[derblitzmann]

As a first commenter, I think I can say this is at least decent advice. Especially around paying off debts (he specifically mentions credit card debit, but it applies to most forms, Imo). Ignoring the other stuff around Scott Adams, I think this is decent for most, but of course depends on the individual.

[Cyclone_]

What other stuff around Scott Adams, and what's the relevance to this?

[lazyasciiart]

He's a lunatic narcissist with questionable critical thinking skills http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppe...

[war1025]

I believe his response to that was that people were purposely misinterpreting what he said. I haven't looked into it in detail for a while, but last time I did, it seemed like a perfectly reasonable defense.

[lazyasciiart]

How do you misinterpret him going around the internet anonymously praising himself?

[syntheticnature]

People act as though it's something new, but he's always been the authoritarian sort, who encourages you to question authority... provided you didn't disagree with him. His Dilbert fan club e-list was called Dogbert's New Ruling Class, and he always seemed to take the joke a bit too seriously, even back twenty years now. I'm not one bit surprised he supports Trump, and the controversy there amuses me since it's not anything new about him. He's not the rebel some Dilbert readers believe he must be, but a new boss, same as the old boss.

[war1025]

He's become a bit of a conservative-leaning pundit lately. I actually find his take on Trump to be quite useful. But I can see how that would turn a lot of people off to even his non-political thoughts.

[taneq]

Regardless of your (or my) personal political leanings, don't you think it's a bit of a thought-bubble red flag if you consider someone as automatically discredited for holding a ~majority (or even major minority) political stance?

[paultopia]

It's not even so much his political stance as his lunatic ravings about it: there's not a drop of policy in his talk about trump, it's all weird mysticism about how persuasive a personality trump has, sort of reminds me of the way PUA types talk.

[hawkice]

Indeed. He doesn't even endorse Trump so much as praise his hypnotic influence. Very strange things to hear about anyone. If you heard someone praise Elon Musk or Barack Obama as having a masterful way of manipulating people, and they kept bringing it up over and over... You'd assume they were nuts.

[tjfl]

What's a PUA type?

[ergothus]

PUA = pick up artist. There's a whole subculture that is somewhat terrifying.

[war1025]

I think people let politics get in the way of a lot of otherwise useful information they could take in. So I think I agree with you, but I'm not sure that I disagreed with you to begin with...

[taneq]

Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with your point so much as just commenting on the fact that so many people here say "X says blah but they're a conservative so who cares what they think." I probably could have worded it better, though.

[xref]

honestly Adams has been doing more trolling than political-punditry nowadays is probably the main reason people are dismissive of him

[monochromatic]

People are mad at him for supporting Donald Trump.

[gefh]

He's nuts.