You’re right, I think. All the smug schadenfreude has always felt hollow to me. Where does it get us, anyway? Just another distraction from the goal of worker solidarity, fostering an attitude that’s actively harmful to that goal.

Whoa, you’re a friend of DeSoto? I heard that guy’s a real pleasure to work for.

Se mann þe ǣrest wrāt “eiland,” swā hine stæfode. Þā sum dysig mann an ‘s’ onlēde swā stīlcræft, tō Lǣden sprǣce þæt word þe næfþ nān Lǣden rōt. Nū gif þū hine stæfian on ǣnige wīsan būtan “island,” þū bist wōh, forþām þæt is sēo wīs þe þæt word is gebrocen and understonden.

See, if that person that insists on using thorns in all their comments really committed like this, I think they’d get less flak, and more buy-in.