Ohhh, do we notice — and ohh, does schadenfreude follow.
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So enjoy this small splash of schadenfreude while you can.
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I am someone who suffers from the opposite of schadenfreude.
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It even predicted feelings of schadenfreude when other groups fail.
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Leicester's fans, to their credit, kept their schadenfreude in check.
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There's an element of schadenfreude, too, that I can't deny.
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There is no doubt some schadenfreude lurking in the fascination
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CARLOS GHOSN may have allowed himself some Schadenfreude this week.
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If there was a hint of schadenfreude, it did not show.
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Many have seen it as evidence of the power of schadenfreude.
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Consider the fact that Schadenfreude has been imported wholesale into English.
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I'm the worst for carrying around this ugly case of schadenfreude.
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But it's hard to build technology on a foundation of schadenfreude.
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Then have we got some Dubs Opening Night Schadenfreude for you!
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Many critics claim that the appeal of reality TV is schadenfreude.
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And German has a word for the opposite of firgun: schadenfreude.
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If that happens, the only group enjoying schadenfreude will be Democrats.
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Paul's face lights up with something we've never seen on him: schadenfreude.
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But I must admit there's some schadenfreude involved with loving this series.
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Thousands delighted in the schadenfreude, sharing images of miserable-looking Clinton supporters.
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But that illusion of perfection has fed the schadenfreude machine this week.
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The Germans have at least given them a word for it: Schadenfreude.
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The schadenfreude online when Trumpcare collapsed for a second time was deafening.
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There is an unmistakable sense of Schadenfreude in some of those who
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The 21st-century political media complex exists for this kind of Schadenfreude.
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Schadenfreude is the flip side of reverence, and perhaps a stronger attraction.
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So they have dealt with limited success and (mostly his) boundless schadenfreude.
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But overindulging in schadenfreude, as some Europeans are already doing, could backfire.
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At least one Republican in the race enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude.
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Macy is well versed in the rigors of schadenfreude and social judgment.
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The episode unleashed plenty of schadenfreude, and some criticism, on social media.
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Getty wheezes with schadenfreude-like pleasure picturing Gordon in the Middle East.
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I am not sure I have ever experienced Schadenfreude in purer form.
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What goes around comes around, and the temptation for schadenfreude is great.
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And they can also provide a decent sliver of schadenfreude if you're not.
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Competitors are enjoying some schadenfreude: they can't help but delight in SoftBank's pain.
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In a world filled with overhyped nonsense, Fyre offers some easily appreciated schadenfreude.
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The lurid details have provoked embarrassment for universities and Schadenfreude for the public.
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I'm German, and in Germany we have schadenfreude, gloating at other people's misfortune.
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There's showbiz on the other, red in tooth and claw, schadenfreude and sex.
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But traditional newsrooms everywhere were reveling in the schadenfreude just the same. Aha!
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Hearing that, Mr. Cate expressed pride — and maybe even a hint of schadenfreude.
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Is it pure schadenfreude, or is there something more to the juicy details?
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That would be enough to turn on the schadenfreude when Friday's news broke.
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Any little surges of tenderness are inevitably yanked back by fits of schadenfreude.
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Mr. Netanyahu's troubles should not be a cause for schadenfreude among his foes.
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When it complied, the Presidents Cup was alive with the sounds of schadenfreude.
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As such, it is perfect for schadenfreude lovers ravished by weariness and woe.
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True schadenfreude is built on seeing your fellow humans fail with epic splendor.
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For the state's liberals, it has been a moment to bask in schadenfreude.
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There is no emoji for schadenfreude, or mansplaining, or thinking about your own death.
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It revels in shame, and, people like my ballet teacher in middle school, schadenfreude.
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The true mark of friendship, according to Munn, is a little bit of schadenfreude.
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As was the superlative schadenfreude with which her loss was received by the world.
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Hillary Clinton just admitted to a schadenfreude moment after the GOP's health-plan failure.
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That's right: According to this study, people prone to empathy are prone to schadenfreude.
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With the hedge fund "It Boy" dethroned, the schadenfreude on Wall Street is thick.
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So Taylor disappeared from public life for a year to wait out the schadenfreude.
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Both films offer schadenfreude and cringe entertainment, but they also tell a cautionary tale.
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You can watch the cringe-worthy moment below, if you're into that sort of schadenfreude.
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Mr Barnier, a former foreign minister, is too polite to join the circus of Schadenfreude.
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As a top manager leaves amid fundraising woes, SoftBank's vision looks dimmer — and schadenfreude abounds
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Any Schadenfreude felt in Europe's periphery at Deutsche Bank's tumbling shares should be stifled, however.
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The series is occasionally entertaining, but in a "schadenfreude for the filmmaker" kind of way.
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My favorite structural improvement is also the one most richly steeped in Schadenfreude: seamless updates.
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Seeking schadenfreude by reading about a Thanksgiving from hell guaranteed to be worse than yours?
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The jokes are unlikely to subside because, beyond schadenfreude, the phrase also has some substance.
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In this year of general political misery, I don't begrudge anyone their share of schadenfreude.
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It's difficult to understand our seemingly bottomless appetite for true crime as anything but schadenfreude.
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They also did so while affording our readers the pleasure of schadenfreude at our expense.
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It should be a cash cow for subscribers seeking Schadenfreude, juvenile manipulation, and general stupidity.
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The exclusive resort's passage denied Trump's opponents what would have been some sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
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Well, it was seven days' worth of ups and downs, with just a smidgen of schadenfreude.
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And you can watch it live in all of its sure-to-be-schadenfreude-filled glory.
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It encourages malice and feeds our appetite for schadenfreude ("The years haven't been kind to him . . .").
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Connecticut did try to keep GE. And there's no schadenfreude in Hartford over GE's recent woes.
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Schadenfreude seekers who just want to see Weiner sweat and suffer will get their money's worth.
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Only through shared Cowboys schadenfreude can we hope to unite after a bitterly contested political campaign.
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But was his tweet just a burst of schadenfreude from a mean, impulsive and narcissistic bully?
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Of course the part carried enormous risk; bad biopics invite a particularly gleeful type of schadenfreude.
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"No schadenfreude will be had," Coons added, now that candidates other than Biden are drawing heat.
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That's why everyone knows about Schadenfreude and how the Eskimos have forty-something words for snow.
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And it provides more schadenfreude for those in Silicon Valley who want to see SoftBank suffer.
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Here is an abridged list, for reference/schadenfreude:• My senior year of college, I shattered my ankle.
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Donald Trump's schadenfreude in the DNC's embarrassing email leak is standard practice in America's messy electoral politics.
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But if there was a cynical cash-grab behind the scenes, The Conners displays no schadenfreude onscreen.
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Under these circumstances, empathy evaporates or even reverses into schadenfreude, or enjoyment of the other side's suffering.
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That's the basic definition of schadenfreude: we experience pleasure when we win, but also when others lose.
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For example, we all know that schadenfreude means to feel joy or glee in someone else's misfortune.
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Perhaps the most famous example is "Schadenfreude", the German term describing pleasure at the misfortunes of others.
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At the 2014 NFL Draft, stock in Johnny Manziel plummeted, and many fans didn't contain their schadenfreude.
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You can practically feel her struggle through the computer screen, but it's a total case of schadenfreude.
