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2023-02-25 -Great Cultural Revolution
We are dropping the Dilbert comic strip because of creator Scott Adams' racist rant
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Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-25 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 While we have been conditioned or programmed by the media and pseudo-social scientists to believe otherwise, apartheid is not an evil act. It is a natural mechanism of human survival.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-25 02:47||   2023-02-25 02:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, well, look at the legacy media trying to appear relevant.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-02-25 05:25||   2023-02-25 05:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Adams is somewhere on the spectrum. In his instance, it results in saying stuff some people don't want to hear.

Before you decide he's a hero, remember he's all-in on COVID vaccines.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 07:35||   2023-02-25 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Let's ignore the truth.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-02-25 07:41||   2023-02-25 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Murcek: I believe he has admitted publicly that he was wrong on Covid.
Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-02-25 08:46||   2023-02-25 08:46|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Has he offered to undo the damage? I didn't think so...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 09:22||   2023-02-25 09:22|| Front Page Top

#7 @#5 - That's correct. And that's more than most of the more rabid Branch Covidians, which include medical doctors and "scientists".
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-02-25 09:31||   2023-02-25 09:31|| Front Page Top

#8 When does Hitler get rehabilitated?
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 09:43||   2023-02-25 09:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Sadly, probably before the many medical doctors and scholars. I mean, the USG is buddy buddy with the Azov Battalion now, so, why not?
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-02-25 09:55||   2023-02-25 09:55|| Front Page Top

#10 he offered a watered down "non-apology" about Covid and its unvaxxed he's still a cuck
Posted by 746 2023-02-25 09:57||   2023-02-25 09:57|| Front Page Top

#11 he's still a cuck

All that needs said. He's not Leni Riefenstahl. He draws a crappy comic and tells you how to live like everyone in Hollyweird.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 10:01||   2023-02-25 10:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, I pretty much quit reading the comics when Tank McNamara dropped Lance Savage and Miss Buxley had to cover up.

I do wonder, though, if Marmaduke is still around.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-02-25 10:08||   2023-02-25 10:08|| Front Page Top

#13 I like the way the women in 9 Chickweed Lane are drawn. Then the word balloons are filled and it's ruined for me.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 10:14||   2023-02-25 10:14|| Front Page Top

#14 Scott Adams: I'm sorry I killed Jesus..
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 10:40||   2023-02-25 10:40|| Front Page Top

#15  I've had bosses and worked for companies like Dilbert. My favorite comic strip is Pickles.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-02-25 10:40||   2023-02-25 10:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Ink-stained wretch that I am: Comix are the paper's way of saying stuff they can't say in the articles. It's geared to their most stupid customers (I didn't say readers on purpose)
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 10:43||   2023-02-25 10:43|| Front Page Top

#17 Before you decide he's a hero, remember he's all-in on COVID vaccines.

I'll love a convert; it was never about winning or losing, but making the right choice for yourself, and that regret he was trying to frame is how a lot of people who got at least one shot feel.

I think I can count on one hand the number of Big Names who have said at least, "Hey, not only was I maybe wrong, but got strung along and even used."

Mike Rowe? That makes two. Nicki Manaj is three.

I still think its a personal choice, and Scott Adams I consider, with no offense meant, a passive influencer in the sense I'd have to go find his opinion. Now, the evangelists who were actively finding people and threatening them with get the shots or else you flat Earth potato humper...

On topic, I think here he sees the trendline too and of course, again, we can't have people seeing things. I'd agree that the future of the American Black Community is bleak. Entertainment is trying to turn it into a docile and gay future with the blaxploitation advertising of Black Panther followed by storyline of Black Panther 2 being the most egregious examples. The other side of the coin, government policy, is an uneducated pissed off mob who are not only cleared of any social behavioral common standards but encouraged to break any sense of community with the most extravagant receiving special martyr protections.

Like that fucker with the Disney Burger King Special hair who straight up shot four people and was arrested for the crime of being over 18 while committing the most recent crimes. Newspapers be all like, "I can't breathe" instead of covering the real story.

Not sure if the solution is to just separate, but I also don't have to worry about being set on fire in a subway car for interrupting a rape or just let it happen and hope I'm not next.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 10:50||   2023-02-25 10:50|| Front Page Top

#18 NYC ™
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 10:51||   2023-02-25 10:51|| Front Page Top

#19 No. All wrong. The damage is done. Ever fixed a wrecked car?
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 10:51||   2023-02-25 10:51|| Front Page Top

#20 See: Carfax
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 10:56||   2023-02-25 10:56|| Front Page Top

#21 A polished turd with bondo and fresh paint is still a turd. Looking at you, Scott Adams.

