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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 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.



> 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."


Probably referring to giving money to candidates who have no chance of winning. Your bad faith example is ridiculous.


I 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.



Supporting 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.




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