A community dedicated to the weirdest people involved in politics.
Is this the same Scott Adams of Dilbert fame? He's been a political weirdo for years and years, so naturally he'd allow himself this cognitive dissonance.
He fell into the trap of thinking his success came from being a genius, so when people don't like his crappy opinions he just assumes everyone else is wrong
This explanation is awesomely succinct and also explains some people I know that I could never easily pinpoint why they bothered me. Thanks!
That's tough. Good perspective, hopefully he'll see this and do some reflecting on his life. Probably not but I still hope so
Unfortunately people like him rarely do. He got Dilbert dropped from most papers in 2023 for (in the most charitable interpretation) having a completely tone deaf reaction to a poll about race relations. Rather than think about why everyone got so angry with him he said his words were taken out of context and that they were hyperbole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams?useskin=vector#Race
Yes it is. He went full MAGA early on.
He's basically Milton from Office Space
If people ever wonder how someone like Trump got elected in the first place, this is the prime example of why. "I forgot everything except the one thing he lied about the most, genius".
"I only remember the most ridiculous part of the debate, so whoever said that was the winner."
In the 30 second attention span era this is all that counts.
Sure, Kamala won the debate but does that get more people voting for her?
“directionally correct” is a fun euphemism for “false, unless you assume some insane slippery slope argument”.
more like "it isn't true, but it feels like the kind of thing that would be true about the people I don't like"
It means that it doesn't have to be true if it targets people they love to hate.
Tell the masses what they want to hear.
Directionally correct.
Directionally correct? That's an interesting turn of phrase. So basically saying it's not right but it feels like it could be right? That's some straight bullshit right there.
Fascist reasoning--we "know" immigrants are evil therefore making up shit about them to gin up anti-immigrant sentiment is morally justified--if not required.
He thinks there's some Truthiness.
I feel like it's the ultimate catch all. Absolutely anything is directionally correct. Flat earth? I mean the earth has a shape and there are plenty of flat shapes so it's directionally correct. Bigfoot? Easy. There are plenty of animals with very large feet. Directionally correct. Hatians eating dogs? Hatians eat animals with four legs and there are both hatians and animals with 4 legs in the United States. Directionally correct. Checkmate Kambala!
Odd. All I remember is a 78 year-old man-child being owned by a boss bitch.
I thought Trump was making up the stuff about post birth abortions, but then I watched a 78 year old baby get aborted on live TV.
Didn't expect to see the Dilbert guy talking about Trump's long balls this morning
It's on brand for him really. The guy was weird long before we started using Weird as an insult.
I'm ashamed of having liked Dilbert a lot in the past
No need to. He wasn't always like this. He was always misanthropic but he was more of an equal opportunity misanthrope. The far right bullshit came later.
He was always like this, but his comics weren't that deep and the ideas in them were just things people sent him. They were vague enough that we all just put our own meanings into them. Rewatch some of the cartoon, and you'll see the red flags. The Bob Bastard episode clearly comes from an incel mindset.
Feeling this.
I was such a fanboy. Long before I could even work, I was obsessed. I even read God's Debris and as a teen thought it was fire.
I got an office job (call centre) because of Dilbert. I thought everything was so fucking funny because people were talking just like in my favourite comic.
I think I can say without embarrassment that the art style was incredibly cute. Very kawaii. I loved the characters' wide eyes and semicircle mouths like when they're mindlessly bullshitting. :D
I know it's parasocial, but I'm disappointed in myself for how badly I misjudged Scott Adams.
I'm ashamed at being a tech worker who laughed along with others because people expected id like Dilbert as a tech worker, even though Dilbert reminds me of engineers who bring one good idea to a meeting and take all the credit when all the actual work on a project is done by someone else.
And just wasn't that funny to me.
Strong copium vibes from Adams…
I guess Howard Dean won because all anyone can remember is his scream.
I guess Romney won because all anyone can remember is “binders full of women”.
People laughing at and being disgusted with the convicted felon / village idiot is not a win.
He won the debate because you are stupid enough to be influenced by shock politics, got it. Just admit it, you don't want a debate, you never wanted it, you just wanted a spectacle, and that's something your cult leader can easily provide because it's just a matter of bullshit to him, not fact. Scott Adams, a has-been in mediocre corporate entertainment, praising entertainment based politics, who could have guessed?
What I'm reading here is "I have the memory of someone with frontal lobe dementia, therefore Trump won."
you know he’s a good critic because he’s changing his metrics after seeing the thing he’s critiquing
i recall a lot of the debate, for example harris casually dropping she has a gun (while the other guy was recently shot at) 😄
there was a lot going on, ngl
I can see this opinion being justifiable to someone who doesn't think there's anything wrong with racism.
Yeah he calls (racism) directionally correct in terms of immigration risk.
Some people are citing the 15,000-20,000 Haitian Immigrant influx to Springfield Ohio (formerly 60,000 total population) as a cause for crimerate increase when the city actually had 146% higher crimerate than the US Average BEFORE the immigration influx and city officials have said there has been NO INCREASE (it might have even gone down but we won't know until the 2024 index is published).
The woman who first shared the pet-eating hoax has apologized and said she was mistaken. Another user who posted a bodycam footage has been debunked as a completely different location and not a Haitan at all but a lifelong resident of Canton.
But they don't care. They think Racism was correct. They don't care about pets or children or crime statistics, they care about Racism.
Trump had no base hits in the debate but his long ball is still rising.
What fucking game is he playing? You either round the bases or you don't. Trump claimed that immigrants ate the game ball while he lost and now that everyone's packed up and gone home, someone's saying that "actually, because the immigrants ate the game ball, Trump scored a home run. Change the score!"
P.S. (for the innuendo): someone should ask Lauren Loomer which one is Trump's long ball, left or right?
Pretty sure most of the country saw that as "old man yells about what 'the people on the TV' are saying".
Really? Because I remember him getting body slammed by the moderators. There were EMTs on the set and everything.
stfu and go eat your crappy Dilberito ya racist turd.
What a fucking clown. Nobody gives as fuck about what you think, Scott Adams. Dilbert always sucked ass.
Had to chuckle at "My first impression was a tie, which I called a Harris victory" they just cannot accept loss. Even when Trump objectively loses, it's "a tie" he just considers it a Harris victory because he's such a clever political operator (lol).
Sure thing, bud. I think all that copium has fucked up your brain even more.
The only thing I remember about this windbag is that he used to make a mildly entertaining comic strip about modern work culture, and then he took a blow to the head or something and sadly became incoherent.
Brainrot on full display.
Maybe Trump should have mooned Harris. Then it would have been even more memorable.
Imagine if he shit his pants and passed out. He would immediately be declared president!
Wtf does “directionally correct” even mean?
I think what he's saying is that "eating dogs" is bad and "unchecked immigration risk" is also bad. Therefore, it's okay to lie about one in order to warn about the other. I see extremists do this all the time. By the same token, it's okay to lie about post-birth abortions, because abortion is bad, and if lying about it helps to prevent abortions, then it's for a good cause.
These assholes use this logic to lie about all kinds of things. They know that they're lying. At least, the smart ones do. They just see it as justified.
I hate how debates have been bastardized into simplistic "Argument Box fight s" instead of being the spaces for sharing and discussing ideas to reach a common ground that they were in the first place.
Trump ALSO Won the Debate because all I can Remember is he has a Concept Of A Plan! JENIUS! Very well Done!
he does know that people recall it because they're mocking trump right