"I'm smart but had a dumb moment."

Fuck off...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 10:58||   2023-02-25 10:58|| Front Page Top

#22 Maybe align with people who were never wrong instead...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:02||   2023-02-25 11:02|| Front Page Top

#23 11 out of 22 comments, MM? We get it. You don't like Scott Adams
Posted by Frank G 2023-02-25 11:05||   2023-02-25 11:05|| Front Page Top

#24 swksvolFF: When people lost their jobs, couldn't get their chemo, kids not in school, businesses shuttered, etc.

You really saying Scott Adams is a good guy?

You opinion says who you are.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:06||   2023-02-25 11:06|| Front Page Top

#25 Frank wants me to calm down. Probably a good idea coming from a Mod. But I retain my stance.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:08||   2023-02-25 11:08|| Front Page Top

#26 Just a suggestion...
Posted by Frank G 2023-02-25 11:09||   2023-02-25 11:09|| Front Page Top

#27 Your suggestions matter to me, Frank...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:11||   2023-02-25 11:11|| Front Page Top

#28 Glad making fun of Dilbert does not bring the ban hammer.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:14||   2023-02-25 11:14|| Front Page Top

#29 Nor should it
Posted by Frank G 2023-02-25 11:16||   2023-02-25 11:16|| Front Page Top

#30 You are the man. Righteous.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:20||   2023-02-25 11:20|| Front Page Top

#31 Not so much. Ask my ex-wife ;-)
Posted by Frank G 2023-02-25 11:21||   2023-02-25 11:21|| Front Page Top

#32 "I meant well at the time." Everybody at Nuremburg.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:21||   2023-02-25 11:21|| Front Page Top

#33 Frank, if she didn't really love you, you got off easy (monetary issues excepted)
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:22||   2023-02-25 11:22|| Front Page Top

#34 Jeff Foxworthy: "If you still like Scott Adams, you might be a Nazi."
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:26||   2023-02-25 11:26|| Front Page Top

#35 "I was caught up in the moment." BANG
I wanted the best for everyone." BANG
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:33||   2023-02-25 11:33|| Front Page Top

#36 "Everyone who believes Scott Adams is God, please put the plastic bag over your head now..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:36||   2023-02-25 11:36|| Front Page Top

#37 " That bad advice killed us. What you got now?"
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 11:41||   2023-02-25 11:41|| Front Page Top

#38 Here is what he actually said.
http://disq.us/p/2ta3yfp
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-02-25 14:03||   2023-02-25 14:03|| Front Page Top

#39 DesCartes wager with mRNA in place of God.

No thanks.
Posted by M. Murcek  2023-02-25 14:48||   2023-02-25 14:48|| Front Page Top

#40 Pascal's wager.
Posted by M. Murcek  2023-02-25 14:57||   2023-02-25 14:57|| Front Page Top

#41 Adams’s dumpster fire is a distraction from the problematic poll results. In actuality, these results are likely trending in a positive direction.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-25 16:46||   2023-02-25 16:46|| Front Page Top

#42 When people lost their jobs, couldn't get their chemo, kids not in school, businesses shuttered, etc.


That happened?!
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 16:48||   2023-02-25 16:48|| Front Page Top

#43 People who get their cues from cartoons deserve what they get.
Posted by M. Murcek  2023-02-25 16:50||   2023-02-25 16:50|| Front Page Top

#44 That happened?!

CNN, MSLSD, NPR and Adams say "No, that's disinformation."
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 16:53||   2023-02-25 16:53|| Front Page Top

#45 Imagine a world where all the harm his words did came back on him.
Posted by M. Murcek  2023-02-25 16:59||   2023-02-25 16:59|| Front Page Top

#46 He is a washed up cartoonist. My brother had a theory that BJ Honeycutt didn’t have a funny line in the last 5 seasons of MASH. It has been a long time since Adams penned anything funny. There was a real conspiracy to suppress accurate info. Government invaded social media illegally. Let’s not let the Biden Administration off the hook and drop this all in the lap of an irrelevant clown.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-25 17:15||   2023-02-25 17:15|| Front Page Top

#47 Yeah, and Alan Alda was going to be the man to be all and end all.

