I may have given out the first Donald Trump Memorial Award for Complete Lack of Self Awareness to the wrong person earlier today. Because, as much as Matt Forney deserves the award, Scott Adams may deserve it even more. For some of the same reasons, even.
Forney, you may recall, thinks that the EVIL JEWS of Twitter are shadowbanning him (that is, hiding some of his Tweets) for the crime of speaking truth to power, which in his case seems to involve a lot of calling people ‘f***ots” and “tr***ies” and suggesting they kill themselves.
Dilbert creator and dumb-opinion-haver Scott Adams similarly believes, or at least suspects, that the evil Hillary-lovers in charge of Twitter have “decided to suppress my free speech on the site, presumably because I have said good things about Trump’s talents for persuasion.”
He announced this suspicion, naturally, in a Tweet, which for some reason Twitter didn’t decide to suppress. Probably just to screw with his head, you know how devious those Twitter executives are.
Is Twitter shadowbanning me? If so, I see it as treason: https://t.co/7aYzHiZyyZ #Trump #Clinton
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 18, 2016
Wait, you may ask, how exactly would “shadowbanning” some but not all of a cartoonist’s dumb tweets constitute TREASON!!!!11!!?
In a blog post, Adams explains:
I won’t jump the gun and assume something nefarious is happening. But I will say that IF it is happening, I would regard it as treason. If one political party can use the machinery of social networks to reduce free speech, that is an attack on American values at the deepest level.
And this would mean WAR between Adams and Twitter.
As a patriot, I would feel obligated to help kill Twitter. (And you wouldn’t want to bet against me.)
Now, as far as I know, Adams isn’t planning on sneaking into Twitter’s offices like a ninja and stealthily dispatching all of its executives. Nah! He just wants to start some sort of shareholder revolt becuase TREASON AGAINST SCOTT ADAMS (some of the time).
I understand Twitter is looking for a buyer. If management is shadowbanning me, that would be breach of fiduciary responsibility, screwing both the shareholders and the employees who hope the company can be purchased. In my view, shadowbanning would make Twitter too toxic to own. That toxicity – treason in my view – would transfer to the buyer.
How will he know if Twitter is actually guilty of the part-time, Scott-Adams-specific TREASON he’s talking about? Well, he sent a note to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey demanding WHERE ARE MY TWEETS OR AT LEAST SOME OF THEM YOU (part-time, Scott-Adams-specific) BENEDICT ARNOLD??11!! Or words to that effect.
I don’t have confirmation from Twitter that this is happening, so I tweeted Jack Dorsey today to ask. I’m sure he’s busy, but I’m hard to ignore. If no response in two days, I’ll assume my Twitter followers are correct that my tweets are not always showing up in their feeds.
LINE IN THE SAND
When Adams shared these thoughts — on Twitter — about how Twitter might be SILENCING HIM, well, let’s just say that some people skeptical of his treason theory treated him to some gentle ribbing.
Adams accused them of “cognitive dissonance,” and being PAID SHILLS FOR SHILLARY (or whoever).
These are probably paid trolls coming after me now. Notice the similarity in attack. https://t.co/VjR3Be0WLX
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 18, 2016
Note the coordinated similarity of comments. https://t.co/vCdKwOxULU
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) October 18, 2016
HOW DEEP DOES THE CONSPIRACY GO??111!!!11!
Well, pretty deep, apparently. Because guess what: SOME OF MY TWEETS HAVE BEEN DISAPPEARING TOO!!!1 Seriously. A couple of my Tweets seem to have vanished from Twitter shortly after being posted.
INCLUDING ONE MAKING FUN OF THAT MGTOW DUDE TALKING ROMANTICALLY ABOUT WET HOLES!!!
I can only conclude that there is a vast conspiracy of Trump-hating yet also vagina-fearing MGTOWS at the helm of Twitter.
IT’S TREASON I TELLS YA
So, twitter goes buggy for a couple days, and suddenly these guys are nailing themselves to crosses.
I almost never use twitter, but even I had a tweet disappear for a couple days.
Well, we get what we pay for, I suppose.
Um, yes I would. I 100% would. 1000%, I would want to bet against you killing Twitter, Scott.
Shorter Scott Adams:
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/sam.gif
Can you imagine Scott trying to storm twitters HQ seeing his righteous crusade for justice stopped only by a security fence and the night security guard. Clearly a ploy by the evil liberal Jewish Muslim Feminist bankers the entirety of late night entertainment and every news station ever truly the mans a FSP warrior .
Donald Trump may not be a “master persuader”, but Scott Adams is. He’s persuaded me that he’s an egomaniacal asshat who jumps to conclusions and takes himself way too seriously.
