So a lot of times people ask that challenge question about "Would you do X for $10 million" and they make it about saying something on national TV - would you say the N-word, would you call your mother a whore, would you brag about being a pedophile And it's always polarizedhttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1325937121224503300 …
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"$10 million? Just to say words? Not even anything that has a *real* cost? Fuck yeah I'd do it, you'd have to be an idiot not to It's real money! For just saying words! Words don't matter, they aren't real, they're had sounds!"
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"But the point of the challenge is that saying that stuff would make you look bad in front of the country, everyone would have a negative opinion of you" "So what? Money insulates you from all that Who cares if people hate me as long as they'll take my credit card"
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This group of people is the group of people who has what it takes to go into politics Especially as Republican senators Once you're in place, all you have to do is vote as you are required to do to make lots of money for very little work
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That work consists of saying awful, ridiculous, cruel and stupid things that make you look like a complete asshole in front of the whole country But it's just words Everyone will roast you hard on Twitter for days but, crucially, you can just not have a Twitter
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You can see Trump's appointees bringing this energy to their confirmation hearings The gloating realization that it doesn't matter how bad you look in front of the country Just say some total bullshit, sit through the meeting and bam, you've got the job and the paycheck
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Betsy DeVos being this close to just laughing in the Democrats' face and saying "I don't even know what a school actually is" Amy Coney Barrett *literally saying* "Yeah I'm just not gonna answer that question because if I did, it would be a reason not to confirm me"
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They just don't care, shame or decorum or intellectual honesty or whatever doesn't matter at all The hearing is a farce, the answers to the philosophical questions have as much meaning as the address you put on your fake ID or the username on a Reddit throwaway account
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