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    He was a racist chud and generally an asshole who thought he was a lot smarter than he was. He was also pretty irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, so I’ll just drop one crab. crab-party

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    What is it with fuckin libs and their need to rehabilitate pieces of shit after death.

    “Adolf Hitler, controversial architect of Germany’s modernization, has passed”

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    Lmao is this a sign of how cooked my brain is? So I see the news of his passing and my immediate thought is “I need to go check Hexbear because nobody else is going to know enough about why I’m laughing at my phone”

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    I remember listening to a podcast making fun of some book he wrote about how to fail at everything and still succeed. Like the guy just lied himself to success during an era where you could get a job by farting into a jar.

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    His wiKKKipedCIA article is full of little treats to read

    In February 2023, Dilbert was dropped by numerous newspapers and its distributor, Andrews McMeel Syndication, after Adams called black Americans a “hate group” (…) Adams then relaunched the strip as a webcomic on his locals.com website. Adams died in January 2026 from metastatic prostate cancer at the age of 68.

    same paragraph, like it’s cause and effect

    In The Religion War (2004), Adams suggests that followers of theistic religions such as Christianity and Islam are subconsciously aware that their beliefs are false, and that this awareness is reflected in their consistently acting as if these religions, and their threats of damnation for sinners, are untrue. In a 2017 interview, Adams said that his books on religion, not Dilbert, would be his ultimate legacy.

    lol. this guy was just amazing at bad predictions. no, your legacy is dilbert and maybe some online rants everyone will have forgotten about in three years

    On May 19, 2025, Adams said on his daily podcast Real Coffee with Scott Adams that he has prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, and that he only has a short time left to live. (…) He noted that taking ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat the cancer did not work.

    what a dumbass, steve jobs at least tried to eat fruits

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      steve jobs at least tried to eat fruits

      Don’t forget he also bought a house in Alabama so he could try and get onto their organ transplant list

      Man thought he could fix systemic spread of cancer by replacing all his organs

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        Man thought he could fix systemic spread of cancer by replacing all his organs

        that’s like trying to fix a rotten personality by replacing all the people in his life… so symbolic

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    When Charlie Kirk died, I had genuine childlike joy.

    When Tim Cain died, I at least got a sensible chuckle from it.

    When I read that Scott Adams died, I just switched back to this tab to continue reading it instead before coming back to the thread two hours later to post this comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costermonger

    Didn’t even watch the video or search to see if there’s some news article about it. Victorian fruit vendors are so much more interesting. Look at this shit:

    They became known for their melodic sales patter, poems, and chants, which they used to attract attention. Both the sound and appearance of costermongers contributed to a distinctive street life that characterised London, Paris, and other large European cities, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. Their loud sing-song cries became part of the fabric of street life in large cities in Britain and Europe. Costermongers exhibited their membership in the coster community through dress, especially the large neckerchief, known as a kingsman. Their hostility to police was legendary. Their distinctive culture and appearance led to considerable appeal as subject-matter for artists, dramatists, comedians, writers and musicians. The cheeky costermonger was a stock character in Victorian music hall shows.

    Street vendors have zero cultural presence in the modern west. I can’t associate them with anything apart from street food and pirated movies. No persona, no ideological identity, they’re just Maria the taco truck owner selling the taco itself. Street life must have been so much more vibrant back then.

    edit: Even in other countries with more street vendors. Only Japan kind of comes close to something like that, but most of the Japanese street vendors I saw didn’t dress in the stereotypical way unless it was during a festival.

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        I love to get all of my groceries from the windowless panopticon where the entire layout is meant to trick my brain into wanting the things that would be rare to a hunter-gatherer.

        I could get them from the poet or musician who runs their own business, but instead I get them from the minimum wage workers who can’t afford to shop there under the watchful eye of some Kyle Rittenhouse dipshit.

        I could have streets full of independent merchants singing their artisan wares, but I get billboards and spam emails designed by psychologists to prey on my insecurities that transfer all of the money I spend out of the local economy.

        kitty-birthday-sad

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          You’ve said it so poetically. I don’t want to start some long discussion but there is a difference between lower forms of life like worms and higher forms of life like cows and humans in that we higher forms have free time. We play. We imagine and romp. Some of us like humans go even higher! We use our free brain time to think up languages! Music! Space-based telescopes and vaccines! It’s really cool. And capitalism takes us and reduces us to a monad, a cog in a machine, and we’re back to the lower order. Now we do the thing until we die, like the worm turning the earth until they die on the job, conveniently in a hole.

          Shit sucks

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    Some are saying the last thing he did was buy into his brother Eric Adams’s crypto scam and lost all of his fortune 30 minutes later when the rug was pulled.

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    Directly copied from the ‘Political Views’ tab on Wikipedia:

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    Adams often commented on political and social matters, although he said in 2016, “I don’t vote and I am not a member of a political party.”[86] As of 2008, Adams identified his views on social issues as “[leaning] libertarian, minus the crazy stuff”.[87] After endorsing Mitt Romney for the 2012 presidential election,[88] Adams endorsed Donald Trump in the following election. During that election, he wrote extensively on Trump, praising his persuasion skills[89][90] and later described his support for Trump as a factor in ending his public speaking career, as well as negatively impacting his income and friendships.[91][92] He also spoke against Trump’s opponent Hillary Clinton, expressing concerns that Clinton’s candidacy would lower the status of men in America.[93][94] In 2017, Adams described his views as supporting left-wing policies he perceived as realistic.[95]

    Adams made various predictions about politics. Early in the 2016 election, Adams predicted Trump would win based on his analysis of how persuasive the candidates were. As Trump gained momentum, Adams’s election analysis gained media and popular attention.[21] Later (incorrect) predictions repeatedly featured in Politico magazine’s annual lists of “Worst Predictions”, including that one of Trump, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden would die from COVID-19 by the end of 2020,[96] that “Republicans will be hunted” if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election[97] and that the 2024 presidential election would result in a “landslide” of claims the election was rigged and the results ultimately overturned in Trump’s favor by the Supreme Court.[98]

    After a 2022 mass shooting, Adams opined that society leaves parents of troubled teenage boys with only two options: to either watch people die or murder their own son. He said his comments were inspired by his own stepson, who became addicted to drugs at the age of 14 and later died of a fentanyl overdose.[99][100] Adams was anti-masking and anti-COVID-19 vaccines,[101] and he believed that people unvaccinated against COVID-19 “came out the best” compared to vaccinated people.[102]

    In a 2006 blog post, Adams asked if official figures of the number of deaths in The Holocaust were based on methodologically sound research.[103][35] In 2023, Adams suggested the 2017 Unite the Right rally was “an American intel op against Trump”.[104] In 2020, Adams said that the Dilbert TV show was cancelled because he was white and UPN had decided to focus on an African-American audience, and that he had been discriminated against.[105] In a series of comic strips in September 2022, Dilbert parodied environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) strategies. Part of the plotline involved a black character who “identif[ied] as white” and the company management asking him if he could also identify as gay.[106]

    Lol bye bye bozo