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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This didn't happen to them

What didn't happen to them?

Democrats shouldn't be pointing and laughing

Nobody's pointing and laughing. Leopards Eating People's Faces is about Justice-based Schadenfreude. It is the pleasure associated with seeing a person who wished ill on other people receive that ill themselves. The overriding emotion isn't joy, it's a mix of exasperation and relief. Exasperation because someone was stupid or cruel enough to wish those things for other people, and relief that there's finally some justice because they're suffering from the exact thing they wished on those other people.