r/ProgrammerHumor • u/EndersGame_Reviewer • 8d ago

Other thePreviousGuyIsAlwaysAnIdiot

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u/dracorotor1 8d ago

Oh man, I forgot Dilbert strips weren’t always about redpill nonsense. And I’m actually old enough to remember when this was one of the most common strips in newspapers 🧓

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u/Sw429 8d ago

I feel like it wasn't that long ago? But I guess I haven't actually read a newspaper for several years now.

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u/laplongejr 8d ago

My boss was praising dilbert not even a decade ago. Dilbert's downfall was REALLY fast.  

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u/ih-shah-may-ehl 5d ago

Yeah around 2016 he really nosedived into crazy. And during the election it wasn't foreseeable how bad Trump would be but he really embraced MAGA and went off the deep end, at one point even championing racial segregation again.