That feeling you get after you are caught telling a little white lie over nothing but instead of coming out with the simple truth you double down & it was accepted and you finally feel relief.
That feeling you get after you are caught telling a little white lie over nothing but instead of coming out with the simple truth you double down & it was accepted and you finally feel relief.
Kbin gives you 255 characters in the title. Come on lemmy world give us at least 5000.
It wasn't accepted how you think.
The other person still saw right through your bullshit but let it fly through a combination of a) they can't be bothered to not play along; b) they do the same bullshit too and expect you to "accept" too when their time comes.
Ah, a student of politics too, I see
The final gambit is to excoriate them at the first opportunity, exposing them for being a dirty fibber
Or:
c) calling you out on it releases such a political shitstorm that it is better to just leave it at that.
For example when a commander tries to hide the fact that his favourite tailor blowed up a high ranking politician in order to establish a tenuous military alliance.