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by JSchmoe 1312 days ago
That'd make no sense to do. The "Twitter mob" remains angry and now a few more people are annoyed that you openly gave a non-apology.
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The reason I brought up that phrase is that Scott Adams of the Dilbert cartoon endorsed Hillary in 2016 using this exact language, despite actually liking Trump.

> "So I’ve decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, for my personal safety."

If I recall correctly, he says that merely that endorsement, however transparently fake it was, got a lot of people off of his back.

Huh, people are weird!