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[–] [email protected] 175 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Um, what does he think Antifa means? You notice how they almost exclusively use the abbreviation and hardly ever the full name? For those who might actually be unaware, it means Anti-Fascist.

Scott Adams is a fucking moron. He apparently thinks anti-fascists are actually pro-fascist. Dumbass.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago (8 children)

He’s probably one of those people who think the nazis were socialists because nazi is short for “national socialist”.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Probably, despite the fact that Hitler himself said they weren't socialists.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

The socialists of the party were killed in Night of the Long Knives

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

A lot of conservatives have problems understanding words, especially words that apply to political beliefs. It's party ignorance and partly a result of years of indoctrination. One example, thinking that anyone who isn't hard-right is a 'socialist' or a 'commie' and not understanding that those aren't the same thing. Then, fascist... many people seem to think fascist means an authoritarian government, independent of any other qualities or beliefs.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The Dilbert guy really went off the deep end, didn't he?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He went far enough, that there's a Behind the Bastards episode about him.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, I thought that was just a random idiot, are you telling me that's the author of Dilbert?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yep, he's completely lost it and was dropped by pretty much every newspaper after describing black people as a "hate group" (among other crazy stuff).

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really don't understand successful people attaching their wagon to Conservatives... The entire human history is just a parade of religious Conservatives resisting change, trying to subjugate others and looking like absolute assholes in hindsight.

There is ZERO examples in history of "hey we were going to expand freedoms, but good thing we didn't, thanks to the religious opposition!"....

Conservatives are wrong and have been wrong on every single social issue since the dawn of time.

I'm sure they had their victories when it comes to economic issues, but they haven't had one of those in over half a century either, since the only idea they seem to have is tax cuts.

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Antifa literally means "anti-fascist." Anyone who fought against the Nazis in WWII was "antifa."

And Scott Adams lost his f*cking mind years ago.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know at least 4 (I wanna say 6 but 4 confirmed confidently) righty leaning lads who are anti trans for what they will say are varied, diverse, weighty reasons - who all collectively tell the same story word for word any and everytime trans issues come up....

"I hit it off with a girl on Tinder, then two days in before we met or got serious or even talked all that much (just enough for me to be smitten) they told me they were trans, and I'm not a bigot, BUT IF THEY DON'T PUT THAT SHIT IN THEIR BIO THEY DESERVE WHATEVER HAPPENS TO THEM"

Nobody understands when I explain that their violent response to a trans woman on tinder is why trans women don't put it in their bio.

Shocker.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (12 children)

You can swear on the internet fyi

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (29 children)

Every word uttered by a conservative is either a lie or profoundly incorrect. Every communication is an attempt to manipulate. This is who conservatives are.

Never trust the word of a conservative. Never.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

I was about to advise you to chill a bit, then saw your username and now am sort of impressed by such staunch commitment to being pissed off.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow, had to check this one was real, and jokes on me it's still up on his Twitter, complete with him stubbornly defending himself against everyone telling him he's nuts. How did the Dilbert guy lose his mind so completely?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I would like to direct your attention to the Behind the Bastards podcast episode entitled "Part One: How The Dilbert Guy Lost His Mind" from July 11th, 2023.

Your wording was perfect.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I have a strong feeling Scott Adam's most recent ex-wife cheated on him with a black dude. Not that it's a good excuse or anything.

I mean, he's insanely racist to the core and it feels like he's deeply hurt or something. He can go fuck himself, but he needs help.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's been racist for a long time. Behind the Bastard covered him recently. He dropped hints over the years. But a health crisis caused him to go into seclusion for a period of time and when it was resolved he was a bit zanier than before.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just so sad that they think that antifa is some organization, like "vegetarianism" would be one as well

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not unlike how some media is working on presenting the fediverse as a singular organization.

It's as if some can't conceive of humans organizing without a corporate overseer.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

LOL, Scott Adams can't cope with reality so he has to make up history to make himself feel better.

The fact that he's rich is the only reason he hasn't been Baker acted.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone confirm that this is genuine? I mean, I know he has problems, but this just seems too f'd up to be a real screenshot 😬

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It’s genuine. I took this screenshot just now.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Like Peterson, Scott Adams was at least interesting to read in 2016, even if you don't agree with him. His analysis on why Trump eventually won was actually a pretty good read.

But it seems that going deep into the conservative echo chamber turns everyone in it completely insane and paranoid, until they are nothing but a parody of their former self.

So I think the main idea of conservatism is ironically being self destructive.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Scott Adams did not lose his fucking mind.

He never had one.

It just took a long time for people to see this.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

“I passed sixth grade social studies and you have lost your fucking mind.”

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Always neat to see Tweets of people who are about to be blocked by Scott Adams

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The antifa movement was literally birthed as a response to the rise of fascism in Europe.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This dude is basically just writing historical fanfiction at this point. Add vampires or zombies and maybe he could sell a book.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I love that I have seen comments responding to comments about him being crazy with something like. So everyone you disagree with is crazy. Its not a disagreement when someone says a relatively new, modern age group, was behind a historical group. Im not going to even get into its the opposite of what their group is about. Its like no. People are called crazy for saying crazy shit. Like slavery was beneficial to slaves. Thats not about disagreement its just patently wrong. Its like saying when you murder people it can sometimes be good for their health.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I imagine hes is misquoting the United Front here?

The United Front (Einheitsfront) was the strategy of the German communist party KPD to counter both fascism and social democrats (whom the KPD and the Third International called social fascists ("Sozialfaschisten")). As you can probably guess, this wasn't very successful in uniting the left and center against fascism, so Parties of the Comintern ended up changing strategies to the United Front, a broad coalition of left and center against fascism. This had some limited success (France had a Popular front government of communists/socdems/left leaning liberals for two years that enacted a fairly large amount of very progressive labour laws and banned a number of fascist and monarchist organisations like the Croix de Feu, Spain had a similar Popular front which ended with the military loss in the civil war against Franco)

The SocDems SPD had a similar strategy btw., the iron front, which intended to counter fascism, monarchism, and communism and was opposed to the KPD.

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