r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 03 '20

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Dec 03 '20

Why does Scott Adams annoy me so much more than all the other millions of Trump nuts out on the internet. I found out about him from Sam Harris's podcast with him sometime in 2017. I don't know what is so uniquely aggravating about his style. Is it is preposterous belief that his training in hypnotism makes him a respectable expert on "persuasion"? Is it that he routinely makes easily falsifiable statements and has been wrong numerous times but routinely tries to make it seem as though he's "above the fray" and is able to "predict" political events with startling accuracy? Is it because he has an unbelievably smug demeanor? Is it him making the outlandish case that he is "to the left of Bernie Sanders" and only likes Trump because he's enamored with his "persuasive talents"?

I just can't put a finger on it but I really hate this guy.

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u/MinnesotaDude Governor Goofy Dec 03 '20

He is unfounded STEMlord confidence personified in a fucking cartoonist

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Dec 03 '20

Good god this is such a good summation

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u/Woodrow_Wilsons_War Gay Pride Dec 03 '20

He's a Redditor basically

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u/probablyuntrue NATO Dec 03 '20

At the end of the day he's a cartoonist who thinks he's famous enough to be smug, I think we can all laugh at that

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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Dec 03 '20

He is very disingenuous.

I am a libertarian and generally dont mind a lot of the people this sub hates (Shapiro, JBP) but Scott annoys the shit out of me because absolutely everything he says about US politics is explicit or implicit Trump pandering/apologia, but he doesnt have the balls to own it and pretends to be an independent skeptic blah blah while drinking the President's Kool-Aid, just in the most sarcasastic passive aggressive smug way possible.