Sucks that you had to be a Trump supporting racist, Mr. Scott Adams.
I feel like Mickey wouldn’t be THAT shocked.
Well damn. Glad he's dead.
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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 days ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 days ago
That’s not his shocked face. That’s his ‘I have found my people’ face.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Is is weird for a black mouse to be racist against black people? Well. Yes. Especially since there are quite a few colors of mice.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
msage@programming.dev 3 days ago
The song of the Souuuthhh…
snoons@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Nah, Mickey is public domain now. He’s ours.
osanna@lemmy.vg 3 days ago
He also noted that “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people,” then they should be called a “hate group.” His remarks were widely seen as racist—Adams claimed that he was being hyperbolic—and many newspapers dropped Dilbert.
Wow. Scott adams was a cunt. I just searched why y’all are celebrating his death, and I found this. Just… wow.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Scott Adams is dead! I didn’t know. He died in January of this year. A shitty fucking person with a horrible world view is no longer putting content on the internet. Happy to learn this.
(I liked Dilbert as a kid and owned a couple of his non-Dilbert books. It’s sad how he went full-rightwing-nuttter later in life.)
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The non dilbert books spoke to me as an edgy teen who was smarter than most people and dumber than she thought. As an adult though I look back and think about the sheer lack of wisdom and introspection it must take to write such things as a grown adult. He died as he lived, as wise as a 16 year old and angry that everyone else didn’t see the light of his brilliance that he so vividly hallucinated. And I think that is how he fell down the right wing rabbit hole, he lacked the self awareness to see through his biases and was deeply drawn to a certain type of men who are overconfident assholes.
But yeah I liked dilbert as a kid too
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I will take this opportunity to recommend a podcast ep about him from the QAA podcast:
soundcloud.com/…/episode-43-scott-adams
I hope I found the right ep. The ep number is so low that it makes me wonder if the one I wanted was a later ep? Too many total to go through and verify.)
And Behind the Bastards:
He became pretty unhinged later in life. He put some bizarre content into the world.
nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
i liked god’s debris but yeah i think if i read it now 20 years later may be a little cringy
coolansplanet@lemmy.today 2 days ago
If you hate the hater, you become one of them. Just look at him as a person who was confused.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Nah, he knew what he was doing.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hating right wing lunacy doesn’t make you one of them.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
What? That doesn’t even make sense. Being shitty makes you shitty, not thinking it’s shitty to be shitty.
You’re essentially sweeping all negative behavior under the rug of “confusion”.
Yes, he was wrong. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t also shitty.
EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Wait. Scott Adams died in _ January_ and I didn’t know!? Where is his grave? I have a dance routine I’d love to perform.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Don’t forget to hydrate.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I will say, the Dilbert guy died, looo CR CR Scott Adams died, oh what a tiresome little dfuck HaruphadumphHaruphadumph
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 days ago
c/strokeposting
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Oh, Scott Adams died?
Nothing of value was lost.
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
I used to like his comics but now, working as a software developer for years… I’m starting to look at them different. He was always so fucking demeaning about the pointy haired bald boss, made him an absolute idiot. The constant joke was that the chad Dilbert was smarter than the idiot manager who never understood a thing about technology.
I bet Scott was an absolute fucking asshole in the office and hated having to be told what to do by people he saw as less than him.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I had a boss in a development job once, post dot com that made the pointy haired boss look like a genius. He wasn’t just uneducated, he was mean and sometimes awful.
One of his favorite games was three options. For every task he wanted three options to do it. Once you gave him three, he would pick what he deemed the worst of the three just to watch people squirm.
One day after a particularly uninspired rant, one of the devs waited till he went to lunch and threw his keys into the recycling shredder box. I never went that far myself, but I fully understood it.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Did you get promoted recently?
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Then you start to consider how backward and stupid he made foreigners.
randombullet@programming.dev 3 days ago
He noted that taking ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat the cancer did not work.
I’m not surprised considering his political affiliation
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 3 days ago
Didn’t tried bleach or sunlight?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
What about ibogaine and benzos?
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2 days ago
I liked dilbert a lot before knowing that the author is like that.
Is a pitty how you can’t enjoy nothing without the author ruining it anymore.
Ferroto@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Don’t feel bad. I decided to play ATV Offroad Fury 2 a few months back. I was thoroughly enjoying the soundtrack and decided to google what band made “Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja” since it was my favorite song on the soundtrack.
