I think I heard Dilbert Faggot once talk about the guy who did Garfield and that guy merchandized the shit out of Garfield. I heard a lot of jealousy in his voice. Garfield dude made a boatload of money
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Mr. Tomlinson has just threatened Leslie Varney, a female publisher whom he has been attacking on Twitter from behind a block for more than a year, to be sued into poverty with a lawsuit that will presumably be funded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
- Mr. Tomlinson's 2021 lawsuit was funded in secret by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a 501(c)(3) charity, to the tune of $100,000 without the knowledge or consent of their donors or members. They also agreed to pay any sanctions in case he lost (which he did).
- All parties involved signed NDAs so that the general public would never know.
- To this day, SFWA has never acknowledged its funding of the lawsuit, and actively instructs the few people in the know to ignore all inquiries into it.
- Is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America funding Mr. Tomlinson's lawsuit against the Milwaukee Police? If they are, the general public probably wouldn't know due to their history of funding expensive lawsuits in secret.
- You can use IRS form 3949-A to report SFWA's activity if you reasonably believe that it is illegal for a 501(c)(3) charity to secretly fund frivolous nuisance lawsuits for one of its members.
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- Mr. Tomlinson's feud started after members of the now-defunct Reddit site r/opieandanthony got his Twitter account suspended, causing him to threaten some bored trolls who never heard of him with a libel lawsuit. The trolls responded predictably.
- Mr. Tomlinson has been instructed many times by friends, family, police, and attorneys to stop engaging with his trolls, and that continuing to provoke them will cause him to be trolled even more. Mr. Tomlinson wilfully ignores this advice
- He would eventually file a defamation suit against 60 anonymous people which was dismissed with Mr. Tomlinson being ordered to pay $34,762.25 for opposing parties' attorney fees.
- He ended up paying $83,736.99 due to his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the court-ordered judgement, for which he faced jail time and contempt charges.
- He also filed 2 frivolous restraining orders against people who had engaged in First Amendment-protected behavior (one for texting him and another for attending his contempt of court hearing), both of which were dismissed.
- Early on in the lawsuit, Mr. Tomlinson vandalized his own motorcycle and submitted a false police report blaming the people he was suing.
- He accidentally sent surveillance video of the alleged vandal (himself) to a troll.
- Mr. Tomlinson has never shown this video footage during any of his media tours, and desperately tries to scrub it from the internet.
- Mr. Tomlinson claims that the surveillance video was initiated by his "motion-activated" camera, which only collects "30 seconds at a time", despite the video being 32 seconds long and beginning several seconds before the "vandal" enters into the frame.
- On 13 April 2023, the individual responsible for calling the fake emergences (SWATs) to Mr. Tomlinson's house, a SWAT-for-hire dealer named "Torswats", revealed that Mr. Tomlinson ordered the SWATs to his own house because he wanted to get in the news and sue the MPD for money.
- Torswats would repeat these allegations in private chats which were not intended for public view.
- Mr. Tomlinson has gone on multiple news tours since the SWATtings started in order to promote his victimhood brand, utilizing the services of Lenora Claire.
- He also recently sued the MPD for money.
Dilbert Man goes full Tomlinson
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His wife is ugly though. Then again, so was scott's ex.
When I was seven, I was super into Garfield and had a lot of that cheap Garfield shit all over my room (books, calendar, posters, stuffed animal, etc). When I turned eight, my mom made me a little Garfield shaped cake for my birthday, and I told my dad we should take a picture and send it to Jim Davis so he could know what a fan I was. He said, "Well, we can't because he's dead."
I cried. I took down all my posters and calendars and gave my books away, because I didn't want to read them and think about some rotting dead guy. After a while, I started to notice that the Garfield strip and merchandise kept getting churned out, and I realized that my dad had lied about Jim Davis being dead just so he didn't have to waste a Polaroid and a stamp on my stupid kiddy bullshit.
TLDR: Garfield and my dad both scarred me for life, but I love them to this day.
The show dopesick shows the sacklers in a very negative light. decent show. Definitely nails down all the ways they deliberately marketing it in states they could maximize sales in.
Haven't seen it, but I would recommend this https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain
that fucking "disease of more." Here's Dilbert guy sitting in a mansion (a stupid mansion, but a mansion all the same) and he's daydreaming about how he could have another pile of money. He already has that tacky house and plenty leftover and he still isn't satisfied.
Vana Parva, Sub-parva 36, sect. 178; vol. 2
Be he ever so wise and strong, wealth confounds a man. In my view, anyone living in comfort fails to reason.
Udyoga Parva, Sub-parva 51, sect. 34; vol. 3
The poor always eat better: hunger sweetens their dishes, and that is rare among the rich. It is generally found in the world that the rich have no appetite, but the poor, O Indra of kings, digest even wood.
Ecclesiastes 4:4-6
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
The Tao Te Ching, Chapter 9
Those who overly pride wealth is like the overflowing water which shall cause damages. It is better to restrain early.
Those who are not content with fame is like polishing the edge of a knife.
The sharper it gets, the easier it is to break.
Wealth and treasures are but illusions that one cannot possess.
Those who are arrogant of their wealth and fame shall invite blame upon oneself.
The nature Tao teaches one to retreat after one’s success and not to hold on to the credit.
Aristotle, Politics.
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
Mark 8:36
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Matthew 19:24
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Luke 12:15
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
yeah pretty much
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Still hilarious and worldly.
Nigger jokes are the greatest philosophy of all.
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alot of commie talk in ancient scripture...what's that about?
Universal truths are universal.
Part of the reason I raise issue with it is because I have my own financial goals in mind. But even among FIRE people or people I know with amazing pensions worth 4 or 5x what the average American makes to work a 9-5, none of them tell me, "I think I'm good."
I really hope that if I can hit my goals, I'll have the sanity to work towards personal goals from that moment on, rather than pursuing the next score. It's really sad to see people working out how to add to the pile when they've gotten to a place where they can focus on their kids (which Dilbert guy clearly didn't) or some other type of fulfillment (which Dilbert guy clearly isn't, judging by his twitter). Instead he's fuming that he wasn't enough of a sellout. Of all cartoonists, almost none of them will say out loud "Fuck, I just wasn't Jim Davis enough."
As the Opster would say, I'm trying to have a real fawkin moment.
Your dad sounds pretty cool