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[–] 96 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I feel weird about this. Like it's his second death or something.

He used to be someone who was just giving welcome comic relief to office workers, and came off as reflected and humble.

Then he got a stroke and ...opinions. How related they were I don't know, and how latent his cruel opinions were I honestly don't know.

Whether he always was utterly evil but it just didn't surface, or he just broke someway, it felt like a person died back then. I still miss who I thought he was.

And now he is dead again.

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  • [–] 57 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    I feel the same way, but had no idea he'd had a stroke around the time of the big change. If true that makes it a bit easier to separate the man from his art for me.

    Didn't something similar happen with the US politician John Fetterman? I recall he was a darling of the Democratic party, then post-stroke turned radically 'right'.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    There are so many family caretakers that have a similar unfortunate dichotomy in their minds. Like everyone else is mourning at the funeral, but they saw that person β€œdie” a decade ago, leaving behind a husk of hate, forgetfulness, or missing energy.

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  • [–] 58 points 10 months ago
    [–] 72 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    It's such a great shame that he died

    after ruining his legacy

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Agreed. Not a fan of what he became, but Dilbert was great.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    Damn, this is the first time I'm hearing about this guy being a piece of shit. Would love to hear people chime in with the shit he's pulled for others like me to see.

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  • [–] 59 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Here's a scratch off the top:

    He previously questioned the death toll of the Holocaust, said he had lost multiple jobs for being white and falsely claimed that people who didn't get vaccinated against COVID-19 "clearly are the winners" of the pandemic (he acknowledged getting vaccinated in Monday's video). Dozens of newspapers dropped the strip in 2022 after Adams introduced its first Black character and veered into anti-woke plotlines.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I don't know if I'm more shocked that Adams didn't have a black character before 2022 or that newspapers were still carrying an overt racist's strip in 2022.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    wait, i thought the elbonians were black.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    Wow I didn't realize how much I missed the hobbydrama subreddit, one of the goat communities.

    Also yeah, that's very accurate but also it's worthwhile to understand he was also incredibly cringe in an old school atheism subreddit way. Fully convinced he was the smartest person in the world and everyone who disagreed with him was because they're stupid. He was basically 4chan the person

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  • [–] 106 points 10 months ago

    Rest in piss, racist trash

    I used to like Dilbert

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago

    Good riddance. Guy was a piece of shit and I'm glad he's gone.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    He could have built upon his early success and become an agent of change in the corporate world. Instead, he turned into another fascist troll and destroyed all of the goodwill he had previously had.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Stephen Pastis I feel has so well captured the melancholy of life that when he passes, while it won't be big news, I will care deeply.

    Anyways, what a fun obituary. Really nice news.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Is Pastis having health problems?

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    Prostate ductal adenocarcinoma. A particular bad cancer. Absolutely terrible for anyone who gets it. Hate how he went, but but don't mind that he's gone. Hell, being dead is likely a better situation than the one he was in with the cancer, just an absolutely terrible way to go.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Well shoot. I was holding out for a change of heart from him because I really resonated with his comics back in the day.

    Unfortunately, it seems he only ever had sympathy for those whose misfortunes he shared and never came around on that.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    For what it’s worth, the parts of it that resonated with you were probably just lifted from office stories that he encouraged readers to send in. The dude himself was a lifelong grifter (you can listen to the Behind the Bastards episode about him for more info).

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  • [–] 30 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 53 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It's the warm and fuzzy feeling you get when a piece of shit is no longer polluting the world.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    maybe, people should have different names for different periods of their lives and we should treat them as different people.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Fuck cancer, but it gets a pass for this one

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    This thread hates with great enthusiasm.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Good riddance

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    [–] 22 points 10 months ago*

    I liked Dilbert for a while in the 90s and early 2000s. Scott Adams was first a weird guy in an autistic sort of way and then transitioned to a fucking crazy Trump-loving moron. The world is a slightly better place now.

    Hopefully this is a prelude to some more significant deaths.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

    In 2023 Scott Adams drew criticism for comments made on his podcast Real Coffee With Scott Adams. He said, among other things β€œthe best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.” He also noted that β€œIf nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people,” then they should be called a β€œhate group.” His remarks were widely seen as racist, and many newspapers dropped his cartoon Dilbert.

    Is this the thing that has everybody in a huff?

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  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago

    He was flirting with holocaust denial decades ago, was a Trump supporter from the beginning, became more and more of a generic unhinged conspiracy theorist following that, and yes as you noted was a pretty blatant racist. Sprinkle some misogyny in there for good measure as well.

    Behind the Bastards has some good episodes about him

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Nah, he has a long history since 2012 of being quite conservative and posting dumb takes on Twitter, then in 2016 he stopped pretending he was a libertarian and went full MAGA. Only gotten worse since.

    I don't celebrate his death, because I feel like he is pretty insignificant compared to the real government and social media monsters (Meta, Google, etc) currently shaping the world into a worse place. But I won't miss him one bit.

    Some context and examples : https://cartoonwiki.toonsmag.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Views

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  • [+] -7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I am unimpressed. Seriously, nothing I see in your list is too heinous.

    Also, creating a list of a person's "crimes" like this. It's messed up. It's like something out of the Chinese cultural revolution.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    Rest in piss

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Shame he won’t live to see a world without ethnics, women, gays, etc etc…

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    To paraphrase Max Plank:

    Society progresses one funeral at a time

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    And no one of value was lost

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Good riddance to bad trash.

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  • [+] -16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    a sad day not just for comics, but for many IT tech's as well .... he drew a fine picture (pun intended) of our lives with management.

    Edit: okay I got it. I did not know anything else than him writing dilbert. But clearly he wasn't a nice/good guy.

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 10 months ago

    It was an influential and popular comic back in the day when it broke out.

    Scott Adams tarnished his legacy when he went off the deep end into conservatism, and it remains to be seen whether the comic will become even more dated than it already is, but it did capture something relevant to a lot of people back then.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago*

    For someone who saw many of the problems in office life, he chose to laugh at them and those who suffer with them. He could've at least shut his mouth and let us all believe he was laughing with us and not at us.

    but he didn't.

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  • [–] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not going to ignore the utter piece of shit he became

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    It really is such a shame. I genuinely liked his IT/office humor and even had Dilbert & Dogbert plushies decorating my own cubicle. Now they're at the bottom of a storage crate; I can't bring myself to either look at them or trash them.

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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago

    He was an artist of power and insight. He will be missed.

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