There is a short story by Anton Chekhov about a governmental office in tsarist Russia where the supervisor constantly abused his underlings. He bullied, humiliated, and harassed the clerks on a daily basis, but there was nothing they could do.
It was customary that during holidays clerks would visit their bosses’ houses to wish them well. It was a form of further humiliating them because even on what was supposed to be a day of rest the clerks had to waste most of the day trudging to the boss’s house, sitting for hours in the waiting room until he deigned to see them, and suffering even more insults from him.
So in the short story, the poor abused clerks had to go through this pathetic procedure on a festive day. After they finally left the boss’s house, the clerk who was the boss’s favorite victim, the one who got harassed and humiliated the most often, started laughing hysterically.
“What’s going on?” the other clerks asked. “What’s so funny?”
“While we were in the waiting room,” the clerk said, “I moved one of the figurines on the mantelpiece. It was on the left and I moved it to the right! I showed him! I finally showed this bastard!!!”
And the clerk laughed loudly and happily.
I keep thinking of this story when I read this sort of thing:
Yeah, you showed the bastard who’s boss. He’ll never get over that figurine.
P.S. And here is another happy clerk who moved a figurine. This is literally painful to read.
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Haha, nice story. Though the clerk’s move would be brilliant if his boss were a Type A person suffering from OCD.
Look, we can both walk and chew gum at the same time. This is not an either-or situation. We can make fun of the size of his hands (which triggers him more, tbh) and organize political action against him and the republican party.
I, for one, am getting tired of the ‘You like tofu? This is why Trump won!’ type arguments.
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“We can make fun of the size of his hands (which triggers him more, tbh) and organize political action against him and the republican party.”
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Speaking of hands. Anything that drives him crazy is all right by me.
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Just like his eating of tacos, it’s all fake, it’s a distraction tactics. The fellow is bellowing with laughter. He’s on top of the world, literally. The very first thing he did after the inauguration is to begin dismantling the ACA.
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An amuse bouche for Stringer Bell:
https://twitter.com/prttybadtweeter/status/822620848897069056
Anyways, Pence should be watched. I think the Congress would much prefer Pence because they can do all of the same shit without the ritual humiliations & unpredictability (so they think), & potential blowback.
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The person who slapped the neo-Nazi is the only one who has actually done something productive. 🙂
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Haha, that was great.
https://twitter.com/GerryDuggan/status/822603492321796097
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This is the kind of feeling that animated the Ukrainian protesters of 2013 and 2014 and THEY WON.
I don’t get the pearl-clutching of “Oh, how could he?” and “He has lowered himself to their level.”
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I don’t get it either. Holding yourself to norms that your opponents shit on every moment of their lives. Fuck that noise. I call it the ‘West Wing’ (that horrible TV show) fallacy.
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We tried watching the West Wing but my glucose levels soared because of the show’s sugar content.
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Seriously, fuck these people.
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