• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Nah, he has a long history since 2012 of being quite conservative and posting dumb takes on Twitter, then in 2016 he stopped pretending he was a libertarian and went full MAGA. Only gotten worse since.

    I don’t celebrate his death, because I feel like he is pretty insignificant compared to the real government and social media monsters (Meta, Google, etc) currently shaping the world into a worse place. But I won’t miss him one bit.

    Some context and examples : https://cartoonwiki.toonsmag.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Views

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      10 hours ago

      I am unimpressed. Seriously, nothing I see in your list is too heinous.

      Also, creating a list of a person’s “crimes” like this. It’s messed up. It’s like something out of the Chinese cultural revolution.

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        8 hours ago

        Well, it’s not really meant to be impressive. If you read that list and you’re like “he seems fine to me”, then let’s just agree we have very different opinions.

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        10 hours ago

        Holding people accountable for shitty things they publicly do, declare, and promote is not “messed up.” Being publicly shitty will result in people knowing you’re shitty, and I find that good.