I get it now. D’oh!
What the hell are you grousing at me to read what you wrote. Read what I wrote. Don’t see shade or a knee jerk reaction. Kindly check yourself sir.
Yes. I did know that. Which is why I said it. It was precisely my point. Had you taken the effort to understand the context of the post you were being needlessly snarky in responding to, this would have been obvious to you. But hey, any opportunity to be a smartass, right?
But the “Ford Nation” is still out there.
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I wish i was but then i’d be a politician.
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I was thinking of this latest Trump myth.
http://abcnews.com.co/donald-trump-protester-speaks-out-i-was-paid-to-protest/
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This was written last year:
When Ratner explained weltschmerz to two ex-colleagues, one agreed that for the idealists around Obama, his first term had been all weltschmerz. “The second term has just been schmerz,” said the other.
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One irritatingly glib response is “just stop watching the news!”: if things are getting better overall, why bring yourself down by focusing on the negative? But it doesn’t follow from Pinker’s arguments that we’re wrong or irrational to feel weltschmerz. Indeed, as Ratner notes, it’s what drives progressive change: unlike angst or ennui, weltschmerz springs precisely from seeing that things could and should be better. The capacity to be disappointed is a good thing. There’s a parallel here with physical pain: though it’s unpleasant, the inability to feel it is an extremely dangerous disorder. World pain is bad – but numbness to world pain would be worse.
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While we’re doing German linguistics: a word for “the false anticipation of the enjoyment of schadenfreude”.
Seems appropriate for much of the American left at the moment.
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So, everyone misread you and you’ve misread nobody. GOT IT
Also it’s everyone else who will take any opportunity to be an ass, sure thing! Them them!
have a more pleasant day.
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I don’t tend to feel too much Schadenfreude at a Götterdämmerung. More like Fremdschämen. However, one possible word for “the false anticipation of the enjoyment of schadenfreude” could be “victory disease” or maybe “hubris”.
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Elect Al Gore because he won the popular vote too…
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My word!
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hasenpfeffer incorporated!
We’re gonna do it…
sorry
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I’ll happily read your first post for better context, and I’m sorry if I took what you said the wrong way, but I most certainly didn’t accuse you of being a brownshirt, not the in least.
My apologies, none the less.
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The present zeitgeist is one of weltschmerz, and it gives me angst. I am filled with sehnsucht for my erstwhile weltanschauung.
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I’m gaining Kummerspeck just anticipating that Backpfeifengesicht in power.
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Thank you – accepted. And please let me apologize in turn for my harsh tone in response to your post. I was responding more to what I perceived as a piling-on from a number posters than to your post specifically, and I see that my tone was unwarranted in your case. We’re all on the same side! 
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