Scott Adams -The Dilbert Guy

[JimBoSox9]

It's gendered only because it's women who are swinging the election to Clinton. Adams' second point is that everything that goes wrong will be the fault of women (the ones turning the election). Adams is saying, essentially, "congratulations, you've won. You've got the power. But now everything that happens is on you." Sort of a modern day Pontius Pilate washing his hands before Clinton supporters and saying that the blood will be on their hands.

Of course, that's simply wrong. Partisans tend to overstate the importance of the presidency, because they internalize the popularity contest. They are more interested in being popular, liked, respected, and on the winning tribe than they are in using the relatively modest power of the presidency to achieve concrete policy goals. But I don't see where he is being deplorable.

I think you'd be on stronger ground making the case for Adams being deplorable if you stuck with his comments about the octopus.

It's wrong, but it's wrong because women always swing the vote when the Democrat wins, not just now, which makes his entire point utter nonsense. For example, Obama in 2012 won women by 12 points and lost men by 8 points. Did Adams opine four years ago how women were saddled with the entirety of responsibility for Obama's America?

 

[yep]

It's gendered only because it's women who are swinging the election to Clinton. Adams' second point is that everything that goes wrong will be the fault of women (the ones turning the election). Adams is saying, essentially, "congratulations, you've won. You've got the power. But now everything that happens is on you." Sort of a modern day Pontius Pilate washing his hands before Clinton supporters and saying that the blood will be on their hands.

Of course, that's simply wrong. Partisans tend to overstate the importance of the presidency, because they internalize the popularity contest. They are more interested in being popular, liked, respected, and on the winning tribe than they are in using the relatively modest power of the presidency to achieve concrete policy goals. But I don't see how that is being deplorable.

I think you'd be on stronger ground making the case for Adams being deplorable if you stuck with his comments about the octopus.

Scott Adams is a true master baiter.

He has an army of apprentice baiters furiously bating on his behalf. And true to spirit and practice of bating, he is having and winning a loud and forceful dialog with himself, where the scene and imagery changes with the moment, and with his whim.

 

[rodderick]

Just in case some of you still think this guy has anything of value to add, here he is whining about having been "shadowbanned" from Twitter, presumably because he hasn't found enough of an audience for his thinly veiled misogynistic hissy fits: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151981022076/is-twitter-shadowbanning-me

 

[John Marzano Olympic Hero]

I won’t jump the gun and assume something nefarious is happening. But I will say that IF it is happening, I would regard it as treason. If one political party can use the machinery of social networks to reduce free speech, that is an attack on American values at the deepest level. As a patriot, I would feel obligated to help kill Twitter. (And you wouldn’t want to bet against me.)

Why would Twitter shadowban Scott Adams, but not Donald Trump?

And don't bet against Adams, did you see what Dogbert did to that Pointy Haired Boss today? Twitter wouldn't be able to handle such a skewering.

 

[SumnerH]

In a crazypants election season, this guy's been arguably the biggest loon of all. Not that it's actually happening, but he's saying that a private company determining who can use their resources constitutes treason? And then goes on to say he's voting Libertarian? The mind boggles.

He's finally downgraded Trump's odds of winning from 95% though, although he's clinging to the Master Persuader/Hypnosis gobbledygook: "The Master Persuasion Hypothesis worked splendidly until the double-whammy of the Access Hollywood tape and the “octopus” meteor. "

Splendidly. Aside from Hillary being a >80% favorite in PEC/538 polls based on pre-Pussygate numbers.

Keep fucking that chicken.

 

[rodderick]

Why would Twitter shadowban Scott Adams, but not Donald Trump?

And don't bet against Adams, did you see what Dogbert did to that Pointy Haired Boss today? Twitter wouldn't be able to handle such a skewering.

It's actually fascinating how he can demonstrate such a deep misunderstanding of the concepts of both freedom of speech and treason in a single paragraph.

 

[rodderick]

In a crazypants election season, this guy's been arguably the biggest loon of all. Not that it's actually happening, but he's saying that a private company determining who can use their resources constitutes treason? And then goes on to say he's voting Libertarian? The mind boggles.

He's finally downgraded Trump's odds of winning from 95% though, although he's clinging to the Master Persuader/Hypnosis gobbledygook: "The Master Persuasion Hypothesis worked splendidly until the double-whammy of the Access Hollywood tape and the “octopus” meteor. "

Splendidly. Aside from Hillary being a >80% favorite in PEC/538 polls based on pre-Pussygate numbers.

Keep fucking that chicken.

Nevermind the fact that according to Sam Wang, what put a fork on Trump was his first debate performance, and not the Hollywood Access tapes.

