News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scott Adams racist rant. Parent comment

Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by adamrezich on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:35PM (#34940194)
his whole schtick is that he says polarizing things and then when everyone reacts to what he says at face value then haha, he got you, he wins, you're being persuaded. or something. basically he has a lot of money and fame so he trolls different political groups and everyone has forgotten what authenticity looks like so they take what he says at face value even though he really quite obviously rarely says anything with a completely straight face... then later he can completely walk anything he said back because he "learned new information". but in the meantime, others (like this organization) grift off his grift by reacting to it at face value. nobody really cares about the issues being discussed, it's all just clickbait/grifting, but everyone rolls with it, because this is what passes as intellectual discourse anymore.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by ModernMech on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:38PM (#34940222)
> he trolls different political groups

Does he though? Where are examples of him trolling the right? It seems to me his trolling is in one direction consistently. As they say, you're still a goat fucker whether you really want to fuck the goats or you're just trolling.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by adamrezich on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:40PM (#34940239)
his entire vaccine saga was an massive troll to "the right", are you serious?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by hellisothers on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:45PM (#34940280)
Could you link to some discussion on this? I have been under the impression that he is solely “triggering the libs”.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by adamrezich on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:58PM (#34940391)
you can look up the Ben Garrison comic about it to get a brief, obviously-biased overview. though depending on your political views, you might be inclined to think that it was just a broken Scott being right twice a day. however, as noted his brand was "triggering the libs" for a good long while there, and it seems he's returned to it now (though in reality he's triggering almost everyone), but for awhile there he did the face/heel turn and "triggered the cons", before turning again for his current schtick. we have a word for that and it's "trolling".
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by hedora on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:17AM (#34946662)
What? He is strongly anti-vax, and spreads standard right wing propaganda about covid:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jan/26/scott-adam...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by belorn on Sunday February 26, 2023 @03:30PM (#34949056)
Scott said that unvaccinated people feel better. Polifact say that unvaccinated people had a higher risk of being dead.

Would be more fun if Polifact included a section if dead people feel worse than alive people.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by ModernMech on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:29AM (#34955630)
He said they feel better because they have natural immunity without the looming fear that the vaccine will kill then in 5 years. This is just projection because he’s scared about what he injected into himself. For those of us who aren’t scared of the vaccine, we are perfectly happy.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by teddyh on Monday February 27, 2023 @10:02AM (#34957196)
> This is just projection because he’s scared

https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-02-26

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by ModernMech on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:33AM (#34958417)
If you have a point, make it. Posting Dilbert strips is not a conversation.

Scott Adams literally spent an hour+ on his podcast talking about how he made the wrong choice in taking the vaccine because he was afraid of the effects in 5 years. That's him telling me he's afraid, not me saying he's wrong because he's afraid. His whole point is that the best position to be in is to have immunity from covid and to not be afraid of the effects of the vaccine. If Adams wants to let us in on his thinking process beyond his fears, he should probably let us know on his podcast. Until then I can only go off the arguments he makes.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by teddyh on Monday February 27, 2023 @02:14PM (#34960637)
I still claim that you can’t just declare that the reason he makes some argument or other is “he’s just afraid that X”. Argue with the point, not the person.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by ModernMech on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:39AM (#34946848)
tbf, the vaccine was a topic that didn't really cleave along political lines. Adams is a Trump supporter, and Trump is a vaccine supporter. Many GOP governors supported the vaccine, even DeSantis. It's perfectly coherent to troll anti-vaxxers from a conservative perspective. Doesn't mean Adams really agreed with the left's pro-vax stance, and over time it seems he's gone to the position that the smartest people after all were the anti-vaxxers.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by themitigating on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @09:19AM (#34969541)
Govenors plus the people you mentioned is less than 40 people how is that representative of the right?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by drcongo on Monday February 27, 2023 @06:57AM (#34955394)
He definitely wants to fuck the goats.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by bediger4000 on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:01PM (#34940420)
I guess Adams won, he got me! Ha ha! Gosh darn it!

But he doesn't have my money. I quit buying Dilbert calendars and compilations years before Adams became edgy, because he started treating the Pointy Haired Boss sympathetically. By catering to his new class (multimillionairs), he lost the humor in the strip.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by adamrezich on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:15PM (#34940570)
he's not grifting for Dilbert product sales primarily, he's chasing the high of being a Political Thought Leader (to some) in 2016.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scot... by CydeWeys on Saturday February 25, 2023 @11:44PM (#34943119)
Assuming it is a schtick (which I personally don't believe), it's nevertheless still unhelpful and obnoxious. It doesn't particular matter whether someone truly believes the terrible things they're saying or if they're just "trolling"; the result is the same. As Vonnegut says, we are who we pretend to be.
[ Parent | on HN ]