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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."
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!
Yes it is. He went full MAGA early on.
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.
“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"
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?
Some fucked up part of me wants Trump to succeed and allow all of his fascist dreams come to fruition, just to see the looks on these clowns faces when they realized they are responsible for cementing fascist rule in the US.
Unfortunately, I know that in reality, they never will. Their brains will not allow it.
But to just see the look of realization when they start seeing their friends, family, and neighbors executed for being homosexual, or having an abortion 2 decades prior. "Oops."
Of course, then I snap out of it and realize I'm not a sociopath.
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.
Really? Because I remember him getting body slammed by the moderators. There were EMTs on the set and everything.
he does know that people recall it because they're mocking trump right
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.
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.
Dilbert always sucked. I feel like it's like 90s Big Bang Theory in comic form. "Look, I'm a nerd just like you guys!"
I thought Dilbert had its moments.
I couldn't get through a single episode of Big Bang Theory, so I don't really know much about it.
Brainrot on full display.
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.
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.
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.
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.
you know he’s a good critic because he’s changing his metrics after seeing the thing he’s critiquing
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.
"Directionally correct," the fuck does that mean? "Yes, it is an absolute lie. But actually they are all inherently like that." This is a guy who wants pogroms.
What I'm reading here is "I have the memory of someone with frontal lobe dementia, therefore Trump won."
Nice to see Scott Adams is still an unrepentant chode.
Trolls with dain bramage gonna troll. Pathetic excuse for a human being. Adams and Trump.
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.
It means he is a racist, he agrees with Repub leadership that Hatian people are inherently evil, and he wants to do mass deportations which will turn into progroms.
"Directionally " does the same job as the "alternative" in alternative medicine (or alternative facts) - it just means "not".
Even a good number of MAGAts can spot this lie - but when the pronouns of the rest are Trump/Nazi-sympathiser, why would you expect them to care?
Scott Adams couldn't even write the best Dilbert comic.
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?
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
Pretty sure most of the country saw that as "old man yells about what 'the people on the TV' are saying".
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.