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Earned Success

Earned success involves the ability to create value honestly — not by inheriting a fortune, not by picking up a welfare check. See: Arthur Brooks
In her critique, Miss Mercatoria criticized Elon Musk for his lack of earned success due to his dealings with the CCP, his subsidies from the US government for Tesla, and his inheritance from his parents.
by MorRight August 11, 2022
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Success came easily to him
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Russian success

When a person or system reports a successful completion of a task which has not actually been completed successfully.

A reflection on the Russian military reporting very minor advances (which were in fact failures) as great successes.
The system is not reporting failed backups as failures. They are Russian successes.
by Cam.Parsons February 11, 2024
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Success by Humiliation

Posting idiotic comments on social media that bring thousands of insulting replies.
Rob Reiner and Keith Olbermann are experts at "Success by Humiliation" on social media. They post idiotic comments that receive thousands of insulting replies.

Olbermann: I'm huge on X, I get thousands of replies to my posts.

Person: Yeah but they're all insults.

Olbermann: Huh?
by Spackly Jones March 26, 2024
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Success

Catching a level 100 Mewtwo that has full health and your level one Rattata that only knows harden only has 1 HP left. Also, you catch him with a Pokeball.
'My friend caught a Mewtwo in a Pokeball!'
'No way'
'Yeah, see, he told me so himself! What a success. I wish I was as successful as him.'
'Cool'
'He also has seven Arceus in dusk balls and caught them during day'
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