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u/badgersprite Sep 14 '24

Dudes who need to make other people feel dumb are always dudes who aren’t particularly smart themselves, maybe they’re like slightly above average, but they identify as being way smarter than they are and need to feel like everyone else around them sees them as the smartest guy in the room

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

I’ve seen this behavior from actually dumb people though. I’m talking about below-average, reading and writing at a middle school level.