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Weirdo sexualizing presidential candidate (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not just moron, idiot has its roots as an old word for intellectual disability

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

IIRC, originally it meant ordinary person (as opposed to one especially educated). Which suggests that it fell onto the euphemism treadmill, and people using it colloquially to mean someone particularly stupid crowded out the formal meaning.