 

[John Marzano Olympic Hero]

It's actually fascinating how he can demonstrate such a deep misunderstanding of the concepts of both freedom of speech and treason in a single paragraph.

Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing.

Tomorrow, I'm going to send Scott Adams my Dilbert script. If he doesn't accept my script, then he's a treasonous scum that must be dealt with permanently. Guys, we're talking about my freedom of speech here. If he doesn't have Dilbert say, "Hillary Clinton is the second coming of Jesus Christ!" 35 times, then my American values have been attacked on the most deepest of levels.

 

[ifmanis5]

 

[Van Everyman]

Repeated description of women as "people with different genitalia" in this entry is beginning to make me think the guy builds doll houses in his sore time.

 

[SumnerH]

Repeated description of women as "people with different genitalia" in this entry is beginning to make me think the guy builds doll houses in his sore time.

He's no Lester Freamon.

 

[Average Reds]

Forgive me Lord, but I clicked through to read one of Adams' blog posts.

With that said, the part where he promises that he will switch sides and (literally, it seems) help kill Trump if he shows any signs of becoming Hitler is astounding to me. Adams has a sense of logic that is constrained by the fact that his emotions appear to be stuck somewhere in the 5th grade.

 

[yep]

Forgive me Lord, but I clicked through to read one of Adams' blog posts.

With that said, the part where he promises that he will switch sides and (literally, it seems) help kill Trump if he shows any signs of becoming Hitler is astounding to me. Adams has a sense of logic that is constrained by the fact that his emotions appear to be stuck somewhere in the 5th grade.

He has the classic successful-white-guy worldview that insists the world is fair and that outcomes are just, except maybe as regards short white cartoonists.

Everything has to fit a narrative whereby he is on the positive side of the hero/villain and victim/perpetrator spectrums.

 

[SydneySox]

We probably don't need this thread anymore. Guy's overexposed and it's just making fun of the sad clown at this point.

 

[John Marzano Olympic Hero]

We probably don't need this thread anymore. Guy's overexposed and it's just making fun of the sad clown at this point.

If that was the case we'd have to dump the Schilling thread, the Cafardo thread, the King thread. This place would be a ghost town.

 

[SydneySox]

I guess but those guys have Red Sox direct links. This guy's tenuous at best. This is like that time Dilbert wanted to use a pen but they only had pencils. For efficiency! Efficiency.

 

[Leather]

I guess but those guys have Red Sox direct links. This guy's tenuous at best.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

This is nicely done:

http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/10/25/13341168/pepe-the-frog-alt-right-scott-adams

 

[Red Right Ankle]

Too bad about the typo in the last frame.

 

[AB in DC]

Maybe Scott Adams was right all along.

Lakoff has an explanation for why Trump’s style of speaking is so appealing to many. Many of Trump’s most famous catchphrases are actually versions of time-tested speech mechanisms that salesmen use. They’re powerful because they help shape our unconscious.

Take, for example, Trump’s frequent use of "Many people are saying..." or "Believe me" — often right after saying something that is baseless or untrue. This tends to sound more trustworthy to listeners than just outright stating the baseless claim, since Trump implies that he has direct experience with what he’s talking about. At a base level, Lakoff argues, people are more inclined to believe something that seems to have been shared.

And when Trump kept calling Clinton "crooked," or referring to terrorists as "radical Muslims," he strengthened the association through repetition. He also calls his supporters "folks," to show he is one of them (though many politicians employ this trick). Trump doesn’t repeat phrases and adjectives because he is stalling for time, Liberman says; for the most part, he’s providing emphasis and strengthening the association.

These are normal techniques, particularly in conversational speech. "Is he reading cognitive science? No. He has 50 years of experience as a salesman who doesn’t care who he is selling to," Lakoff says. On this account, Trump used similar methods in his QVC-style pitch of steaks and vodka as he does when he talks about his plan to stop ISIS.

"He has been doing this for a very long time as a salesman — that’s what he is best at," Lakoff says.

Vox

 

[ifmanis5]

I thought this guy would be on the side of science?
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays
Climate Science Challenge. Find a scientist -- just one -- who says the climate prediction models are credible: http://bit.ly/2hNEFHD


Scott Adams ‏@ScottAdamsSays 38m38 minutes ago
I tell you about the mass delusion of climate science certainty among non-scientists: http://bit.ly/2hwG4Vz #climatechange

 

[Blacken]

He'd be on the side of science if scientists weren't cucks.

 

[Brianish]

Not to resurrect an old thread or anything but

 

[Van Everyman]

That...took me a minute.