We got past that somehow. And got Buttgig for our trouble...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-25 17:33||   2023-02-25 17:33|| Front Page Top

#48 B.E.T could there ever be a W.E.T?
Posted by irish rage boy 2023-02-25 18:08||   2023-02-25 18:08|| Front Page Top

#49 I don't stalk Scott Adams so gonna need some help here exactly where he lands on the persuasion spectrum.

We talk, "I'm getting it."
or, "I am, and I think everyone should."
"I am, and you had better, too."
"If you don't have four booster like me, you are a Nazi."

Not being snotty, looking for evidence and trends since polls and statistics call for noticing thing, and that can't be allowed.

Follow up, I hear, unsubstantiated, that some 15% of adults received zero shots?

There is a bill to pay. I understand The Majority land in the 1 or 2 shot range.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 18:14||   2023-02-25 18:14|| Front Page Top

#50 Adams was in the "I have this all figured out. Shut up and do what I say" camp.

He's changed his mind now? How sweet...
Posted by M. Murcek  2023-02-25 18:34||   2023-02-25 18:34|| Front Page Top

#51 Are we deliberately ignoring the results of the Rasmussen survey? That seems more interesting than a past its prime comic strip. Separate but equal, anyone?
Posted by SteveS 2023-02-25 18:35||   2023-02-25 18:35|| Front Page Top

#52 This whole thread tires me and disappoints. Carry on if you need to
Posted by Frank G 2023-02-25 20:21||   2023-02-25 20:21|| Front Page Top

#53 Like we are supposed to blow our wad on this instead of keeping focus.

There is some delicious irony of a man who made his career poking fun at corporate and government ineptitude shilling for those very organizations.

Why I'm curious about the sudden change; how far in the tank was he before, "Wow, was I wrong."

Evidence presented in this thread suggests we have an expert on the topic confident enough to follow me to another thread like a grocery store Karen.

SteveS, is there a link to that poll lost in this mess (or did I miss it as a topic)?

Scott Adams, like his work or not, had been doing influencing (or at least expressing his opinion, again what was that?) and represented a particular generation/age group which was highly targeted by the Covid Narrative.

As for my record, it stands on its own. For two, no three years now, I've felt like Sergeant Powell here saying, "They're shooting at the lights." Could have used this level of fire and brimstone in my corner back then, and I did have people shoulder to shoulder here at Rantburg. I do the face when Deputy Editor Dwayne T. Robinson suddenly shouts, "Masks don't work!" but am glad with the calls of Bullshit!

Here's the thing, my take, is there is a bill to pay. The bill doesn't get paid if the ticket isn't delivered to the table. But if the rest of the restaurant patrons don't block the exit, the Dine and Dash still works.

People like Scott Adams, if you want to be a pragmatist, can be one of those blockers. Unless he is cancelled.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 20:42||   2023-02-25 20:42|| Front Page Top

#54 And for Purity Test, let the record show that I donated over $1000 at cost fabric and material for our local seamstresses to fabricated masks, especially during the 2 4 6 8 whatever weeks To Flatten the Curve. The record shows I testified to the effect of, "If it don't stop Anhydrous Gas, it don't stop a virus."

What was it..."If the masks are so effective, I can go into a grocery store and smoke a cigarette and nobody would notice the smell."
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 20:58||   2023-02-25 20:58|| Front Page Top

#55 I do ask, on this site which seems to attract a number of professionals, if I could have the courtesy of where I fall on the collaborator spectrum, so that I could have my affairs in order?
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 21:06||   2023-02-25 21:06|| Front Page Top

#56 swksvolff - you're all good as far as I'm concerned. I enjoy Dilbert daily in my online sub. Not always hilarious or on point, but better than Doonesbury or whatever that shit is. I don't understand how this got above 50 comments
Posted by Frank G 2023-02-25 21:18||   2023-02-25 21:18|| Front Page Top

#57 Ever fixed a wrecked car?

Yes and No - Logical Fallacy; the question would be, is it fixable?

An eff'd up pickup can still have the bed removed and refurbished into a trailor. A damaged car is somebody else's teenager first car.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 21:18||   2023-02-25 21:18|| Front Page Top

#58 Hopefully, passion for justice.

Rantburg is still King of Discussion with a Captial D.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-25 21:27||   2023-02-25 21:27|| Front Page Top

#59 Speaking of capitals... off the "why blight the bloid?" pile...

A hungry peón from afar
Seen a vision of Jean del pilar
So he stopped by the border
To pick up an order.
"A capital dish... for a star."
Posted by Omitch Throluse6233 2023-02-25 23:38||   2023-02-25 23:38|| Front Page Top

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