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Dilbert loses newspapers, publishers, distributor, and possibly its website
james_s:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 15, 2023, 01:27:05 am ---You do know he's not "right wing", right?
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Everyone is "right wing" if they're not "left wing" in a world of absolutes. I know very little about Adams' politics overall and I'd be content to keep it that way. I've personally been accused of being both right wing and a leftist by two different people in the same day. :-// All it takes is one single comment and some will interpolate a whole picture of you in their head.
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 15, 2023, 02:12:07 am ---All it takes is one single comment and some will interpolate a whole picture of you in their head.
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On social media, sometimes even just a single word is enough for that.
Heck, even a smiley can be enough.
Always remember that what you think about others and what you think they think about you is just all in your head.
wilfred:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 15, 2023, 01:27:05 am ---You do know he's not "right wing", right?
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Looking down the list of titles for his YT channel "Coffee with Scott Adams" sure looks like he's right wing. And I saw you say he has a financial interest in Local.com "No surprise, he also has a personal financial stake in Locals I believe, so makes sense. But he's always preeching "take the free money", but won't do it himself."
If calculating the risk of financial blowback and then lighting the fuse to gain notoriety for his own financial benefit on Local.com in which he has an interest is not "taking the free money" then what is? He said it himself that he got exactly what he wanted.
I'm not interested in spending an hour (or more) each day listening to him but those easily manipulated will lap up his smarmy style.
Not that I expect to bother following up in a years' time to see what Dilbert looks like but I'm sure it will be unedifying.
CatalinaWOW:
I haven't checked to verify the assertion that Adams is right wing. But it really shouldn't matter. It isn't OK to do things to folks that have right of center politics or those with left of center politics.
Where this issue gets fuzzy is the commercial aspect. A few years ago a singing group in the US that catered to the country western crowd, The Dixie Chicks, started publicly going against their audiences political views at concerts. They were booed and immediately lost sales and thence contracts. I have no problem with that. When you are an entertainer you depend on your audiences support and throwing dirt in the eyes of an audience isn't how you get its support. A similar thing happened to a florist in a city I lived in. The that city two thirds of the high paying jobs were associated with the military-industrial complex. He took to posting signs with a strong left leaning viewpoint and calling anyone who didn't agree a liar and/or idiot. Strangely many of his customers lost motivation to spend money there. Again, I have no problem with that. In this latter case there was no organized campaign, it just happened. There was a minor degree of organization in the Dixie Chicks case, but not a lot.
Nominal Animal has clearly broken down the lines where this is problematic. And it seems that those lines may have been crossed in the Adams case. For those who feel that the politics of Mr. Adams are justification for crossing those lines, consider the situation with the Hollywood blacklisting which impacted entertainers with left of center views in the US in the 1940s and 1950s. This is now considered a horrible and unfair thing. How is it different than cancelling Mr. Adams?
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: wilfred on March 15, 2023, 03:16:40 am ---If calculating the risk of financial blowback and then lighting the fuse to gain notoriety for his own financial benefit on Local.com in which he has an interest is "not taking the free money" then what is?
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"not taking the free money" is:
1) Not using the new Twitter Subscription feature when you have nearly 1M followers
2) Not getting control of the Dilbert website or starting a new one to offer paid subcriptions there
3) Not using other popular platforms for paid content like Substack for example
Doesn't sound like he's even considering it. That's not even thinking about picking up free money.
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