It's okay to be white/It's not okay to be Dilbert

he also stands for monarchs and their pedo brothers over property rights...

The Behind the Bastards podcast is doing a two-parter on Adams.

https://twitter.com/choochoobear/status/1678732315596316672?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Worth listening to just to hear about Adams speculating about aliens running a train on his mother.

do you have a non-twitter link?

https://player.fm/series/behind-the-bastards/part-one-how-the-dilbert-guy-lost-his-mind

Thank you, I like to not dip my things into that cesspool when there are other options.

Loved it. Let me know when part 2 drops.

@Amaris see?

I don't follow you.

Our discussion about smiley features.

Oh! Yeah, I really do wish I could implement something like that. What we would really need, in that regard, is something more like Facebook or Twitter's GIF responses.

https://twitter.com/bastardspod/status/1679524980479131648?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Adams’ house.

Naw, that's a fotoshop of Squidward's

So, episode 2 starts with "...and then Adams took a Dale Carnegie course.." and I was instantly like "fuuuuuuck! ".

They spend the next 20 minutes explaining who Dale Carnegie is to the gen-z-ers, but...I've got RL experience of seeing that shit turn people into assholes.

What's wrong with it?

Listen to the show, they explain it.
Too short version- It's not evil in an of itself, but it pours gasoline on certain personality types, and attracts Andrew Tate types like flies to shit.

perhaps... but my dad was a fan of it, and he was one of the most personable people I've ever known. Could not only strike up a conversation with anyone, but it'd be about their thing.

I get where you're coming from in how there's a thin line between active listening and info gathering to manipulate with later though.

But that may very well have come naturally to him with or without the stuff. They don't mention it in the podcast episode but I've read articles that indicate that the results one can expect with something like Carnegie, while not necessarily bad, aren't quite what you might hope for. So, while you end up being seen as friendly and having a lot of friends, you don't have a deep or meaningful connection with any of them.

he gave it a fair chunk of credit... but yeah, it wasn't about developing friends as much as making decent small talk wherever he went-he was also a really good peacemaker/diverting other people's anger.

30 years as an air traffic controller... the ol' man took every method he could not to be stressful or sharp with people.

Behind the Bastards does a reading of Admas book on Trump.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...e/we-read-the-dilbert-guys-attempt-121237202/

Fair warning, they spend a good part of the episode laughing in hysterics at the shit Adams wrote.

That podcast recommends this one.

https://player.fm/series/haus-of-decline/scott-adams-the-religion-war

They review "The Religion War".
1. Adams's prose is more risible than his nonfiction.
2. This is his "Turner Diaries". Holy shit. Someone should have been paying attention.

1:29:07 to 1:30:19

They riff on how the Nazis freak out about dyed hair lately.
Yeah, we noticed it over here too, fellas.

It's really amazing how our posters keep totally independently coming to the same talking points!

Here’s an example of his newest attempt at humor.

https://x.com/bankstonatlaw/status/1703148744722481559?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

It's the Dilbertrito!! It's a banned bioweapon! Adams must be destroyed!

One, stop supporting elon.

2. if Biden does have him wacked I would reconsider my dark biden stance.

https://bsky.app/profile/ironspike.bsky.social/post/3k7llv6kvvg2p