Bragging that you've taken more cognitive tests than the previous presidents.
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Acing a cognitive test 3 times in a year.
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.
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 either side 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.
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 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.
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Number of followers on social media has got to be one of the cringiest.
when I have their food, I have two followers: my cats
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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...
- I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody
I don't think I need to say anymore.
You were literally proudly proclaiming how you would never care about any non-American life ever again to the point that when you reported me for calling you fascist, Jordan fucking Lund replied with 'If the jackboot fits'.
I literally have you tagged as a Nazi because of this interaction.
You don't hate fascism, you just don't like being the marginalized party in fascism.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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In my experience that's not at all a brag in Europe, quite the contrary.
Having an easier time making connections to get better opportunities. I've seen so many people bragging about how easy it was for them to get a well paying job so those who want better pay, but don't get a better paying job are just lazy and want handouts.
I am lazy and want handouts, but I'd wager most others aren't like me.
Their vehicle.
Think of, for example, the obnoxious shitbag in his emotional support truck, or the BMW prick, and all the behaviors attributed thereto.
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.
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"I haven't changed..."
You think they think it makes them morally superior to other people? Or that it's a method of protest? I think you might be overthinking this. People like free games they might play at some point. They do it for the free games, not to feel superior. If you think they are belittling you for not getting the free games, your parents really did a number on your self-esteem.
Any career.
Had a plumber once who spent the entire hour ranting about being a master plumber and how being a unionized tradesman is the only honorable profession and the water works guy is an idiot for not taking his word as gospel...
He was also like 160cm tall and bald, most insecure being I've ever observed walking this planet.
But that, "my job makes me better" vibe isn't unique to him. Seen it in doctors, lawyers, programmers, policemen, social workers, therapists...
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‘I have an iPhone’
Or conversely: ‘I don’t have an iPhone’
Nobody cares what brand of rectangle you use.
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Rich people. That's it. That's everything. If anything, I view excessive wealth as a form of mental illness.
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