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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 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

~~Sight misread there! :) It’s orthography, not typesetting; it’s just that as you also mentioned, the “American” style was historically used a lot by typesetters~~

Edit: I misread.

[–] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Typesetting is actually correct. In the days of the printing press, it was not feasible to have type blocks for single punctuation marks. The blocks would be too small and fragile. Punctuation marks were appended to the end of the letter. Instead of having a single block with a period (.) they had a block for each letter of the alphabet with a period. (a.), (b.), etc.

Making blocks for both (",) and (,") was an unnecessary expense, so they went with (,"), and the convention stuck.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well fuckin' thanks; I knew the old preference was a typesetting or typographical thing, it's nice to know there was a physical typesetting reason for the preference, rather than just how it looks

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In the wiki article, I was looking at the line

These two styles are most commonly referred to as "American" and "British", or sometimes "typesetters' quotation" and "logical quotation"

The former I know as 'traditional quoting', and the latter as 'logical'. My terminology would be mostly coming from the Jargon File though, which is admittedly outdated; I believe it was last updated in 2003