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a tribe born the instant someone decides the room needs two sides.
means A small, often quarrelsome group within a larger body, united by a shared interest or grievance and usually working against the rest.
from From Latin 'factio,' meaning a doing, making, or group acting together — itself from 'facere,' to do or make (the same root that gives us 'fact,' 'factory,' and 'manufacture'). The word arrived in English via French in the 16th century, carrying its political edge: a faction was originally a band of people 'making' trouble in concert. Fittingly, the same Latin source split into 'fashion' as well — a reminder that both factions and fashions are about who's doing what, together.
- latin root
- From facere, to do or make — doers turned dividers.
- game fuel
- Strategy games run on factions you'll defend irrationally.
- founders feared it
- Madison's Federalist 10 warned factions could wreck democracy.
- splits forever
- Every faction eventually breeds a faction of its own.
the montagues and capulets — feuding families in shakespeare's romeo and juliet, representing real verona noble houses
crips and bloods — rival gang factions in los angeles since the 1970s