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bondwooley

(1,198 posts)
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 01:30 PM Sep 2017

Amazing! The GOP just learned a word - but got it wrong.

So... turns out the GOP just figured out what "Factivism" is, and how to pronounce it wrong.

A recent post called “DNC’s Angry Appeal to ‘Become a Factivist’” showed up in the frightening but somehow funny Word Net Daily (WND). The author, Myra Adams, was horrified by “a new frightening buzzword” called factivism and realized that saying it quickly sounds like “fascism.”


Full article and links at Lester & Charlie blog.
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Amazing! The GOP just learned a word - but got it wrong. (Original Post) bondwooley Sep 2017 OP
Oh, I thought it might be "deconstruction". eppur_se_muova Sep 2017 #1
I want bondwooley Sep 2017 #2

eppur_se_muova

(36,262 posts)
1. Oh, I thought it might be "deconstruction".
Sun Sep 17, 2017, 04:10 PM
Sep 2017

Steve Bannon evidently thinks it means tearing down. In fact it is a term of literary analysis. But then Steve Bannon is an intellectual phony, a poseur.

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