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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3rd in your top 20 law school, sad thing is, you don't know what's important in life. You've got tunnel vision. I can read it in what you write and how you write. You bend over so far backwards to congratulate yourself because you are afraid nobody else will, even anonymously, online. And if that's not enough you seek validation via strangers. You try SO hard, and everyone sees it. Ask yourself: who is smarter, the college dropout who gets people, reaches out, and tries to genuinely connect, or the Important Feeling Lawyer who spends hours -- great chunks of time out of every day -- on an online site filled with strangers, laboring over the perfectly crafted comeback for nothing more than the imaginary high fives of the few online strangers you've managed to impress? It's possible you're perfectly nice. It's possible you're a great person with a bad habit of seeking validation for your ability to "zing" someone. But MOST people don't really think it's clever. Most people are not impressed. So why bother with all of that hard work for such an imaginary and sad payout?

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Wow, you totally missed 3rd's point. She said that smart people DON'T reach for the gratuitous zinger and that intelligence is DIFFERENT from dropping the fbomb and strafing other posters. She only provided the 3rd datapoint when somebody questioned her smartness. Guess there's no question about your lack of smarts.[/quote]

I don't think you are correct.

Here is the exchange. Please point to what I missed with my "lack of smarts."

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"The problem with DCUM is it's frequented by very smart and witty people whose smarts and wit are often laced with snark and cutting humor because, well, that's who they (we) are. They (we) also have strong opinions, and being D.C., most of us are former debate champions, law review editors, or the like. Yes, it would be nice if they (we) could check ourselves more often. But it's hard denying who we are. And, it's also liberating to truly let loose every once in a while. "

"I would seriously like stats on that assertion. Cuz I don't buy it. DC is like any other large-ish city, and I don't think it has the market cornered on the exceptionals."

"Ok, I'll start. I graduated 3rd in my top 20 law school class and clerked for the US Supreme Court. Now your turn."

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She was responding to either her own post or another post that said the reason we can't check ourselves is we just "can't deny who we are," which is supposedly people who are just SO SMART that they have to let loose with snark and cutting humor. (never mind the total lack of any impulse control she also seems to embrace). I think it's gross to be so proud of yourself for being an asshole, and I think it's humorous to then follow up with how awesome and exceptional you are for being a lawyer with decent credentials, which are a dime a dozen in this city. Truly exceptional people are known for their actions, not their almost first (well, almost second) finishes at almost first (well, top 20) law schools. [/quote]

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