Absolutely. If it wasn't enough for people to not see how disingenuous he was about his loss in this existential competition ( my gods man...all of us Plebs are losers here!) By means of a dice roll?( to us heuristic, mouth-breathing,knuckle-dragging,authority distrustful morons)... he trolled us all this morning.
To see people think him sincere in his " Well, tell me what strangers do I trust?" Tweets... it was so disheartening. So many actually thought him sincere. As if he was truly contrite and wanted to know ! "Oh! How...how did you do it, so that I can emulate your beingness!" Kinda bullshit.
"You backed the bad guys. THAT’S the thing everyone wants apologies for." Exactly! He once interested me, too, and I read many of his books and watched his podcast. Then he lost me completely when he got jabbed and became a tiresome vax jerk who weirded me out. And is he jab injured? He made a video recently saying he could no longer exercise and might never be able to have a personal relationship again. He also said if he is still in this much pain in a year, he will kill himself. I find him very, very strange.
All I heard was contempt in that apology. There's no going back from contempt on the emotional Richter.
He hates us more now because he knows nobody will be standing tall on the rubble left behind from this abomination. That's what really gets him; the realization that he wont be glorified standing atop a righteous mountain.
Don't kid yourself; his level (and others like him) of contempt would manifests itself in the most unspeakable of punishments if he could get away with it. The level of cruelty influenced by virtue of how right his victim was.
He's the guy that smiles at you while he opens the gates to the furnace.
Very yes. The bit about "archetypal backhanded apology of the kind every toxic marriage, corporate press release, or celebrity confession is built on: I am technically in violation of some terms that YOU set, and YOU’RE being so emotional about this perceived injustice that I’m going to Be The Grownup and follow a token ritual of contrition so we can Move Forward." in particular really hits the nail on the head. It'd be nice to know how to fix that in a person...
You nailed it. Adams has positioned himself as some sort of bullshit detector intellectual guru, so this has to represent some kind of psychological break with his subconscious identity or sense of self. In the 5 stages of grief, I’d put him at Anger. His anger is a kind of psychological defense mechanism. Pride is an ass kicker. Next up: Bargaining.
"...He spent the entirety of the pandemic using his position as a social influencer and guru to advocate for lockdowns, vaccine mandates, masks, punishment for the unvaxxed, and to castigate and soundly mock the stupidity of his opposition on every social channel he copiously occupies...."
And that is why I don't give a flying fat rat's ass about Scott Adams' or any of his like-minded ilk's apologies. I don't want their apologies. Their apologies are shit to me, because they are as empty as the "Please forgive us and let's be friends again" drum they're now beating on ... Given the opportunity they'll act in the very same manner, because that's their nature.
So they can shove their apologies up their collective asses so hard and so deep that it not only gags them, but bucks their teeth and gives them a nose bleed!!!~
Yep. We are now at the stage where they try to "Control the mark" (not us refuseniks). Great article by Ivor Cummins
By the way the CDC had a huge budget for "conveying their message". About $1 billion. A lot of that went to influencers, writers and comics to "Mock The Unvaccinated". I want to know if Adams (or Kimmel and other losers) took money, how much, and when.
Nice work. I like Scott Adams, but stopped watching him due to his bad Covid-19 takes. Of course a rich, age 60 person likely with some form of autism spectrum disorder is a perfect candidate to believe he has to take a brand new mRNA injection to avoid dying and losing everything. So I don't blame him. I think Mathew Crawford has done a good job challenging Adams' faux probability analyses.
Adams is pure unbridled narcissism. His second wife cheated on him and that affected him deeply, after he supported her. I remember listening to one of his Coffee YT's pre-covid (before he got married) in which he in effect alluded to the fact that his powers of persuasion allowed him to keep his gf very satisfied. It gave me pause at the time. Fast forward many years, and sure enough she dumps him.
On a different note, I can't find the obligatory paragraph about the Treaty of Westphalia, and I haven't read about escaped livestock in what seems like ages.
If he wanted to do it in style, he'd simple sing Brenda Lee's "I'm Sorry".
Maybe while dressed like her.
I think that would have worked heaps better, sincerity or no.
Now for the more important issue: dinosaurs obviously used PCs for gaming. Just look at the forearms of the T-Rex: obviously evolved from endless hours using a keyboard.
I'm a simpleton,however I wanted to recognize that even though this is The Gutter ( and some folks like me are allowed to get colorful) I am never bereft for sage outlooks. For dark humor. For insights that cause me to aspire to think deeper ( although posts wholey of psycho babble leave me cold) about subjects, and my fellow Gutter denizens.
"And then there is the psychological effect of the Big Lie which is axiomatic in gaslighting. The paradox here is that the bigger the lie, the harder it is for the mind to bridge the gulf between perceived reality and the lie that authority figures are painting as truth. I believe that the prospect of being deceived evinces a primitive emotional response on a par with staring death in the face. We are hard-wired to fear deception because we have evolved to interpret it as an existential threat. That’s why deception can elicit the same emotional response as the miscalculation of a serious physical threat. Lies told to us don’t always bear the same cost as a misjudged red light, but the primitive part of the brain can’t make this distinction and we rely on cerebral mediation for a more appropriate but delayed response. And in the long run, the lie is often just as dangerous as the physical threat. Many government whoppers – ‘safe and effective’ – do cost lives.
