[hanamizu]

I believe the phase he used was “...not a white guy named Edison”, which to me is even more pandering.

[asinclair]

The history I read said that the true inventor of the light bulb was a Princeton grad. He was the one who borrowed the vacuum pump from his alma mater and suggested enclosing the carbon filament in a evacuated glass container -- "bulb".

Edison was an interesting piece of work. I used to idolize the man, until I learned just how much he used the people working in his lab, stealing credit for work he never did.

On the other hand, he did invent waxed paper when his girlfriend complained about the chocolates sticking to the paper.

[BuffaloJack]

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” Thomas Alva Edison

That would make Biden a think-they-thinker.

[SERKIT]

I hope the fact-checker Joe brings with him to the debates is the same one that gave him this fake history.