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No, I was the one being flippant. And this argument is kind of silly because I've ended up defending a hypothetical version of the man, which I take full responsibly for lol.
To answer your question, 'what good is repentance?' Well, his rhetoric and policy positions would be different if he were repentant โ that's what I meant by the term, but some seem to have taken a different meaning from it, which I guess is also on me ๐คท
Oh that I agree with!
I think the idea of repentance is often typically something I've seen associated with guilt or remorse but not something that begets action so some of us don't necessarily associate it with that.