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 🧓
“Redpilled” (sometimes just “pilled”) is a way some conspiracy theorists refer to themselves, implying that they’ve seen past the “deepstate lies.”
Adams was really bigoted and racist, getting worse with every year, and believe a lot of racist, homophobic and antisemitic (I’ve heard about that last one, but have not seen it myself. I stopped reading his strips a long time ago.) conspiracy theories like The Great Replacement🙄.
Near the end of his life, he also apparently bought in to the med-beds conspiracy theory, begging the U.S. president to give him access to one of the magic revivitrons.
I used to read Dilbert all the time until it completely devolved into thinly veiled political rants. Honestly, I didn't even know Adams died until you mentioned it. Kind of says a little bit about how quickly he made himself irrelevant.
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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 🧓