I think this is the only comic Scott Adams should be remembered by. It summarizes him perfectly as a person.
Say hi to Kissinger! Oh, who am I kidding, we all know that was the first thing you did.
1 Nazi down, 77 million to go.
He went from writing the quintessential office comedy comic, up there with fucking Office Space in status…
to being a Nazi piece of shit who advocated for racial segregation, and spent his remaining years sucking Trump’s asshole and swearing far-right psuedo-medicine would cure his cancer. And then he died of cancer.
Rot in Piss. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
I had a small stack of his books of Dilbert from when my siblings and I were younger, it was a silly and entertaining strip.
I couldn’t give those things away, not even used bookstores wanted them. I put them outside on a table with a sign “free” for days and eventually had to throw them away.
The man really cemented his legacy.
Congrats to those who are still alive and not a racist piece of shit.
I’ll much rather remember Scott Adams, the guy who described a Pointy-Haired Boss (for the youngsters who never read Dilbert, think of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover days), not Scott Adams, the guy who recently desperately tried to rehabilitate the Pointy-Haired Boss character to be more reasonable. (Because that has never actually happened in the actual industry. Dilbert was meant to be a satire of what actually happens in the industry. Pointy-Haired Bosses are eternal.)
Also I never forget the experience of reading The Dilbert Principle (1996) for the first time. “Oh yeah! Most of this stuff is pretty good! Except this one about female coworkers, yeaaahhh, this is a little bit suspect.” (Again, for the youngsters, we didn’t have “sus” back in the day.) "Foreshadowing is a literary device wh-
Pretty hard to live past that age when your mind goes full QAnon and you begin thinking taking anti-parasite treatment for horses is going to help overcome cancer. I have a theory that when people get as known and rich as him, they get surrounded by a lot of charismatic people who in absence of any other notable characteristic have to promote conspiracy non-sense as their “our my exclusive network of people know this”. Because they are not accustomed to meeting people that charismatic and because what they spout generally appeals to their life experience, they just fall in love as part of these groups of crazy as if it was part of their lifestyle change.
He’s had weird problems since the 90s… focal dystonia, spasmodic dysphonia, that kind of thing. I’m suspecting that those things were symptoms of more subtle neurological problems. It sounds like he’s always been a jackass, but brain damage does often correlate with swings towards conspiracy and “reactionary conservative” leanings.
“Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go. I’m not a believer, but I have to admit the risk-reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me, so here I go. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and look forward to spending an eternity with Him. The part of me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven. I won’t need any more convincing than that. I hope I’m still qualified for entry.”
What an absolute fucking goober. Good luck with that one, chief.
That’s Pascal’s wager, and it’s nothing new.
There’s plenty more about him that can be criticized.
Pascal’s Wager is hilarious because it implies that their “omniscient” God is so stupid he can be tricked into thinking you sincerely believe. Sounds blasphemous to me!
I thank god everyday that I was made to be an atheist.
That’s why this guy is better known for his contributions to computer science
How about the fact he used his status as a conservative voice to skip the line and get priority experimental cancer treatments? Not only did he die, but somewhere out there there is another person dead or dying because they got bumped from the treatment
I prefer the one where he was such a shitty father that he mused about not having to murder his own teenaged son after he ODed
Things are “experimental” because we don’t know if they work, not because they are better.
Yeah, it could be that his final, worthwhile contribution to humanity was to be a line on a spreadsheet.
I refuse to believe the pantheons of gods didn’t predict pascal’s wager and hide an antipascal clause like Matthew 25:31
Don’t believe in God, until you’re standing at the pearly gates. St Peter hates this one weird trick
To be fair, that’s a very Southern Baptist way to look at it. If you’ve ever read a Chick Tract (I’m so sorry), you’ll know that many end with someone who lived mired in sin repenting and believing in God right before they die, and it’s shown to work. Some other branches of Christianity, notably Catholicism, relax the emphasis on belief and put more stock into your actions while you lived – although they also believe most but not all sins can be pardoned if you confess and perform penance.
However, I would suggest that believing in God because you of Pascal’s wager is:
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Obviously idiotic (this part we all know). There are an infinite amount of gods you could believe in that would have the belief requirement. Even if you assert that it’s a belief in “a” god, how are we supposed to know it wouldn’t be some god who values empirical reason and would look down on this belief? These infinitesimal odds you’re wasting your only known life on aren’t even strictly positive.
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Something the God of the Bible probably wouldn’t appreciate? Within the shared fiction of Christianity, he knows exactly what’s in your heart, and I’m sure “I’m cooperating just so you give me the goods” doesn’t play well. Granted that’s kind of on God for being an abusive parent and threatening eternal damnation to anyone who doesn’t, but I’m still sure he doesn’t like people who game the system for selfish ends.
