That’s informative, thanks. He seems as if he may have practiced on himself once or twice.
So did your mom do ok with the second Doctor?
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He also stole the Babylon Bee’s one joke. (Seriously: their whole shtick is “The Onion but for right-wingers who never get tired of the same anti-trans joke.”)
Politics aside, stealing a joke from someone who only had one joke to begin with is kind of like stealing a monologue from Hodor.
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Notably, Adams isn’t an engineer by education; he’s got a BA in economics and a MBA. He’s closer to the Pointy-Haired Boss than to Dilbert and his coworkers.
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If somebody holds the door for him maybe he’ll leave?
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Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, has since written self-help books like ‘Win Bigly’ & ‘Loserthink’ and now hosts his own podcast “Coffee with Scott Adams”.
In mild-mannered, folksy, and avuncular style, he has a ‘simultaneous sip’ of coffee, a little chuckle with his listeners, and then they chat about the events of the day and how democracy is a farce and maybe a benevolent dictatorship would be preferable.
Scott’s fatherly advice is geared towards one thing: undermining your belief that there is any truth or justice in world - or that these things are even possible. You can trust literally nobody. All systems are corrupt, and the world works through the exercise of naked power and the manipulation of gullible rubes like you.
It doesn’t even matter if the libs stole the election. Trump should just go ahead and take it, if he can.
Scott Adams considers himself a Master Persuader and he uses every rhetorical trick in the book to persuade you that America is so corrupt to try and get you to agree that a benevolent dictator would probably be preferable at this point.
Think of the kind of ‘helpful advice’ that Wormtongue used to demoralise Théoden in Lord of the Rings.
It’s really horrible…
So, if this sounds like fun to you, join Chris and Matt as they go to hell and become increasingly depressed throughout the episode!
The creator of Dilbert is one of the first people who credited Trump with being a genius of persuasion. He loves hypnosis, affirmations, helping you experience amazing new years orgasms. He has also recorded 500 videos of himself drinking coffee and talking. The man hates QAnon, but we think there might be a spiritual kinship hidden beneath the disagreement.
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I always thought Scott Adams was affirmative action for humorless people.
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Two thoughts.
I am an engineer, and I do find his jokes funny… most of the time. I don’t see any malice toward trans people in this strip. I see it more as poking fun at Rachel Dolazel and folks like her (white who self-identify as black) and the boss’ obliviousness towards that.
I sorta see why trans folks would decide this is making fun of them, but I am not trans, and I don’t think this strip was aimed to poke fun at them.
With that said, I have no comment on his political leanings or his potential sympathies toward Qanon ideologies.
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Plus emotional intelligence is not the same thing as intelligence intelligence (I know this from first hand, personal experience). That’s why you have someone like Elon Musk who can run a rocket company that can land two rockets sitting straight up at the same time who can also name his kid the Windows XP startup sound.
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The right has been using “X identifies as Y” joke to mock the concept of gender identity for many years now (see Babylon Bee headlines above) so it’s pretty far-fetched that Adams wouldn’t be well aware the gag would be interpreted that way.
Even if we were to give him the benefit of the doubt on that there is still the issue that he waited three decades to introduce a Black character and then immediately proceeded to use that character’s race as a punchline.
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How reassuring.
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…cheap jabs at Black and Trans people…
Being neither black nor trans, saying I don’t see the negativity in the joke isn’t really relevant. Being I don’t don’t see the jokes as negative, what I do see is that you can’t even mention these diversities without someone clutching their peals. Maybe it is only slightly negative, that being the reason I missed it. Overt or even just a little is no good, but I can see Adams not having that intent, but intent isn’t the problem, right? So, is the lesson that one group can’t make jokes involving another group, even if it casts that group in a positive or neutral light, because some might not see it the way you intended? Not being sarcastic.
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It’s othering and dismissive of the struggles of trans people, with an extra added layer of racism on top.
He’s been stanning for Trump for years now, so yeah. He knows what he’s doing.
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I’m cis. That is totally a dig at trans people. But even if I didn’t see the insult I would still believe it was there
Why? Because the people at whom the joke is aimed have said it’s hurtful. Their opinion is the one that matters
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On top of that, Scott Adams has shown himself over and over again to be a bad actor who consistently has been punching down for years now.
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I use to enjoy Dilbert. Then I found out how absolutely shitty a human being is Adams. I have since made it a point to avoid Adams products in all forms, just as a form of protest.
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I’m honestly surprised it has taken that shit-stain-of-a-human this long to start on the transphobia. Unless he’s already demonstrated that and I just don’t know bc I don’t read his “comics.” His misogyny is well documented and he’s obviously got some racism going too. All those different kinds of hate seem to come as a package deal
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If you can’t understand why treating the very concept of gender identity as a joke is hurtful to trans people then maybe work on your humaning skills a bit.
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He had a story arc way back in the 90s in which Dilbert found himself on a blind date with a literal dog who identified as a woman. So yeah, not really new.
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