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The news announcement was enough to trigger a wave of fear and schadenfreude in the media world.
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It was with an overwhelming sense of schadenfreude that the far right in America stepped into 2017.
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Sharapova's peers will be a tougher audience: There was no shortage of schadenfreude when she was suspended.
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Its collapse was witnessed in real time on social media, providing a source of seemingly endless schadenfreude.
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The catharsis stemming from the schadenfreude of Negan's death isn't canceled out when he survives the day.
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My column — these flip little paragraphs that combined hero worship and schadenfreude — they might have been accurate.
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But because humans seem to delight in public schadenfreude, we now have ways to broadcast that misery.
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But as Phillips warns in the intro, if you don't enjoy schadenfreude, Humans might not be for you.
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The Schadenfreude is truly juicy here and it was already clear that things were bad a year ago.
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Digital Homicide's Steam group remains, though, and users are taking to the comments section to express their schadenfreude.
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Renzi went easy on expressing any Schadenfreude on Friday, but knocked the ball back into the German court.
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There's also an undeniable sense of schadenfreude when their plans blow up in their faces (sometimes quite literally).
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In that case, at least everyone can have the schadenfreude of me complaining about Bing for a year.
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It was also partly out of schadenfreude, the joy of seeing the failure of others, while failing ourselves.
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DON McKENZIE West Ryde, Australia To the Editor: Each new fumble by Donald Trump's team brings me schadenfreude.
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And there have been moments when it's felt as if Woods was luxuriating in the justness, in schadenfreude.
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Your anger or indignation or gleeful schadenfreude is only one drop in a great countrywide wave of it.
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Maybe. Is it an exercise in schadenfreude to watch Zuckerberg have to devote his time to grandstanding olds?
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Those misfortunes, of course, mean it has also been a rare year of schadenfreude for many outside Duke.
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When reigning champions Germany were knocked out at the group stages, the shock was soon followed by schadenfreude.
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And in fact that's how schadenfreude feels to most Americans because they have a word they've used a lot.
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If you're in the rest of the world, enjoy these amazing weather pics and maybe a little schadenfreude. [NOAA]
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A lot of people are paying attention for different reasons: hope, schadenfreude, the possibility of making money, basic voyeurism.
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And China has also given outsize coverage to the elections, displaying the schadenfreude of other US rivals and enemies.
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There is, he has said, "no Schadenfreude" about the troubles at Kraft Heinz following its calamitous results in February.
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The wreckage of America's political climate, mixed with social media and online bullying, can seem like a schadenfreude buffet.
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There will be schadenfreude among those who favor closing national borders over Merkel's "moral imperialism", especially in Central Europe.
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While the robots here might not be rising up, there's still a certain amount of schadenfreude at what happens.
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It's one of the purest and most delightful forms of visual humor, with just the right amount of schadenfreude.
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It was a festival of schadenfreude for the Noah haters among us, a portrait of isolation, estrangement and pain.
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Liberals will have to go without the delicious current of schadenfreude and their daily ritual baths of moral superiority.
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We should be skeptical of their schadenfreude, and try to not retweet the worst of its genre on Twitter.
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In a moment inspiring near-universal schadenfreude, ISIS suffered a data breach that identified tens of thousands of its recruits.
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With more than a whiff of schadenfreude, Italy certainly seems to be enjoying not being the center of Europe's attention.
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You Really Shouldn't Miss This: If you needed the perfect video example of schadenfreude, this past week gave you several.
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Instead of pity and concern for the targeted party, celebrity harassment produces in fans feelings of both fascination and schadenfreude.
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Meanwhile, people on Twitter began using words like schadenfreude and first world problems, telling us how spoilt the punters were.
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Equal parts schadenfreude and inadequacy, with a seasoning of guilt and superstitious panic — that's the world according to Rosalind Chast.
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Rooting for a broken I.P.O. is not easy, and schadenfreude at the expense of the billionaire class is no justification.
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And you realize anew that for comedy to be fully effective, it has to elicit empathy as well as schadenfreude.
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But the national interest trumps schadenfreude, so I'm hoping for success — as long as it's not "the worst deal ever."
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The schadenfreude is deliciously good when he's asked to perform impersonations of Boston accents as he laughs through the intense pain.
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It is the equivalent of kicking Meek while he is down, because it elicits the best human feeling of all—schadenfreude.
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The schadenfreude in the aftermath of Fyre Festival proved too irresistible for the internet, but it's now taken a serious turn.
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If you're a fan of hating on the New England Patriots, you're probably enjoying a bit of schadenfreude right about now.
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As the self-styled intellectual and moral leader of the Republican Party, Ryan has become the object of unending liberal schadenfreude.
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Tallying up and moralizing Twitter's failings is a reliable, near-mandatory media exercise, along with a widespread schadenfreude-tinged public joke.
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Unfortunately for those keen on schadenfreude, WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann and his entourage will be absent from the show's final season.
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Now, though, Volya has resolved to write his first honest review, a prospect some of his readers anticipate with eager schadenfreude.
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That desire spawned the finest piece of Levine schadenfreude: his email correspondence with Alex Rodriguez, which surfaced during A-Rod's suspension.
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But watching this universe begin with such a confusing, paltry effort is unintentionally hilarious, and it makes for great Hollywood schadenfreude.
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True crime stories sometimes feel like they're catering to human tendencies to rubberneck (offering a dose of schadenfreude for good measure).
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"It looks as if in the future any German Schadenfreude on political chaos in other European countries will be very muted."
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So you then found yourself having edited all these things, and definitely, there was a lot of schadenfreude around that magazine.
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The answer, it seems, is that we love these people because they create stories in which we can experience acute schadenfreude.
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From Madeline, Jane, Celeste, Renata, and Bonnie, there are no pithy lines, no schadenfreude, no wry observations dropped in sneering triumph.
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Before he was canned (which left him "devastated," if you're in the market for schadenfreude), Pruitt frequently used the language of certainty.
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But Turkey is playing an extortion game, and is not above a little schadenfreude at seeing the Europe that rejected it fray.
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An audience must be able to recognize the exceedingly uncomfortable nature of an exchange while also indulging in a scoop of schadenfreude.
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But horny drama coupled with schadenfreude is still one of the internet's favorite things, so the memes about this are pretty good.
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The pleasure comes from the schadenfreude against the one percent — the scams, the plans, the actual damage done to the most powerful.
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In countries more accustomed to looking to the United States for guidance on democracy, this race offers an opportunity for gleeful schadenfreude.
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Op-Ed Contributor Watching high-powered sex offenders fall like dominoes recently has involved plenty of schadenfreude for women in many fields.
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In the wake of WeWork's failed IPO last month, schadenfreude fans had a lot to cheer from Adam Neumann's fall from grace.
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And I think cringe-y stuff kind of makes us feel a little better about ourselves… in a harmless schadenfreude kind of way.
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In their outrage, many promised to take their business elsewhere, leading to the only bright spot in this story, if you like schadenfreude.
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Barry's adventures elicit a delicious Schadenfreude as he travels across the country by Greyhound bus, carrying a suitcase full of staggeringly expensive watches.
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Meanwhile, two of the worst teams in the league face off in what could be a schadenfreude-fest for fans of other teams.