To avoid the death-like experience of being deceived, a mental defence is erected to deny that the lie is happening. "
To rephrase what I said on Jeff Childers' recent post:
Scott's most damning statement, to be read back to him at trial, is this:
"All of my fancy analytics got me to a bad place. All of your heuristics — ‘don’t trust these guys, it’s obvious’ — totally worked.”
We applied both analytics and heuristics. Scott applied neither. What Scott did was abuse his training as a hypnotist to play authority games disguised as Socratic argument.
In deploying this strategy, he convinced those who supported him financially to harm themselves and their children, all while setting a torch to constitutional and human rights.
The only possible mitigation for Scott is if we find out he was not paid by monsters to do so. But the flip side of that coin - that he was paid to pull his tricks - should haunt him every night. Because the punishment for that must be very severe.
Does he think I'm ashamed to wallow in schadenfreude? I'm not. I am correct and he, with all of those brains jammed into that weird pointy skull of his, was wrong. (I consider myself intelligent and yet I fuck up on a near daily basis. Hence it takes no huge leap to understand that "intelligent" is not the same as "correct." I imagine this is a shocking and unwelcome revelation to some.)
And I didn't need any fancy fucking data analysis to know that a miracle cure whipped up by the ghoul-circus we call Big Pharma and hawked by the likes of Joe Biden, Scott Adams and the WEF, could only do me harm.
I don’t know much about Scott Adams, but I did see his online ‘apology’.
It doesn’t appear to be an apology at all.
I saw it as merely a statement of fact, ie: you anti-vaxxers were right and I was wrong. He said it several times, but he seemed pissed that he had to say it.
I don’t know if there was actually a ‘fuck you’ in there or not but it certainly didn’t come across as a gracious concession......
Maybe he just doesn’t know how to say ‘I was wrong’ without sounding like an asshole......
Absolutely. If it wasn't enough for people to not see how disingenuous he was about his loss in this existential competition ( my gods man...all of us Plebs are losers here!) By means of a dice roll?( to us heuristic, mouth-breathing,knuckle-dragging,authority distrustful morons)... he trolled us all this morning.
To see people think him sincere in his " Well, tell me what strangers do I trust?" Tweets... it was so disheartening. So many actually thought him sincere. As if he was truly contrite and wanted to know ! "Oh! How...how did you do it, so that I can emulate your beingness!" Kinda bullshit.
Ugh.
"You backed the bad guys. THAT’S the thing everyone wants apologies for." Exactly! He once interested me, too, and I read many of his books and watched his podcast. Then he lost me completely when he got jabbed and became a tiresome vax jerk who weirded me out. And is he jab injured? He made a video recently saying he could no longer exercise and might never be able to have a personal relationship again. He also said if he is still in this much pain in a year, he will kill himself. I find him very, very strange.
All I heard was contempt in that apology. There's no going back from contempt on the emotional Richter.
He hates us more now because he knows nobody will be standing tall on the rubble left behind from this abomination. That's what really gets him; the realization that he wont be glorified standing atop a righteous mountain.
Don't kid yourself; his level (and others like him) of contempt would manifests itself in the most unspeakable of punishments if he could get away with it. The level of cruelty influenced by virtue of how right his victim was.
He's the guy that smiles at you while he opens the gates to the furnace.
Very yes. The bit about "archetypal backhanded apology of the kind every toxic marriage, corporate press release, or celebrity confession is built on: I am technically in violation of some terms that YOU set, and YOU’RE being so emotional about this perceived injustice that I’m going to Be The Grownup and follow a token ritual of contrition so we can Move Forward." in particular really hits the nail on the head. It'd be nice to know how to fix that in a person...
You nailed it. Adams has positioned himself as some sort of bullshit detector intellectual guru, so this has to represent some kind of psychological break with his subconscious identity or sense of self. In the 5 stages of grief, I’d put him at Anger. His anger is a kind of psychological defense mechanism. Pride is an ass kicker. Next up: Bargaining.
"...He spent the entirety of the pandemic using his position as a social influencer and guru to advocate for lockdowns, vaccine mandates, masks, punishment for the unvaxxed, and to castigate and soundly mock the stupidity of his opposition on every social channel he copiously occupies...."
And that is why I don't give a flying fat rat's ass about Scott Adams' or any of his like-minded ilk's apologies. I don't want their apologies. Their apologies are shit to me, because they are as empty as the "Please forgive us and let's be friends again" drum they're now beating on ... Given the opportunity they'll act in the very same manner, because that's their nature.
