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Re:Loyal to the Company by DoctorOW on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:02PM (#34777446)
Do you actually find it funny? This is the same joke that's repeated over and over. I can't imagine enjoying it the 500th time. It's more of just a veil for certain beliefs.
Re:Loyal to the Company by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:05PM (#34777526)
Yes I do.
Re:Loyal to the Company by alex64 on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:39PM (#34780052)
I think this is the real joke
Re:Loyal to the Company by hn_user82179 on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:19PM (#34780705)
I personally find it funny at face-value but the joke does get ruined for me because, as you say, it's just a veil for certain beliefs. I used to enjoy a lot more of Aronson's work until I realized he was just strawmanning the views he disagreed with. I had previously thought it was just good-natured ribbing.

For an actual funny (and not so "blah blah SJWs ruining everything") version of this joke, the tv show Atlanta does a much more entertaining version of it, you can find it if you search "transracial".

Re:Loyal to the Company by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:48PM (#34781172)
It's ruined because you don't like Scott Adams but the Atlanta clip (which is good, thanks for sharing) is funny because you like Donald Glover? I like both spins on the joke as well as both comedians.
Re:Loyal to the Company by hn_user82179 on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:29AM (#34800443)
I actually don’t know Donald Glover’s political views, but I do know Scott Adams’s political views because he’s very outspoken about them and he keeps complaining about “cancel culture”. In general, I’m pretty tired of comedians making low-effort jokes and then going on about how they’re going to be cancelled because they’re “so edgy” - it’s just trying to get a rise out of people. That’s what Adams seems to be trying to do here. He also posted a bunch of tweets about how he was going to get cancelled for that strip and it just made me roll my eyes.
Re:Loyal to the Company by metadat on Monday February 13, 2023 @07:27PM (#34783240)
Re:Loyal to the Company by JeremyNT on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:23PM (#34780769)
To be fair, it's Dilbert. This is a comic strip from a bygone era of observational "humor," like Garfield or Kathy.

I don't think people actually expect humor, so much as "I find something in this comic strip that I recognize as similar to something I've encountered elsewhere."