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"Schadenfreude runs deep, especially when it comes to someone who has succeeded and brought so many along with her," he wrote last month.
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Either way, it gave us plenty to talk about in April 20173, and it gave most of us a healthy dose of schadenfreude.
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If you don't mind a bit of schadenfreude, a new series about horrific and bizarre online dating stories is here to bring delight.
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In a political campaign as relentlessly nasty as this one, it must be hard to steal a moment of peace, much less schadenfreude.
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It's called Schadenfreude, and it's a feeling of relief or satisfaction that no, you are "not the only one," as the article states.
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Beyond the schadenfreude I get from watching Kamala's empty ideology fail, there is also a profound sense of justice in her campaign's flailings.
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Despising the success of someone you loathe is as poisonous to the mind and soul as the schadenfreude of reveling in their defeat.
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There's this tendency to engage in schadenfreude among media circles — particularly from "old media" types who enjoy seeing digital upstarts get their comeuppance.
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You can expect some schadenfreude: Mr. Stumpf had portrayed Wells as being different from the risky global investment banks behind the mortgage crisis.
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Schadenfreude because banks — seen as whipping boys since the 230 financial crisis — were delighted to see a tech giant brought down to earth.
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While many in the Bush circle are discouraged about Mr. Trump, they are also enjoying a bit of schadenfreude over the candidate's struggles.
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On Tennis WIMBLEDON, England — No matter what players say in front of a microphone, there is no shortage of schadenfreude in professional tennis.
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I've got a gift for all you schadenfreude junkies out there: a man fumbling with, then dropping, an extremely expensive bottle of alcohol.
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Trump-haters might revel in schadenfreude at the discomfort caused by Mueller's probe but the price is too high for such petty emotions.
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The pair have had the most prominent, most schadenfreude-inducing falls from grace—or at least falls from wealth—in all of Trumpland.
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It's a crisis because Okpokwasili is a foreigner, an immigrant, female, and black — some of the top finishers in US culture's schadenfreude sweepstakes.
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If you're smart enough to play "Jeopardy!" at home, then you're sufficiently evolved to suspect there's something deeply, profoundly silly about your homebound schadenfreude.
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Without a hint of schadenfreude, OPEC noted on Tuesday that non-OPEC supply was likely to continue to contract this year and into 245.
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Surveys also show that Germans are likelier than Americans, Britons or French to experience Schadenfreude when wealthy businessfolk lose their shirts in risky deals.
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While it's hard to pass on a chance to stoke startup schadenfreude, perhaps we could focus less on these rare, unrepresentative and dispiriting examples?
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It was one of the lowest points in his tenure, and made for compelling viewing as well as a fair amount of footballing schadenfreude.
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In a nice bit of schadenfreude, Travis LeBlanc, the head of the FCC's enforcement bureau, called out Comcast for its very obviously shady behavior.
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Their public overtures to Republicans in the aftermath of the Senate bill's collapse may be completely genuine, but also have a tinge of Schadenfreude.
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The video gave the VICELAND hosts an honest dose of schadenfreude—especially when one anchor ended up puking the ghost pepper-laced snack up.
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His chin, elongated in the grin of someone simultaneously inhaling concentrated THC oil and watching two friends tear one another apart, is pure schadenfreude.
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The festival goers went to Twitter to express their horror with the event and the internet, overdosing on rich kid schadenfreude, had a heyday.
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A few people who resented Dr. Fill's speed enjoyed the schadenfreude when the program missed a more complex theme that the human solvers understood.
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Farhad: I think there was some schadenfreude among media people about his announcement, but I found myself agreeing with a lot of Williams' position.
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But it quickly developed into full-blown schadenfreude when it turned out the shoddily made contraptions had a tendency to literally burst into flames.
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In other parts of the city, subway riders have felt a sense of relief — and even schadenfreude — to be spared from the transit nightmare.
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What happened, actually, was that it got horrible schadenfreude press, and kind of relentlessly so, and there comes a point where ... It's just endless.
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And if you can get past the schadenfreude that most non-Chelsea or United fans might have about this, it's actually kind of sad.
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Because Schadenfreude apparently just isn't as satisfying unless it's coupled with some gloat-y tweets, Twitter has been having a field day with this news.
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Somehow both charming and vile, Moscow-based animator Patiffonka's VFX-addled GIFs transform the schadenfreude of viral fail GIFs into sci-fi action movie absurdities.
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Chinese GDP bounced back; America's growth remained well below par for years, seemingly justifying a certain technocratic cockiness, as well as a degree of Schadenfreude.
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It's hard for many people to look at hedge funds' successes without a touch of envy, and often impossible to behold their messes without schadenfreude.
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Finally 24-hour news channels took over for the trusted voices of the nightly news, creating an endless viewer appetite for controversy, fear, and schadenfreude.
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Ah, but therein lies the paradox of Jeff Fisher football: it's far more fun to watch his teams play when you're only interested in schadenfreude.
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But a certain celebrity chef has recently been relegated to the singles tables by none other than the cornerstone of fiery celebrity schadenfreude, Hot Ones.
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National pride, friendly competition between countries that once went to war, an appetite for kitsch, schadenfreude, questionable taste — the reasons for applauding Eurovision are numerous.
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The financial sector has looked on with a mixture of schadenfreude and anxiety as the world slammed Facebook over its data breaches involving Cambridge Analytica.
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WILLIAM ACKMAN BETS AGAIN ON VALEANT, BUT IT COULD STILL CRUMBLE | The schadenfreude on Wall Street has been thick since William A. Ackman was dethroned,
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Gossip magazines — and drama channels — ostensibly seek to demand accountability from the powerful, but often it's really about schadenfreude and entertainment at someone else's expense.
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This week, police released drone footage of the whole incident, which was then broadcast on local news — and which you can watch with great schadenfreude below.
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I suspect all of these iPhone-esque gestures and animations will garner some combination of angst, schadenfreude, mockery, or relief depending on who's doing the reacting.
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Where once the schadenfreude of competitive television may have appealed, it is difficult to take joy in the misery of others when anger is so pervasive.
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The Fyre Festival saga, which at first seemed a tale of millennial narcissism, isn't just a lesson in schadenfreude, it's also about hideous corruption and exploitation.
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Early seasons of Black Mirror did jolt people from their comfort zones, making them think twice about binging on schadenfreude or relentlessly pursuing total recall technology.
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Discovering these so-called "schadenfreude neurons" was serendipitous—a side benefit of the main study, whose key findings were focused on neurons associated with observational learning.
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But honestly, it could only have ended this way; any good deed that generates this much schadenfreude and embarrasses hundreds of wealthy socialites cannot go unpunished.
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As the clock ran out and Iceland celebrated, the Internet joined in, sharing their joy over the underdog's victory and reveling in schadenfreude over England's loss.
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As for the EU's travails, they might be expected to provoke some Schadenfreude among the ten members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
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Op-Ed Contributor When Harvey Weinstein's decades of sexual predation came to light last month, one could hear the soft din of schadenfreude from many evangelicals.
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What's more, some research found that the hormone might even play a role in negative social emotions too, such as increasing feelings of envy and schadenfreude.
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It watches with Communist Chinese schadenfreude as the virus spreads through the United States, the stock market crashes calamitously, and the U.S. economy teeters toward recession.
