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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Thursday May 07 2020, @04:01PM (5 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Thursday May 07 2020, @04:01PM (#991371) Journal

    No, for something unexpected like that, I did some searching. What I found would seem to confirm that Adams has argued in Trump's favor. Now, it could be that Adams was being sly. The world, maybe, is less straightforward than usual.

    These are strange times. What is wrong with America? The last superpower standing, after the Soviet Union collapsed under its own vast propaganda and lies. Ending the Cold War in such a peaceful manner was a triumph of humanity and science and good sense. America has long been a patron of science and knowledge, and has been richly rewarded for that. It wasn't just sheer size that made America a superpower, made America great. The moon landings were a feat of scientific prowess, a demonstration of the power of freedom of thought. Telling too, that many great scientists came to America to escape oppression. The Soviet Union tried to dominate chess, and Bobby Fischer beat them there. They pulled the loser move of building the Berlin Wall, a resort to force because persuasion was not working, they couldn't sell even their own captive audience on Communism.

    And now? What happened? WTF happened? Now America wants to build a wall?? How could we lose our sense of global community, and go back to savagery and ignorance, seeing in others only rivals and competitors to be feared and contested with, and throw our morals to the wind, sell our integrity and good reputation so cheaply, for nothing, less than nothing, paying a big price to get rid of it, acting as if it's unwanted, for a little temporary advantage in that fight? Is it that victory of such magnitude makes a people soft and weak because there's no more challenge to meet? But there is a challenge: Global Warming. It doesn't have a face like Communism did, no portrait of Lenin. But we're not all pulling together to meet that problem. No, instead, many are in denial, seeing in all this only a diabolically clever means for scientists to put one over on everyone else, just to score a victory in one round of the endless internecine rivalry. Never mind "who lost Russia?" How did we lose ourselves?

    I don't know what Scott Adams is trying to accomplish thereby, if he is playing games with us. Seems to have cost him a movie deal at the least. Maybe he's now so rich he doesn't care much about money any more.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @06:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @06:44PM (#991423)

    What it comes down to is that Adams doesn't have TDS and can formulate a T-chart of the pros and cons of the situation. He predicted that Trump was going to win in 2016 because he was the better candidate and better at persuasion than Hillary could ever hope to be. Since then he has turned from a meh feeling toward Trump to thinking the T-chart of American success weighs heavily that Trump is more pro than con. He criticizes Trump on a regular basis but finds overall he is doing a good job. Because of his bet that Trump would win in '16 he has lost his primary source of income (speaking engagements) and estimates over the four years at least ten million in losses (net worth is ~90). He identifies as left of Bernie when it comes to policy but is a hawk on China. Doesn't appear to support a wall, but notes that all the high up politicians in both parties supported it until Trump did, so its pointless to debate as party level opposition is currently fake.

    source: have listened to him twice daily since the pandemic began, and once daily for the three+ years before that.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by redneckmother on Monday May 11 2020, @08:06PM

      by redneckmother (3597) on Monday May 11 2020, @08:06PM (#993039)

      ... Trump is more pro than con

      Hmmm... my opinion of Trump is that he's a Pro at being a Con. Just my opinion.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @09:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @09:49PM (#991466)

    Strange times, indeed. It's strange that expressing support for the democratically elected President inspires so much outrage and ruins careers.

    • (Score: 2) by Kitsune008 on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:03AM

      by Kitsune008 (9054) on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:03AM (#1000835)

      'Democratically elected'? Did you just wake up Rip van Winkle?

      He was elected by the Electoral College, not by a democratic popular vote.(which he lost said democratic popular vote by 2.8 million votes)

      He may have won the election, but it is utter bullshit to say he was 'democratically elected' when he clearly lost the democratic election(popular vote).

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday May 10 2020, @03:54AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday May 10 2020, @03:54AM (#992244)

    I used to read his blog a lot - if he's putting us on about supporting Trump, he's been staying "in character" remarkably consistently for years now, from before the election through today. It also fits with some of his non-Trump political rants going on about taxes on the money he earned and deserves to keep all for himself and his purposes - so it would appear he's not yet so rich that he doesn't care about making/keeping less money.

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