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Rome: Sparta belongs to the Achaean League

Achaean League: ...and I took that personally

Ich weiß, ich seh an den Bahnen hier Werbung für Jobs bei der DB. Wenn dann eine Bahn ausfällt, die nächste verspätet ist und auf der Seite mit einem zuverlässigen Team geworben wird krieg ich allerdings das Schmunzeln...

(Is mit klar, dass das nicht immer eure Schuld ist, wenn ein Depp das mit dem "Türbereich freigeben" partout nicht blickt oder ein Vertragspartner Mist baut oder so. Die Ironie ist halt trotzdem amüsant.)

Ich wollte damit eher ausdrücken, dass ich die Leute wertschätze, die mich jeden Tag zur Arbeit, heim, in die Stadt oder sonst wo hin bringen.

Ich liebe deinen Job auch <3

Here in Germany, one of the left wing parties (literally "The Left") has been putting up election posters with lines like "If your town is getting flooded, the rich are boarding their yachts", "If your heating is too expensive, someone's making coal" (making bank), "If your grocery trip is too expensive, a corporation is cashing in" and such. I found that a refreshing sight.

(Mind, some of their positions are contentious too and this isn't an uncritical endorsement. I just felt the posters were fitting.)

Hitler was extremely charismatic, an effective speaker and a clever politician. He was a terrible commander, compounded by his inability to acknowledge and account for that weakness, but in the run-up to the war and in the opening phase, he correctly estimated and effectively capitalised on the other powers' reluctance to fight another war.

In Musk and Trump, you can observe a similar phenomenon: the ability to hit the right notes with the right people in order to rile them up and seize the moment before their opponents manage to effectively rally and organise a resistance. Whether by blind luck, intuition or cunning calculation, their results aren't those of fumbling idiots. However idiotic they may seem to us, their success (so far) proves they got something right.

But the story isn't over yet. If I'm wrong and they do end up fumbling their big chance, I'll happily rescind those words. But as it stands now, I'd rather not underestimate their cunning.

Now everybody's getting down

More like fungsus

And just like your mother, she's wrong and doesn't deserve what she spurned.

Remember that it's the loud ones we hear most. If a hundred people just say nothing to avoid awkwardness, a dozen correct you politely and a single one kicks up a fuss, it's the fuss you will remember.

It's also easy to take corrections way more personally than they're intended. Someone saying "It's they, actually" isn't an expression of offense, even if it can feel bad to be corrected (because it feels bad to be "wrong"). Compare it to bumping into someone you didnt see, who then goes "watch out" to point out there's someone in the way – they're not necessarily upset, just informing you.

And finally, sometimes people are just irritable for whatever reason. They might not usually get offended, but for whatever reason will lash out that one time. To take the analogy of bumping into someone, perhaps their shoulder was already sore.

There certainly are some that do get offended. Some are so upset with the norms people grow up with they end up lashing out at those people instead. Some genuinely lack any understanding or patience for the other side of the issue. Some are just plain entitled. Some are looking for things to be upset at. Assholes exist in just about any sufficiently large grouping of people.

But for most I've known, it's really just about mutual respect, and often there's a base assumption of respect too. We all know how hard it can be to untrain a habit, and most people don't want unpleasantness. Don't let the exceptions get to you.

No, but they exploit and enable them. Anything to fan the flames of your enemies' internal struggle.

Fairly certain most don't get offended at genuine mistakes. It's doubling down that usually upsets people, and if you're the type to immediately go "well fuck you", I suspect that may be the case with you.

Hui, das ging ja schnell!