Scott Alexander

The phrase post-truth gets thrown around too much, but Adams fit that description perfectly.

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Alex Potterack writes, quote, I just need to note you're not the only one who read every Dilbert book before graduating elementary school.

I'm the other one.

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Scott writes, Dozens of people chimed in, here and on social media, to say that they did this too.

Alyssa Briggs writes, quote, This is a great article, but you left out that he handed out king-sized candy bars on Halloween.

He will be very missed by the local kiddos.

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6.

Summary slash updates.

This was a tough post to write, and I think many people will continue to find it unfair.

For example, I claim that Adams said he joined Team Trump because he didn't want to pay Hillary's proposed estate tax.

And that he said he didn't care whether the estate tax was unfair or not, just that he personally hated the idea of losing money.

But an Adams backer could justly point out that a few sentences later, he does talk about how it's unfair to make him pay an estate tax when he worked so hard his whole life.

And then a few paragraphs later, he gives a different, more sympathetic story about how he thought Hillary supporters were bullies, and it was important to stand up to them.

Although he then says maybe Trump supporters were exactly equal bullies, but he selfishly was more against the bullies who were bullying him.

But then elsewhere he says no, the Hillary supporters bullying was worse.

Adams keeps trying to eat his cake and have it too.

He gives one pro-social altruistic explanation, so that if someone accuses him of being selfish he can show they're wrong, and then one amoral selfish explanation, so that if someone argues with him about whether it's really altruistic to oppose estate taxes for millionaires, he can say, ha, you can't get me, I already admitted I'm a cold hard realist who doesn't worry about that kind of fuzzy stuff.