Also, The Teardrop Explodes FTW!
Treason against one person?
Is this guy about to go full sovereign citizen?
OK, I don’t know how Twitter actually works (though I’m on it all the time), but AFAIK I don’t always see all the tweets of all the people I follow in my own timeline–if I want a complete set of everything someone’s tweeted I need to go to their own Twitter page. Presumably, if he were actually interested, Scott could go to his own page and see if any tweets were missing from there.
Wait until he tries to find his own posts in order in his latest Facebook updates.
CONSPIRACIESSSSS!
Not the gun, never the gun. The shark tho? Definitely
Everytime ‘free speech’ is used as a commodifiable noun, my soul sheds another tear…
What are we talking, 1/350 against? Even moreso? Not even worth the effort at that point…
Missing a step there, champ
Saddest quote, 2016? It’s in the running surely
@Viscaria
Nah, it’s a crap bet. It’s, like, 1:100 odds, so you’d only get a penny’s profit per dollar. You might lose money on the rake.
(Whups, I reloaded and lost my edit link)
(1:100 odds calculated based on Scott Adams successfully completing any task that he retroactively defines as “killing Twitter”, no matter how minor.)
Well, I’d just like to announce that I have completed filling in my vote-by-mail ballot using black/blue ink and will be sending it in tomorrow!
I think you might need to give this award on a daily basis instead of weekly, David. Otherwise, deserving recipients will miss out. And you know how these guys get when they miss out on anything.
I..he…thinks there’s a Clinton conspiracy to criticize him on Twitter because more than one person criticized him for the same thing…? Because clearly it can’t be coincidence that more than one person would get “comically inflated sense of self importance” out of what he said…
Yay, self-martyrdom! Nothing says “I’m not an attention-seeker with delusions of grandeur” like randomly nailing yourself to a cross when a piece of technology bugs out, as technology is want to do.
But, it can’t just be that a piece of technology is buggy and people are working on fixing it. NO. It must be a CONSPIRACY to take down one of the most powerful people who use their site, Scott Adams, the creator of that one comic.
SFHC
No, that’s just the sign. Apparently the treason comes from a company (supposedly) supporting Clinton by (allegedly) temporarily blocking some tweets from Trump supporters. How he gets from this to making war on the U.S. or giving ‘aid and comfort’ (beyond that required by the Geneva Conventions) to a belligerent* foreign power or its soldiers or agents is beyond me, but right wingers tend to define ‘treason’ as ‘supporting any Democratic political candidate or being in favor of any Constitutional Amendment since the 10th.’
*Meaning, in this case, that a formal state of war is in place between the two nations
I’m going to tweet President Obama to ask him if my cats are the cutest cats in the world. If he doesn’t answer, I’m going to assume they are. If the tweets disappear, I’m going to assume Twitter is a dog person and is committing treason against cats.
Wake up, Sheeple!
My phone reception fell momentarily from 4G to 3G and then to H (whatever the fuck that means) on the bus this morning, while I was playing Pokemon Go – TREASON!
Clinton has a conspiracy to silence Adams on a platform she doesn’t even control? Wow. She must really loathe him.
Just think: when she has the full resources of the Presidency behind her, what would she do? There’ll probably be a special department of the police set up to harass him and only him.
Hey, Adams: Be careful! The Dilbert Police will be coming after you soon. I sure hope you can use your master persuasion skills to overcome them.
Indeed twitter is clearly in league with Illuminate the Freemasons the Jews,Satan,the Reptiliods ,Aliens,Bigfoot and the Ghost of Elvis they have all conspired to silence poor Adams
Today in history:
Scott Adams deluded himself into thinking that anyone cares what Scott Adams thinks.
Proof that Scott Adams is not hard to ignore:
He is still mainly known* for creating a mediocre comic strip rather than being a delusional conspiracy theorist.
*Not really actually known. People know about Dilbert – not about Adams.
@ David F
Why have you illustrated an article about treason with a picture of loyal British-American Benedict Arnold?
*Goes to Twitter*
*clicks “mute”*
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I dunno, seems pretty easy to me.
I just read about an interesting survey, in which the members of the Swedish Riksdag (Congress) were asked about their hopes for the upcoming US Presidential election.
– Out of the 349 members, 234 chose to respond.
– 83% said they want Clinton to win.
– Only 5 responders (or 2%) said they want Trump to win. These 5 were all members of the far right racist/Nazi Sweden Democrat party. Among them were former party leader Mikael Jansson, and also Anna Hagwall, who recently made news when she proposed that “no ethnic group” should be allowed to own more than 5% of any market in the country, explicitly mentioning the (incorrect) idea that Jews own a large part of Swedish media.
– The remaining responders would not pick a side.