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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 30 Oct 2017

    Dilbert's Scott Adams offers insight into why Trump's mendacious rhetoric has been so perversely effective.http://blog.dilbert.com/post/126589300371/clown-genius …

    3:21 PM - 30 Oct 2017
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      2. Luke‏ @narynan 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        He also did this, to little success, on @SamHarrisOrg waking up podcast. It's almost entirely nonsense.

        2 replies 0 retweets 26 likes
      3. Laura de Ruiter‏ @LEdeRuiter 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @narynan @sapinker @SamHarrisOrg

        Yes, absolutely vacuous. That podcast was actually quite infuriating.

        2 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
      4. george #FBPE‏ @G63898021 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @LEdeRuiter @narynan and

        I agree Laura de Ruiter. Sam Harris should have been able to check mate him with facts, but frustratingly didn't.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Vishak‏ @FallingIntoFilm 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @G63898021 @LEdeRuiter and

        I think that’s the point. Facts don’t matter in persuasion.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Charles Murray‏ @charlesmurray 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        And he offered it in August 2015. Not bad.

        2 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
      3. Randy McGregor‏ @Ramcgreg 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @charlesmurray @sapinker

        I have not been able to tell whether or not Adams is playing a silly game here. If both of you take him seriously, then I totally will.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Old Whig‏ @aClassicLiberal 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @Ramcgreg @charlesmurray @sapinker

        I recommend this @RubinReport with @ScottAdamsSays. "Creating Dilbert, Trumps Tactics, and the Alt Right". http://bit.ly/2lanKAo .

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Randy McGregor‏ @Ramcgreg 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @aClassicLiberal @charlesmurray and

        I'll take a look. Thanks

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Old Whig‏ @aClassicLiberal 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @Ramcgreg

        To answer your original question. Adams isn't a Trump supporter per se but he admires his persuasion skills.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. Old Whig‏ @aClassicLiberal 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @aClassicLiberal @Ramcgreg

        Hitler & FDR were master new communication technology, radio. My Austrian great aunt: If Goebbels had been American PR director of Coca Cola

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Old Whig‏ @aClassicLiberal 31 Oct 2017
        Replying to @aClassicLiberal @Ramcgreg

        (My Austrian great aunt was the 1st woman to be allowed to teach at the University of Vienna 1922. Probably 1st female Dean, Econ History)

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Victor Rivera  🇵🇷 👻 🎃 👹‏ @cognitivicta 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Steven are you hypnotized snap out of it

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      1. Heist Ranger‏ @hobbidabutsen 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Steven, have you listened to Sam Harris' podcast with Adams?

        0 replies 0 retweets 19 likes
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      2. Rand Simberg‏ @Rand_Simberg 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Don't agree that he "literally wrote" Art Of The Deal. He had a ghostwriter.

        1 reply 0 retweets 21 likes
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      2. Jed Bentley‏ @jedbentley 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Any respect I may have had for Scott Adams left after his podcast with Sam Harris—truly pathetic rationalizations of Trump’s behavior.

        1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
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      1. Doug‏ @koolaidluke 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        It was apparently very effective on Scott Adams.

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      2. Stephen Fife-Adams‏ @sfifeadams 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        I can't believe, I mean I'm honestly shocked, that you're promoting this guy.

        1 reply 0 retweets 23 likes
      3. Ragnar‏ @Riskarr5 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sfifeadams @sapinker

        A retweet isn't promoting.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Stephen Fife-Adams‏ @sfifeadams 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @Riskarr5 @sapinker

        “Offers insight” is

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      5. Ragnar‏ @Riskarr5 30 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sfifeadams @sapinker

        Scott isn't wrong on everything. He has said some insightful stuff about the election and Trump.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. End of conversation

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