Sucks that you had to be a Trump supporting racist, Mr. Scott Adams.
Scott Adams was an asshole and a lunatic long before Trumpism made it mainstream.
Also wasn't walt disney like even shittier? How is mickey mouse surprised by this?
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Top 10 character assassinations.
I liked dilbert a lot before knowing that the author is like that.
Is a pitty how you can't enjoy nothing without the author ruining it anymore.
Yeah I hear ya, I was a huge Ren & Stimpy fan growing up.
Oh no. Not sure I want to look up what he did.
Don't feel bad. I decided to play ATV Offroad Fury 2 a few months back. I was thoroughly enjoying the soundtrack and decided to google what band made "Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja" since it was my favorite song on the soundtrack.
Oh a band named the Lostprophets. Oh the lead singer Ian Watkins was murdered in prison. Wait why was he in prison? OH... oh no.
Don't google your heros kids.
According to a quick google search, he tried to rape a baby.
Like that's something I'd joke about someone doing when sarcastically branding them evil.... But no he actually tried to rape an infant.
What the fuck?
Fuuuuck, I forgot how much I like that song and how I knew all that already. Damn. There's been several bands and singers over the years I've had to forget. I'm not very good at separating art and artist.
I used to also enjoy burn-burn by them but now it makes my skin crawl every time i see a trackname of theirs
One of the (arguably) greatest poets of the 20th century, Ezra Pound, was an unrepentant fascist. His family tried to have him declared insane in order to preserve his reputation.
A few modern poets were. William Butler Yeats is another I know of. His image is somewhat sanitized because he's an important national poet for Ireland, but he was a rich asshole who was supportive of the fascist movements in Ireland (Blueshirts) and abroad (Francoist Spain). Similar (but less overt) is T. S. Eliot, who also became sympathetic to fascism later in life.
I feel that way about a lot of creatives.
The content can be good when the person is a shitcake.
Actors, musicians, artists and writers. Every medium has loads of public and secret assholes.
Ignorance is bliss when you're not paying for it.
I remember back in the early 90s our sysadmin would grab Dilbert comics from (I think) USENET and print them on our HP laser printer. Adams built up so much goodwill only to shit all over it in the end.
This seems relevant
I can't find the comic, but the one where Dogbert said "No expensive funeral; just wrap him up in newspapers. He would have wanted it that way." seems especially appropriate.
Scott Adams is dead! I didn't know. He died in January of this year. A shitty fucking person with a horrible world view is no longer putting content on the internet. Happy to learn this.
(I liked Dilbert as a kid and owned a couple of his non-Dilbert books. It's sad how he went full-rightwing-nuttter later in life.)
The non dilbert books spoke to me as an edgy teen who was smarter than most people and dumber than she thought. As an adult though I look back and think about the sheer lack of wisdom and introspection it must take to write such things as a grown adult. He died as he lived, as wise as a 16 year old and angry that everyone else didn't see the light of his brilliance that he so vividly hallucinated. And I think that is how he fell down the right wing rabbit hole, he lacked the self awareness to see through his biases and was deeply drawn to a certain type of men who are overconfident assholes.
But yeah I liked dilbert as a kid too
i liked god's debris but yeah i think if i read it now 20 years later may be a little cringy
He also noted that “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people,” then they should be called a “hate group.” His remarks were widely seen as racist—Adams claimed that he was being hyperbolic—and many newspapers dropped Dilbert.
Wow. Scott adams was a cunt. I just searched why y'all are celebrating his death, and I found this. Just........ wow.
Lol my buddy just married one of those. I don't know the terms of their pre-nup, or if they even did one. Wish we had a remind me bot so I could report back in 2 years!
If shitty person #1 does a shitty thing to shitty person #2, doesn't make shitty person #1 less shitty
No, but in this case it is pretty fucking funny.
Does it need to? I just love it when shitty things happen to shitty people. Its karma.
Absolutely not and it's ok to HA-HA in his face as long as the joke stays fresh, but I wouldn't call the girl "queen": she's just a gold digger that gave a valid argument for even more misoginy from the other side
You think gold digging warrants misogyny? Yikes 🤢
She just played the capitalist patriarchy, good on her. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
I said think gold digging brings misoginy by consequence, I never said I think it justifies it.
Don't put words in my mouth just to cry for a cause there is no need to fight here.
And as a side, I always found the phrase "don't hate the player, hate the game" as dumb as the culture who coined it: who the hell is playing the game? The spectators? Of course you hate the players, they're the only reason the game is being played!
I read their comment in a way 'that stands in the way of eradicating misogyny' not in a way 'it makes misogyny allowed'
Thank you, you reasonable person
Shit clings to one another until some other shit comes along.
Dilbert was never funny anyway. Fight me about it.
I don’t actually want to fight.
But when it first came out, it fit right in with Dave Barry and Milton, etc. If you were working just to get a paycheck, you could relate. The overuse of sarcasm could be overlooked bc it only happened once a week.
It never grew or evolved with the times, mirroring Adams.
Wait. Scott Adams died in January and I didn't know!? Where is his grave? I have a dance routine I'd love to perform.
Don't forget to hydrate.
He noted that taking ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat the cancer did not work.
He also invented a vegan burrito called the Dilberito that was somewhat questionable
"As for Adams, he left the world of food behind, considering the Dilberito a failure, a lesson to be learned. Adams would later describe the nutritional value of the burrito as such: 'Three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail.'"
Dilbert wasn't like that.
No, his racism was more subtle and hidden in smugness.
The Indian intern was depicted positively at least. Albiet shy and anxious.
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