Unfortunately, he wasted a bunch of time taking ivermectin and pursuing alternative treatments.
My best to those who miss him.
I’ve read mixed accounts of that.
Yes, he did try that stuff, but I’ve read some claims that he did it alongside the treatments the doctors gave him.
Like it was kind of pointless, but also kind of harmless because he didn’t let it get in the way of real medicine.
At least when it came to cancer, I don’t think anyone cited him being a denier about more effective treatments, just he was in the “I’ll try anything” mode of having a terminal illness.
Of course he had a lot of other problematic things as a die hard maga, including antivax and winning how white men have it so bad and saying Trump and friends lying was actually good because the lies were “directionally true”, but maybe just not overly bad stuff about the cancer.
The cancer prodded him to actually break with trump on the specific matter of being mean to Biden over the same cancer Adams had.
He went from writing the quintessential office comedy comic, up there with fucking Office Space in status…
to being a Nazi piece of shit who advocated for racial segregation, and spent his remaining years sucking Trump’s asshole and swearing far-right psuedo-medicine would cure his cancer. And then he died of cancer.
Rot in Piss. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
Rest in piss.
Good rest in piss.
oh no. So anyway
Soy un pendidor. Shitty motherfucker he was.
He’s pretty much done by the time he abandoned the original sarcastic view of the white-collar office and started into GOP kluxer white-power shit.
I’m gonna hate to see the cringey online obits in the local broadsheets today, they’ll gonna make him out like a normal celebrity, some goddamn fucking an hero deserving praise.
I never liked how political the dilberts comics got
They were about how much more capable the working class was than the ruling class.
It was always political.
Mallard Fillmore was even worse. It was like a republican version of a Jack Chick comic.
That’s by far the finest Dilbert comic ever, so of course it’s not from Scott Adams.
I remember reading his blog like 25 years ago and it was pretty interesting. Some funny stories, thought experiments, interesting comments. I remember that he was trying to help some young author get into papers. The idea for comic was solid but drawing wasn’t good enough so they organized a competing for artists and blog readers voted. Other time he told people to write phrases that sounded like they mean something but didn’t and then made it into a song. Supposedly that’s how The Beatles wrote their lyrics. At some point he got married and become a stepfather so he wrote about that as well. Stuff like that. He wasn’t that famous, the internet wasn’t that big, it was all just for fun.
I stopped following it for couple of years and next thing I know he got divorced, his new girlfriend was 20 something Instagram model and he started writing about how great Trump was. WTF happened?
It’s one version of the white guy midlife crisis. They realize they aren’t special and it makes them angry and they turn to conservatism for some reason and acclimate to the racism and misogyny they surround themselves with and then them amplify it. It’s a miserable pipe line. With trumpers instead of getting the flashy car they get a young, trophy girlfriend. Or both if they have the money. Trumpism frees you from shame.
Seems to be particularly prevalent among celebrities when they fall out of popularity.
In the 90s, he was top of the world, the biggest comic strip, a TV show, and just so much merchandise.
Then in the 2000s, people just kind of got over it. It’s not like it became any worse or anything, just everyone had seen it by now, and it just became another strip among many.
So he joined the ranks of other celebrities that everyone just got bored with, like Kevin Sorbo, Kid Rock, etc. When fame leaves them they get all pissy and blame the world.
There are multiple episodes about him on Behind the Bastards, if that helps paint a picture.
Life broke him I guess.
Is Jim Davis cool? I can’t really find anything, so that proves he isn’t MAGA at least.
I think he’s at least not Uncool. Like the True Neutral of comic creators.
I don’t know, but this is my head-canon for Jim Davis…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D503ScaSGc4&pp=0gcJCTIBo7VqN5tD
“Scott Adams is dead.”
look, as an engineer, I like the Dilbert comics
but fuck that guy, and lol that he died to ass cancer
“Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go. I’m not a believer, but I have to admit the risk-reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me, so here I go. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and look forward to spending an eternity with Him. The part of me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven. I won’t need any more convincing than that. I hope I’m still qualified for entry.”
What an absolute fucking goober. Good luck with that one, chief.
That’s Pascal’s Wager, taken to the logical conclusion. Pascal’s Wager is basically the idea that debating whether or not God exists is meaningless; If you simply live life as if God does exist, then there are no downsides. Just be someone who God would want in heaven, and the actual belief doesn’t really matter.
But then when you take that to a logical conclusion, it basically turns into “there’s no downside if I’m wrong, and repenting on my deathbed means all my previous sins are forgiven. So why not repent right before dying, so my previous sins are forgiven and I’m dying with a clean slate?”
