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GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Apologies Aren't Apologies Anymore, They're Confessions

The only thing i apologized for was, i the first tweed of mine, that kind of was a bad tweet that went viral. I was tending to praise an a figure skater, and i used a line from hamilton, immigrants, they got the job done. Obviously, i'm extremely pro emigration. My entire record shows that. But it speaks to your point about, you know, if you get big enough, you can kind of zoom past all of it. If we know that apologies aren't really apologies any more, a confession, they're confessions, what do you do if you actually do something wrong and want to apologize?

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