Re:Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014)
by taneq on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:20PM
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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?
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Re:Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014)
by paultopia on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:51PM
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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.
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.
What's a PUA type?
Re:Scott Adams’ Financial Advice (2014)
by ergothus on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:27AM
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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
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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...
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.