Echinocentric @Echinocentric@qoto.org

Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) seems surprised that there are consequences for him having said the exact sort of horrible things he’s been saying for so long without consequence.

That’s fair. I’m also surprised.

John Hiner is the VP of content for MLive Media Group, and he is quoted as saying “MLive has zero tolerance for racism,” which is a sort of funny thing for somebody to say when they have for so long been publishing the work of openly racist Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert.

It would seem to me that there is some "level of tolerance" for racism at MLive, which hovers somewhere above zero.

However, it also appears there are lines you can’t cross without consequence, and I guess Scott Adams the creator of Dilbert crossed one of those lines.

And I suppose some will see the application of this consequence as chilling to free speech, and will choose to focus on it, during a time when for example entire fields of study are being criminalized in the state of Florida.

I suppose they’ll say that Adams is being silenced, even though he’s still talking. I suppose they’ll say he’s been destroyed even though he’s still perfectly fine.

I’m kidding. I don’t suppose. I know. They’re out there. They’re always out there.

One of those people who thinks that Scott Adams the creator of Dilbert is being destroyed is Dilbert creator Scott Adams, who said:

“My reputation for the rest of my life is destroyed. You can’t come back from this, am I right? There’s no way you can come back from this.”

It’s such a weird idea: that we have *destroyed* Scott Adams’ reputation, simply by observing that he has said the things he said. That your income should be guaranteed after advocating a racially separatist state, as if being a racist fuckwit puts you in a protected class.

It’s almost as if he wants us to exhibit the same indestructible and persistent skepticism in the face of direct evidence he has employed in order to spend his career positioning himself as an arbiter of truth, which he is not.

He wants us to agree "it's OK to be Scott Adams."

Certainly it’s what he expects us to do, and he has some good reason for expecting is; after all, newspapers and television producers and other publishing media have been providing him that skepticism for his entire adult life.

What Scott Adams objects to is what all supremacists object to, which is the existence of other people and their ability to form conclusions apart from his own will, based on readily available evidence.

His complaint is that he’s not being heard, but we know he is being heard, because we heard him.

His real objection is something he can’t say without giving away the game.

His real objection is that he’s finally being understood.

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it's only a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy's truck leaves him too.

Scott Adams has been openly racist, sexist, and fascist for many years. I recall some absolute bigoted nonsense written about Hillary Clinton before the 2016 USA presidential elections. It’s not new.

Remember that when you congratulate newspapers for cancelling Dilbert. He was always like this, he’s just not being polite about it any more.

Sidney Powell is a traitor. She tried to push this country into Civil War by promoting election lies that a he, herself, knew to be untrue

She deserves worse than disbarment

But she avoided disbarment a after judge threw out the state bar's case…

…because the exhibits were misnumbered

…and it was a court in Texas.

One star. Would not recommend.

I want to know how Elon Musk is treating COVID content on Twitter. Seems like certain contrarian accounts are getting amplified.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is introducing a bill to audit US aid to Ukraine

Kk. Audit her expenses, donations and all her mysterious additional income she refused to legally report to the IRS

All the world is a stage.

It’s a terrifying place to be if you’re an introvert.

"Federal prosecutors have asked the chief judge in Washington, D.C.'s federal court to compel former Vice President Mike Pence to comply with a grand jury subpoena and testify as a witness in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol..."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-special-counsel-asks-judge-compel-mike-pence-testify/

Sport is important for all, some good advice here about keeping children active in sport. https://theconversation.com/what-makes-kids-want-to-drop-out-of-sport-and-how-should-parents-respond-195115?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1671689499

This is a test, using two key words: GUNS, and ABORTION.

Since there are no analytics here, I want to see how many people can actually see this post, containing those key words.

Question:
Is it important to know the truth about GUN and ABORTION statistics?

#GunsAbortionStatistics

A new report indicates that the federal government severely undercounts people who died while being transported, detained or arrested by law enforcement and those who died while incarcerated. https://t.co/zEkyvn2nKy

“Arizona’s then-attorney general Mark Brnovich launched an investigation into voting in the state’s largest county that quickly consumed more than 10,000 hours of his staff’s time”
this is just one ☝️ investigation bc of election fraud lies in one ☝️ county in one ☝️ state. Everyone spreading that lie, especially trump, should be held personally liable for all tax dollars spent on these pointless investigations and should reimburse Every penny of our taxes that went into this.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works, huh?