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The Parks are moral, friendly, and not harboring any horrible secrets (that they're aware of, anyhow), and they're not made miserable so we can experience schadenfreude.
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European Union officials in Brussels insisted that dealing with a weakened Britain was not in their interest, but there was no disguising a dollop of schadenfreude.
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So perhaps some of us in Ireland can be allowed a moment of schadenfreude as we look across the same sea and ask a similar question.
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"In a country that is big on schadenfreude, our comeback is an encouraging message — after failure, a new beginning is possible," party leader Christian Lindner told supporters.
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Now before the #haters die of Swift schadenfreude, there are multiple reasons why this could be happening — and none of them have to do with bad karma.
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Call it female schadenfreude — I certainly would never want to wear a bikini on national television, but hey, it's fun to watch others be subjected to it.
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And while I have reduced my number of hate-follows in my advanced age, I do keep a few around for schadenfreude and self-manufactured jealousy purposes.
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I have never felt a more powerful mix of schadenfreude and secondhand embarrassment than when I watch this Vic Berger clip of Jeb Bush naming Apple products.
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Even if the public urinator isn't homeless, it feels a bit nasty to indulge in the schadenfreude of knowing some drunk dude got piss all over him.
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"To see someone so arrogant who wanted to destroy their opposition be absolutely humiliated, and to lose on their own terms so badly, is just pure Schadenfreude!"
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It could also service everyone in need of a good dose of schadenfreude in an otherwise terrible existence of knowing President Donald Trump is still in office.
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What surprised me more was startups that would just not entertain me as a hire and then I kind of look at their trajectory ... Some schadenfreude, maybe?
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Perhaps, (spinning off from the Americanization of schadenfreude) that word could be Ein Pferd Geschichte, which is German for "A Horse Story," which is what this is.
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Instead, click through to unearth some feel-good, funny, and at times schadenfreude-ish GIFs and video clips we've sourced from the far corners of the internet.
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It was a bad contract for a bad team, and as a fan of the New York Jets I can tell you, nothing sells papers like schadenfreude.
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SCHADENFREUDE: The Hill's Jonathan Swan reports: Donald Trump railed against the media at a Florida rally Wednesday, gleefully mocking the financial situation of The New York Times.
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It's hard to see how leftist Schadenfreude at this news is anything but seriously misguided: Whatever replaces The Weekly Standard is almost certain to be much worse.
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But there would be no nostalgia Monday, only surprise — shock, really — and a global cocktail of more conflicting reactions that ranged from disillusionment to schadenfreude to sympathy.
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He is respected enough that his posts are well read; he is cutting enough that many of his critiques are enjoyed with a strong sense of schadenfreude.
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Europa, the youngest, a girl of perhaps 7, turns toward the losing sister and flashes a nearly ecstatic grin — perhaps the first expression of schadenfreude in art?
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When attendees got to the island and started tweeting pictures of their accommodations (FEMA tents, sad cheese sandwiches), an immediate wave of schadenfreude washed over the 'net.
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Congressional plans to tax the endowments of wealthy private schools and the tuition benefits of graduate students have elicited outrage from universities and schadenfreude from Trump supporters.
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And as a professor who has attended, and sometimes chaired, many faculty meetings for the past decade, I delighted, with schadenfreude, in the inefficacy of the Committee.
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But for most internet spectators, the event has turned into an opportunity to bask in the schadenfreude of seeing the proverbial "rich kids of Instagram" get duped.
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Stories of lottery winners may inspire envy, but there's no shortage of schadenfreude either — which brings us to the cottage industry of horrific stories about "cursed" lottery winners.
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The sports world was treated to a meltdown in real time Wednesday night, a toxic brew of schadenfreude and absurdity that's also an apparent first for college football.
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I don't get the same surge of schadenfreude from it that you do though—perhaps because I know some things that you are not (apparently) taking into account.
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Much of the reaction has been predictable: eye-rolling laced with schadenfreude (it didn't help that the name of the group was "Harvard Memes for Horny Bourgeois Teens").
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There are a lot of dark emotions in watching Fyre—schadenfreude, inverted jealousy, a sick sort of feeling of validation—but what can we learn from it all?
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For executives at the nation's dominant cable and phone companies, however, the news is sure to be greeted with cackles of delight and no small amount of schadenfreude.
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Like many men, I have watched the moral collapse of my gender with a mix of emotions that includes shame, compassion, anger and an occasional flicker of schadenfreude.
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Whether they're singing about schadenfreude in the Broadway show "Avenue Q" or something nonsensical like "Manamana" on "Sesame Street," these anthropomorphized piles of fabric and felt emanate hilarity.
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This event was many things: an international laughingstock, an object lesson in hubris, a surprise survivalist adventure and a handy repository for all the schadenfreude in the world.
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To me it seems to be a lot more about moral grandstanding and a schadenfreude in seeing someone else struggle with something private in a harsh public spotlight.
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There has been a weird epidemic of shortsighted schadenfreude among Republican insiders over the past week as they watch Trump's campaign blunder through the intricacies of delegate selection.
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Here's an example: you probably had experienced schadenfreude without knowing the word, but your brain would have to work really hard to construct those concepts and make those emotions.
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"It's partly an empathy for Soviet existence and also schadenfreude for these titans of industry, that there were swathes of the world that they were forbidden from," he says.
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WMT Price data by YCharts Minutes after Amazon announced the Whole Foods deal, Instacart's name also popped into Twitter's trending topics as a brief moment of schadenfreude took hold.
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The schadenfreude comes after a very long effort to tear down Trump, culminating in a big cover by the conservative magazine National Review, which Lowry is the editor of.
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"What we are actually seeing is that the activity correlates with schadenfreude; within the limits of this study, we cannot know what the causal relationship is," he told Gizmodo.
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Sure, this clip doesn't do anything to undo the 2016 election results, but at least it gives us a brief moment of schadenfreude to keep us warm at night.
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For the rest of us, it's either a matter of indifference, transitory pleasure or full-on schadenfreude, depending on how much we like explosions and/or dislike West Ham.
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Many of those shows were truly awful (remember The Briefcase?), but the best ones managed to transcend reality-show schadenfreude to become something genuinely enjoyable in their own right.
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Autocorrect failures are a great source of internet schadenfreude, but they typically come at the expense of a texter's mental anguish for having tapped send one second too soon.
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Since its beginning in 49, Gawker has been a veritable schadenfreude machine, taking delight in deflating the egos of New York's cultural elite, among other, perhaps less worthy, targets.
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Her style was not the intimidating jugular attack of columnists who expose intimacies or misdeeds in the private lives of public figures, thriving on Schadenfreude and sometimes damaging reputations.
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My parents were visiting Zambia from South Africa and in the town of Livingstone met a woman who, upon discovering that they were Zimbabwean, could not hide her schadenfreude.
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Some worried about the effects of a verdict against Gawker, and others expressed more than a little schadenfreude about the prospect of seeing Denton and the site slapped down.
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So a series of setbacks for Norwegian, the latest LCC to try its hand at long-haul flights, has set off a round of Schadenfreude at established airlines across Europe.
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No one is surprised by this reaction, and coverage of it is one part schadenfreude, one part reminder that the new white supremacy hasn't strayed far from its horrific roots.
