Post #1562417

2026-01-13 19:34 UTC

So #Dilbert was my canary in the coal mine. I can’t think of another comic strip that functioned like this. Cathy was drawn almost exactly as badly as Dilbert, but the only thing I learned from seeing that strip in an office was the person pinning it up had body image issues. Peanuts meant the person had self-esteem problems. (Or, contrarywise, they identified with Snoopy.) 6/9

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@ridetheory@mastodon.social 2026-01-13 19:35

So I guess the moral here is: #ScottAdams was a thin-skinned, egotistical monster who wrote and badly drew a hateful comic strip called #Dilbert, and all his “humor” punched down, and he used sock puppet accounts to brag about his own genius, and was a racist, and he thought Donald Trump was great... 7/9

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@fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de 2026-01-14 15:22

@ridetheory i'd like to make a weak defense here. i know people who put Dilbert up; did it myself. this was in the 80's — when the strip was at least vaguely funny and there was no sign Adams was an arsehole. we none of us hated our colleagues. We just thought our management was clueless. Which is, i admit, a problem. not quite the same one…

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@flore@tutut.delire.party 2026-01-14 15:49

@ridetheory I'm a huge fan of Peanuts. Even if I don't have comics pinned in my office anymore. I totally identify with Snoopy...

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@waynedixon@mastodon.social 2026-01-14 17:39

@ridetheory Oh damn... maybe that's why I like Peanuts….

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