• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Just another factoid, just another voice in the chorus of “he should’ve been behind bars long ago!”

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      19 hours ago

      Which part is a factoid?

      Down votes for being curious. Cool beans.

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        22 hours ago

        That there was a Trump Foundation and that it’s another of his many enterprises that got into legal trouble, to put it mildly.

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          16 hours ago

          that got into legal trouble, to put it mildly.

          Extremely mildly.

          He fucked it up so badly that part of the fallout included him being legally barred from sitting on the board of any charity ever again.

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          15 hours ago

          So those things aren’t true then? (Just asking out of curiosity.)

          Factoids also mean “false statements presented as fact”, guys. I was wondering what was being used here… 🙄

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            15 hours ago

            Factoids are true things, just simplified down to the point they’re easily digestible without context

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              15 hours ago

              That’s one definition, but the most common one in my experience is this:

              A factoid is a false statement presented as a fact.

              You’re using the other meaning, and that’s fine. I was just verifying which one was being used.

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                14 hours ago

                Well, language is a living thing. In my experience, the meaning of that word has shifted over the past couple decades

                Fact-oid means something like malformed fact, but we no longer use this suffix much because it’s offensive. So the suffix kinda lost it’s meaning in everyday language, which makes this kind of flip common… There’s a word for this kind of drift, but I don’t remember it

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                  10 hours ago

                  I have the opposite experience — I’ve never seen anyone use the “fact” version of factoid. Only the “untrue statement” version.

                  Oh well, as long as we understand each other.

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      1 day ago

      Get rid of all of your logic, grasp onto a few names, then yell into the void “GOTCHA”

      That’s what this is.