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Re:Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014) by taneq on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:20PM (#18787355)
Regardless of your (or my) personal political leanings, don't you think it's a bit of a thought-bubble red flag if you consider someone as automatically discredited for holding a ~majority (or even major minority) political stance?
Re:Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014) by paultopia on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:51PM (#18787465)
It's not even so much his political stance as his lunatic ravings about it: there's not a drop of policy in his talk about trump, it's all weird mysticism about how persuasive a personality trump has, sort of reminds me of the way PUA types talk.
Re:Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014) by hawkice on Sunday December 30, 2018 @01:08AM (#18787737)
Indeed. He doesn't even endorse Trump so much as praise his hypnotic influence. Very strange things to hear about anyone. If you heard someone praise Elon Musk or Barack Obama as having a masterful way of manipulating people, and they kept bringing it up over and over... You'd assume they were nuts.
Re:Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014) by tjfl on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:17AM (#18787568)
What's a PUA type?
Re:Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014) by ergothus on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:27AM (#18787599)
PUA = pick up artist. There's a whole subculture that is somewhat terrifying.
Re:Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014) by war1025 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:30PM (#18787389)
I think people let politics get in the way of a lot of otherwise useful information they could take in. So I think I agree with you, but I'm not sure that I disagreed with you to begin with...
Re:Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014) by taneq on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:48PM (#18787451)
Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with your point so much as just commenting on the fact that so many people here say "X says blah but they're a conservative so who cares what they think." I probably could have worded it better, though.
Re:Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014) by xref on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:33PM (#18787406)
honestly Adams has been doing more trolling than political-punditry nowadays is probably the main reason people are dismissive of him