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What are some weird flexes that people are proud of, but shouldn't be? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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Driving off someone from being online, as a troll, because it gives you a thrill.

This is an awfully specific flex, but it is a flex nonetheless, that people do feel to boast about. Because it's just another form of a power-trip. Congratulations, you've driven away someone who could've been a contributory member of a community to make yourself feel better by orchestrating lies, performing witch hunts and huddling with your troll buddies in ways to figure out how to process this.

There's nothing prideful about this to flex over.

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[–] 65 points 1 day ago* (5 children)

On a related note, as a parent I think school perfect attendance awards are perverse. Congratulations, we're rewarding a kid for being a disease vector and being sent to school miserable and snotty, or at best making other kids feel less-than because they received proper treatment and isolation. I would guess that the average perfect attendance kids costs the rest of the school at least half a dozen absences per year.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    As a kid I also hated the perfect attendance award because

    1. My mom was really into it and made me go to school when i was sick
    2. I was always the only one who was awarded it and the other kids already thought i was weird
    3. Not as great a reason, but my best friend in elementary school told me that sometimes his parents gave him a day off school so he could do something fun with them :/
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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Number 3 is perfectly reasonable and healthy. If it's not interfering with their education or progress, time off is a good thing now and then. And especially in a household where both parents work full-time that time together was likely way more valuable for the kids development than whatever he would've gotten from one day of classes.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago

    The awards are an effect of a perverse funding system that funds schools based on attendance. The schools are forced to choose between classes full of sick kids or not having the funds to teach the healthy ones.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    As an Asian American, "illness" is a myth that children invented as an excuse to get out of having to go to school. You have to go even if have fucking Covid, cuz you dont have it, you're just pretending in order to have an excuse to be lazy.

    At least that's how my parents see it.

    I mean I can see why there's a stereotype associated with Asians...

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