People Discuss Idiots Who Get Treated Like Geniuses

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Jun 17, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

It's not hard to come off as more intelligent than you actually are. You just have to talk quickly and act like you know what you're saying. That can help you out for a little while, but the key to achieving genius status as an idiot is to get extremely popular. You have got to do Ben Shapiro's 2018 YouTube numbers if people will think for a second that you're not a complete fool. 

A big chunk of the population believes that if you're successful, that must be because you're smart and talented, but that's just untrue. So many genuinely intelligent individuals will never achieve the level of notoriety of Elon Musk, but that doesn't make him intrinsically better than them. I sleep well at night knowing that even though Elon Musk has billions more than I do, I will always have a better understanding of memes than he does. 

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    Font - r/AskReddit u/xdLoqqt 1d Who's an idiot that gets treated like a genius?
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    Font - msnarf28. 21h Truman Capote called Andy Warhol "The only genius with an IQ of 80". ... Reply 6.7k
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    Font - Fabled_Webs • 22h Ron Hubbard (founder of Scientology). I waffle on this myself if I'm honest. Sometimes I think he's a genius who made a cult for profit. Other times I think he's an imbecile who decided to keep riding the wave he accidentally started. Reply 9.1k
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    Font - sparta981 23h S 1 Award Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong. 'Mastermind' behind the pizza bombing. Documentaries keep painting her as some master manipulator, but then follow it by saying she can't keep any lie straight for any length of time. The moron tried to rob a bank for the exact amount of money she needed, without having any idea how much they actually kept on hand. (HINT: It was only like 3% of the $250000) The idiot literally turned what would have been an 8500 dollar robbery into a murde
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    Human body - mick-nartin. 22h This guy I work with, suck it Jason. Reply ... 13.3k
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    Font - Atomic BombMan • 1d 1 Award Chauncey Gardner ... Reply 1.7k
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    Font - shemanese 21h ● Ron Steigler: Mr. Gardner, uh, my editors and I have been wondering if you would consider writing a book for us, something about your um, political philosophy, what do you say? Chance the Gardener: I can't write. Ron Steigler: Heh, heh, of course not, who can nowadays? Listen, I have trouble writing a postcard to my children. Look uhh, we can give you a six figure advance, I'll provide you with the very best ghost-writer, proof-readers... Chance the Gardener: I can't read.
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    Font - Mycrost 1d Leopold and Loeb were considered genuis killers but they were really fucking stupid The Casual Criminalist has a great episode on this subject: https://youtu.be/4i5NKOG-Kyo ... Reply 1.5k
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    Font - LordPizzaParty • 21h I started watching a documentary about American Apparel founder Dov Charney, who's a pretty gross dude. It interviews a bunch of American Apparel's early employees who talked about the abusive work conditions, but praised Charney as a genius and an incredible motivator. Then they'd cut to interviews with Charney and he was EXACTLY like Bobby Hill's boss from that one episode of King of the Hill. ... Reply 884 884
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    Font - GreyFoxNinjaFan ● 19h Simon Cowell. Ironically, he spends so much of his time seeking "talent" when he has very little himself. While he knows the music industry, his father got him the job that brought him into it at EMI. Even left that job only to come back when he couldn't make it on his own. He knows virtually nothing about music itself, or singing, instruemnts or anything really technical about anything that goes on around him.
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    Font - While his comments about vulnerable, "talentless" people used to be a draw - now that sort of thing is frowned upon - it turns out that when he's not being a prick, he's boring as hell. He was also stupid enough to believe that a cosmetic surgeon could make him not look like he's over 60 when, in reality, he's now morphing into a Bo Selecta caricature of himself. Reply 1.2k
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    Font - LongshanksShank. 20h Dr Phil ... Reply 681 681
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    Font - Shadow_Strike99 - 23h Gary Vee "The youth pastor of capitalism" All this dude does is tell you want you want to hear without outright saying it, and says things for the sake of generating social media engagement instead of well thought out and heartfelt advice.
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    Font - He's never had the same life situation and vice versa as the demographic he targets being single directionless 18-28 year olds who are easily susceptible to "make this much money doing this idea". All he did was take his family's luxury wine business that already was successful selling overpriced bottles of wine to Rich Italian and Jewish housewives in New Jersey and just took it online like every other business did in the 2000's. Your average 20 something year old doesn't have that same
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    Font - NefInDaHouse • 1d Andrew Tate. ... Reply 8.6k
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    Rectangle - DonutsOnTheWall • 1d 11 Awards I expected Elon to be on top. He will be disappointed if he sees this thread. ... Reply 25.3k
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    Font - DinksterDaily 21h Vladimir Putin. Hasn't done a single thing right for years and turned himself into a paranoid bunker dictator. For some reason there are still a lot of people idolizing him ... Reply 1.6k
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    Font - LurkersGoneLurk • 20h Degrasse is certainly smarter than me, but he says a lot of dumb shit. ... Reply 419
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