It's only self-deprecatory humor if you use your own behavioral tics to highlight a broader human foible. Otherwise you get empathy cringe.
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If my reaction is "that could have been me/someone I respect" it's self-deprecation. If my reaction is "yeah, that's you alright" it's not.
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unless it's Trump in which case I experience grim schadenfreude
that sounds like a good defn of existential terror, which is also the definition of happiness according to
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