People who proudly boast about how they never spend a dime on Epic Games, in their store, but has hundreds of free games to play with no intent to play them. Like, I don’t know who is supposed to be impressed by that. Not to mention, that’s not really a good method of protesting if you’re someone who hates Epic Games.
You’re still spending the time and effort, not to mention even bothering to have an account with them to begin with, to redeem free games that they give away. Who are you seriously trying to impress or what message are you trying to convey? Because all I see are contradictions and ironies.
People who rent (or sorry, LEASE) $150,000 cars, live in 10% down houses and post a lifestyle on Facebook driven entirely by debt.
Good luck with that in your 60s!
Bragging that you’ve taken more cognitive tests than the previous presidents.
he really is a turd. damn.
Acing a cognitive test 3 times in a year.
voluntary joining a military
Hating things that are popular just because it’s popular.
Just means being a contrarian is your only personality trait.
Thinking up convoluted reasons to criticize people.
Some sane things I guess, but a whole shitload of weirdly judgemental folks in the thread.
I’d rather hear people be proud of something dumb than be a whole entire shitwagon calling them idiots… But maybe that’s just me.
Anything showing off opulence. Having more money (or less control against impulse spending) doesn’t make you better in any form. But it’s a lifestyle that sells and rakes in tons of money for the vain and stupid
Branded anything!
The “see, I can afford branded stuff” flex of being better because having money for it right alongside the “easier to just walk around with ‘I’m stupid’ tatooed on my forehead” because of being dumb enough to spend 5x more money just for a label.
It’s maybe the biggest poor/low-middle-class person’s “look, I have money” flex there is.
(It’s even more hilarious when one actually knows people from Old Money: those with lots of money and who were born into it actually wear simple but high quality stuff with no visible labels, whilst the ones trying to flaunt their wealth are either not wealthy at all or are Nouveau Riche and hence feel to need to flaunt their wealth whilst not being experienced enough at having lots of money to use it the way old wealth does)
Just about everything to do with how strongly they believe in a specific Religious sect OR how strongly they think all Religion is bullshit.
Not claiming any of them is right or wrong, just point out that going around talking about one’s Religious or anti-Religion beliefs is a weird flex anchored on a feeling of personal superiority.
Anything they didn’t actually do themselves, riding on someone’s coattails.
For example,
Memorial day just passed here, so people trying to attach some sort of personal worth to their grandfather’s service in WW2 or whatever war as if they’re owed something for it - or the “y’all would be speaking German if if weren’t for (the US, my grandpa)!” Stolen valor of a different kind.
Yea, if your identity is solely based on your heritage, instead of personal merit and accomplishments, you’re a loser. Like people visiting about how they’re 4th gen American, you look down on immigrants, meanwhile you on welfare…
I think they thought that they could hurt Epic this way. Like, claiming free games would cost Epic money or something.
I don’t think Epic pay for individual copy of each give away, but more like a one big lump sum. So, this is meaningless.
Number of followers on social media has got to be one of the cringiest.
Which makes Kim Kardashian important. She does less than a floor lamp.
when I have their food, I have two followers: my cats
I’ll add to that - how many friends they have (who won’t bother to talk to or engage with you), how many views, how many likes .etc
Not using AI for anything. It’s just a tool.
How many hours they work.
Life is a game. Scored like golf. The number is “hours labouring”.
“I worked 120 hours this week, buttercup”
Wow. I can’t believe you volunteered what a giant fucking idiot you are.
If you gotta work 120 hours to survive, I feel sympathy. If you’re flexing? Jeeze
Made me think of a documentary I saw, on some Americans working in Norway, where an American guy was asked what the biggest difference was between Americans and Norwegians, and he proudly proclaimed “Norwegians work to live, Americans live to work”.
My company was absorbed by a US company, and it’s pretty accurate.
And, I think they think it must mean that this dedication makes them good at working.
