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Post by AlexeyBelov »

Tycho wrote: post #655
mrweasel wrote: post #182

I loved Dilbert, having worked for more than one Dilbert-like company the humor frequently resonated with me. How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. Was this opinions he'd always had, but suppressed, did he somehow become radicalized or was it perhaps medically induced, e.g. a stroke or something. It was incredibly sad to see him throw away his life's wo…

> “deeply off the rails” How sheltered are you people? Scott Adams was a pretty standard non-woke boomer. Do you think that just because you don’t hear certain opinions in the workplace or the faculty or the Atlantic podcast, that they aren’t widely held by members of the public? Do you think everyone’s into DEI, BLM, trans-rights, multi-culturalism etc?

You don't have to be into this, just not against.

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #489
IAmBroom wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See also: JK Rowling. Pre-2018: Inclusion! Weirdos are people too! The marginalized need a voice! Post-2019: Transsexuals are a blight on society! They cause cancer in puppies!

This progressive movement is absolutely totalitarian. As long as you adhere to all mainstream tenets, you're good and virtuous, like pre-2018 JK Rowling. Gay Dumbledore, yay! But if the mainstream tenets change, and some previously loyal followers disagree with some of them, they should be ostracised, cancelled and vilified, like post-2019 JK Rowling. The funny thing is that this is what real fascists and communists…

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Re: Scott Adams has died

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Post by bschmidt700 »

iso1631 wrote: post #957
pizzafeelsright wrote: post #541

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Long ago where one's politics is elevated to the position of identity the culture shifted and continues to shift. I realized early on through IRC that some people cannot have a professional or cordial relationship with someone opposed to their position. The moment someone found out I believed in the opposite of the group I was attacked.

I have no idea what the politics of the CEO of Boeing or Ford or Home Depot is. They don't stand on stages brandishing chainsaws, or writing op-eds about political viewpoints, thus I don't disagree with them on politics. Some CEOs do that and thus choose to associate their companies and their business with politics. If you make your politics part of your identity, as Adams increasingly chose to do throughout the 2010…

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Post by RyJones »

profsummergig wrote: post #962
RyJones wrote: post #361

One of my emails to Scott ended up in his first book; I was the one who emailed about carrying ice. Fair winds and following seas, Scott.

Elaborate, please? (The excerpt that ended up in the book.)

here you go.

https://blog.ryjones.org/adams

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Post by AlexeyBelov »

shwaj wrote: post #893
LaGrange wrote: post #628

Bye, nobody will miss you. I’m trans, I’m autistic, and I caught on how bad he was day one, as his comics had a very specific slant to them that felt less like truly looking at workplace dynamics, and more acting misanthropic and aggrieved. I get you might have not caught on so soon - I’d call myself lucky - but you had plenty of time to figure out that not only he isn’t good, but also never was.

There are literally dozens of people in this very HN conversation that are missing him.

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Post by jpadkins »

hearsathought wrote: post #529

Why does every other comment apologize for adams' political views? It's like a bunch of people were conditioned or brainwashed into reflexibly regurgitation nonsense.

Left wingers viciously attack their own if they don't sing from the hymm book. They are scared of being labeled.

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Post by jpadkins »

mmastrac wrote: post #23

Dilbert was pretty influential for me in the 90s and early 2000s. I enjoyed those comics a bunch while I was kid. He seemed to struggle a bit with his fame, and apparently his divorce caused him a pretty big psychic trauma, which was unfortunate. His later personality was.. not my style.. and I dumped all of his books into little free libraries a few years back. The only things I really found interesting from his lat…

Thanks for sharing all of his books with the next generation of readers via the free library. His influence will live on!

Re: Scott Adams has died

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Post by jpadkins »

ohyoutravel wrote: post #39
DharmaPolice wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He always had dubious takes (he was anti-evolution for as long as I can remember) but that doesn't make Dilbert any less good.

Very true, loved Dilbert. I guess I was unaware of his dubious takes early on because my only interaction was seeing the comics. Later on the interactions became Dilbert + Reddit post on how Scott Adams is an antivaxxer.

Scott Adam famously got into heated debates with his anti-vax audience on vaccines. Calling him antivaxxer is misleading. He changed his mind on a vaccine after new evidence came out.
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