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.
The final gambit is to excoriate them at the first opportunity, exposing them for being a dirty fibber
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.