I’ll let someone crunch the numbers of how many in USA live in a ZIP Code Of The Beast: xx666.
Meanwhile, S.Adams has no appreciation of binary. Sad.
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There are no tired tropes when played to a kid who hasn’t seen them before. Doing it without boring the heck out of the adults - that’s tricky.
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By the time most kids are cognizant of comedy (in the form of stand up, on sitcoms, etc), many have probably already been exposed to many of the tired tropes I’m referring to - racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, etc, etc - all the punching down forms of comedy. Maybe white, cisgendered boys find it new stuff, but I promise you that people who are the butt of such jokes in our society are very familiar with them by a very young age, because they are often leveled at them from a young age.
I’ve never really found punching down humor to be particularly funny, personally, but YMMV. Whenever I hear misogynistic jokes, it only serves to remind me how little society values me and other women. It’s demoralizing to be seen as either an object, a bitch, an old, washed up hag, as an ugly feminazi, as a controlling manipulative wife who ends a man’s life by marrying him, as a shop-a-holic, etc. I suspect that’s true of just about anyone else who is the butt of such jokes. Plus, they are soooo lazy. Like, why would someone still find wife jokes based on old stereotypes remotely funny? What insights do they offer up other than the comedian can’t see past their own need to bully others for a cheap laugh?
I’m not saying you can’t do jokes about gender or race or sexuality, or whatever, but there are plenty of comedians who manage it and aren’t making some people feel like shit in the process. That’s the good stuff, if you ask me. 
It sure as hell isn’t anything Scott Adams is doing, though and hasn’t been for a long time now.
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OK, you were returning to the original topic. I was talking about the guy clowning in the park. I agree with you about Adams and punching down.
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I was getting bad vibes from him in the very late 90s as he started to be more active online and then he put out the book God’s Debris and I realized just how off his rocker he was. At the very least he was at that stage where nobody was around to say no to him and he was starting to believe his own bullshit. That and the fact mostly his readers was writing for him most of the time by sending him stories.
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I love this story and I can say without hesitation, this precise moment in time is the only point a clown (reformed or not) has ever made me laugh. Well played!
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When I think about how the Antichrist is described in Revelation, it really really really does not strike me as Joe Biden.
In fact it sounds more like Trump, but even he falls short of the description.
Again, there’s been no false world peace, lasting 3-7 years.
Dude isn’t the antichrist; just a terrible excuse for a human being and an even worse "leader."
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Gal: "I saw you put a “I’m a skank!” sticker on my backpack! What the hell is wrong with you?!
Guy: "Wrong with me? [snickers] What’s wrong with you? Don’t you have a sense of humor?
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I’m beginning to think Trumpers don’t actually care about what’s written in the Bible at all.
/s
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Did you learn this theory?
Thank you very much
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I don’t know, based on the comics I’ve read, and this article, I could see why people would find it to be kind of over-the-top. I don’t think people bitching and complaining about a situation necessarily undermines “direct action” or whatever the cool kid “praxis” / fantasy revolution is.
But maybe this guy read every single Dilbert comic ever, and realized something about it one wouldn’t have picked up reading a few. Or maybe his having observed management getting a load of it and loving it, he considered its death knell. To be honest, that’s how some people my age are starting to feel about corporate sanctioned social justice stuff (I’m not saying the underlying goal of social justice is bad, I’m not making a reactionary argument, rather that its easy to get suspicious of it as a marketing schtick when you see a lot of talk and seminars and nothing actually changing, particularly when it’s clear that corporate America essentially owns the US government and could dramatically alter the course of history if it actually wanted to. But it won’t, and has chosen not to for 30-40 years.)
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