Sucks that you had to be a Trump supporting racist, Mr. Scott Adams.

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    I liked dilbert a lot before knowing that the author is like that.

    Is a pitty how you can’t enjoy nothing without the author ruining it anymore.

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    I remember back in the early 90s our sysadmin would grab Dilbert comics from (I think) USENET and print them on our HP laser printer. Adams built up so much goodwill only to shit all over it in the end.

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      I can’t find the comic, but the one where Dogbert said “No expensive funeral; just wrap him up in newspapers. He would have wanted it that way.” seems especially appropriate.

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    Scott Adams is dead! I didn’t know. He died in January of this year. A shitty fucking person with a horrible world view is no longer putting content on the internet. Happy to learn this.

    (I liked Dilbert as a kid and owned a couple of his non-Dilbert books. It’s sad how he went full-rightwing-nuttter later in life.)

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      The non dilbert books spoke to me as an edgy teen who was smarter than most people and dumber than she thought. As an adult though I look back and think about the sheer lack of wisdom and introspection it must take to write such things as a grown adult. He died as he lived, as wise as a 16 year old and angry that everyone else didn’t see the light of his brilliance that he so vividly hallucinated. And I think that is how he fell down the right wing rabbit hole, he lacked the self awareness to see through his biases and was deeply drawn to a certain type of men who are overconfident assholes.

      But yeah I liked dilbert as a kid too

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    He also noted that “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people,” then they should be called a “hate group.” His remarks were widely seen as racist—Adams claimed that he was being hyperbolic—and many newspapers dropped Dilbert.

    Wow. Scott adams was a cunt. I just searched why y’all are celebrating his death, and I found this. Just… wow.

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      uh okay i guess. since you staked out my position though, i’m gonna have to pick something ridiculous like scott adams character the pointy eared boss was inspired by an interaction that adams had with a mirror while on mescaline

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      Fighting takes too much energy. It was never a witty comic, but it would resonate with you when you were in the office job that had a nepo boss making random decisions. The life of the comic was just the same joke said in a thousand different ways though, which is why we can now look at it and mentally shrug.

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        Boss: I hav a nu idea

        Gilbert: No don’t u realize how stoopid that

        Boss: oh well I stil say do

        Garfeel: oh boy Monday… NOT

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      I don’t actually want to fight.

      But when it first came out, it fit right in with Dave Barry and Milton, etc. If you were working just to get a paycheck, you could relate. The overuse of sarcasm could be overlooked bc it only happened once a week.

      It never grew or evolved with the times, mirroring Adams.

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    He also invented a vegan burrito called the Dilberito that was somewhat questionable

    “As for Adams, he left the world of food behind, considering the Dilberito a failure, a lesson to be learned. Adams would later describe the nutritional value of the burrito as such: ‘Three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail.’”

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    He noted that taking ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat the cancer did not work.

    I’m not surprised considering his political affiliation

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    My idea of the image is that people like Disney or Toriyama were openly racist (and horrible) and shown it in their cartoons, the diference is they were really successfull P.s: Dont know why’s Kermit there

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      Lol my buddy just married one of those. I don’t know the terms of their pre-nup, or if they even did one. Wish we had a remind me bot so I could report back in 2 years!

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      If shitty person #1 does a shitty thing to shitty person #2, doesn’t make shitty person #1 less shitty

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          Absolutely not and it’s ok to HA-HA in his face as long as the joke stays fresh, but I wouldn’t call the girl “queen”: she’s just a gold digger that gave a valid argument for even more misoginy from the other side

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            You think gold digging warrants misogyny? Yikes 🤢

            She just played the capitalist patriarchy, good on her. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

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              I said think gold digging brings misoginy by consequence, I never said I think it justifies it.
              Don’t put words in my mouth just to cry for a cause there is no need to fight here.

              And as a side, I always found the phrase “don’t hate the player, hate the game” as dumb as the culture who coined it: who the hell is playing the game? The spectators? Of course you hate the players, they’re the only reason the game is being played!

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                  Would you consider it misogyny if someone mentions gold diggers in a conversation about dating? Or if they talk about gold diggers in any context at all? Or if someone even acknowledges that gold diggers exist?

                  Because a lot of people would consider that misogyny.

                  But an instagram model openly being a gold digger lends credence to the argument that “some women are gold diggers.”

                  So if you consider it misogyny to acknowledge that some women are gold diggers, then a woman being a gold digger is, by your very definitions, creating a pretext to justify misogyny.

                  (Funny how women can generalize about men, but when men generalize about women it’s suddenly a problem; or even if they don’t generalize but cite specific examples, people will still make a strawman argument about them generalizing so even that’s bad).

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                  don’t know how else to interpret that.

                  It involves assuming the point of view of a misoginist who feels entitled to be misoginistic. I know it’s not a position you thought you’d end up when you woke up this morning, but trying to understand what’s going on in other people’s head is a first step towards fighting intolerance.

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              I read their comment in a way ‘that stands in the way of eradicating misogyny’ not in a way ‘it makes misogyny allowed’

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                Ah, but you’re forgetting that this is the age of the internet, when discussing potential solutions to a problem (or root causes of that problem so that real solutions can be found) is basically equivalent to providing justification for that problem.

                We’re just supposed to paper over everything to make it presentable to an audience, even if beneath the surface everything is still a wreck. Superficial, temporary solutions are preferable to lasting solutions that address the problems at their roots.

                Something about toxic positivity, and confusing descriptivism with prescriptivism.

                “Does” ≠ “Should” (strawmen hate this one little trick!)

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              One turn deserves another.

              “So two wrong makes a right” is said when the responding party has nothing to stand on and needs some tired old broken statement to back up their lack of argument. When anyone says that the proper response is always “One turn deserves another”. A equally useless ambiguous statement in response.

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      That’s rough what is that, my brain and psyche are all so fucked I started to think about fucking all of the billionaires