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I feel that with the general turmoil of US politics in recent years, providing correct information is becoming increasingly important. How are people supposed to take part in a system they don't understand?
Even if OP was saying it flippantly, the next person reading it may not know that.
I agree, but unfortunately being a pedant can be annoying, even to other pedants.
Accuracy is indeed important, but that's not going to make humans, you know, stop being human and stop responding emotionally instead of thoughtfully. Humans are gonna human and damn it if they aren't irrational beasts. I should know, I am one.
Not sure that I agree that using the correct term is pedantic. Saying he was reelected on Tuesday is a factually inaccurate statement. He became the nominee or candidate.
Via Cambridge Dictionary.
Sorry, but quibbling about the correct terminology for what someone is called after a primary election firmly falls under "too much attention to small details," when that wasn't the point being made.
The original point that was being made was about how clearly a lot of people are happy to vote in the same people who failed their children. That point is proven whether he was fully elected or just a candidate, because it means a non-insignificant portion of the population voted for him.
We're in a derail about whether the person talking about it is using the right terminology, and we've lost the plot of the original point which is that a lot of US citizens are happy to vote for people who fail them again and again and again. Which was proven by him being a nominee/candidate, he didn't need to be fully elected to prove that point.
The inability to see that using the right terminology actually doesn't change the point is what makes it pedantic.
Pedantic. I rest my fucking case, man.
Correcting a factually incorrect statement isn't fucking pedantic. Considering an election is what put this asshat in power, it seems like very relevant information to the post and topic broadly.
If I want to be pedantic I can drill down into a dictionary definition (actually pedantic btw) and make my point too.
If you say someone is pedantic, you mean that they are too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects.
Now you're just a pissed off pedant.