But, of course, everyone here is absolutely immune to all that marketing influence. Only stupid people fall for that scam. No one here has ever bought a [del]product[/del] candidate because of their ad campaigns.
:rolleyes:
Well that’s a very apt comment because I think that that is pretty much Adams’s point expressed as a joke. We do feel that we are personally immune to these scams and all our decisions are based just on logic while the truth is that all our decisions are based on feelings and suppositions and then justified afterwards by “logic.”
Oh, I wouldn’t argue at all, but in years of discussing the influence of marketing on our world and societies, I’ve been told by most posters here that they’re completely immune and have never been influenced by marketing or advertising. I’m just another CT/TFH/troll. 
I’m sorry, but I don’t see Adams restating “There’s a sucker born every minute” or “Never underestimate the stupidity of the masses” (yeah, I know, paraphrased) as genius. So what?
Especially since he’s a paranoiac MRA, the ultimate in irrational emotionality.
You say these things as if they are mutually exclusive.
I don’t see it that way.
I agree with Adams that Trump pushed the birther nonsense as part of a long term plan to raise his political profile with exactly the same people who would later vote for him in the primaries.
Trump was going off of instinct, of course, but he knew where he wanted to go, and how he would get there. He may not have known he would get this far, but as Adams says, none of this was accidental.
Adams is a pointy eared boss who thinks he’s a Dilbert.
I don’t. He has documented attention problems. He can’t be planning that far in advance.
It’s just that he’s the type of person who naturally attracts those people. And he naturally stumbled on certain persuasion skills, a lot of them because he was able to ignore the.rules or society, and was too dumb to understand the risks. Most people would fail before learning through brute trial and error, but he didn’t (and starting out rich helped).
He’s a narcissist who didn’t hit the usual failing points.
Can’t help noticing this from Adams’ bloga month ago:
[QUOTE=Scott Adams]
Some pundits are pushing the interpretation that Trump doesn’t care about the African-American community, and that he’s just trying to be a safer choice for white people who don’t want to support a racist. That’s what a cognitive dissonance argument sounds like. It makes sense, sort of, but not in a persuasive way. It has a delicious pretzel quality to it. That’s the tell.
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Adams is putting a lot of opinions out there, and not all of them are consistent. This considerably increases his probability of a lucky shot.
As the old punchline puts it, “Hey, I may be crazy, but I’m not stupid.”
/hijack
He now thinks Twitter is shadowbanning him.
If Twitter doesn’t answer him in 2 days, “As a patriot, I would feel obligated to help kill Twitter. (And you wouldn’t want to bet against me.)”. :rolleyes:
Is it ironic that comments are disabled for that blog entry? I’m not familiar with this blog, so maybe comments are disabled routinely.
You mean pointy haired boss. Adams does not appear to be logical, like a vulcan, or magical, like an elf.
Yeah, renaming long-established concepts — calling rationalization a “fake because,” for example — is more self-help manual schtick than genuine insight.
I do not think these quotes are at all inconsistent. Trump can care about the African-American community but at the same time engage in a political act which is aimed primarily at “undecided whites”.
No they are directly in conflict because “care” in the context of pundits talking strategy is caring about getting their votes. So he’s saying pundits are using pretzel logic/cognitive dissonance, also he agrees with them.
Then there’s his interesting view of the first debate:
Trump is the 3-D chess master.
See, there’s a difference between someone like Putin or Trump or Hitler being a 3D chessmaster who understands the game and thus is always several steps ahead of the primitive dunderheads back at headquarters, and Putin/Trump/Hitler being out of context problems for the normal people back at headquarters.
It’s very clear that Trump has some magic buttons that he presses to get results. And his brilliant 3D chess strategy is to keep pressing those buttons over and over again as hard and as fast as he can. If the magic buttons work, he’s a genius. And when the magic buttons stop working he’s revealed as a dolt, because he’s just going to keep pressing the buttons harder. He’s an unstoppable out of context problem for his adversaries at first, but when they figure out his shtick they become unstoppable out of context problems for him. The reason we know he’s not a 3D chessmaster but rather a clever idiot, is that he can’t change his strategy just because his strategy isn’t working anymore.
A real David Xanatos doesn’t keep pressing the buttons that won him the primary, because he realizes that he’s in a different sort of contest in the general election. That’s why all the “smart” people expected the Great Trump Pivot after the convention, where suddenly like magic Trump would start acting like a grown-up. Because he obviously didn’t care about the issues he claimed to care about in the primary, so he’d just do the expedient thing and pivot to grown up positions that would win him the general. But all that ignores the fact that Trump didn’t push the Wall because he thought it was a popular policy with Republican primary voters, but because it got him roars of approval at his rallies. And that’s what he really cared about, getting the rush from getting those cheers. And since he could never get a crowd to roar with approval at sensible grown-up positions, he could never pivot to those positions, no matter how many votes it would have gotten him.
I do not think so. Look at the entire blog post the quote comes from. The main thrust of the post is about how Trump is perceived by the media and the voters in general *not *African-American voters in particular. There is barely a sentence in Adams’ blog post about Trump winning a greater number of African-American votes.
Assume for a shocking second that Adams is a competent writer; that he picks his words intentionally and not at random. I think it therefore telling that in the quote under discussion Adams chose to use the phrase African-American *community *not African-American votes. If Adams wished to use the term African-American votes he could have easily done so. His word use was intentionally specific.
Well, I don’t think Adams is a particularly competent writer but putting that aside then he is misrepresenting what pundits were talking about or nutpicking the pundits at alternanet. Mainstream pundits were talking about his lack of support in the black community.
At the end of the day, Adams seems to attribute almost every Trump move, even obvious missteps, to over our heads brilliant strategy/persuasion tactics. I really can’t take any of it seriously.