Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President (dilbert.com)

Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike writes: Scott Adams, creator of the popular comic, Dilbert, has decided to endorse Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson for President. He writes at his blog: "Clinton supporters have been telling me for a few days that any visible support for Trump makes you a supporter of sex abuse. From a persuasion standpoint, that actually makes sense. If people see it that way, that's the reality you have to deal with. I choose to not be part of that reality so I moved my endorsement to Gary Johnson. I encourage all Clinton supporters to do the same, and for the same reason...

"To be fair, Gary Johnson is a pot head who didn't know what Allepo was. I call that relatable. A President Johnson administration might bring with it some operational risks, and policy risks, but at least he won't slime you by association and turn you into some sort of cheerleader for sex abuse in the way you would if you voted for the Clintons or Trump."
The essay concludes, "You might enjoy my book because you're not sure if I'm really endorsing Gary Johnson or just saying so to protect my brand."

Comments

Dice, we get it you don't like Ms. Clinton

[mykepredko]

Since the sale to Dice, /. has continually gone down hill with an inexplicable hate on for Ms. Clinton.

In the past 24 hours, this is the third anti-Clinton story that has been featured here.

Time to get off the soapbox and focus on what this site is about - it's not about attacking a political candidate.

Otherwise, I'll get my "News for nerds and stuff that matters" somewhere else.

Re: Dice, we get it you don't like Ms. Clinton

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot hasn't been owned by Dice for a while. Dicedot if anything was rabidly pro-left-wing: it was under Dicedot that we got the majority of the pointless "women are being thrown out of tech by evil men" stories. Stories like Yahoo doing a purge of male employees would never have seen the light of day under Dicedot.

The simple reality is that Clinton is anathema to tech types for several reasons:

- She supports outsourcing US jobs to foreign countries
- She supports the further loss of US jobs through the disastrous H1B program
- She supports the government takeover of the Internet

And, of course, there are the emails. She's your generic spoiled asshole CEO who demands that, security be damned, she gets to use her shitty Blackberry. Just ask anyone in IT and they probably have stories about that one upper level manager who demanded that security policies designed to protect the company be ignored for the sake of their convenience.

Except instead of exposing trade secrets she exposed some of the nation's most sensitive data.

All of this adds up to a candidate who is anathema to those who work in the tech industry. Although not to those who RUN the tech industry, who rather like her "make labor cheaper" policies.