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mahmud · 2010-01-25 16:11:33

The passive-aggressive bromance is a classic deflection trick.

dba7dba | karma 1430 | avg karma 1.07 · | 2016-06-21 05:17:20+00:00

Passive aggressive.

GrinningFool | karma 3254 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2021-07-12 09:25:35

Wait, what makes that passive aggressive?

akomtu | karma 1122 | avg karma 0.52 · | 2023-02-15 16:13:34

If A could beat B, he wouldn't resort to such rhetoric. Person A has a repressed desire to bully that manifests as this passive-aggressive fake politeness.

daniellarusso | karma 777 | avg karma 1.54 · | 2021-05-03 13:43:05+00:00

Passive aggressiveness.

rajamaka | karma 553 | avg karma 3.07 · | 2023-03-04 14:17:09

Shortcut to passive aggressiveness

houseabsolute | karma 2505 | avg karma 3.01 · | 2010-02-22 15:39:24

Passive aggressiveness looks good on you.

nicbou | karma 14764 | avg karma 3.41 · | 2022-09-02 04:05:07

I love this. It's delightfully passive aggressive.

knlam | karma 152 | avg karma 3.1 · | 2023-11-17 22:53:13

It 's aggressive passive

jtms | karma 932 | avg karma 1.73 · | 2019-07-17 04:34:14+00:00

Are you sure this tactic isn't just aggressive aggressive? Not letting someone steam roll you doesn't exactly seem passive to me.

moron4hire | karma 11137 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2016-01-18 10:57:53+00:00

Establishing roles for bad-actor participants is not how you keep conversations on track and keep them civil, it's how you get passive aggression.

Pokepokalypse | karma 551 | avg karma 1.21 · | 2021-08-04 11:05:42

Highly passive-aggressive. I like it.

zabzonk | karma 3750 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2023-12-03 17:21:37

in my experience, anyone that accuses someone else of being passive aggressive are themselves being passive aggressive. let's just not do that.

pastacacioepepe | karma 1047 | avg karma 1.57 · | 2023-04-12 15:56:11

This must be the peak passive aggressive. Dare to explain why that is a good thing?

Semiapies | karma 5867 | avg karma 1.94 · | 2011-01-11 15:37:42

Passive-aggressiveness is lame.

paci_fist | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2019-02-11 02:01:16

Passive aggression? Get ready to meet aggression.

malka | karma 1923 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2014-07-02 23:55:02

for individuals, that's being passive-agressive.

sethammons | karma 7497 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2023-08-18 03:11:38

Can you expand on that? Why is that passive aggression?

Blackstone4 | karma 1109 | avg karma 2.05 · | 2019-09-12 15:58:20+00:00

Isn't this passive aggresive? Would you do this in real life? I feel like this thinking would breed bad culture and is a short-term win at the expense of a long-term relationship.

pipeline_peak | karma 780 | avg karma 0.6 · | 2022-07-26 20:53:41

A major part of passive aggression is being subtle with hostility to avoid being exposed. If anything calling it out is poetic justice, but you’re welcome to just let it happen.