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Elsewhere in corporate schadenfreude, Boeing continued to work on a fix for its troubled 737 MAX, while a researcher found security vulnerabilities in the code of its 787 Dreamliner jet.
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Silicon Valley tech banker Frank Quattrone was feeling some schadenfreude yesterday toward James Comey, who famously prosecuted Quattrone in the aftermath of the dotcom bubble (although the charges didn't stick).
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But schadenfreude is too attractive an emotion to pass up, an occasion to pay the U.K. back for its haughtiness to other countries it deems less well governed than itself.
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However, before indulging in schadenfreude about Macron's current political tribulations, it is well to recall that he was likely France's last best hope for much needed market-based economic reform.
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Even though a little schadenfreude shall be allowed, it is more important to see them in the light of our own failures and learn how to turn them into success.
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I'm certainly not the only one addicted to the schadenfreude that comes with watching The Bachelor; in fact, for this season, I joined a Fantasy League with some unabashed coworkers.
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This tribal mentality is tearing the civic fabric and creates a war of what Goldberg thinks of as "ecstatic schadenfreude" — the exaltation people feel when tribal foes are brought down.
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And it punctuated a week that has been defined by cathartic, almost orgiastic schadenfreude over Michael Wolff's gossipy takedown of Donald Trump and the latter's depressingly undignified response to it.
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These expressive partisans also feel increased schadenfreude, a complex positive emotion, when they read about bad things happening to or reflecting poorly on a political candidate of the other party.
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They wouldn't necessarily kill at the Laugh Factory, but Sun's Twitter account offers comfort, whimsy and an alternative to the rage/panic/schadenfreude/political flame-warring of much online discourse.
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For viewers, delighting in this schadenfreude isn't so different from the despair and anguish players have been inflicting on their avatars in The Sims since the first game launched in 2000.
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But the best part is that every time someone compliments your beautiful rug, you'll get to chuckle as you fondly remember the schadenfreude-fueled social media disaster that was Fyre Fest.
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Meanwhile, several cameramen run around the three to get the maximum effect of what they're sure will be a humiliating moment for her and a schadenfreude fix for viewers at home.
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Nevertheless, the intelligent direction by Richard T. Dolce and the brightly energetic acting bring out the fun — call it schadenfreude — in watching an escalating battle among four accomplished and privileged adults.
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It was full of lingering ill-will for his decision to the leave the Cleveland Cavaliers and snarky schadenfreude over his initial failure to win a championship with the Miami Heat.
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While at least two investors where allegedly bilked out of $1.2 million dollars, according to the statement, at least the rest of us were treated to a lifetime's worth of schadenfreude.
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Reporters for Vice, Bloomberg, and WCBS reported Shkreli's remorse for his many, many actions that have led to one of the biggest examples of schadenfreude we've seen in quite some time.
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You should read it, then come on back here for the schadenfreude that inevitably follows every single moment in Twitter's long history of trying do define and / or redefine itself. Back?
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Valentine also offered a pseudo-guarantee the Spartans would win the title, only increasing the level of schadenfreude directed Michigan State's way by many after they lost in the first round.
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WILLIAM ACKMAN BETS AGAIN ON VALEANT, BUT IT COULD STILL CRUMBLE | The schadenfreude on Wall Street has been thick since William A. Ackman was dethroned, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in DealBook.
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The Great British Baking Show (The Great British Bake Off in the UK) is empty of the backbiting or schadenfreude that many American reality shows use to ramp up dramatic tension.
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Although polls show that most Turks would have preferred to see Hillary Clinton as America's new president, Mr Trump's election has been greeted in Ankara with a mix of schadenfreude and hope.
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Around the same time, Duke fell out of the top 25 for the first time in nine years, the kind of weird occurrence that threatens to produce a mushroom-cloud of schadenfreude.
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It was a kind of entertainment that was rooted in white supremacy and schadenfreude — demeaning others to secure and confirm one's place in the social hierarchy while finding pleasure in all that.
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Some of us enjoy the schadenfreude of seeing bad people say outrageous things, or getting a glimpse of how the other half lives — even if we wouldn't ever get along with them.
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But, of course, none of these shows would have existed without the sensationalistic OG teen soap that set the stage for all of their youthful schadenfreude and melodrama to unfold – Beverly Hills, 90210.
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Fans around the world reacted with equal measures of shock and Schadenfreude as Germany finished bottom of the group, so familiar were they with Die Mannschaft's inevitable procession to the tournament's final week.
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I curled under the rough blanket, listening to the sounds of Sagrado's streets and feeling the same uncomfortable mix of schadenfreude and envy that usually traveled in the wake of these optional tragedies.
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Despite the possibility of attracting backlash for reinforcing gender stereotypes and schadenfreude should things go wrong, some couples have felt that confetti or cake sprinkles are not flashy enough to deliver their messages.
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That would be a form of sweet schadenfreude for Trump haters, but also a tragedy for potentially hundreds of thousands of Americans who might lose out on the opportunity to get a job.
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And as the foes of the far right have their moment of schadenfreude, they should also be mindful that the nationalist right tends to dismiss accusations against their leaders as attacks by detractors.
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It is also true that there is a good deal of schadenfreude about the British departure on the other side of the English Channel, which does little to help finding a good outcome.
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But on Friday, as news broke that pharma-bro-turned-internet-troll Martin Shkreli was convicted of securities fraud, schadenfreude circulated through the online masses; justice, for this one brief moment, had been served.
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Karla HolomonDurham, N.C. To the Editor: As much as Jennifer Weiner may relish the schadenfreude of seeing President Trump treated as nastily as he treats others, such rancorous attitudes will only hurt American democracy.
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As a lover of all things mechanical – I did ruin a few years of my life writing a book about a watch – I look at these trends with dismay and a bit of Schadenfreude.
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Twitter user LeleTill, whose real name is Leah, is the latest subject of social-media schadenfreude after she shared a regrettable experience involving her face and a bottle of Palmer Washable Glitter Poster Paint.
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But there's still a certain schadenfreude in seeing companies invest so much in appearing friendly and relatable only to seem the most human when they're doing exactly what everyone does online: Creating bad tweets.
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It triggers a primal part of the brain that is wired solely for schadenfreude, and, because we've seen in real-time that this person sucks, we don't have to feel bad for their suffering.
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This could be amusing to Silicon Valley haters, a bit of schadenfreude for the type of people who say they are changing the world but more often than not invest in food delivery apps.
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While Harper got as much schadenfreude as anyone else watching Justin Trudeau eat crow and nationalize pipelines, the sting of losing an election to the literal son of his political arch-nemesis still lingers.
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But lost in the schadenfreude that greeted the group's collapse was a beloved trait of an unloved organization: a democracy requirement for members that offers a potent tool for solving the crisis in Venezuela.
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In its flowering, the phrase has been reimagined as a prism capable of refracting entirely new hues of meaning: schadenfreude, criticism, vague amusement and surprise, disappointment in society, self-deprecation, faux dismay, even bragging.
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For a Downing Street so often portrayed by the opposition — and indeed by resigning Cabinet ministers like Amber Rudd — as insincere about a clinching a pact, the culmination of negotiations brought a certain schadenfreude.
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So it was no surprise that there was some schadenfreude among Mr. Buttigieg's rivals over an article we published Tuesday that explored grievances held by staff members of color at the Buttigieg campaign headquarters.
