There is a difference between “I resigned when I found out” and “I resigned after you found out”

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@akareilly May I quote you on that?

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@akareilly @NJWookie "I'm sorry I got caught."

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@dalias @Maker_of_Things @akareilly hopefully they're both investigated. A man can dream.

[akareilly@hachyderm.io]

@drwho Sure!

[janxdevil@sfba.social]

@akareilly Even larger difference between that and “I resigned after you found out and declined my offer to buy your silence about it.”

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@akareilly Thank you very much.

[tobiwankenobi@kolektiva.social]

@akareilly

Unfortunately, "I resigned after you found out" (let alone "I resigned when I found out") has been out of fashion for at least two decades. Otherwise, most Western politicians would be jobless today.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@NJWookie @steltenpower @akareilly

the honest "i am sorry. for what i did"

vs

the crocodile tears of "i am sorry. that you found out what i did"

(usually followed by some gaslighting)

[haljor@sfba.social]

@akareilly Any apology that starts with "I apologize" followed immediately by "if" is not an apology.

[normjess@tech.lgbt]

@akareilly what's that joke

its something like "I've launched an official investigation into my own wrong doing and I await the results"

as if you don't already know what you did

[longspeak@chirp.enworld.org]

@akareilly "I'm sorry you didn't like what I did, but you shouldn't have been looking."