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2 weeks, 2 days ago

'Getting what they deserve': Progressives urged to resist gloating at latest MAGA panic

The Washington Post over the weekend reported that some people who voted for President-elect Donald Trump are worried that their own government benefits could be on the chopping block now that he's heading back to the White House. MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown has noticed a good deal of schadenfreude about these reports from Trump critics — but he's urging people …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Mary Trump 'Can't Help Laughing' At This 'Schadenfreude' In Uncle's Trial

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Mary Trump said she was tickled by one part in particular of her uncle’s ongoing hush money trial. “I can’t help laughing,” the clinical psychologist and fierce critic of her four-time-indicted relative told SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah. “You know, ‘Donald invited the Thai boys to the White House, but they decided they’d rather go back to the …

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2 years, 2 months ago

'Schadenfreude bubble bath': Morning Joe says right-wing extremism cost GOP everything in Michigan

Raw Story

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said right-wing extremism had cost Republicans dearly in several states they could have won, especially in Michigan, and he was soaking in a "schadenfreude bubble bath." Gretchen Whitmer was re-elected, and Democrats kept the secretary of state and attorney general offices and, for the first time in four decades, gained majorities in both chambers of Michigan's state …

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2 years, 8 months ago

It’s easy to feel Madison Cawthorn schadenfreude — but he’s right to call those naked video leaks blackmail

The Independent

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3 years, 3 months ago

Is this the Schadenfreude moment for China sceptics?

Live Mint

The woes of Chinese property development firm, Evergrande, heavily indebted to both domestic and foreign lenders and on the verge of collapse, has engendered a Schadenfreude moment amongst China sceptics: but is it premature? After the crisis broke out, some proclaimed that the imminent failure of Evergrande might just be China’s “Lehman moment”, referring to the 2008 bankruptcy of the …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Kishwar Desai | Britain's spot of schadenfreude; pregnancy triggers definition row

Deccan Chronicle

It is only befitting that good news about the vaccination drive is accompanied with good weather too — which for UK means sunny days here again! This sounds ideal for India — where a single shot that could be stored easily would mean faster vaccination for the entire population. While in India we rush indoors and switch on our air …

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55 years ago

Laughing at Quibi Is Way More Fun Than Watching Quibi

Wired

Taking pleasure in the failure of others has long been considered a grubby, poisonous quality. So bad that philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer called schadenfreude “the worst trait in human nature.” More recently, British tabloid The Daily Mail claimed in a headline that a person who enjoys others’ misfortune “may be a PSYCHOPATH.” A tad dramatic, but it’s true enough that people …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Shashi Tharoor says schadenfreude for Chidambaram, Internet is baffled. Do you know what it means?

India Today

Congress politician Shashi Tharoor yesterday came out in support of party colleague and former Finance Mnister P Chidambaram, who was arrested last night. Till then we will have to allow some malicious minds their schadenfreude https://t.co/OoERqVVKTQ Shashi Tharoor August 21, 2019 Tharoor’s tweet referred to a statement posted by Chidambaram, in 2018. Here’s what a few people are saying: "schadenfreude" …

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55 years ago

'The Inventor,' Theranos, and Multiplatform Schadenfreude

Wired

Over the course of 119 minutes in The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Alex Gibney's new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, very little is made of Holmes' speaking voice. Through John Carreyrou's Wall Street Journal reporting and subsequent book-length exposé to ABC News' podcast The Dropout, and now to HBO's The Inventor, the story of Holmes' rise …

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6 years, 5 months ago

The email a bride sent to fire one of her bridesmaids embodies wedding-season schadenfreude.

Slate

There’s nothing like a dose of wedding drama to get people riled up. As seen in the tweet’s screenshot above, a woman named Alex took her chances on it anyway, and the email she wrote to the bridesmaid at hand, Courtney, who posted it, is a spectacular etiquette breach and one of the most passive aggressive documents of our time. …

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