Different denominations have different opinions on it. Baptists tend to take the “fire and brimstone unless you repent, but you’re all golden after repentance” stance. So they would tend to agree with this scenario. This is also why southern baptists tend to be such cunts, because they tell themselves that their actions are righteous and backed by God, because they have repented. Basically, justifying evil is easy when you change the question from “is this morally evil” to “is this backed by my god?”
Catholics used to have a very hard “baptism washes away (almost) all sins” stance, but have recently adopted a more fluid “how you act in life is just as important as what you believe” stance. So older Catholics would have likely agreed, but modern Catholics would tend to disagree.
The more liberal denominations (like United Methodists) would scoff and say that faith without works is dead.
If he’s a pascal’s wager guy, I hope he died in battle just in case the Norse are correct. And his deeds in life kept his heart lighter than a feather, in case the Egyptians got it right. Etc.
pascals wager is incredibly stupid and illogical. What about other 10 billion religions? What if accepting jesus now puts you down with 9,999,999,999 other religions?
That’s Pascal’s wager, and it’s nothing new.
There’s plenty more about him that can be criticized.
Pascal’s Wager is hilarious because it implies that their “omniscient” God is so stupid he can be tricked into thinking you sincerely believe. Sounds blasphemous to me!
I suppose it depends on if you think faith is inherently important or it’s just the behavior.
I mean his paragraph is pretty much outright silly, but broadly you can decide that acting “right” might happen to help you in an afterlife scenario. Some specifics prescribed by religion are kind of arbitrary, but there’s some common things about trying to be good to others.v Going MAGA like he did would seem to be a perilous move in that context.
I thank god everyday that he made me an atheist.
That’s why this guy is better known for his contributions to computer science
How about the fact he used his status as a conservative voice to skip the line and get priority experimental cancer treatments? Not only did he die, but somewhere out there there is another person dead or dying because they got bumped from the treatment
Things are “experimental” because we don’t know if they work, not because they are better.
I prefer the one where he was such a shitty father that he mused about not having to murder his own teenaged son after he ODed
I refuse to believe the pantheons of gods didn’t predict pascal’s wager and hide an antipascal clause similar to Matthew 25:31 where not being an asshole will send you to heaven and being an asshole sends you to hell.
Supply-side Jesus
Don’t believe in God, until you’re standing at the pearly gates. St Peter hates this one weird trick
The Bible says that’s ok so why not?
https://biblehub.com/topical/t/the_parable_of_the_workers.htm
To be fair, that’s a very Southern Baptist way to look at it. If you’ve ever read a Chick Tract (I’m so sorry), you’ll know that many end with someone who lived mired in sin earnestly repenting and believing in God right before they die, and it’s shown to work. Some other branches of Christianity, notably Catholicism, relax the emphasis on belief and put more stock into your actions while you lived – although they also believe most but not all sins can be pardoned if you confess and perform penance.
However, I would suggest that believing in God because of Pascal’s wager is:
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Obviously idiotic (this part we all know). There are an infinite amount of gods you could believe in that would have the belief requirement. Even if you assert that it’s a belief in “a” god, how are we supposed to know it wouldn’t be some god who values empirical reason and would look down on this belief? These infinitesimal odds you’re wasting your only known life on aren’t even strictly positive.
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Something the God of the Bible probably wouldn’t appreciate? Within the shared fiction of Christianity, he knows exactly what’s in your heart, and I’m sure “I’m cooperating just so you give me the goods” doesn’t play well. Granted that’s kind of on God for being an abusive parent and threatening eternal damnation to anyone who doesn’t, but I’m still sure he doesn’t like people who game his abusive system for selfish ends.
I was hoping to find and share an image macro of Leela and Nibbler discussing the meaning of life, with Leela remarking, “So every religion is wrong!”
Unfortunately, all I could find is Leela/Nibbler porn. Lots and lots of it. Goddamn, humans. We should be lucky there’s no judgemental god watching us all.
I fucking love Chick Tracts and collect them. They are so wildly unhinged it’s great
Seconding that Chick Tracts are comedy gold (Exhibit A). They’re so feverishly deranged that they become an unintentional parody of evangelical Christianity. Solidly “so bad it’s good”.
They used to get left in the bathrooms on Washington State Ferries pretty reliably and I got together a pretty good collection. The first one I read was the classic Dungeons and Dragons one, this would have been pretty close to its first publication too. I wish I had kept those.
I used to get them as a kid, trick or treating. I kind of miss them in a messed-up nostalgia way.
There was a table in the NYC subway many years ago that had thousands of them and they were handing them out. I definitely took a couple, knowing full well what they are, for the sheer novelty.
Also to give them a few less to hand out to someone who might be susceptible because fuck em
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“The vilest offender who truly believes, that moment from Jesus a pardon receives,” so goes the old hymn.