I was hoping to find and share an image macro of Leela and Nibbler discussing the meaning of life, with Leela remarking, “So every religion is wrong!”
Unfortunately, all I could find is Leela/Nibbler porn. Lots and lots of it. Goddamn, humans. We should be lucky there’s no judgemental god watching us all.
I fucking love Chick Tracts and collect them. They are so wildly unhinged it’s great
Seconding that Chick Tracts are comedy gold (Exhibit A). They’re so feverishly deranged that they become an unintentional parody of evangelical Christianity. Solidly “so bad it’s good”.
They used to get left in the bathrooms on Washington State Ferries pretty reliably and I got together a pretty good collection. The first one I read was the classic Dungeons and Dragons one, this would have been pretty close to its first publication too. I wish I had kept those.
I used to get them as a kid, trick or treating. I kind of miss them in a messed-up nostalgia way.
There was a table in the NYC subway many years ago that had thousands of them and they were handing them out. I definitely took a couple, knowing full well what they are, for the sheer novelty.
Also to give them a few less to hand out to someone who might be susceptible because fuck em
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The Bible says that’s ok so why not? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+20%3A1-16&version=NIV
You know that Jesus allegedly has said many times that not believing in God is the sinnest of sins? Down to hell with you, then.
“The vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives,” so goes the old hymn.
Supply-side Jesus
That’s Pascal’s Wager, taken to the logical conclusion. Pascal’s Wager is basically the idea that debating whether or not God exists is meaningless; If you simply live life as if God does exist, then there are no downsides. Just be someone who God would want in heaven, and the actual belief doesn’t really matter.
But then when you take that to a logical conclusion, it basically turns into “there’s no downside if I’m wrong, and repenting on my deathbed means all my previous sins are forgiven. So why not repent right before dying, so my previous sins are forgiven and I’m dying with a clean slate?”
Different denominations have different opinions on it. Baptists tend to take the “fire and brimstone unless you repent, but you’re all golden after repentance” stance. So they would tend to agree with this scenario. This is also why southern baptists tend to be such cunts, because they tell themselves that their actions are righteous and backed by God, because they have repented. Basically, justifying evil is easy when you change the question from “is this morally evil” to “is this backed by my god?”
Catholics used to have a very hard “baptism washes away (almost) all sins” stance, but have recently adopted a more fluid “how you act in life is just as important as what you believe” stance. So older Catholics would have likely agreed, but modern Catholics would tend to disagree.
The more liberal denominations (like United Methodists) would scoff and say that faith without works is dead.
If he’s a pascal’s wager guy, I hope he died in battle just in case the Norse are correct. And his deeds in life kept his heart lighter than a feather, in case the Egyptians got it right. Etc.
I hope he died in battle just in case the Norse are correct
He did, he died battling cancer.
Adams had many detestable views, but I interpreted this as a sarcastic quip, mocking those who seriously think that way.
This is the guy that literally begged Donald Trump to cure his cancer.
No he begged Trump to strong-arm KP into giving him special treatment. That’s just nepotism, not magical thinking.
Yeah he was obsessed with his own intelligence and loved mocking those who disagreed with him
Les paris stupides…
Gods hate him!
See how he faked his way into heaven using this one weird trick!
That’s by far the finest Dilbert comic ever, so of course it’s not from Scott Adams.
Clay Bennett makes good toons. Even the art itself is decent.
haha, the Nazi’s fucking balls got INFECTED and he DIED!
Oh shit that’s young… now Rest in Piss
Can’t believe another anti-vax guy was killed by a preventable and treatable condition. Prostate cancer is one of the more survivable forms of cancer (10-year relative survival rate of 98% with proper treatment). I wonder if he did the fruit juice enemas like Steve Jobs or he just tried to Straight Edge his way through it, because he didn’t want to live with Low T.
I looked it up after reading this comment
He says he tried Ivermectin to treat his cancer lol. Npr article about it, says he didn’t discuss any specifics of his treatment other than that
He probably sought actual treatment too late. Prostate cancer that is caught early enough is basically a non-issue.
Think it depends. Like a lot of other cancer stuff, there’s variability. Most of the common prostate cancer is that easy and in fact they don’t even treat it. My wife’s grandfather was told they would basically do nothing until it started getting bad., and he died of unrelated heart failure years later without his cancer progressing.