Oh a band named the Lostprophets. Oh the lead singer Ian Watkins died in prison. Wait why was he in prison? OH… oh no.
Don’t google your heros kids.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
According to a quick google search, he tried to rape a baby.
Like that’s something I’d joke about someone doing when sarcastically branding them evil… But no he actually tried to rape an infant.
What the fuck?
codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Fuuuuck, I forgot how much I like that song and how I knew all that already. Damn. There’s been several bands and singers over the years I’ve had to forget. I’m not very good at separating art and artist.
The_Lurker@lemmy.world 2 days ago
One of the (arguably) greatest poets of the 20th century, Ezra Pound, was an unrepentant fascist. His family tried to have him declared insane in order to preserve his reputation.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A few modern poets were. William Butler Yeats is another I know of. His image is somewhat sanitized because he’s an important national poet for Ireland, but he was a rich asshole who was supportive of the fascist movements in Ireland (Blueshirts) and abroad (Francoist Spain). Similar (but less overt) is T. S. Eliot, who also became sympathetic to fascism later in life.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I feel that way about a lot of creatives.
The content can be good when the person is a shitcake.
Actors, musicians, artists and writers. Every medium has loads of public and secret assholes.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Yeah I hear ya, I was a huge Ren & Stimpy fan growing up.
dan@upvote.au 2 days ago
Oh no. Not sure I want to look up what he did.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 days ago
Yes same here. Fucking Scott Adams man.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Why is Mickey surprised? Walt Disney was incredibly racist.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Anyone got a link to that dumbo scene with the crows? Or the tarbaby thing?
mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There’s also that bit that comes out of nowhere in the middle of ‘Everybody wants to be a Cat’. Which is really a damn shame, because that song is honestly kind of a banger otherwise.
That movie was one of my absolute favorites as a kid and I still maintain that O’Malley is the best Disney ‘prince’ but that part was certainly a choice.
jdr@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXqd5d-zHMQ
This one?
There’s a scholarly discussion about racism in the comments if you’re into that sort of thing.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Dilbert would have hated Adams. PHB is basically Trump and somehow he completely missed it. Every a shame.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
No no no. PHB is Elon Musk, 100%. Trump is like the CEO of Dilbert’s company (a lot dumber than the PHB, but fortunately too stupid to function most of the time, so his direct subordinates have to do the actual day-to-day fuck-ups, leaving only the most gigantic massive fuck-ups for him to handle personally).
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Adams was always a little weird. He just masked it better until his divorce. I knew he was a crackpot in 2007 with his “Fossils are Bullshit” article.
Rothe@piefed.social 3 days ago
Adams made Dilbert pretty insufferable and political in his later years.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Also wasn’t walt disney like even shittier?
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
No not really actually. The general idea of walt being a racist and anti Jewish is generally over blown.
Don’t get me wrong he was in fact racist. But he was culturally racist. He was a man of his time. Politically and publicly he was honestly what ever.
He was far too focused on his business. And a lot of the more overt racist things that he gets accused of tends to just be from those who he worked around and because of his business would have been supporting. But it was more a byproduct of just running a successful business of the time. Not so much him going out of his way to be racist.
Like you have to really judge things by the culture of the era. What was honestly a very mild 5 out of 10 all things considered. Sure, he could have been better but be sure the f*** wasn’t overly problematic. Lot of his contemporaries business partners were far worse and used their influence as well as Walt himself to exert a number of problem. Things which of course won’t being more focused on his business and not really caring one way or the other just let happen so you can lay some blame in his feet.
But on the flip side you also have to consider things like song of the South. Where it’s a very problematic film and clearly comes from an error of extreme racism and slavery. The focus was on Walt trying to share stories that he heard growing up and sharing the positive side of those stories. Yeah they’re from slaves and you can’t divorce that. So it’s well-meaning just aged poorly.
Cuz by today’s standards it’s horribly whitewashed and incredibly racist. But back then all things considered when you put it in the context of the era and the man who LED it, it’s a honest attempt to do better and share positivity out of something that was horrifically toxic.
Really every time I’ve ever done a deep dive into Walt’s life or his history the same few things come up over and over and over again. Pretty much every major racist, anti-jewish or other problematic thing that people lay at the feet of Walt just comes down to the simple fact. He just didn’t care.
He had a business to run. His partners were far worse than him and he just let them do whatever he never stood up and said this is too far because that would have been a bad business move in the era.
