He didn’t retract anything or express regret (because there was nothing to retract or regret). He did explain what he meant.

So, as I understand, in the classical meaning, that is an apology. But in the contemporary meaning, it is not.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the-history-of-the-word-apology

The word’s earliest meaning in English was “something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others to be wrong or of what may be liable to disapprobation."

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So we may instead ask when did the apology start meaning “I’m sorry”?

edit: He also expressed sympathy. Or empathy. I suck at telling the difference.

"That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make, but I understand that felt either ill-timed or unclear, or maybe both. And for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you’re upset. If the situation was reversed, there’s a good chance I’d have felt the same way.

I don’t know if this is a decent source, but at least it’s context.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15089705/Security-suspicious-hand-signals-Charlie-Kirk.html

You’re constantly, gradually turning downward, technically.

My BS in CS took its roots down to CMOS composition of logic gates and basic EE, on the hardware side, and down to deriving numbers and arithmetic from Boolean logic / predicate calculus, on the philosophy side. Then tied those up together through the theoretical underpinnings of computation and problem solving, like a trunk, and branched back out into the various mainstream technologies that derived from all that. It obviously all depends on the program at the school of choice, I suppose, and I’m sure it’s evolved over the years, but it still seems important to have at least some courses that pull back the wizard’s curtain to ensure their students really see how it’s all just an increasingly elaborate, high-tech version of conceptually simple (in function) machinery carrying out fundamental building blocks of logic.

Anyway, I’m going to go sniff my own cinnamon roll scented farts while gazing in the mirror, now.

Also Ctrl-u to clear the command line.

You’re right. Not sure why you’d be down voted, other than if people found your conclusion a bit heavy.

His Amurica Bible came with a copy of the constitution. Did that omit the same things? If not, I don’t believe he’d be trying to change just an online copy while there are hard copies with his name on them. What would be the point? Just the assumption that anyone who bought his copy is obviously never going to read it?