Places/place
Silicon Valley
2018-08-02, 1 mention2018-12-14, 1 mention2020-11-15, 3 mentions2021-01-31, 2 mentions2021-02-14, 3 mentions2021-06-06, 1 mention2022-08-07, 1 mention2025-02-27, 5 mentions2025-03-13, 1 mention2025-05-24, 1 mention2026-04-25, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He keeps returning to the idea that Silicon Valley has fused with the federal government and become a kind of oligarchic power center, agreeing with guests like Whitney Webb and Steve Bannon who argue tech elites now run parallel to the state 49:19 55:36 1:12:21 15:33 27:16. He lets Bannon expand this into a specific accusation — that Silicon Valley's H1B system amounts to an "apartheid state" exploiting foreign labor while locking out American workers — without pushback 57:01 1:07:24. On his own, away from guests, he treats the place as populated by socially awkward people who only function well hidden from public view, citing Musk's failed DOGE stint as proof they should have stayed in the shadows of Cupertino and Palo Alto 24:43. He mocks its output as cheap and lazy — a "shitty app" standing in for government competence — and turns Palantir's mission-statement language into a bit about a company dressing up ordinary self-interest as duty to the country 55:32 27:29.
Every Reference (20)
"things like that. I mean, now it's like the discretionary Silicon Valley essentially came out of that discretionary budget of the US"
"what's going on over there? Well, the point is this with Silicon Valley, they have a traditional like, I don't know what you call it, libertarian or anti-regulations."
"the increasing control of silicon valley in the election system and also the fusion really of silicon valley with the federal government"
Election Irregularities, Dominion Machines, and Election Guard Software — #226 - Whitney Webb #3 | The Tim Dillon Show+59s into the segment"we have gotten to a point where we cannot separate silicon valley from the state anymore they've essentially fused and this is hugely dangerous uh to the future of the country"
Silicon Valley Fuses With the State: Eric Schmidt, AI Arms Race, and Smart Cities — #226 - Whitney Webb #3 | The Tim Dillon Show+11s into the segment"a lot of these corporations have essentially murdered like silicon valley corporations um have merged with the state and you know this"
How the Left Became Fans of the CIA and Silicon Valley — #226 - Whitney Webb #3 | The Tim Dillon Show+42s into the segment"it's just these communities in these echo chambers they can exist on 4chan about pelosi eating kids or they can exist in silicon valley"
"respected because all over the world what we've realized here in silicon valley what we've realized is all over the world people have the"
Closing Riff: Transitioning to a Woman to Survive Cancel Culture — #237 - Buy The Dip | The Tim Dillon Show+159s into the segment"people are like terrified i'm like dude you've got [ __ ] silicon valley here which is going to put chips in all of you immediately"
Austin Haircut Story and Chamath as a Placeholder — #239 - Anna Khachiyan | The Tim Dillon Show+64s into the segment"you have this total merger like that democratic politics in silicon valley right that's really that we saw play out firsthand in this"
Time Magazine 'Fortifying Democracy' and Anna's Schizophrenic Mother — #239 - Anna Khachiyan | The Tim Dillon Show+8s into the segment"the silicon valley people love it and when i'm on clubhouse every night a lot of them are like this will never end we're gonna have a pandemic every five years"
Touring During COVID and Silicon Valley's Permanent Pandemic Fantasy — #239 - Anna Khachiyan | The Tim Dillon Show+129s into the segment"democratic way not just a few people sitting in offices in in silicon valley right and now bitcoin will make that easier how well bitcoin"
Government Crackdowns and Bitcoin as a Decentralizing Force — #255 - Bitcoin Winklevoss Jake Paul | The Tim Dillon Show+139s into the segment"i never actually have really succeeded entirely in silicon valley i'm sort of like semi non-filled it was my next so i lasted like nine months at this company"
Das Boot on Mushrooms and the Post-9/11 Miso Jar Mushroom Smuggling Tease — The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310+52s into the segment"against the little guy the little at the same time they went to Silicon Valley and did a deal with the oligarchs the little guy in this country"
Zero Interest Rates, the Fed, and Bricks Nations Rebelling Against the Dollar — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+26s into the segment"power and that's what you have today with the oligarchs in Silicon Valley now here's the beauty of it here's how great the oligarchs"
Neo-Brandeisian Antitrust vs. the Chicago School, and Techno-Feudalism — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+164s into the segment"the Silicon Valley is an apartheid state there's no blacks or Hispanics and the the South Asians or Indians are there are there as indentured servants"
H1B Visas as an 'Apartheid State' and Ending Illegal Immigration Entirely — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+51s into the segment"because the industrialists in Silicon Valley are taking the typical easy way industrialists have in the"
AI's Two Paths: Innovation vs. Outsourcing Repeat, and DeepSeek as a Sputnik Moment — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433"we do that by restricting Wall Street and rest restricting Silicon Valley from being in business with them the the salutes that Elon"
No Pentagon War Game Has Ever Won a Taiwan Defense Scenario — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+40s into the segment"deporting everyone it's just an app that some shitty guy in Silicon Valley created just some shitty app this is all it is just it's just"
The Government's Self-Deportation App — Little Moments With Meghan Markle | The Tim Dillon Show #435+179s into the segment"up there uh in Certino, up there in PaloAlto, up there in Silicon Valley where nobody knew what the hell they were doing. That's where"
Elon Musk Exits the White House and the Doge Fallout — CNN Interview, Ms. Rachel Propaganda, & The Uncancelables | The Tim Dillon Show #445+116s into the segment"country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense"
Palantir Manifesto Part Two: The Ice Cream Parlor Bit and Silicon Valley's Debt — The Palantir Manifesto & My Manifesto | The Tim Dillon Show #493+63s into the segment