Malt is a fantastic example of the cruelty of indifference and capitalism. The business world does not care for morals. It does not care for people. It only cares for money and progress.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh he cared alright, about fingering anyone who tried to unionize as communists, ruining their lives and blacklisting them. He ruined people who were not even communist because they cost him money. He was absolutely a garbage human being.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So you’re saying mickey would be indifferent?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Scott Adams was an asshole and a lunatic long before Trumpism made it mainstream.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 day ago
he was ahead of the curve for like solid 15 years at minimum.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I can’t find the comic, but the one where Dogbert said “No expensive funeral; just wrap him up in newspapers. He would have wanted it that way.” Seems especially appropriate.
TomMasz@piefed.social 2 days ago
I remember back in the early 90s our sysadmin would grab Dilbert comics from (I think) USENET and print them on our HP laser printer. Adams built up so much goodwill only to shit all over it in the end.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Dilbert was never funny anyway. Fight me about it.
imadethis@fedinsfw.app 2 days ago
Fighting takes too much energy. It was never a witty comic, but it would resonate with you when you were in the office job that had a nepo boss making random decisions. The life of the comic was just the same joke said in a thousand different ways though, which is why we can now look at it and mentally shrug.
Windex007@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Boss: I hav a nu idea
Gilbert: No don’t u realize how stoopid that
Boss: oh well I stil say do
Garfeel: oh boy Monday… NOT
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 days ago
I don’t actually want to fight.
But when it first came out, it fit right in with Dave Barry and Milton, etc. If you were working just to get a paycheck, you could relate. The overuse of sarcasm could be overlooked bc it only happened once a week.
It never grew or evolved with the times, mirroring Adams.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It did add a bald CEO in later years, but that’s about it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
That’s it, we’re gonna fight now
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Okay: it criticized the corporate bullshit machine, how it promotes short-term thinking, and how it turns hopeful, creative people into burned out cynics. Yes, it had flaws, it overused the “work, amiright” trope and it liked to kick downwards, for instance. But at its core it was a sarcastic criticism of capitalism and our broken society that resonated with lots of people. Even if it never spelled such things out.
Doesn’t excuse the author being a racist asshole, of course.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
I said it wasn’t funny, not that it had chosen a bad target.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The most boring comic in the Sunday paper.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I didn’t know we were talking about Family Circus or Nancy.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
Well damn, I totally missed that Scott Adams died!
Its late but I still feel like something celebratory is deserved… Maybe a bowl of ice cream with a birthday candle? Yeah I’m gonna go with that.
btsax@reddthat.com 3 days ago
He also invented a vegan burrito called the Dilberito that was somewhat questionable
“As for Adams, he left the world of food behind, considering the Dilberito a failure, a lesson to be learned. Adams would later describe the nutritional value of the burrito as such: ‘Three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail.’”
Arrandee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Aww you’re just talking about Scott Adam’s.
Don’t tease me.
Overkrill@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
stopped clock moment, goku is based off a character from chinese mythology. still bad to call him what john mulaney rightly described as “the laziest slur ever” though. anyway fuck dilbert and his stupid dead dad
westingham@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Wait, why is Kermit here? Is there a dark part to Jim Henson?
x0x7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
FYI, Goku is a chinaman in some sense. In that the original manga is based on “Journey to the West,” which is a Chinese story.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
goku can use ultra instinct to instantly snap his neck.
darthsundhaft@piefed.social 2 days ago
Top 10 character assassinations.
coolansplanet@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Nobody is perfect. Leave him rest in peace
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Dilbert wasn’t like that.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Op, you suck mayonnaise. No one wants ur politics, we want a shit post.
NahMarcas@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
My idea of the image is that people like Disney or Toriyama were openly racist (and horrible) and shown it in their cartoons, the diference is they were really successfull P.s: Dont know why’s Kermit there
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Image
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
If shitty person #1 does a shitty thing to shitty person #2, doesn’t make sitty person #1 less shitty
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Does it need to? I just love it when shitty things happen to shitty people. Its karma.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Shit clings to each another until some other shit comes along.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No, but in this case it is pretty fucking funny.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
That’s rough what is that, my brain and psyche are all so fucked I started to think about fucking all of the billionaires
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Adapt to the world you live in, I guess 🤷♂️
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Lol my buddy just married one of those. I don’t know the terms of their pre-nup, or if they even did one. Wish we had a remind me bot so I could report back in 2 years!