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Dillon: Elite universities prioritizing identity over merit will lose taxpayer funding
“If these institutions are going to follow that path, they're going to have to live and die on their own. They're not going to be able to be taxpayer subsidized and funded.”
Dillon: Democratic Party's disconnect stems from association with elite academic culture
“I think it's why the Democratic Party no longer connects, because they're too closely associated with, like, that type of, you know, that type of vibe.”
Tim Dillon: DEI initiatives serve to preserve establishment power through optical choices
“So this DEI to me just seems like a way for a lot of the same establishment people to keep their power and influence by offering these very optical advancements to people that may, you know, pay lip service to certain ideas, but when it comes down to it, they'…”
Dillon: Hollywood executives must view human beings as objects to succeed
“The only reason you can be good at your job as an executive in the entertainment business is to really not look at human beings as humans. You have to look at them as objects.”
Dillon: Hollywood's DEI TV shows targeted guilty white liberals and lost money
“They were never making TV that minorities wanted to watch. They were making TV that guilty white liberals wanted to watch, and it didn't make any money.”
Tim Dillon calls 'follow your dream' a toxic American myth
“So I think this idea that, like, you should follow your dream, which is this toxic American idea that I don't subscribe to. I think people have natures, they have skill sets, and they actually have to do something within the realm of that, and it requires bein…”
Tim Dillon: The Ukraine war is now just a border negotiation
“The idea of it has ended. It is now just about a border negotiation It is no longer a, you know, totemic struggle for freedom or whatever they, you know, the, you know, it was being sold to us as.”
Tim Dillon: Flawed and fallible people make for better entertainment than perfect ones
“It didn't work because people at the end of the day realize that people are flawed, fallible, and human, and that's what makes them entertaining. You don't want a perfect person doing anything because that person is not going to be terribly interesting. You wa…”
Dillon: Eliminating gig work via AI destroys the pipeline for new artists
“Some of those, I don't think the entire economy should be the gig economy, but I do think some of those jobs are going to be eliminated by AI are the jobs that allow people to get good at other things while they're doing them. So people that are in entertainme…”
Dillon was paid $100,000 for a 20-minute comedy set in Romania
“I got one big Bitcoin guy in Romania had me go to his birthday party, and it was just this older oligarch type guy, and they all spoke Romanian, and it was very hard, and they paid me a 100,000 dollars to do 20 minutes, and they didn't really understand anythi…”