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"yet backed the project himself anyway?" Per the OP: "By the way, I put my $50 in out of pure morbid curiosity of what’s under the hood." I think you can bot
by larrys 14y ago
"yet backed the project himself anyway?"
Per the OP:
"By the way, I put my $50 in out of pure morbid curiosity of what’s under the hood."
I think you can both think something probably isn't going to work or have issues with it and support it as a hedge or out of, as he said, "morbid curiosity". People do this with politics quite frequently.
- philwelch 14y ago> People do this with politics quite frequently. Really? Do you have an example? "I didn't really think the war in Iraq would go very well, and I don't really support it; I just wanted to see what would happen."
- pbreit 14y agoProbably referring to giving money to candidates who have no chance of winning. Your bad faith example is ridiculous.
- philwelch 14y agoI couldn't think of a non-ridiculous example, so thanks for providing one. However, your bad faith assumption that I was commenting in bad faith is a dick move.
- larrys 14y agohttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703757504575194502882068296.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870375750457519... http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/dueling-donations-lobbyists-lining-pockets-of-both.html http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/dueling-donations-lo... You can find examples here of the same individual supporting people in both parties: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/indivs.php http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/indivs.php
- philwelch 14y agoSupporting both parties is just support for the status quo, really, it doesn't really require opposing anything. Supporting individual candidates from both parties is even less suspicious.