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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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[–] Ryantific_theory 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every now and then you run into a confident claim that is so unbelievably detached from reality that there's nowhere to even start debunking it lol. Can't believe this guy went from Dilbert to... whatever this is in just a handful of years.

[–] Polydextrous 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean…Dilbert was pretty low on the ladder. So the fall from grace wasn’t too far.

[–] Ryantific_theory 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It wasn't high art or anything, but it was almost aggressively non-offensive. Just an engineer complaining about silly work things. Can you imagine how disastrous things would go if he attempted to draw Dilbert with his current views? Although, from googling, it looks like that's actually what he's planning to do lol. Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As someone who occasionally read Dilbert back in the day, I do have to say that the "author self-insert character is always right and always complaining, and everyone else is always an idiot" tropes are well-tilled soil for right-wing outrage culture.

Add in there that he already had an "perpetually angry woman" character and "Indian office worker stereotype" character, and it becomes even easier to see how he got there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For anyone not aware and to spare you from giving him traffic, one recent comic of his had the first black guy ever in a dilbert comic. That man then gave the punchline "I identify as white".

Scott is way off his rocker and has apparently decided to go all in on conspiracy nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's when Pauli has your back:

"That is not only not right; it is not even wrong"

I have to think about more and more at the moment.