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askyagerz

(776 posts)
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 03:46 PM Mar 2018

Is it karma or irony?

When the people talking about setting people up by offering them something they can't refuse. Secretly filming said transgression and showing it to the world but with "their guy" blurred out...
Are in turn set up by other people offering them lots of money. Then secretly filmed and shown to the world with someone else's guy blurred out?
Cambridge Analytica might have been able to dig up dirt on lots of people but forgot to check their potential clients

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Is it karma or irony? (Original Post) askyagerz Mar 2018 OP
Definitely situational irony. nt Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2018 #1
An offer you can't refuse Sanity Claws Mar 2018 #2
hoist by their own petrump. unblock Mar 2018 #3

Sanity Claws

(21,841 posts)
2. An offer you can't refuse
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 03:49 PM
Mar 2018

A line right out of The Godfather. No one could utter that line without feeling like a stereotypical mobster.

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