You know, it's kind of sad the US chose Iran to lose catastrophically to
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You know, it's kind of sad the US chose Iran to lose catastrophically to.
One wishes they'd picked a better quality of victor.
And nobody even entertains the idea it was because of Iran's gross mistreatment of their population.
It was because Trump wanted to bully someone and then couldn't handle actual #politics.Instead, like some bargain-bin post-apocalyptic Nero, while the surrender was signed he fell asleep in the midst of the ruins of his palace, to motorcycle clowns and drunk pitfights
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You know, it's kind of sad the US chose Iran to lose catastrophically to.
One wishes they'd picked a better quality of victor.
And nobody even entertains the idea it was because of Iran's gross mistreatment of their population.
It was because Trump wanted to bully someone and then couldn't handle actual #politics.Instead, like some bargain-bin post-apocalyptic Nero, while the surrender was signed he fell asleep in the midst of the ruins of his palace, to motorcycle clowns and drunk pitfights
I'm not American, but we Germans have that nice term: "Fremdschämen" (vicarious embarassment)
It's a word for the embarrassment you feel when someone else does something that embarrasses or humiliates them.
The US decided to take the concept and go large, as they are wont to do.
(It's not schadenfreude, I don't take pleasure in the Americans being humiliated like that)
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I'm not American, but we Germans have that nice term: "Fremdschämen" (vicarious embarassment)
It's a word for the embarrassment you feel when someone else does something that embarrasses or humiliates them.
The US decided to take the concept and go large, as they are wont to do.
(It's not schadenfreude, I don't take pleasure in the Americans being humiliated like that)
By the way:
The reparations the USA are paying to Iran ($300 billion) adjusted to inflation amount to about half of what Germany paid in reparations after WWI (132 billion goldmarks, eqv. to ca. $600 billion in 2026 money)
THAT is a catastrophic loss.
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@kyonshi If it would be the same amount in terms of GDP% (~2.5%), it would be ~809 billion USD. So, 300 billion is still a discounted version from that.
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@kyonshi If it would be the same amount in terms of GDP% (~2.5%), it would be ~809 billion USD. So, 300 billion is still a discounted version from that.
@nihkeys ww1 was 4 years long though...
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I'm not American, but we Germans have that nice term: "Fremdschämen" (vicarious embarassment)
It's a word for the embarrassment you feel when someone else does something that embarrasses or humiliates them.
The US decided to take the concept and go large, as they are wont to do.
(It's not schadenfreude, I don't take pleasure in the Americans being humiliated like that)
@kyonshi
We call that "second-hand embarrassment" in English. -
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