Sounds like his was not so livable. Also unclear if he tried ivermectin instead of traditional treatment, or as an additional hail Mary. I’ve known people who had cancer and they tried anything and everything alongside their treatment, in case anything would help. I also knew one guy that thought just vitamin c would cure his cancer and declined any other treatment, and got killed by what may have been a supremely treatable cancer.
Not a fan?
He’s always been a bit off, but most of his weird statements over the years never got attention.
Towards the end of his life though he appeared to get heavily into some alt right rhetoric. As I understand it, this all came to a head during an episode of his podcast in 2023.
There was some thinly veiled right wing think tank that conducted some “poll” asking people “do you agree with the statement: it’s okay to be white” and they presented in big bold letters after that only half of black people responded “yes”
At the time that particular expression had become a popular slogan for white supremacists.
But Scott covered the story at face value and presented it as like “black people are an anti white hate group, white people should stay away from them for their own safety”
Literally overnight he lost basically everything. Every newspaper dropped him. He tried to relaunch as a direct to consumer subscription service, but his health declined so rapidly I’m not sure if anything happened with it.
But yeah that incident caused people to go digging into his past statements as well and as a result lots of people consider him to be awful
Oh wow thanks for explaining. So not just MAGA but brazenly racist. Or maybe that’s a bit redundant.
He’d been increasingly alt right since the teens, I remember mocking him for it back in the day. Definitely took the new atheism to alt right pipeline. But yeah '23 is when he crossed the line for normies
Based just on my increasingly lagging sense of time, I’m gonna say Adams went off the rails before 2023.
Yeah he definitely lost the plot long before then, I feel like that was just the moment when it all went viral
Don’t know anything about Adams?
Guess not. He was MAGA or something? Saw that after I posted this.
Scott Adams was a massively racist piece of shit.
In 2020, Adams claimed on Twitter that the Dilbert TV series was axed years ago because he was white and UPN had decided to shift toward African American viewers.
That same year, he predicted that if Biden were to win the 2020 presidential election, then Republicans would be “hunted”. He said there was a “good chance” they would be “dead within a year”.
He has also previously compared women asking for equal pay to children demanding candy and has claimed there were “satanic coincidences” in the Joe Biden presidential campaign.
In September 2022, Dilbert was pulled from 77 newspapers after Adams started to incorporate “anti-woke plotlines”, including one about a Black character who identifies as white. His cartoons also mocked the ESG movement (also known as the environmental, social and governance movement).
Reacting to a poll that found that 26 per cent of Black Americans said they disagreed with the phrase “It’s OK to be white”, Adams posted a video in which he said that Black people are a “hate group”.
He announced that he would no longer be helpful to Black people, claiming he had “done it all his life and the only outcome is getting called a racist”. He advised his white fans to “get the f*** away from them as fast as possible”, and made many other racist comments.
Rest in piss.
Funny that Trump got re-elected and he was dead within the year.
I guess he didn’t get all of his facts straight.
Throwing his 2007 blog post titled Fossils are Bullshit on the pile.
Was crazier/shittier than simply being MAGA, although he was also that.
Yeah he was kinda just a lunatic who also was maga. Like, bigoted as all hell, incredibly racist, but also edgy internet atheist who thought he was far smarter than everyone else and was certain trump was playing 420D chess
I never liked how political the dilberts comics got
Mallard Fillmore was even worse. It was like a republican version of a Jack Chick comic.
Given where the Republicans are at this point… Explain.
There was no attempt at humor or even cleverness, it was just “They are stupid and corrupt and we are right” in the comics page. It was editorials pretending to be a comic strip.
They were about how much more capable the working class was than the ruling class.
It was always political.
look, as an engineer, I like the Dilbert comics
but fuck that guy, and lol that he died to ass cancer
Unfortunately, he wasted a bunch of time taking ivermectin and pursuing alternative treatments.
My best to those who miss him.
I’ve read mixed accounts of that.
Yes, he did try that stuff, but I’ve read some claims that he did it alongside the treatments the doctors gave him.
Like it was kind of pointless, but also kind of harmless because he didn’t let it get in the way of real medicine.
At least when it came to cancer, I don’t think anyone cited him being a denier about more effective treatments, just he was in the “I’ll try anything” mode of having a terminal illness.
Of course he had a lot of other problematic things as a die hard maga, including antivax and winning how white men have it so bad and saying Trump and friends lying was actually good because the lies were “directionally true”, but maybe just not overly bad stuff about the cancer.
The cancer prodded him to actually break with trump on the specific matter of being mean to Biden over the same cancer Adams had.
Is Jim Davis cool? I can’t really find anything, so that proves he isn’t MAGA at least.
I think he’s at least not Uncool. Like the True Neutral of comic creators.
