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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sorry, Scott Adams uses his “support” for Trump as a straw man argument. Adams has always been a lefty. Discovered that years ago through his Dilbert. His comic pages clearly target business men as stupid. Most cartoonists are left sided and most do not hide it in their comic pages. Not much fun reading the comics. Al Capp they are not.


14 posted on 06/06/2016 1:56:03 PM PDT by rebooted
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To: rebooted
A lot of business people are stupid. I suppose you could read it a number of ways. In my view, Dilbert makes fun of the stupider people in business -- mostly large businesses -- and the often silly ways that management is dictatorial and does dumb things.

That's not necessarily anti-business. In my view, It's more a critique of how badly businesses are often run, or the silly things people do to get ahead in business or save their jobs.

However, I could be wrong in this assessment of Scott Adams' attitude toward business. I was never an avid reader of Dilbert.

26 posted on 06/06/2016 2:50:46 PM PDT by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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To: rebooted
It's not a straw man argument.

The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. Adams correctly portrays Hitlery and her minions. He is making a tongue in cheek reference to avoiding voting for Trump as he ,correctly, fears for his life if he supports Trump.

BTW he targets, MANAGEMENT, as stupid, which most are. Full disclosure worked for very large (fortune 100), to small companies. It is a rare gem of a really good manager who does not get booted because he does not kiss enough ass.
IMO huge companies have such momentum that it takes years for the idiots in management to really wreck a company. But they manage to do it none the less.

27 posted on 06/06/2016 2:59:40 PM PDT by prof.h.mandingo
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To: rebooted

Wow! I read Dilbert differently. I have always seen it as a poke at the mid-management, pc-toting toadies with their psychotic, obfuscating terms and groupthink, not at the “businessmen” and thinking, accomplishing employees who actually make the business prosper.


28 posted on 06/06/2016 3:01:35 PM PDT by gnickgnack2 (QUESTION obama's AUTHORITY)
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