames Chamath Palihapitiya as a tech-world placeholder analogous to AOC.
- Tim moved to Austin three days ago, 30 minutes outside the city, and a woman at a haircut place asked if he was bringing liberal California politics to Texas.
- Austin is run by lesbians with purple dreadlocks throwing bricks through windows; antifa functions as a political party there.
- Austin attracts people who've failed at nine different artistic endeavors—failed bands, sketch groups, improv, comedy—before landing there.
- Tim tells locals they should be terrified of Silicon Valley, not liberals, because the tech industry is going to colonize Texas.
- People fear the wrong threats; they should be scared of Chamath and Silicon Valley instead of leftists or the alt-right.
- Chamath is a placeholder to Tim for the new trend in Silicon Valley, the way AOC is a placeholder for establishment politics.
- People celebrated Tim's critique of Chamath but get angry when he applies the same logic to AOC, probably because she's a woman.
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