But they fucking aren’t. I constantly have to remind my coworkers that they’re not paid by the hour. Work hard, work smart, we can finish up and call it a day. Nope. I swear to god these people are actively contriving ways to ensure we work so badly that it necessitates working late. Which we do not get paid for.
Then they flex about thier work culture, thier long hours. You fools did this to yourselves, voluntarily, for literally no benefit.
Especially when they believe in the whole “hard work means I get promoted and it pays off”.
No, it just means you’ve cemented yourself into being a good doggy for the company who is going to heavily rely on you until you quit or die on the job.
yeah people in my city are insufferable about this shit.
i work 35-40 hour weeks. i like that. but people flip out at me and tell me how ‘lazy’ I am for that, and then go on and on about how they ‘work harder’ than me, even though they are making the same money per hour if you do some basic napkin math, or often less than I do, given i have better benefits than they do and you adjust for those as income.
but hey, what do i know, i’m just a unambitious ‘loser’ who works 35 hours a week for six figures, meanwhile they work 60-80 per week for an extra 25K a year…
Acing cognitive tests.
I definitely qualify for Mensa, but I’ve never applied because only losers brag about their IQ score, and only idiots are impressed by it. I’m seriously considering it now though, just to pull out my card when right wing idiots call me stupid for being a leftist.
IQ scores have been proven to have no correlation with intelligence, just ability to learn how IQ tests work.
I’m thinking about getting metal legs. It’s a risky operation, but it’ll be worth it.
I would assume everyone here has heard Jamie Loftus “My Year In Mensa”, but if you havent it is a wild ride. Joining as a joke, then realizing its just a bizarre clique with crazy characters and habits.
My brief brush with Mensa was at a conference. Three of them were trying to figure out how to use a keycard for the door and asked me for help.
A key card. Even without knowledge of one (who doesn’t) the basic idea was right there in front of them on the key reader.
Yeah Mensa isn’t really an organization for geniuses, it’s an organization for geniuses who wanna huff their own farts about it.
Its more than that. The IQ or “smart” is trivial. What it is all about is superiority like you said plus a place where members express extremist, racist, and misogynistic views with little consequence.
They are hardly geniuses.
they will just call you stupid for pulling out your mensa card.
It’s a situational strategy, you have to lock them into buying into that metric first. But for a disturbingly common kind of person, that’s not really much effort.
Even still, it’s not really useful for changing minds directly, just lining them up to feel like a fool so they might be meeker in the future. It’s a game of inches.
how old are you? are you really so niave you think this is in any way going to be ‘effective’.
all you are doing is making yourself into an asshole here, so you can feel smug and superior to these folks. like is this even real, or is this just an imaginary scenario in your head you are making up?
because having regular interaction with such people most of my life, i can tell you you are not convincing them of anything no matter what you do. they only typically change their beliefs based on personal tragedy or trauma.
all you are doing is making yourself into an asshole here, so you can feel smug and superior to these folks
These folks’ entire political worldview is based on feeling smug and superior to commie libtards. It’s just ego and tribalism, purely emotional justifications. They don’t care about facts, they care about posturing and rhetorical victories.
they only typically change their beliefs based on personal tragedy or trauma.
Which is what makes shame and belittlement so effective at denting their armor. It isn’t about convincing them in the moment, it’s about making them feel small and stupid. Feeling small and stupid is personal trauma, and if it happens enough they might abandon the beliefs that target them as small and stupid.
The biggest problem with the left is that we try to be civil and win the debate with facts and logic, when the audience doesn’t give a shit about facts or logic. They are simple creatures, shame is the only thing their walnut brains understand.
I sense great irony in the force, Luke.
Most people don’t know that ‘dumb’ is spelled with a B…
Hey, I’m no dummy
I’m no dumby.
Bumb sounds like something from 'Allo 'Allo
Man, woman, person, camera, TV
Crocodile, Giraffe, Hippo, Zebra, Squirrel
Crypto, FIFA, Qatar, Hamberder, Epstein
