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Yeah, that worked out awesome when we hooked up the Shah of Iran with all the best and greatest military gear! Petty monarchies never ever get overthrown or anything!!

Don't you get it? It's hard and we need more money! First the money, then we will beat ISIS for you! We haven't scored any tactical victories yet, but that's only because we lack the money!

These Jordan cheerleaders remind me of the folks who thought that the "Northern Alliance" were gonna clean house in Afghanistan on our behalf. All we have to do is give them money and they'll win for us! It's perfect! No flag-draped coffins!!

Yup. he's a badass hero that will fight ISIS to the last drop of American blood!

THAT MAKES IT EVEN WORSE!!!!!!

Fix'd.

As a Dutchman, I find that phrase offensive!

Wait, but how would they even know what drink to get without talking to the person first?

Collective responsibility is only for white males.

Not really, as that's what's implied with this preemptive dismissal of anyone who claims that some men aren't part of a global, gender-wide rape conspiracy.

THIS IS WHAT TWITTER FEMINISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE

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You should have upped the arms race by "accidentally" stepping on the dishes and breaking them when you woke up in the morning and left your room. Then just left the broken, food-encrusted pieces lying there on the floor. Would have driven that roommate NUTS.

No, no. I didn't mean to imply that you actually were a loudmouth bully. I'm sure you're not, in fact. I'm just saying that pissed off smarmy coworkers can sometimes successfully portray people as "loudmouth bullies" when they take the assertive approach that you describe. As a supervisor, when you see that a…

That's two people in this thread that advocate assertiveness as a way of dealing with passive-aggressive people who also admit that they no longer work in the office and/or have lost that job.

You punch yourself in the arm for even considering limiting your own interpersonal relationship options just because some butthurt ex-Homecoming Queen on Gawker says that some strategies are off-limits.

Don't listen to these people. They're just pissed off that we passive-aggressive people have hacked the matrix and changed the rules of the game, leaving them unable to adapt!

I kept reading, waiting for the secrets, but the article ended before any "secrets to handling passive-aggressive people" were revealed!!

I love how they're trying to have a interpersonal political strategy that they don't have an easy way of dealing with declared a "mental disorder"!