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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Antifa literally means "anti-fascist." Anyone who fought against the Nazis in WWII was "antifa."

And Scott Adams lost his f*cking mind years ago.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know at least 4 (I wanna say 6 but 4 confirmed confidently) righty leaning lads who are anti trans for what they will say are varied, diverse, weighty reasons - who all collectively tell the same story word for word any and everytime trans issues come up....

"I hit it off with a girl on Tinder, then two days in before we met or got serious or even talked all that much (just enough for me to be smitten) they told me they were trans, and I'm not a bigot, BUT IF THEY DON'T PUT THAT SHIT IN THEIR BIO THEY DESERVE WHATEVER HAPPENS TO THEM"

Nobody understands when I explain that their violent response to a trans woman on tinder is why trans women don't put it in their bio.

Shocker.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus. Just had a moment of empathy. I don't think I have ever had a first date with someone (yes I am a het cis male) where violence was a real possibility. The very worse I worried about was some sorta scam. Be safe everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Um, what does he think Antifa means? You notice how they almost exclusively use the abbreviation and hardly ever the full name? For those who might actually be unaware, it means Anti-Fascist.

Scott Adams is a fucking moron. He apparently thinks anti-fascists are actually pro-fascist. Dumbass.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

He’s probably one of those people who think the nazis were socialists because nazi is short for “national socialist”.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Probably, despite the fact that Hitler himself said they weren't socialists.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The socialists of the party were killed in Night of the Long Knives

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Or who conveniently forget about the Southern Strategy and the great party switch. Massive, massive mental gymnastics to put themselves on the 'right' side of history every time

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

A lot of conservatives have problems understanding words, especially words that apply to political beliefs. It's party ignorance and partly a result of years of indoctrination. One example, thinking that anyone who isn't hard-right is a 'socialist' or a 'commie' and not understanding that those aren't the same thing. Then, fascist... many people seem to think fascist means an authoritarian government, independent of any other qualities or beliefs.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone confirm that this is genuine? I mean, I know he has problems, but this just seems too f'd up to be a real screenshot 😬

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s genuine. I took this screenshot just now.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow...I knew He was right wing but this here is already starting to sound psychotic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Behind the Bastards just recently did a two part story about how The Dilbert Guy lost his mind. It's a great podcast and goes through the whole history of him falling hard for Trump in recent years. Part of it seems to come from a very traumatic health issue where he almost lost his ability to speak. It certainly doesn't absolve him but it kind of explains what pushed him over the edge.

Here's the first part if anyone is interested:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-how-the-dilbert-guy-118786164/

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Oh, I know this shit. It's like when Trump made a deal with Satan to convince Eve to eat the apple, because then Trump could try to date or just grab Eve when she got sent to Earth.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Since you've already volunteered yourself to venture into the den of awfulness formerly know as Twitter on our behalf; perhaps you could dig around to see if perhaps there's a recently trending, uh, txeet(?) That says something sensible using the same structure but different groups that this Scott idiot is attempting to parody?

Something like:

"I wonder if (some group this Scott guy would relate to?) know that (scumbag group who actually supported Hitler and the previously named group have recently shown support for) was allied with Hitler and helped him come to power..."

That's my most generous interpretation of what he's saying about someone critizing his original post just not understanding "what's going on here."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I have a strong feeling Scott Adam's most recent ex-wife cheated on him with a black dude. Not that it's a good excuse or anything.

I mean, he's insanely racist to the core and it feels like he's deeply hurt or something. He can go fuck himself, but he needs help.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's been racist for a long time. Behind the Bastard covered him recently. He dropped hints over the years. But a health crisis caused him to go into seclusion for a period of time and when it was resolved he was a bit zanier than before.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The Dilbert guy really went off the deep end, didn't he?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He went far enough, that there's a Behind the Bastards episode about him.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, I thought that was just a random idiot, are you telling me that's the author of Dilbert?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yep, he's completely lost it and was dropped by pretty much every newspaper after describing black people as a "hate group" (among other crazy stuff).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really don't understand successful people attaching their wagon to Conservatives... The entire human history is just a parade of religious Conservatives resisting change, trying to subjugate others and looking like absolute assholes in hindsight.

There is ZERO examples in history of "hey we were going to expand freedoms, but good thing we didn't, thanks to the religious opposition!"....

Conservatives are wrong and have been wrong on every single social issue since the dawn of time.

I'm sure they had their victories when it comes to economic issues, but they haven't had one of those in over half a century either, since the only idea they seem to have is tax cuts.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just so sad that they think that antifa is some organization, like "vegetarianism" would be one as well

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not unlike how some media is working on presenting the fediverse as a singular organization.

It's as if some can't conceive of humans organizing without a corporate overseer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Who is this four chan?"

They really can't. Anonymous was something that corporate media simply couldn't explain.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (28 children)

Every word uttered by a conservative is either a lie or profoundly incorrect. Every communication is an attempt to manipulate. This is who conservatives are.

Never trust the word of a conservative. Never.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just engagement bait; the consequence of Elon paying influencers. All these guys are just saying sillier and sillier statements to pump up their view counts in an attempt to score some Muskbux. Just roll your eyes and stop using Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s from September 2020. We can’t blame Elon for this one.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I imagine hes is misquoting the United Front here?

The United Front (Einheitsfront) was the strategy of the German communist party KPD to counter both fascism and social democrats (whom the KPD and the Third International called social fascists ("Sozialfaschisten")). As you can probably guess, this wasn't very successful in uniting the left and center against fascism, so Parties of the Comintern ended up changing strategies to the United Front, a broad coalition of left and center against fascism. This had some limited success (France had a Popular front government of communists/socdems/left leaning liberals for two years that enacted a fairly large amount of very progressive labour laws and banned a number of fascist and monarchist organisations like the Croix de Feu, Spain had a similar Popular front which ended with the military loss in the civil war against Franco)

The SocDems SPD had a similar strategy btw., the iron front, which intended to counter fascism, monarchism, and communism and was opposed to the KPD.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm so disappointed in Adams. That idiot chugged so much Kool-Aid that the cavities have rotted up to into his brain

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Wasn’t he also middle management when he was working?

So, Y’know, he was the pointy haired one?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

“I passed sixth grade social studies and you have lost your fucking mind.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Like Peterson, Scott Adams was at least interesting to read in 2016, even if you don't agree with him. His analysis on why Trump eventually won was actually a pretty good read.

But it seems that going deep into the conservative echo chamber turns everyone in it completely insane and paranoid, until they are nothing but a parody of their former self.

So I think the main idea of conservatism is ironically being self destructive.

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