Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Tweets Support of Pardon for Nxivm Founder Keith Raniere

Don’t know if I’d agree with everything with Scott Adam but he seems like a very smart, sensible and clear person to me.

He seems to be a centered person, I think he would not compromise his person with fanciful postures

Creepy white guy giving his support to other creepy white guy. How original.

” women are treated as children” Nxivm/ DOS. “the solution file this ( rceived) character defect is “for women not to be able to make a single choice as basic as what to eat without asking permission….like a child”<—- also Nxivm/DOS. How do you learn to " keep your word" if the way you are " teaching women to keep their word" is sexually pornographic blackmail"? How is that ever applicable to the real world? It is just manipulation & garbage. It never made sense.

I just finished watching Nicki’s interview and she does a good job of explaining some of the questions I had. For example, using “master”/”slave” to describe each other was something I had trouble with. In minute 46:30, she explains it and it makes sense now.

Basically, this is what she says: The master/slave term was used as a metaphor to: Do you want to be a SLAVE to your fears and/or attachments or do you want to be a MASTER of your experiences and your life?

What I understand from this is that the person holding the position of “master” would help the “slave” break from her fears and attachments. Actually, from this perspective, the idea sounds super cool. I guess Sarah Edmonson wanted to continue being a slave of her fears and attachments and decided to play the victim instead.

Scott Adams is no fool. The prosecution was DIRTY AF! Even if Keith is guilty – which he very well may be – a man deserves a fair trial and this one clearly was not.

It seems a shame how much hate there is on Twitter. It is nice to read some thoughtful/respectful tweets here and there, though. It makes me hopeful there are still a good number of people in the world who believe in civil debate. the question is, how do we get them to speak up more?

Scott Adams is a far right wing nutbar.

Things he believes includes
antifa conspiracy
QAnon will save us
the deep state
the election was stolen
that Biden should be impeached for vague reasons I can’t bother to track
birther
and so on

Indications are he is sexist, racist, and possibly a white supremist (but its more subtext so no I can’t prove this theory)

He also thinks he is very clever in his counter arguments for Trump. Likes to use moronic analogies. Its amusing. You don’t have to take my word for it, just skim his twitter feed and if really want to go down the ugly rabbit hole, read his blog where he highly relies on nonsensical comparisons.

He is so far into crazy land that if you told me he was a flat earther among others, I would believe it.

Or to put it another way, Keith looks at Scott Adams and thinks “Damn what an easy mark. A missed opportunity to use his strip to help spread my cult.”

This is the most famous support that the NXIVM five here in the comments could get. I do wonder, is Scott Adams aware that Keith was also convicted for being a pedophile. They seem to like to forget that part and I doubt they volunteer it.

History lesson time.

In 1765, a group of citizens of the city of Boston of the colony MA stormed the English Governor’s Mansion. They forced the governor to evacuate and they busted some windows. They didn’t burn it down or kill anyone.

In the aftermath, Governor Thomas Hutchinson took measures such as banning newspapers and writings that were anti-British and any that weren’t approved by the British crown. All this did was inflame the situation and eventually led to the Boston Massacre. Those loyal to the crown, and even those not, blamed the problems all on one man, Samuel Adams.

Hutchinson was replaced by a hardline Thomas Gage, who cracked down even harder. He jailed people who spoke up. Held public lashings and even went door to door, arresting anyone seen going into bars and taverns not approved by the crown. Taxes went thru the roof. He seized homes for his soldiers. Finally, he went after their ways to defend themselves. Their guns. He ordered British soldiers to go door to door, seize any they could find.

This ultimately led to a confrontation at the little towns of Lexington and Concord. Which led to an embarrassing defeat and the start of a 4-year bloody campaign that resulted in the birth of the United States of America.

Now, I will let you draw your own conclusions if any of this sounds familiar to what we are witnessing today. But mind you this, if we continue down the path of hating each other and bickering over Democrats and Republicans, we too will see just how evil a corrupt government can become.

The first amendment, protected by the second, guarantees a right to free speech. When companies backed by one side of the government oppress their political competition using a forum of media, that is an infringement on the first amendment. I do not condone this any more than I condone what happened to the Capital on January 6th. Both are egregious in their own regards. Both are dark marks in the history of this country.

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History lesson #2
Freedom of speech was the very first thing the Nazi party took when they were voted to power in January 1933. By August 1934, they had overthrown the democratic nation to become a dictatorship. They very strictly controlled what the average citizen was allowed to read, hear, and watch for the next 11 years. They did not have access to any alternative news sources!

Simultaneously, they passed strict boycotts and laws against all Jewish citizens.

In 1935, the Nuremberg laws came to pass which included Romanis and other people of color, declaring them enemies of the state.

In March 1938, the Nazi party enacted the German Weapons Act – which allowed the search of private residences to seize any and all weapons found.

A major part of Germany’s rebuilding and healing from the atrocities of WW2 was the return of the free press.

Infringement on freedom of speech is the first and most important step in any government gaining control over citizens.

Now, I doubt any of you have heard about the Chinese military base being built in the Bahamas, or the mass buying of American land, since 2013, by the Chinese.

If you ask me “What’s the very best way to keep America occupied from noticing what’s happening in our very back door?” Keep us fighting each other.