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If nothing else, the company pulling out may have bought locals some time in the face of relentless gentrification, while producing a much-needed dose of schadenfreude at the expense of America's luxury class.
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They wanted me to share in the schadenfreude; these were the halcyon post-convention days when Hillary Clinton had opened up a whopping 50 percent lead over Trump in the FiveThirtyEight "Chance of Winning" forecast.
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It's rare that the world experiences such a perfect storm of schadenfreude as the one offered up by #FyreFestival, the on-the-ground reports from an "exclusive" musical fest in the Bahamas gone terribly wrong.
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The fall of Rahm Emanuel, seemingly a political dead man walking because of his alleged role in covering up the video showing Chicago cops shooting a black teenager, has united right and left in schadenfreude.
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They are tales of misfortune and warning, recounted either as lamentations on the vagaries of fate, or condemnations of carelessness, with hints of schadenfreude when the shooter and the shot are one and the same.
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In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby, which claimed that covering emergency contraceptives and IUDs for women violated its right to exercise religious freedom And so, Wednesday, the schadenfreude flowed freely.
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There's a certain amount of schadenfreude about the world's largest—and most unfortunate—gummy bear being swiftly disemboweled by a molten sphere, and I understand the deep satisfaction of watching one force work against another.
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Let's go back a few years to a Barron's cover that generated all manner of hate, dismissal, schadenfreude, snark, sarcasm and sardonicism: Yes, it's a bull on a goddamn pogo stick, vaulting over a bear.
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Deal Professor Whether experiencing schadenfreude or finding insight, many think they know what is responsible for the turmoil at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International as it falls from a darling of Wall Street to its punching bag.
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At the heart of the case was New Jersey voters' decision to legalize sports betting in the state in 2011 as revenues from Atlantic City's casinos (the only places where hopelessness and schadenfreude converge) declined.
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But Brazil will be the team going deeper in this World Cup after qualifying for the knockout round later on Wednesday, and some Brazilians were in no mood to deprive themselves of a little schadenfreude.
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So it was with a touch of schadenfreude that we learned the SEC charged Ryan Brant with being the architect of massive financial fraud, a scheme that included back-dating stocks and lying to investors.
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The Twitterverse is exploding with schadenfreude at the rapid downfall of Anthony Scaramucci, President Trump's ill-fated communications director who got axed after just 10 days following a foul-mouthed tirade to The New Yorker.
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But Brasillach's sliminess and the pain that he caused Jews and other vulnerable people during the occupation make it impossible not to feel a hint of something that only a German word can express: schadenfreude.
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Here's what is worth considering when deciding who to root for: Who's likely to play stylish football, who seems to want it more, who would it absolutely crush to lose, sending schadenfreude levels through the roof?
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Fiduciaries: There has been a lot of Twitter posturing and schadenfreude over this mess, but the job of Uber's investor board members this past weekend was to preserve value ― not appease the critics or the apologists.
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People have always been obsessed with bloopers and movie mistakes—finding them is like peeking behind the curtain and seeing Oz. But reactions to the Westerosi latte vacillate between schadenfreude and genuine, if good-humored, irritation.
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And so her fall seemed to elicit a particular brand of female schadenfreude: She seemed a little too eager, a little too ambitious, a little too self-promoting, enjoying the attention just a little too much.
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I'll admit to a tingle of schadenfreude as I looked over at Hekla to see to see if the soul of anyone on my hit list was plunging into hellfire, but I didn't dwell on it.
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The episode unleashed plenty of schadenfreude and some criticism, largely prompted by a photo of a dripping Alexander Gauland, a leader of the Alternative for Germany party, as he was escorted home seminaked by the police.
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Ultimately, this system tends to benefit ideologies more, often at the expense of folks who are elsewhere attending to life's daily demands For my Republican friends, there is no need for a schadenfreude moment or gloating.
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With every passing year, the dirtbags of It's Always Sunny keep finding new ways to horrify their audience into the kind of relieved laughter that goes hand in hand with "at least it's not me" schadenfreude.
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Such words pique our curiosity, as they appear to reveal something specific about the culture that created them – as if German people are potentially especially liable to feelings of Schadenfreude (though I don't believe that's the case).
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One of the many internet subcultures to pop up in the Trump era is the schadenfreude-laden discourse around Trump voters who now regret their choice, often after ignoring the warnings of scores of friends and family.
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Why did the Daily Wire, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro's outlet, find that news worth covering in the first place, besides the schadenfreude the outlet knew it would provide conservative readers who don't like Hogg and his movement?
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On the left the response has ranged between sweet sighs of relief to exuberant schadenfreude—both of which are appropriate responses if you view Trump as a mere vessel and Bannon as the Rasputin behind the throne.
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And just maybe, when things go wrong for people like that, as they did for Brady and the Patriots for a good part of Sunday night, maybe that is why there is never a shortage of schadenfreude.
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To help you plan your journey — or to give you a feeling of schadenfreude if you decided to stay at home — we've made this map showing the path of the total eclipse and live traffic conditions from Google.
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So until there's some sign that #DumpStarWars will do more than Trump supporters' Hamilton boycott, go point them at Rogue One (or some other movie of your choosing), not a soul-sucking abyss that delivers only false schadenfreude.
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Without Twitter's collective schadenfreude, or the high-wire danger of larger-scale productions, the live "She Loves Me" became like the musical cigarette box in the show itself — more important as a symbol than as an actual product.
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During recent reporting visits to Brussels and Luxembourg, several interviews with European leaders - from EU commissioners to Baltic premiers to Teutonic finance ministers - have revealed a certain level of Schadenfreude directed at May's recent electoral and parliamentary travails.
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With Flair, loss was always a built-in part of the narrative of predetermined sports entertainment, the satisfying, schadenfreude-sprinkled conclusion to all of the stylin' and profilin' sun of a gun's sinful hubris for the average wrestling fan.
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In case you were nowhere near a computer, TV, phone, newspaper, or group of people doubled over in Schadenfreude-stimulated hysterics, Fox News fired Bill O'Reilly yesterday following public outcry about allegations of sexual harassment against the conservative pundit.
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Though, while I am certainly not a purveyor of schadenfreude, for once it would appear the misfortune of one could provide the masses with one of the UFC's finest fights to make, should Dillashaw and White have their way.
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I confess to feeling a pang of jealousy when Cederström produces a complete book manuscript in a euphoric amphetamine rush induced by study drugs during Productivity Month—and a surge of Schadenfreude when it's rejected by his baffled publisher.
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But as someone who recently spent some time looking for an apartment in Los Angeles, I'll admit to feeling a bit of schadenfreude upon reading that at least one landlord asked for four months' rent as a security deposit.
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The fact that America has become the target of a campaign similar to those which it regularly employs against other nations, such as tampering in an election, is a source of Schadenfreude for many people, even in the West.
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Despite the schadenfreude that always floods us whenever Trump steps on a rake, we are losing sight of an important reality of the American system of government: Policy is not what a group of advisers decides ahead of time.
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The internet trades on schadenfreude and Nelson Muntz-ing everything, and ESPN sending a guy named Robert Lee to Charlottesville could just as easily have had everyone up in arms as they are right now with him being moved off it.
