Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?

craftrabbit@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This was a huge cause of confusion years ago when the media started using “AOC” to refer to her. I was like, damn, their monitors used to be cheap crap, why are they so popular now?

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  • Folstar@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was nothing compared to the horrors of MTG

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I hear magic the gathering is addictive, never gotten around to playing it

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    • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      MTG played the wrong cards (or right cards, really) and won’t be nearly as relevant in the news

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good point

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  • craftrabbit@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can definitely see that.

    It’s really annoying to me when people make posts in a general community without giving any kind of context (to non-US-Americans in this case) and this one had me tripping over mental monitors for a hot second.

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Typing how useless this comment is on one of several AOC monitors I use daily

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Typing how useless this comment is for the other 94% of the planet

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• Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Advent Of Code shares the same abbreviation

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