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.
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.
You know that feeling when your reading the title to a post on ten forward and it seems pretty long and you don't really feel like reading all of it but you do anyway but it still doesn't change the fact that it is to long even though it is in fact way to long because reasons