Dilbert - C or D?

Yet another casualty of bouncing his increasingly-bizarre political ideas off the echo chamber of a drafting table for decades on end.

It must have the same effect as solitary confinement for some.

eagerly anticipating his "guys, I was just joking and y'all were too stupid to realize it" post when Trump does not win via landslide

Nah, dude has been tweaked for years. Rapidly tumbling into Sim territory.

Yeah, he's been spouting misogynist MRA and evolutionary biology bullshit for a long time now.

hmm, skimming through his blog it does sound awfully like the ramblings of a somewhat smart high schooler spending too much time on his own

https://twitter.com/Lubchansky/status/714872078713896961

hey dilbert guy, are you cool

http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-06-16

i mean
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/146361457021/the-humiliation-of-the-american-male-in-2016

How many of the married men reading this blog have received those same sweaters as “gifts” from women? Personally, I’ve received about 25 over the years. None from men. I received three of those sweaters so far this year. I throw them away. Nice try.

Many of you can’t talk about this topic without being accused of sexism, losing your jobs, and being cast out of your social groups. But I can talk about it because I endorse Hillary Clinton for president.

rooneyish

this guy is a psycho

as in, andy?

xp yup

funny how the guy who did a comic about how schlubby engineers are really smart and everyone else is really stupid turned out to be a self-satisfied womanhater dickhead

I think question #1 here is "why are you reading Scott Adams' blog?"

he's turned himself into some kind of sage for trump fans this election, it's the weirdest thing

classic material

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/139295746646/marriage-civilizations-biggest-mistake

yeah, andy -- in form, at least.

my submission is this graf from a recent piece about trump's mastery of persuasion:

For example, I have already used several persuasion techniques in the paragraphs above. If I were to see another writer use these same persuasion methods on me, I would recognize them. But most of you did not recognize the methods – at least not all of them – when I used them right in front of you.

Persuasion hides in plain sight.

genuine lol at "check out this commercial for dishwasher detergent."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kydKTVLmP58

TRUMP'S "LINGUISTIC KILL SHOTS" EXPLAINED

"Linguistic Kill Shots" sounds like some PUA bullshit.

trump makes fun of people's looks. what a hypnotist.

How are we going to feel when Randall Munroe goes full douchebag? I feel it's inevitable

I mean it probably happened already, I just don't care enough to notice since (like Scott Adams) the majority of his output and fan base are just annoying

I think question #1 here is "why are you reading Scott Adams' blog?"
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Friday, June 24, 2016

Rapidly tumbling into Sim territory.

That v-neck sweater one totally reads like a Sim who was never smart.

classic material

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/139295746646/marriage-civilizations-biggest-mistake

this guy tries so hard to straddle the line between "see!! I was right about everything! you're just not open minded enough!" and "guys I was just trolling, get a sense of humor!", also lol @ him preemptively defending himself against people tweeting at him

like this

I can talk about it because I endorse Hillary Clinton for president. I did that for my personal safety,

is just the most disingenuous shit, you got such a Trumpboner just own it like a fucking man

also lol at the idea that Trump is some kind of master hypnotist deploying surgical linguistic kill shots to get the nomination, he got the nomination by being a radical candidate in a historically stuffed field, full of candidates who for whatever reason thought the way to beat Trump was to go to his level. He did it by stoking the same base you've been mocking for the last 30 years of your life. If he WAS actually savvy - if say, he had an actual campaign, any remotely consistent positions, or knew when and where was the time for his vile racism, maybe he would have some kind of shot, which is terrifying. As it is he's making unforced errors every week and most likely is going to get blown out, so who knows how Adams is gonna walk back that "Trump wins in history's biggest landslide" prediction

now taking credit for Brexit:

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/146709758156/the-time-i-accidentally-plunged-europe-into

Ok I give up. The man is insane

"Comments temporarily disabled" lol

"A-a-a-a-and I can be persuasive."

I have found the worst Dilbert tweet:

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/759065486978002945

what a fucking asshole.

On a profound level how unhappy must this jerk-off be with his life and the way he views the world to behave the way he does? I wouldn't want his millions if it meant also seeing life through his jaundiced eyes.

also if it meant constantly thinking of like Amusing Dilbert Situations

at a restaurant & being struck by inspiration, ostentatiously shutting down conversation + hassling the server for a pen to scrawl like INSTALLING WINDOWS UPDATES ... V TIMELY on a napkin

What an awful bunch of depressing racist morons. Good link!

https://twitter.com/billkristol/status/758758123343581185

lol

election '16, pivotal moments

I've actually been thinking a lot about that Adams tweet and how it's emblematic of what's wrong with the right's demonization of expertise. Way too many people honestly believe, in a world with Wikipedia access, that they're capable of knowing and understanding anything these so-called "experts" know and understand, and in a tenth of the time it took those phonies to figure it out.

Alternative to the Kristol zing: 'Drawing.'

it's a sign of someone who has expertise in nothing. all you need is expertise in one somewhat esoteric or complex field to understand what is required to have expertise in other fields. if you don't know anything know about anything you don't understand what is required.

like one hour? there are certain trades (refrigeration, electrical, heavy equipment operation) that i've learnt a little bit about over the last few years and you don't need to be a genius by any means to become an electrician but after many many hours of studying it i still do not have anything approaching expertise.

nb he says political topics but a) politics are informed by real world expertise (how can you critique OSHA or the EPA if you know nothing about the fields they're designed to regulate) and b) i know he has shared similar sentiments about all areas of human knowledge.

a couple weeks ago I wrote a blog post suggesting that Adams' affinity for Trump was due to him seeing so much of himself there, claiming repeatedly that if you master hypnosis and persuasion you can achieve anything you want to in life. so Trump winning the presidency would effective vindicate everything he's said on the topic over the last two decades and I would wager that he's got a book on it ready to go. seeing Adams completely melt down amidst the criticism he's received for some of the above tweets solidifies this even further. they are essentially the same person.

Trump has better penmanship.

If only Trump acquired some neurological ailment that rendered him unable to speak... (which his staff is probably praying for)

like one hour? there are certain trades (refrigeration, electrical, heavy equipment operation) that i've learnt a little bit about over the last few years and you don't need to be a genius by any means to become an electrician but after many many hours of studying it i still do not have anything approaching expertise.

Seriously. I spent an hour watching youtube videos just to figure out how to turn off one valve to stop a leak in my house. I'm not a fucking plumber now.

well he clarified this in a blog post, the idea being that the President basically just defers every decision to his/her team of experts which is uh probably not how things actually work

already he's starting to flip on his prediction, arguing that "Clinton's side is winning the persuasion war by painting Trump as mentally unfit"...isn't it the things he says and does that are actually doing that? Clinton's stayed pretty silent after the convention.

https://theringer.com/scott-adams-interview-dilbert-donald-trump-3064e6996421

If you were to name some famous people who’re the best at writing short sentences of humor, I’d be on the short list. Top 100, I think. It’s what I do for a living. So to me it’s always hilarious that people pick a fight with me in public, in a realm in which I’m overarmed and they’re underarmed.

covering Trump this much is doing strange things to his brain

same tbh