Take pleasure in the humiliation of those who deserve it — including CNN, Facebook, and an Olympic ice skater who dumped the USA, and took a dive.
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22 replies on “Which Makes You Happier—CNN’s Plummet, Facebook’s Stumble or Ex-American’s Tumble on Ice?”
Revenge is a sweet pill to swallow BUT tells a GREAT deal about WHO? you real are.
Bill Kristi Yamaguchi the Olympic champion skater fell in her first competition, as she described it, so many times she can’t remember and went on to be a gold medalist.
Bill, I was rather hoping you’d call this the “Rain something something Rain” segment. In keeping w/ the Three Storms, Big Trouble In Little China theme.
Beautiful juxtaposition: A shameless skater moves to same a shame culture! LOVE IT! LOL
More of this, please.
Schadenfreude, hmmm, misery that loves company? 🙂
Dark Joy is exactly what it is.
I rejoice at success of those who pursue goals with which I agree. The space programs, etc. I don’t get any pleasure from CNN, FB, etc. Perhaps just a sense of sometimes there is justice.
With the Chinese skater, it’s kind of like when Leftists flee their s*** hole states, cities, etc. for the greener pastures of places run by Normals. If they’ve seen the light and are abandoning the Libtarditude that they voted for, they’re welcome with open arms. But if they’re moving to colonize and spread libtarditude by voting for the same crap they fled, that’s another story
In response to the question of which makes you happier, as Steve likes to say, Embrace the healing power of “And”
Please allow me to be somewhat pretentious in defining the word “Schadenfreude.” The word is a compound word – “Schaden” meaning sorrow or shame, and Freude, meaning joy and elation. Juxtaposed, you can see the relationship. Skip the hyperbole. Yeah, I’m a German-speaker and writer.
That said, I am DELIGHTED at Fakebook’s developments. Zuck the Schmuck is a punk, thinly disguised as a major-league player. He’s not. He’s a punk — though probably not on the par of Jack Dorsey who, like Zuck, is a despicable human being with no soul, no remorse, no heart.
I was admin of at least two Fakebook pages as of 14 months ago. I gave them all up for Lent, and I’m not even Catholic. Scum are the perverts that milk the data and use it for their own filthy purposes. A pox on them!
Great presentation, guys. Glad to be a part of it.
Hmm, I think that’s less a pretentious definition and more an etymological parsing but I’m just nitpicking and I know that’s what I’m doing … I get your point.
“Schadenfreude” is like many words in the English Language which is borrowed or outright stolen from the Germanic Saxon/Angle/Frisian/Jute languages. English is about 26% Germanic and 56% Romanic (Francais & Latin) with a smattering of Greek and other languages. So “schadenfreude” isn’t particularly unique in that respect.
In German the compound word “Schadenfreude” translates to “malicious joy”. Being as “malice” according to the Oxford Dictionary means “the intention or desire to do evil; ill will”… Considering that I have no desire to do evil and that ill will against evil is “good” …
I wonder — When seeing evil collapse in on itself if “schadenfreude” is less fitting than the simple delectation good people feel at seeing justice done upon an evil thing. Whatever that evil thing might be.
In the case of FaceBook I delight in seeing that particular evil thing get its just desserts.
Nicht wahr?
You always provide such interesting information.
Thank you for taking the time to say so. I appreciate it.
Sehr Gut! Mehr, Bitte!
AMEN!!!!!
Evil always outs itself.
That said, you know what I’m tired of? Other so-called conservative network news stations showing clips of CNN and MSNBC ‘anchors’ as if I’m interested in watching them have a meltdown over whatever topic of the day. If I wanted to see them, I’d watch them. And how is watching another news station have a meltdown a news story? (insert eye roll here)
I’m not watching the winter Olympics. Sports are not allowed on my TV nor will I ever support an athlete that denies the country and its people that made her life better.
Zuckerberg has wreaked enough havoc. It’s time for him to go.
I’m the same as you about clips from CNN, MSNBC and all the other purveyors of leftist lies and propaganda. I don’t want to see them or hear them, and can barely tolerate reading about them. I follow a lot of conservative podcasters and often complain that I don’t want to be subjected to that nasty swill on their channels either. Not watching the Olympics, especially since they are hosted by an evil regime, and Fakebook? Ha! Never had an account, never will. Same for all the other social media channels – Twitter, TicToc, Instagram. I have a Gab and Minds account but rarely visit either one. I’m not even going to subscribe to DJT’s Truth Social, that’s how much of a social isolationist I am. I’m in a bubble of my own choosing, but unlike leftist bubbles, my bubble occupants tell both sides of the story, with facts and evidence – it just so happens that the facts and evidence all prove legacy media, leftist politicians and their ilk to be liars, propagandists, and makers of fear-porn. No Thank You Very Much.
I love the German language sometimes. It says what I need to say and cannot express in Eglish!
The idea that nearly 25% of the world’s population on any given day does the same thing is actually spine tingling, in that lizard portion of my brain that is used for fight or flee.
Getting 25% of people to do anything other than breathe is difficult. Doing something daily? This gives the whole publisher/carrier argument a different perspective.
FB is evil and I am glad I don’t use it.
I am glad my daughter’s generation doesn’t but as Steve points out, that is because they are using something worse.
Good work, square work.
I think this whole thing of competing for countries you’re not from is ridiculous. It might be one thing if the person took up permanent residence in that country because they loved it for the rest of their lives and said, “I am Chinese now” and everything that comes with that, but that’s not what they’re doing.
She couldn’t make the cut against American Olympians so she sold her talent in a country where she COULD make the cut so she could compete in the Olympics. It wasn’t about America, or China … it’s about HER. This is what they’re all doing when they do this.
And she fell. Three times. Might have something to do with why she didn’t make the cut competing against other American Olympians. Not saying that’s necessarily what it was, but … better than average chance, don’t you think?
Here’s what I think ought to happen in the Olympics. People will go to the Olympics who want to compete, and they don’t compete for a country, they just compete against each other, and that’s it. In my crachtety old age more and more I’m finding I don’t give a bloody g*d***n what country you’re from, and I think it would be more enjoyable, in fact, to stop making that THE most “important” thing about you at the Olympics.
If we’re going to have this kind of thing (competing for other countries just so you can be in the Olympics) we should just drop the whole bloody pretense about nationality and just watch great athletes from around the world compete for the sake of the sport.