Amanda Marcotte: 'Dilbert Has Gone Fascist'

NewsBusters ^ | June 8, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Imagine someone who is completely dead on in the accuracy of his predictions. Would you not want to analyze why this person is correct and listen very carefully to any future predictions he makes? Of course. That is what Jake Tapper of CNN has done but if you are Amanda Marcotte of Salon, being accurate is completely besides the point. What matters is that the winning predictions were made about Donald Trump. And who is guilty of the thought crime of politically uncomfortable prognostications in the eyes of Marcotte? Dilbert creator Scott Adams whom she labels as a fascist in the very title of her highly laughable article: Dilbert has gone fascist: The strange unrequited love Scott Adams seems to have for Donald Trump. Tossing aside any interest as to why Adams has been so amazingly correct in his analysis of why Trump is winning, Marcotte accuses Adams of dangerous thought crimes:

[Brookhaven]

She is proving Scott Adam’s recent point: Hillary’s supporters are deranged to the point of—literally—being dangerous.

His Hillary endorsement was funny, but it leaves you with a funny feeling in your stomach has you realize he’s not wrong to be worried that he could become a victim of violence for the “crime” of not hating Trump.

Notice I didn’t’ say supporting Trump, I said not hating Trump. And, this blogger makes his point. She is calling Scott Adams a fascist, because he doesn’t hate Trump enough.

The Thomas More tactic (there is safety in keeping silent) will no longer work. As is evidenced here, the left now demands everyone take a stance.

[rlmorel]

Liberals use the term “fascist” without having any idea what it actually means. What they really mean is to call someone “Hitler”, but their little pea-brains understand completely that you are discounted quite easily if you do that. So they think they are being clever by using the term “fascist”.

Probably, what they REALLY mean to use as an epithet is “liberal”, but the truth would make their heads explode.

[rlmorel]

I should have read your post before I posted mine at #22...:)

[tbw2]

Scott Adams has repeatedly said on his blog he doesn’t agree politically with Trump but recognizes he’s great at marketing, branding, psychology while Hillary’s group is the opposite.

[Ketill Frostbeard]

A freelance writer who had broken up with his girlfriend had flown in to interview Amanda Marcotte at Salon. He got into the back seat of a cab at the airport stand, and a driver for whom English was a second language, asked: "Where can I be driving you, Sir?"

"Well, I'm early...is there anyplace I can get a little action?"

"What kind of action is it you are seeking, sir?"

"You know...ladies of the evening."

"But sir, it is noon and it will not be evening for some time to come."

"No, no...I mean a house of pleasure."

"It is my pleasure to take you anyplace you are wanting, sir."

"You don't understand...where do you go to get some sex?"

"I am not familiar with your sect, sir, I am Hindu."

"No! no!...I mean...oh, forget it. I might as well show up early for my appointment with Amanda Marcotte at Salon."

"Sa...lon? Oh! It is the whorehouse that you are wanting, sir! Right away!!" ;)

[fella]

Fascism

As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.

(Much more at link)

[rlmorel]

I think for a lot of people, unless you have dipped your toes into the world of white-collar workers, a lot of it won't connect at all.

I used to like Dilbert, but I had read some of the writings and opinion pieces by Scott Adams over the last 10-12 years, and I cut ties with him. He sounded to me like he was having a nervous breakdown.

In retrospect, perhaps it was just the libertarian side of him speaking publicly, and it is difficult sometimes (but not always) to tell the difference between a libertarian and someone having a nervous breakdown...

[rlmorel]

That is hilarious!

[longfellow]

I worked at Mouseshwitz. Or Duckhau.

Our battles were different. Morons didn’t know the characters talked, asked if piglets a pig, and at Hannah Barbara someone asked if Secret Squirrel was a monkey.

[dragonblustar]

Amanda Marcotte of Salon

[longfellow]

was it showing up in his strip? The writing?
I hated the boondocks strip. Racist .

[Brookhaven]

Well, at least they didn't ask if Guam would tip over.

[sauropod]

Another bon mot from Amanda Marcotte.

[longfellow]

don’t ya wonder who was stupider, him or his supporters?

[tumblindice]

[pabianice]

First -- beginning in the 1930s -- Dilbert was the naval aviation cadet who was always screwing-up. The Dilbert Dunker drew its name from the hapless cadet.

[Ketill Frostbeard]

[Brookhaven]

Any time I hear the “Republicans are stupid” comment I reference Hank Johnson.

What’s funny is when people don’t seem to understand why what he said was stupid.

[FreedomPoster]

As I’ve been saying for a while, they’d ship us all to reeducation camp if they could. I’ll be holding onto my sport utility rifle, thank you very much.

[Axenolith]

“The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax.”

Check out the back of the 1916-1945 issue Liberty (”mercury”) dime. I happened to bag one in Alamo Square right when some Italian tourists were passing and being curious while I was metal detecting and they were all “Ooohhhh! Fasces!”