I never bought Dilbert products, but stopped following Adams in the wake of the 2020 election because, after predicting a big Trump win for months, he resorted to Narcissist mindfuckery to convince his followers he hadn't actually been wrong. It was amusing for a little while, but quickly became tiresome.
Will Adams sue Garrison for "defamation?"
Comic in case you forgot
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Holy shit: a Ben Garrison cartoon that actually got a chuckle out of me.
I do hope Adams sues; he has absolutely no case, but I look forward to reading his complaint, because it will be fucking
hilarious.
And since I was really good last year, maybe Santa can bring me a belated Christmas gift, in the form of Adams filing
pro se when he can't get a lawyer to take the case. Since he's the smartest guy around, and the world's foremost expert on persuasion, it should be a walk in the park for him, right?
Bringing it back to Scott, in response to the butthurt of being called out he's now pushing a
Google docs link (
archive) with all his predictions.
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The inability to admit any fault has to be one of the most detestable traits a person can have. He could have just said he was wrong but operating on what he thought was rational at the time. Literally applying the scientific method, which is more big-brained than that stupid meme-tier avatar.
That inability to admit any fault isn't one of the diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, but god damn, it should be. I'm not a mental health professional, but I've dealt with my share of Narcs, and a persistent pattern of denying failure and evading/redirecting blame has become my benchmark for determining whether I'm dealing with a full-blown NPD case, or just somebody with maladaptive, small-n narcissistic traits (which most humans exhibit on occasion, to one degree or another).
Adams's total inability to admit he was wrong in the aftermath of the 2020 election, and the mind games he kept playing with his loyal followers to keep convincing them that he really was right, and that they'd soon come to see it for themelves, was just fucking
classic. I've seen manipulative cult leaders do the same thing when their grand prophecies failed to materialize on their appointed dates—"Ah, but it only looks like nothing has happened on the mundane, material level! In the
spiritual realm, however, there has been a massive shift, and we will see it unfold in the weeks and months to come."
If Scott were a fifth as intelligent as he thinks he is and this isn't mere bluster, he'd recognize the nearly-impossible bar one needs to clear for defamation as a public figure. A milquetoast political cartoon commenting on the artist's perception of a public figure's actions is decidedly one of the most protected forms of speech.
The choices then either become:
A) Scott is unintentionally drawing hyper-awareness to this cartoon and by extension his actions by so publicly and extensively addressing it
B) Scott (foolishly) thinks he actually has a case, and will embarrass himself by going through with it, in the process drawing far more attention to his words and actions
I want it to be the latter so badly, I can taste it.
For all his talk about persuasion, if his goal was to persuade me into thinking he was an insufferable retard incapable of admitting fault or doing any introspection, he's more than succeeded.
I really think he's losing his shit. Between the 2020 election, Covid, the safety and efficacy of the jab, and his thotty trophy bride, he's been proven dead wrong on so many counts. That's a lot of humiliating narcissistic injuries he can't admit to, piling up one after another in just a couple of years, and on top of it, getting the shot has fucked up his health (which is another humiliating loss of control, on top of being wrong).
Narcissists get worse with age, as they gradually become irrelevant holdovers from a vanished past, as younger people overtake them, and as their physical health declines. They need to be in control, to have the upper hand, and when that starts to slip, so does their sanity. They become old tyrants, lashing out at anybody they believe has insulted them. Granted, Garrison
has insulted Adams, hitting him in all the right sore spots. But a wiser person would grit his teeth and not draw attention to, or comment upon, it. It's possible that Adams would have ignored a similar cartoon published just three years ago—but too much has happened since then.
