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RFK Jr. Swears He Wasn’t Thirsty for Fitness Influencer on TikTok (gizmodo.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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The reply happened in Sept. 2022 on Tyler Idol’s account, which she now has pinned to her page, and was unearthed by some right-wing dork on X Wednesday. The reply is now deleted, but according to saved recordings, it simply stated “Wow” and was accompanied by two smiling faces with hearts emoji. As for how you can tell it was from RFK Jr.’s TikTok account, it’s pretty obvious as the avatar is of the anti-vaxxer, and clicking on it took you to the official TikTok page for his campaign.

“Do people really think I was TikToking in 2022,” his post says. “This comment now appears on my account because the account was previously owned by one of the campaign’s young social media managers.”

I've always found it weird how Americans mandate putting punctuation inside quotes at all times.

It does appear that he has a point as the first video on his TikTok account was uploaded in May 2023, which was a month after he officially declared he was running for office. That was back when he was calling himself a Democrat, only to pivot to running as an independent candidate last October, and then to consider going for the libertarian ticket earlier this week. Mind you, former President Donald Trump’s camp did reach out at some point to discuss the anti-vaxxer as a VP pick. With such variable political leanings, maybe he should just run on the TikTok ticket.

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[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But the punctuation isn't part of the original text, and putting the punctuation inside the quote marks loses information on the original text's punctuation. Periods do not need any puny comfort from two fucking lines.

[–] lewdian69@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As an American I wholeheartedly agree. I HATED learning about that dumb rule and refuse to use it to this day. The punctuation, I would say more often than not, has nothing to do with the quote and should be outside the quotation mark.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean we can change the rules, they’re not set in stone. Join me in placing punctuation that is not part of a quote outside the quotation marks!

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“Periods do not need any puny comfort from two fucking lines.”.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

😱

when you quote a complete sentence, and the sentence only consists of that sentence, you can just omit the period after the final quote mark

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It looks better the way I do it.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 6 months ago

Username checks out