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The chief executive was so camera-shy that one candid photo of the Zuckerberg clan — taken by his sister Randi, who didn't understand Facebook's privacy settings — prompted a ripple of schadenfreude across the blogosphere in 2012 when it was shared publicly.
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I've watched in amazement (and, I will admit, no small amount of Schadenfreude) as people who vigorously defended the decision to remove a standard, common port on the iPhone are bemoaning the fact that Apple did exactly that on the MacBook.
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Since its debut season in 2002, "The Bachelor" and its many offspring shows have made for a durable and reliable fantasy factory, a hiding-in-plain-sight reminder of the endless American appetite for love stories, and also for schadenfreude.
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" But could there also be a whisper of East Coast resentment — or shall we say schadenfreude — from out-of-state commentators who, understandably, might be irritated by, to use a seasonal example, the cheery "Merry Christmas from the Santa Monica beach!
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As the growth of infections in the country has seemingly slowed, Beijing has pivoted to provisioning protective gear to Italy for a price, while its propagandists engage in a barely concealed display of schadenfreude aimed squarely at the United States.
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Some fact-checkers question the origins of the heightened interest in their work, suggesting it may stem from a sort of schadenfreude effect — a desire to catch the candidates in fibs rather than a genuine interest in learning about their policies.
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And because everything in 133 has to be about one political side attacking another, Twitter is currently filled with users celebrating the delicious schadenfreude of Barack Obama making the list of most retweeted posts twice, while Trump is nowhere to be found.
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It feels only fitting that her fall has made her an even more irresistible subject — an illustration of Silicon Valley hubris, an archetype for the dark side of disruptor culture, a target for armchair diagnosis, and an apparently boundless source of schadenfreude.
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In a year when a president ascended to the White House by railing against coastal elites, Juicero was Silicon Valley schadenfreude made all the more beautiful by founder Doug Evans posting videos from Burning Man as the company shut down in September.
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Image: Raegan Medgie/TwitterHere's a bit of schadenfreude for those of us who can't afford to breathe in New York's Upper West Side: A water main break last night created a sinkhole, and that sinkhole swallow an entire BMW worth around $55,000*.
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For Democrats who are used to Rove unleashing demagogic attacks on their candidates, notably the character assassination of John Kerry in 2004, it was pure schadenfreude to see Bush's brain get his comeuppance from the very conspiratorial forces the GOP has unleashed.
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The core game remained one where players sought to get rich from owning land and despite the schadenfreude inherent in taking other players' money, Magie firmly believed that when people played the Landlord's Game they would see the injustice of it all.
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Critics and audiences alike rejected the film as an overblown train wreck without a shred of self-awareness, amusing by way of schadenfreude, failing to recognize Verhoeven's exaggeration as being in service of a vicious satire on the garishness of American entertainment.
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But that bit of schadenfreude was apparently not enough to bury the Walton-Fagan rivalry and it flared back up last night with at least two of the three involved in attendance: Kasey Fagan and Cheyenne Coyle are now graduate assistants at Auburn.
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Germany's euro partners are being very discreet about Berlin's "machtkampf" (struggle for power), although one could have expected some of them to bubble with schadenfreude at the travails of their ever-ready lecturers and enforcers on matters of economic and political virtue.
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According to Vox's own teen drama expert Constance Grady, "the fandom really hated Dawson and hardcore shipped Joey/Pacey, so there was a lot of schadenfreude in that moment where he essentially 'lost'" — all of which helped catapult this GIF to perennial meme status.
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The latest video from The School of Life explores the German words that aim to condense hard-to-describe emotions into a single expression (you've probably already heard of "Schadenfreude", which is on there, but there are a bunch of lesser-known ones too).
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Both films spend time unpacking the schadenfreude-fueled glee that exploded across Twitter when the first tweets from desperate Fyre Festival attendees started going viral — everyone who watched the drama unfold, as several people point out, loved seeing rich, spoiled millennials get their comeuppance.
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Lundquist adds that part of our fascination with these stories has to do with a sense of Schadenfreude (where we laugh at someone else's misfortune): we get to feel better than other people by hearing about them getting duped, and think, that would never happen to me.
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Nonetheless, our vicarious schadenfreude over UK politics, our boning up on the cast of characters that comprise the UK political scene, and our study of the "backstop," and the fact that it's needed to maintain peace on the island of Ireland, has obscured our real interest.
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Indeed, over the past year, Mr. Sietsema, the senior critic at Eater NY, has watched with mild schadenfreude but greater alarm as his neighborhood has undergone yet another transformation from a famed retail corridor whose commercial rents and exclusivity rivaled Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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It is the kind of agonizing Catch-22 that immediately provoked varying levels of schadenfreude from politicians and pundits on the right, even though they have been far more explicit in their disregard for race and gender and their desire to obtain power by any means necessary.
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Once news of the host's departure was made public, the internet was quick to revel in schadenfreude, as O'Reilly had become synonymous with Fox News over the last twenty years and no one could figure out how so many women's complaints had been repeatedly ignored at the network.
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But in the meantime, there is some discernible paranoia (and, to be sure, some schadenfreude) in corridors of wealth like Silicon Valley about whether there are more shoes to drop — marquee names who were caught up in Operation Varsity Blues but have so far evaded detection or prosecution.
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Billy McFarland, the entrepreneur who became a lightning rod in April after his ambitiously marketed Fyre Festival devolved from a would-be luxury getaway into a jamboree of schadenfreude and cold cheese sandwiches, pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud in United States District Court in Manhattan on Monday.
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While the food was infinitely better than the looks that were served, dessert was by far the tastiest: Plein critics snacked on a bit of schadenfreude after news broke that the NYC billionaire got scammed out of nearly $1 million while trying to book Kanye West to perform at Plein's function.
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The limo arrivals are to The Bachelor and The Bachelorette what the early auditions were to American Idol: painful to watch yet entertaining, depending on your level of schadenfreude; teeming with hot messes; and blessed with one or two touching moments that momentarily make you forget that you hate people.
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But after we've had a good laugh and savored the schadenfreude that comes from the disastrous investments of others, we should reflect on what this debacle tells us about the damage done when investors stray from taking risk, the useful work of private equity, into making risk, its malevolent doppelganger.
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I'm telling people that, even though the backlash remains at least partially unfair, I can hardly blame Nunes for the vindication she's feeling after being treated like an afterthought in her first title defense or fault those who have been injured by Rousey's behavior for indulging in schadenfreude right now.
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The sight of Stone being raked over the coals by Klayman is sure to bring joy, or at least a degree of schadenfreude, to Democrats who recall being Klayman's targets during the 1990s when the conservative lawyer used his watchdog group, Judicial Watch, to harangue members of the Clinton administration.
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And so the schadenfreude that powered the jubilation over the Fyre Festival meltdown — as fun as it all was — has its ickier sides, mostly because the rejoicing over whoever got what was coming to them has tended to crowd out those who couldn't afford to get hurt but did anyhow.
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"While, yes, it can be funny to read untrue things about yourself, I've been aware for years (with this newspaper but by no means confined to it) of how the glee in shaming women, often with lies like this, is so much darker and further reaching than enjoying a little schadenfreude," Beckinsale writes.
