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.
Bragging that you’ve taken more cognitive tests than the previous presidents.
he really is a turd. damn.
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!
Acing a cognitive test 3 times in 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.
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.
I sense great irony in the force, Luke.
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’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.
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
voluntary joining a military
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)
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
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.
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.
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…
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
Fathers who claim they have never changed a diaper.
I’m not a father at all, and I’ve changed diapers.
Fucking useless parasites proud of being parasites.
Yeah, as a father of four this always baffled me. As if changing a diaper makes you less of a man. WTF, it’s literally your biological instinct to care for your offspring, all I’m hearing is people bragging about how they’re an evolutionary dead end.
All I hear is they are a misogynistic lazy fuck…
Same with people who boast about never reading a book
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’m not sure you could call it a “flex” but the number of people I meet who are almost proud of how bad they are at math is ridiculous. Short of having been diagnosed with dyscalculia, lacking basic mathematics skills as an adult should be on par with not knowing how to read.
It blows my mind how many other Americans I come across who lack basic understandings of fractions. We use the damn imperial system, which is a whole other issue for a different lemmy rant.
lots of people i meet brag they don’t read either dude.
usually after they see that I’m reading a book or if I tell them I like to read. they seem to find this very offensive and upsetting.
i notice this especially with like, tech and medical workers? I also met quite a few english teachers who flexed how they don’t read and think reading is dumb.
english teachers who […] don’t read
Not having time to read I could understand. Teaching comes with a lot of overtime. But actively bragging that they don’t?!
My head hurts just thinking about that.
plenty of people working in teaching/education are rabidly anti-intellectual. and lots of people in life are rabidly-hypocritical.
the irony here too was the few people i met like this, also lectured me on my ‘problematic’ choices of reading material not being woke enough. like i had this date with an English teacher who went off on me for 30m about how racist/sexist I was for not being intimately familiar with Toni Morrison, and when I asked her when the last time she read it, it was 15+ years ago in college… the irony was just… so insane. she was going at me for not having read a book she read in college for coursework…
it’s just all weird flexes all the way down sometimes with some people.
Cannot stand this shit. I have two younger sisters, and my extended family loves to go on and on about how they’re bad at math, or how they were not good at math in school because it’s hard. Okay, but you don’t have to seed it into their very impressionable minds that math is hard, because it really shouldn’t be.
In my experience that’s not at all a brag in Europe, quite the contrary.
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.
Thinking up convoluted reasons to criticize people.
Their vehicle.
Think of, for example, the obnoxious shitbag in his emotional support truck, or the BMW prick, and all the behaviors attributed thereto.
what if your pride and joy is base level hatchback with a manual transmission?
or are you just talking about people who see autos as status symbols of their wealth and ‘success’ despite the the fact their car is objectively a moneypit POS, like a Jeep.
Whoa, I ran a used 5-speed for about a decade and totally douched out on how much I was not paying for my car.
i have a couple of friends who are stupidly addicted to their falling apart 20 year old cars, but they seem to take perverse pride in dropping $5K for a new transmission or other major repair every other year, and going on about how much they are saving buy not buying a new car…
i have one buddy with a 2004 VW and he’s spend like 20K on it in the past 4-5 years and like goes on about how new cars are all debt traps and he’ll never have a loan again… and i’m over here looking at a '23 Integra that’s like 25K… and won’t need any major repairs for 15+ years…
Oh, the engine on mine was going out and I sold it to buy something else. It has to go when that happens.
My philosophy is that I have to be able to fix it myself.
It’s a vehicle. It’s used for transportation. Being proud of it is always weird.
not every car is used for transportation dude. many are used for recreation, for aesthetics, for self-expression, etc.
please go to a car show full of car people and lecture them how they are all weirdos, see how that works out for you.
If someone has a car to drive on closed tracks that’s completely reasonable sport. Driving like an idiot on public roads is not. Most “car people” are just big children driving loud cars around pissing everyone off. There’s no point in lecturing those people. They don’t have the brain capacity necessary to comprehend this.
you don’t know any car people. most car people are not doing that. most car folks are very very serious about driving and driving well and safely and yeah, they do not do stupid shit unless it’s on a closed track or it’s a rural area where there are no other cars or people to possibly hit or endanger.
what you are talking about is obnoxious assholes, who are not necessarily car people. they are just obnoxious assholes.
lol. You’re wrong. That isn’t a scotsman fallacy… further your original claim was nothing more than a brash generalization claiming all car people are loud and obnoxious, which is also a fallacy. God. I love lemmy. Everytime someone tries to show you that you are making a logically fallacy, it’s always, always, always, a made in their original claim. It’s so hilarious how many of you are clueless about your own ignorance, and yet you feel like you are the very smart peopel who know about logic and only you are logically consistent. You’re not.
I said, you don’t know them. Which you obvious, you do not. You are clueless and you are doubling down on your ignorance to feel superior rather than possibly admit, you’re wrong, and what you are calling out is a certain subset of people
You drive a tree?
I drive a car. Not an extension of my penis.
Oh, I’ve just never had a car that transpires. Plenty of trees though
Ooooo… got it. Fixed.
My neighbor gloats about how loud his electric vehicle is. He actually has a system to produce loud noise simulating a hemi engine in it. So fucking stupid
I’ve learned that EV owners are absolutely not immune to bouts of vehicular douchebaggery. But putting a vroom vroom box in your EV? That’s just a cry for help.
I saw one of my old friends was proposed to in front of her now fiance’s Dodge truck. He was wearing camo. She said yes!. Jesus Christ talk about lacking a personality.
his personality is his multiple DUI violations.
It’s wild to me how like people who DUI are proud of it, it’s so fucking bizarre. and they always drive objectively unreliable shitty cars that they are very proud of.
There’s a big open outdoor shopping mall area near me that for some reason they decided to allow people to drive in the interior streets instead of putting the garages on the edges of the area so people can park and just walk around. On Friday and Saturday evenings, idiots with pimped up cars and loud exhausts love to just drive the interior streets over and over to get maximum attention from shoppers walking around. It’s loud, obnoxious, and makes the place stink of car exhaust; not to mention a waste of gas.
I could understand it if it’s a project they work on, eg restoring it from a junkyard. For some people, their car is not just a utility they use to get around; similar to how much of my life revolves around a computer I built.
But yeah, that’s not many people. Quite a few bought theirs out of a yard.
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.
