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Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report.
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Anyway, the object lesson is that techbrah smart is not the same as regular person smart, and the difference matters.

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Bblakeyrat.bsky.social

The kind of motor-mouth jargon and double-talking that works for bamboozling tech investors doesn't work against judges or juries.

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techbro smart tends to be of the "initially evaluated their own intelligence in relation to schoolwork designed to mildly challenge an average child their age, and then never updated that model again" kind

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basicchunnel.bsky.social

You say that and yet you do not acknowledge that we live in a society where regular persons’ access to critical quantities of amphetamines is unevenly distributed

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CFcarlfeher.bsky.social

The Tesla truck is also evidence of that.

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CSmaniccage.bsky.social

Indiscernible from finance guy smart.

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Ccatfrat.bsky.social

But he played League of Legends during investor meetings! How can he not be a genius?

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Bbbdd333.bsky.social

An anagram for "techbros" is "botchers"

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calizaybak.bsky.social

His YouTuber interviews / confessions were something else.

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CScaptainscarlet.bsky.social

Techbrah seems like a different breed, one that should be kept away from us Hoi polloi. Perhaps there is a place, an enclave, they can reside among their entrepreneurial fellows … Rikers Island perhaps …

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The Rules Were Popehat Wasn’t Going To Fact Check
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Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report.
131.2k followers497 following12.3k posts