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.
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.
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.
Ah, a student of politics too, I see
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.
The final gambit is to excoriate them at the first opportunity, exposing them for being a dirty fibber