It’s no big mystery why Trump is popular with assholes
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Trump is an asshole
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Trump has a track record of getting away with it
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At one time I had a page-a-day Dilbert desktop calendar. At some point I realized his perspective was a constant negative and I threw it away.
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Hahaha, WHAT? Name one significant example. And “patching up things in a makeshift way after shit has already hit the fan” doesn’t count.
If this isn’t deliberate driving trollies, I am at a loss how someone who wrote a pretty smart and funny cartoon could think something this blatantly stupid. Either way, quite the disappointment.
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Sudden acquisition of wealth.
Here, Scott. This will calm you down:
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Scott Adams is into NLP (a lot!). I’ve got some friends who are really into it as well. Self-hypnosis comes quite close to an accurate description of NLP fanboys.
Such a shame. The older dilbert strips are quite funny and obviously written by a smart man.
Which only goes to show that also smart people can get tangled in their filter bubble.
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Ugh. I just had a look at dilbert.com. It looks horrible. What has happened to this guy?
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his wife left him I think
two options then, face your failings or DOUBLE DOWN
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I’ve seen in a lot of cases real estate societies build houses in areas that were prone to flooding. They bought from farms the terrain and got the permission to build. They sold the houses for a nice profit to people that didn’t made geological research, the house had all the permits after all. Was is a nice position, a new house near the historical centre of the town, a good deal.
If you are going to buy a house in a town called Alluvioni Piovera (almost Floodings Will rain) ohttps://www.comune.alluvionipiovera.al.it/it-it/home or Barca (ship) Barca (Torino) - Wikipedia it’s better to get one on a hill instead one near the river.
Still people bought houses in questionable places and got after some years the house flooded.
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I disagree that it’s an ad hominem attack. It is directly referencing his terrible arguments espoused in his blog posts and videos. It would be an ad hominem if the tweet had (correctly) pointed out he looks like an angry phallus with ears.
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Flood insurance in the US is a great racket for the rich. They can buy expensive property at a discount because it’s at risk. Then, when the inevitable happens, they’re helped out by taxpayer-backed flood relief.
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Many of them are also smoking cigarettes and using cocaine and heroine. As they sort of say in finance, past performance is no guarantee of future festivities.
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They might not even bother getting to Exhibit 2: “Hookers and blow”
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Also, history is essentially the story of civilizations who were dead sure they were going to be around forever, but are now just dead. And many of them at the time were full of the smartest people on the planet in nice beach houses.
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You jest, but that exact assertion has been made by a real lawyer in a real letter as part of a real defamation suit. Google Mignogna v Funimation if you want to go down that rabbit hole. (Trigger warning: a lot of horrible, horrible comments have been made about people connected to that suit.)
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I think there were signs before that. Ages ago I read his book The Dilbert Principle (pub. 1996 according to Wikipedia), and I really enjoyed it. Then I read another (I think it was The Dilbert Future) and that was good too – except that the last chapter went on this weird philosophical (for want of a better word) discursion on how we should question received wisdom, like maybe there was no such thing as gravity but instead everything was constantly expanding, because how could we tell the difference? It was uncomfortable, like enjoying an evening in the company of a close friend or relation and suddenly they try to enrol you in a pyramid-selling scheme, or explain how the President of the US is monitoring their phone calls.
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[quote=“Mindysan33, post:13, topic:152134”]
If you are worried about rising sea levels, don’t be. The smartest and richest people in the world are still buying property on the beach."[/quote]
His threat of a lawsuit is utter bullshit, but the claim that rich folks are still buying houses that will be destroyed should the oceans rise is true enough.
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Some rich people are buying to enjoy in what remains of their lifetimes.
That doesn’t mean they don’t believe that man-made climate change won’t cause the oceans to rise and cover their property by 2100.
You, yourself, have probably had the experience of buying a phone that you don’t expect to be using in twenty years.
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it almost seems they define new insults after looking in the mirror. or they are just so disconnected from reality that they dont see the irony in a lot of things they say. all of that could be probably explained with the DK Effect, but still… I get reminded of this sentence often - If you call someone an SJW, you ARE an SJW.
If anyone is interested in a doofus wildly misunderstanding libel law and then telling everyone else they’re wrong, Twitter is the place to be:
And it gets so much cringier:
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