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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:00 AM

Grokenstein (3,182 posts)

Scott Adams goes off the Deep End

Disclaimer: I actually find Dilbert (the strip) to be funny. Sometimes it's funny because depicts the foibles of incompetent management; sometimes it's funny because Adams is butthurt about women or something, and isn't hiding it very well. It helps that it costs me nothing but a couple of seconds.

Dilbert the TV show, on the other hand, sucked. Sure, it had moments when the "edgier" (childish) humor worked; for example there was a "corporate carnival" that had not a kissing booth, but an "ass kissing booth," which got a snicker out of me. But most of it was dreadful.

Well, Scott just went on Twitter to snivel that it was cancelled because Scott Adams is a white man, and whitey don't get no fair shake in this world. And then the rest of the universe took his sorry ass to school.

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The replies--and Adams' whiney responses--are funnier than Dilbert has ever been. This guy sums up my feelings best:

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17 replies	Author	Time	Post
Scott Adams goes off the Deep End (Original post)	Grokenstein	Jul 2020	OP
He's been a tool for years.	WhiskeyGrinder	Jul 2020	#1
Ohhhhhh yeah.	Grokenstein	Jul 2020	#2
Goes? Been gone for years.	JHB	Jul 2020	#3
I used to enjoy reading Dilbert.	Tommy_Carcetti	Jul 2020	#4
I stopped reading Dilbert for pretty much the same reasons	RAB910	Jul 2020	#11
Dilbert is good	Sherman A1	Jul 2020	#5
Wow. What a dick wad. I used to like the Dilbert cartoon back when he still had a real job	captain queeg	Jul 2020	#6
Adams has a net worth of over $75 Million	Johnny2X2X	Jul 2020	#7
+1	Baitball Blogger	Jul 2020	#9
I never liked the comic strip...	2naSalit	Jul 2020	#8
Scott, better go back to your old day job and hit the reset button.	KY_EnviroGuy	Jul 2020	#10
Scott Adams would have a warped mind if he sees himself as Dilbert and not a crazy version of boss.	TheBlackAdder	Jul 2020	#12
"She wouldn't date me, so she must be a lesbian." nt	cyclonefence	Jul 2020	#13
Snort	grantcart	Jul 2020	#15
His feed is full of people agreeing with him and	SharonClark	Jul 2020	#14
I still like much of the Dilbert strip...	Wounded Bear	Jul 2020	#16
Again?	greenjar_01	Jul 2020	#17

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:04 AM

WhiskeyGrinder (10,211 posts)

1. He's been a tool for years.

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:07 AM

Grokenstein (3,182 posts)

2. Ohhhhhh yeah.

I didn't mention the sockpuppet scandal or the Trumpism or even the failed Dilberrito (sp?) franchise because...well, why kick a man when he's already beating himself senseless?

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:07 AM

JHB (32,398 posts)

3. Goes? Been gone for years.

Now he's whining about how capitalism works. UPN had a limited number of slots and saw opportunity in filling an under-supplied market. His show didn't make the cut. But "he lost the job because he was white."

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:08 AM

Tommy_Carcetti (39,452 posts)

4. I used to enjoy reading Dilbert.

The problem is, unlike an actor who you can set aside his personal views while playing a role, Adams as the content creator of the strip gets to set the message.

And since his views on things have become more and more evident, I can’t read the strip any more without wondering how much of Adams’ alt-right troll personality is being projected.

So, unfortunately, I no longer enjoy reading Dilbert.

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:56 AM

RAB910 (1,346 posts)

11. I stopped reading Dilbert for pretty much the same reasons

As his views became better known, you could see him pushing his Trump worship in his strip. I stopped reading after that

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:09 AM

Sherman A1 (33,656 posts)

5. Dilbert is good

Adams not so much.

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:09 AM

captain queeg (5,239 posts)

6. Wow. What a dick wad. I used to like the Dilbert cartoon back when he still had a real job

At least supposedly he was Some kind of engineer. He captured corporate cubicle life and management stupidity very well. But he got successful and became a full time cartoonist and Dilbert just missed the mark after that. Now he’s just full of himself. Haven’t read the strip In many years and wasn’t aware there was a TV show.

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:21 AM

Johnny2X2X (9,502 posts)

7. Adams has a net worth of over $75 Million

Guy hit the lotto with his comic strip and he's still complaining he had it tough. What a tone deaf racist asshole.

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:48 AM

Baitball Blogger (37,309 posts)

9. +1

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:45 AM

2naSalit (47,328 posts)

8. I never liked the comic strip...

hated the artwork that looks like it was done on Dr. Halo.

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 07:51 AM

KY_EnviroGuy (12,122 posts)

10. Scott, better go back to your old day job and hit the reset button.

Learn what it means to be human again rather than a walking, talking corporation.......

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 08:13 AM

TheBlackAdder (19,426 posts)

12. Scott Adams would have a warped mind if he sees himself as Dilbert and not a crazy version of boss.

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 08:59 AM

cyclonefence (3,371 posts)

13. "She wouldn't date me, so she must be a lesbian." nt

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 10:59 AM

grantcart (51,034 posts)

15. Snort

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 10:57 AM

SharonClark (7,207 posts)

14. His feed is full of people agreeing with him and

telling their stories of being discriminated against because they are white. None used the mostly white and all incompetent trump family and administration as examples of how unqualified white men are privileged.

No one admitted that hiring managers would never admit why a person doesn’t get a job, they tell the non-hire “they found someone who better fit the qualifications”. Adams’ followers are liars and losers.

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 11:07 AM

Wounded Bear (41,876 posts)

16. I still like much of the Dilbert strip...

having worked in engineering, dealing with marketing and management, he does have an understanding of how crazy that can be. Having said that, yeah, he goes off the rails from time to time. If he just sticks to the inter-office shit, he's decent.

Adams the person? The more I hear, the less I like.

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Wed Jul 1, 2020, 11:14 AM

greenjar_01 (4,045 posts)

17. Again?

He's been hot garbage for years.

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