So they can shove their apologies up their collective asses so hard and so deep that it not only gags them, but bucks their teeth and gives them a nose bleed!!!~
Want to have some fun today, tomorrow and onwards? Go to Scott Adams Twitter & Youtube feeds and post this:
Watch out for the "Controlling the 'Mark' after a Con Trick" scam next!
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/controlling-the-mark-after-a-con
Yep. We are now at the stage where they try to "Control the mark" (not us refuseniks). Great article by Ivor Cummins
By the way the CDC had a huge budget for "conveying their message". About $1 billion. A lot of that went to influencers, writers and comics to "Mock The Unvaccinated". I want to know if Adams (or Kimmel and other losers) took money, how much, and when.
Nice work. I like Scott Adams, but stopped watching him due to his bad Covid-19 takes. Of course a rich, age 60 person likely with some form of autism spectrum disorder is a perfect candidate to believe he has to take a brand new mRNA injection to avoid dying and losing everything. So I don't blame him. I think Mathew Crawford has done a good job challenging Adams' faux probability analyses.
Adams is pure unbridled narcissism. His second wife cheated on him and that affected him deeply, after he supported her. I remember listening to one of his Coffee YT's pre-covid (before he got married) in which he in effect alluded to the fact that his powers of persuasion allowed him to keep his gf very satisfied. It gave me pause at the time. Fast forward many years, and sure enough she dumps him.
On a different note, I can't find the obligatory paragraph about the Treaty of Westphalia, and I haven't read about escaped livestock in what seems like ages.
If he wanted to do it in style, he'd simple sing Brenda Lee's "I'm Sorry".
Maybe while dressed like her.
I think that would have worked heaps better, sincerity or no.
Now for the more important issue: dinosaurs obviously used PCs for gaming. Just look at the forearms of the T-Rex: obviously evolved from endless hours using a keyboard.
I'm a simpleton,however I wanted to recognize that even though this is The Gutter ( and some folks like me are allowed to get colorful) I am never bereft for sage outlooks. For dark humor. For insights that cause me to aspire to think deeper ( although posts wholey of psycho babble leave me cold) about subjects, and my fellow Gutter denizens.
Thank you.
He's a true believer that cannot fathom the depths of the big lie.
(From https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/alleged-cia-involvement-in-jfk-assassination-goes-mainstream-so-now-what/ )
"And then there is the psychological effect of the Big Lie which is axiomatic in gaslighting. The paradox here is that the bigger the lie, the harder it is for the mind to bridge the gulf between perceived reality and the lie that authority figures are painting as truth. I believe that the prospect of being deceived evinces a primitive emotional response on a par with staring death in the face. We are hard-wired to fear deception because we have evolved to interpret it as an existential threat. That’s why deception can elicit the same emotional response as the miscalculation of a serious physical threat. Lies told to us don’t always bear the same cost as a misjudged red light, but the primitive part of the brain can’t make this distinction and we rely on cerebral mediation for a more appropriate but delayed response. And in the long run, the lie is often just as dangerous as the physical threat. Many government whoppers – ‘safe and effective’ – do cost lives.
To avoid the death-like experience of being deceived, a mental defence is erected to deny that the lie is happening. "
Brilliant read. "Gathering round to touch weiners in the middle", i thought that was just my scout troop.
Agree on all points, including how hard it is to apologize sans any justifications.
To rephrase what I said on Jeff Childers' recent post:
Scott's most damning statement, to be read back to him at trial, is this:
"All of my fancy analytics got me to a bad place. All of your heuristics — ‘don’t trust these guys, it’s obvious’ — totally worked.”
We applied both analytics and heuristics. Scott applied neither. What Scott did was abuse his training as a hypnotist to play authority games disguised as Socratic argument.
In deploying this strategy, he convinced those who supported him financially to harm themselves and their children, all while setting a torch to constitutional and human rights.
The only possible mitigation for Scott is if we find out he was not paid by monsters to do so. But the flip side of that coin - that he was paid to pull his tricks - should haunt him every night. Because the punishment for that must be very severe.
Does he think I'm ashamed to wallow in schadenfreude? I'm not. I am correct and he, with all of those brains jammed into that weird pointy skull of his, was wrong. (I consider myself intelligent and yet I fuck up on a near daily basis. Hence it takes no huge leap to understand that "intelligent" is not the same as "correct." I imagine this is a shocking and unwelcome revelation to some.)
And I didn't need any fancy fucking data analysis to know that a miracle cure whipped up by the ghoul-circus we call Big Pharma and hawked by the likes of Joe Biden, Scott Adams and the WEF, could only do me harm.
I don’t know much about Scott Adams, but I did see his online ‘apology’.
It doesn’t appear to be an apology at all.
I saw it as merely a statement of fact, ie: you anti-vaxxers were right and I was wrong. He said it several times, but he seemed pissed that he had to say it.
I don’t know if there was actually a ‘fuck you’ in there or not but it certainly didn’t come across as a gracious concession......
Maybe he just doesn’t know how to say ‘I was wrong’ without sounding like an asshole......
A real apology would have been a better idea.