…truly…
Adams had many detestable views, but I interpreted this as a sarcastic quip, mocking those who seriously think that way.
This is the guy that literally begged Donald Trump to cure his cancer.
No he begged Trump to strong-arm KP into giving him special treatment. That’s just nepotism, not magical thinking.
Yeah he was obsessed with his own intelligence and loved mocking those who disagreed with him
Les paris stupides…
Gods hate him!
See how he faked his way into heaven using this one weird trick!
Oh shit that’s young… now Rest in Piss
Can’t believe another anti-vax guy was killed by a preventable and treatable condition. Prostate cancer is one of the more survivable forms of cancer (10-year relative survival rate of 98% with proper treatment). I wonder if he did the fruit juice enemas like Steve Jobs or he just tried to Straight Edge his way through it, because he didn’t want to live with Low T.
I looked it up after reading this comment
He says he tried Ivermectin to treat his cancer lol. Npr article about it, says he didn’t discuss any specifics of his treatment other than that
Edit: newer article indicates he eventually did seek actual treatment
He probably sought actual treatment too late. Prostate cancer that is caught early enough is basically a non-issue.
Think it depends. Like a lot of other cancer stuff, there’s variability. Most of the common prostate cancer is that easy and in fact they don’t even treat it. My wife’s grandfather was told they would basically do morning until it started getting bad., and he died of unrelated heart failure years later without his cancer progressing.
Sounds like his was not so livable. Also unclear if he tried ivermectin instead of traditional treatment, or as an additional hail Mary. I’ve known people who had cancer and they tried anything and everything alongside their treatment, in case anything would help. I also knew one guy that thought just vitamin c would cure his cancer and declined any other treatment, and got killed by what may have been a supremely treatable cancer.
Not a fan?
He’s always been a bit off, but most of his weird statements over the years never got attention.
Towards the end of his life though he appeared to get heavily into some alt right rhetoric. As I understand it, this all came to a head during an episode of his podcast in 2023.
There was some thinly veiled right wing think tank that conducted some “poll” asking people “do you agree with the statement: it’s okay to be white” and they presented in big bold letters after that only half of black people responded “yes”
At the time that particular expression had become a popular slogan for white supremacists.
But Scott covered the story at face value and presented it as like “black people are an anti white hate group, white people should stay away from them for their own safety”
Literally overnight he lost basically everything. Every newspaper dropped him. He tried to relaunch as a direct to consumer subscription service, but his health declined so rapidly I’m not sure if anything happened with it.
But yeah that incident caused people to go digging into his past statements as well and as a result lots of people consider him to be awful
Oh wow thanks for explaining. So not just MAGA but brazenly racist. Or maybe that’s a bit redundant.
He’d been increasingly alt right since the teens, I remember mocking him for it back in the day. Definitely took the new atheism to alt right pipeline. But yeah '23 is when he crossed the line for normies
Don’t know anything about Adams?
Guess not. He was MAGA or something? Saw that after I posted this.
Scott Adams was a massively racist piece of shit.
In a 2006 blog post, Adams asked if official figures of the number of deaths in the Holocaust were based on methodologically sound research.
In 2020, Adams claimed on Twitter that the Dilbert TV series was axed years ago because he was white and UPN had decided to shift toward African American viewers.
That same year, he predicted that if Biden were to win the 2020 presidential election, then Republicans would be “hunted”. He said there was a “good chance” they would be “dead within a year”.
He has also previously compared women asking for equal pay to children demanding candy and has claimed there were “satanic coincidences” in the Joe Biden presidential campaign.
In September 2022, Dilbert was pulled from 77 newspapers after Adams started to incorporate “anti-woke plotlines”, including one about a Black character who identifies as white. His cartoons also mocked the ESG movement (also known as the environmental, social and governance movement).
Reacting to a poll that found that 26 per cent of Black Americans said they disagreed with the phrase “It’s OK to be white”, Adams posted a video in which he said that Black people are a “hate group”.
He announced that he would no longer be helpful to Black people, claiming he had “done it all his life and the only outcome is getting called a racist”. He advised his white fans to “get the f*** away from them as fast as possible”, and made many other racist comments.
Rest in piss.
Throwing his 2007 blog post titled Fossils are Bullshit on the pile.
Funny that Trump got re-elected and he was dead within the year.
I guess he didn’t get all of his facts straight.
Was crazier/shittier than simply being MAGA, although he was also that.
Yeah he was kinda just a lunatic who also was maga. Like, bigoted as all hell, incredibly racist, but also edgy internet atheist who thought he was far smarter than everyone else and was certain trump was playing 420D chess
