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I had a small stack of his books of Dilbert from when my siblings and I were younger, it was a silly and entertaining strip.

I couldn't give those things away a few years back, not even used bookstores wanted them. I put them outside on a table with a sign "free" for days and eventually had to throw them away.

The man really cemented his legacy.

I've read mixed accounts of that.

Yes, he did try that stuff, but I've read some claims that he did it alongside the treatments the doctors gave him.

Like it was kind of pointless, but also kind of harmless because he didn't let it get in the way of real medicine.

At least when it came to cancer, I don't think anyone cited him being a denier about more effective treatments, just he was in the "I'll try anything" mode of having a terminal illness.

Of course he had a lot of other problematic things as a die hard maga, including antivax and whining how white men have it so bad and saying Trump and friends lying was actually good because the lies were "directionally true", but maybe just not overly bad stuff about the cancer.

The cancer prodded him to actually break with trump on the specific matter of being mean to Biden over the same cancer Adams had.

That's by far the finest Dilbert comic ever, so of course it's not from Scott Adams.

It's one version of the white guy midlife crisis. They realize they aren't special and it makes them angry and they turn to conservatism for some reason and acclimate to the racism and misogyny they surround themselves with and then them amplify it. It's a miserable pipe line. With trumpers instead of getting the flashy car they get a young, trophy girlfriend. Or both if they have the money. Trumpism frees you from shame.

There are multiple episodes about him on Behind the Bastards, if that helps paint a picture.

That's Pascal's wager, and it's nothing new.

There's plenty more about him that can be criticized.

That’s Pascal’s Wager, taken to the logical conclusion. Pascal’s Wager is basically the idea that debating whether or not God exists is meaningless; If you simply live life as if God does exist, then there are no downsides. Just be someone who God would want in heaven, and the actual belief doesn’t really matter.

But then when you take that to a logical conclusion, it basically turns into “there’s no downside if I’m wrong, and repenting on my deathbed means all my previous sins are forgiven. So why not repent right before dying, so my previous sins are forgiven and I’m dying with a clean slate?”

Different denominations have different opinions on it. Baptists tend to take the “fire and brimstone unless you repent, but you’re all golden after repentance” stance. So they would tend to agree with this scenario. This is also why southern baptists tend to be such cunts, because they tell themselves that their actions are righteous and backed by God, because they have repented. Basically, justifying evil is easy when you change the question from “is this morally evil” to “is this backed by my god?”

Catholics used to have a very hard “baptism washes away (almost) all sins” stance, but have recently adopted a more fluid “how you act in life is just as important as what you believe” stance. So older Catholics would have likely agreed, but modern Catholics would tend to disagree.

The more liberal denominations (like United Methodists) would scoff and say that faith without works is dead.

Can't believe another anti-vax guy was killed by a preventable and treatable condition. Prostate cancer is one of the more survivable forms of cancer (10-year relative survival rate of 98% with proper treatment). I wonder if he did the fruit juice enemas like Steve Jobs or he just tried to Straight Edge his way through it, because he didn't want to live with Low T.

I mean, technically he's not suffering from cancer any more

Leopards got it full.

Oh my god. This is too fucking funny.

Please! Help me Mr president!

On it!

Dies.

Holy shit. Comedy gold.

That can’t be real right????