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While it is easy to see how Ms. Sorokin, who was dressed by a stylist for her trial, and Ms. Loughlin, an actress living in a mansion shot by Elle Decor, would inspire schadenfreude, what do we make of the fate of Bridget Anne Kelly, an average woman and single mother of four?
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While the focus from here on out will be on Trump, there's also an element of schadenfreude in Cruz's Indiana loss: Cruz's team (and Cruz himself) repeatedly ripped Kasich as a "spoiler" with no business in the race, who is only around for vanity reasons or someone who is angling to be Trump's running mate.
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Much has been made at the highest levels in Europe of being able to point to US counterparts, caught on the hop by ongoing tech privacy and security scandals, while EU policymakers savor the schadenfreude of seeing their US counterparts being forced to ask publicly whether it's time for America to have its own GDPR.
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Speaking of power, seeing how readers approach Roupenian's collection will surely say something about us: No matter the book's merit, maybe we'll act on the perverse desire to see the much-hyped book tank, flop, or disappoint the standards of literature or feminism, just to feed our sadistic inner critic its blood meal of schadenfreude.
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But before you trot out the delicious schadenfreude of watching this cocky human wax figure actually recognize his own humanity in high definition—particularly after he basically did nothing for the Champions League Final earlier this summer, only to make a free kick, and take all the credit—he also did, well, something really human.
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It was the 20th time since 248 that a team had won by 43 runs or more, but it will be long remembered by fans of both teams and, well, anyone who loves schadenfreude or who stumbled across a score more typical of football than baseball — except when the Nationals were up, 24-219.
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Last year's audience fell by 18 percent from the previous year, and it remains to be seen this year whether people who opt not to watch because of #OscarsSoWhite will be outnumbered by the schadenfreude crowd, those tuning in with the hope that host Chris Rock sticks it to 'em — the academy, Hollywood, the man, what have you.
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Unlike those in the remain camp who pointed to the market turmoil yelling "I told you so," it gives me no sense of schadenfreude thinking of people seeing their pension savings dropping like stones and I pity the bankers, who keep an important part of London running, being slapped around with 10-15 percent drops the space of minutes.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It's hard to say what is most disorienting about the interactive performance piece, Ivanka Vacuuming, created by artist Jennifer Rubell and presented by CulturalDC — the schadenfreude it instigates, the somewhat anachronistic feminist button-mashing, or the ridiculous notion that Ivanka Trump has ever used a vacuum cleaner in her entire life.
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And though few sane humans are predicting another Finals appearance for Miami yet, Johnson's arrival—and Erik Spoelstra flipping his offense on its head—has yielded extremely promising results, including the team's annual Beat the Cavaliers Schadenfreude Extravaganza, which was celebrated on Saturday in a 122-101 Heat win; Johnson put up 18 points as efficiently as possible.
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The couple never faced jail time or a major fine (though smuggling animals into Australia can be a serious crime), but they were forced to appear in a video that's an instant schadenfreude classic, a terrific example of the rich and beautiful being reduced to a pair of jerks who can't even fake contrition for 40 seconds.
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During Fashion Week in 2016 Kim was robbed of $11 million-worth of jewelry by masked gunmen who broke into her Paris hotel suite and left her gagged — a crime that aroused suspicion that it was all a publicity stunt (it wasn't, according to follow-up reports) and a hardy chorus of schadenfreude across social media.
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The whole debacle had hit me with a disturbing force, sending me into a depression spiral about my own personal writing for the internet; about "cancel culture" and what counts as "punching down"; about schadenfreude; about how we're all constantly scamming ourselves and each other; about friendship and addiction and what's even the point of all of this, anyway.
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Well, if the thought of Ariana Grande getting a ridiculous hand tattoo that somehow says "Small charcoal grill finger ♡" elicits the deepest most pleasurable sense of schadenfreude possible, then you'd be in luck, because Kokatu's translators say that if you're reading the tattoo how Japanese is supposed to be read—right to left, top to bottom—that's what it says.
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NewYork(Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) - Corporate executives who feel left behind or simply lack time to build a Twitter following must have experienced a bit of schadenfreude when Tesla Chief Executive Elan Musk fell victim to his own tweets, which landed him a $20 million fine and a job demotion at the insistence of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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When Wambach was arrested on a drunken-driving charge earlier this year, Bedoya and forward Jozy Altidore expressed their schadenfreude on Twitter, referencing both Wambach's comments questioning the patriotism of foreign-born men's national team players and a 2015 incident in which Solo's husband was stopped on suspicion of driving under the influence while they were in a borrowed team van.
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Our political elites — the wizards of smart who tell us common folk what to think — are throwing a bipartisan schadenfreude party in Washington to celebrate the fall of Steve BannonStephen (Steve) Kevin BannonThe specter of Steve Bannon may loom over 2020 Trump campaign Sunday shows - Trump's Epstein conspiracy theory retweet grabs spotlight Steve Bannon: 'President Trump is not a racist' MORE.
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When they are stumped, which happens about once per episode, the winning act receives a guest spot in the duo's Vegas show and a deliberately cheap-looking trophy that descends from the ceiling and is in the form of the letters FU. All of which would seem to place "Fool Us" squarely in the schadenfreude-rich realm of reality talent shows.
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As for the Democratic Party in the U.S., its difficulty in devising a winning message and strategy is richly illustrated in Shattered: Inside Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's Doomed Campaign, this summer's poster book for political junkie schadenfreude.
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"Men should not be going to the bathroom with little girls," the Republican presidential candidate said during a taping of an MSNBC town hall in Buffalo, N.Y. DEPARTMENT OF SCHADENFREUDE: The Hill's Mike Lillis reports: Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House leader, said an effort to topple Trump at the Republican National Convention, as some party leaders are considering, would tear the GOP apart and cede big wins to the Democrats.
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As I'm sure you're well-aware if you're reading this, Fyre Festival became the most celebrated case of schadenfreude in recent memory when organizers scammed a bunch of rich people into buying exorbitantly expensive tickets for what promised to be the event of a lifetime—including a private island full of luxury cabins, yacht parties, and beachside hangs with models—but actually presented attendees with depressing cheese sandwiches, soggy FEMA tents, and the unique experience of one poor dude offering to suck dick for Evian water.
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"It was how much asshurt he causes to others," one 4chan poster wrote in a post preserved on Reddit: The schadenfreude is so funny that it digs a hole in you, and soon you can't stop laughing — and then, because you've been laughing with him for a while, he begins to grow on you, and you hear what he actually says, and suddenly, because you are predisposed to like him because you're both laughing at Jeb Bush, you find yourself supporting him, even if technically your political ideas don't align perfectly with his.
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Here's why so many fintech startups are loaning to small businesses (EC) Europe risks squandering its global advantage in deep tech innovation (TC) What to expect when pitching European VCs (TC) Dear Sophie: My H-1B was renewed, but I'm getting laid off (EC) Latin America takes the global lead in VC directed to female co-founders (TC) Why VCs are dumping money into insurance marketplaces (EC) As a top manager leaves amid fundraising woes, SoftBank's vision looks dimmer — and schadenfreude abounds (TC) Why this VC thinks we're heading for a cloud slowdown (EC) In this week's episode, Alex and Danny sat down with Rick Yang of NEA, examined Casper and One Medical in more detail, and covered a few new funds and fundraises — including more thoughts on the Asana numbers.
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