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POTUS-Annoying Acronym?

Is POTUS an annoying acronym?

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 46.4%
  • No

    Votes: 12 42.9%
  • Maybe

    Votes: 3 10.7%

  • Total voters
    28

Fiddytree

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To me, it's damned annoying reading it. It sounds like potato when you read it out loud, and my Presidents ain't no Godless God damned potato!
 
Henceforth the official DP title for the President is POTATUS
 
It sounds to me like a word for fart. "Oops, I ripped off a POTUS".
 
why use acronyms, in Australia, we have a prime minister called kevin rudd, we dont call him the PMCOA we call him kev, kevvy, rudd, ruddy or that stupid moron running our country, just ditch the acronyms
 
why use acronyms, in Australia, we have a prime minister called kevin rudd, we dont call him the PMCOA we call him kev, kevvy, rudd, ruddy or that stupid moron running our country, just ditch the acronyms

We generally do not like to call our Presidents by their first name, for reasons of respect (but this does not really apply to the legislative branch all that often). In academics, which in my experience it is history, proceeding to label any leader by his first name rather than by office or last name is a big no-no. However, in the academic field, I think it is scandalous to use such acronyms anyway.
 
We generally do not like to call our Presidents by their first name, for reasons of respect (but this does not really apply to the legislative branch all that often). In academics, which in my experience it is history, proceeding to label any leader by his first name rather than by office or last name is a big no-no. However, in the academic field, I think it is scandalous to use such acronyms anyway.

oh well, i guess we just dont respect our leaders as much as americans.
 
Which is also odd, considering our historical tendency to be antagonistic towards authority at the same time as giving reverence to them.
 
No, we just wave signs that our leaders are the American version of Hitler, Stalin, or Marx..

I don't see how Marx fits into that at all.

But yes, POTUS is stupid. Stop trying to sound intellectual because you just sound like an idiot when you say that. Just say president ffs.
 
No, we just wave signs that our leaders are the American version of Hitler, Stalin, or Marx..
The people of these nations created these monsters. We will be better of after they recognize and live up to this.
We tend to be disrespectful of others...hence the acronyms.
Marx was a dreamer, an idealist, not a villain.
 
Usually when someone says "POTUS" it can mean more than just the current President or any single president. It can also mean multiple presidents. Much easier to say POTUS than it is to name every single president that you are talking about. It can also be used to refrence the title/job itself and not any particular president. It's all about context.

It is also just how some people write/type/talk. Don't like it then you don't have to read it. ;)
 
I prefer to use the full title and surname of any person I am referring to, though I sometimes slip into the habit of using just the surname. I'm not sure whether I consider these acronyms or referring to our leaders by their given names or nicknames-- as though we were friends-- as more abhorrent.
 
SCOTUS has always bothered me more, sounds like scrotus, urban for scrotum.:3oops:
 
SCOTUS has always bothered me more, sounds like scrotus, urban for scrotum.:3oops:

Agreed.

FLOTUS sounds like the first lady is being visited by her monthly friend.
 
I don't see how Marx fits into that at all.

But yes, POTUS is stupid. Stop trying to sound intellectual because you just sound like an idiot when you say that. Just say president ffs.

It's one of the ways the Right describes Obama. They depict him as a Marxist.
People don't care that saying Obama is like Marx, and then flipping the sign around and saying that Obama is like Stalin is like saying an Apple is like a Banana, and then an Apple is like Small Pox.


The people of these nations created these monsters. We will be better of after they recognize and live up to this.
We tend to be disrespectful of others...hence the acronyms.
Marx was a dreamer, an idealist, not a villain.

I agree. Marx was absolutely wrong about many, many things. But his analysis of Capitalism was spot on, and because it was so accurate he made enemies without having to pull a single trigger.
 
Well, there were definitely things that he had a brilliant insight of, but his analysis of the human spirit in capitalism through a very narrow lens that was not able to adapt to a changing character of the workplace or leisure.
 
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JESUS CHRIST! GET IN THE CAR! IT'S A POTATUS!!!!!
 
Wow, y'all must be having a very slow things to bitch about day.

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Well, there were definitely things that he had a brilliant insight of, but his analysis of the human spirit in capitalism through a very narrow lens that was not able to adapt to a changing character of the workplace or leisure.

Not only that, but the workers in the factories won't possibly be the voice of revolution.

Factory workers are usually the first to support measures that keep their jobs secure, and their bosses in power.
 
I don't see how Marx fits into that at all.

But yes, POTUS is stupid. Stop trying to sound intellectual because you just sound like an idiot when you say that. Just say president ffs.

Like this.


THE PRESIDENT FFS!


Here comes the President, FFS.

Who signed that into law?! THE PRESIDENT, FFS!


or to switch it up

FFS, THE PRESIDENT JUST [insert Presidential (in)action here]
 
Not only that, but the workers in the factories won't possibly be the voice of revolution.

Factory workers are usually the first to support measures that keep their jobs secure, and their bosses in power.


but back in marx's day, factory workers had really really **** conditions, and it was on his day that all his works are based, you cant really apply them to today
 
but back in marx's day, factory workers had really really **** conditions, and it was on his day that all his works are based, you cant really apply them to today

Doesn't make his dreaming anymore accurate.
 
Doesn't make his dreaming anymore accurate.

it was accurate for his day, but people, commies and others alike, need to stop treating the manifesto and the like as a leftist bible, it was written almost 200 years ago and is now barely relevant.
 
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