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I know what POTUS is, but extending the "OTUS" to other people is a tad irritating. What's the SC stand for?
by kristianp 9mo ago
I know what POTUS is, but extending the "OTUS" to other people is a tad irritating. What's the SC stand for?
- valleyer 9mo agoThe first sentence of the article should make that clear. In any case, it's a pretty well-established abbreviation in US policy discussions.
- doubletwoyou 9mo agosupreme court
- kristianp 9mo agoThanks, I'm not a USA person.
- mindslight 9mo ago[flagged]
- llbbdd 9mo agoSupreme Court, not council. Are you sure you live here?
- gib444 9mo agoWoosh
- llbbdd 9mo agoMy bad for assuming a good faith answer lol. I didn't realize we were just karma farming and virtue signaling, carry on
- mindslight 9mo agoSarcasm has nothing to do with bad faith. Posting comments in support of the Constitution costs karma half the time these days. And for virtue signalling, we sure had it pretty good. It would be nice if our society could go back to virtue signalling instead of vice signalling.
- llbbdd 9mo agoIt's not plain sarcasm to purposefully misinform somebody asking a legitimate question. They asked for a definition, not your opinion. If you consider your parent comment "supporting the Constitution" maybe you should evaluate whether that was effectively communicated.
- mindslight 9mo ago"Misinform" ? You do realize we're supposed to be like humans talking, and not robots exchanging PDUs, right?
- llbbdd 9mo agoIf that's your excuse to respond with a useless charged non-sequitor, whatever works for you.
- mindslight 9mo agoListen, nobody likes the whoosh but you'd do better treating it as an opportunity for growth.
- llbbdd 9mo agoYou're right, I'll leave the defense of the constitution to you. o7
- mindslight 9mo ago
- chmod775 9mo agoI can highly recommend developing a habit of selecting words you don't understand, opening the context menu, and hitting search. Takes somewhere between 2 and 10 seconds to look up acronyms this way.
- svpk 9mo agoA fun fact, SCOTUS as a term predates POTUS by over a decade. So actually -OTUS was extended to POTUS from SCOTUS, not the other way around. Though both are well over 100 years old at this point. I think POTUS is probably the more well used term today, but in any legal context SCOTUS gets used more or less constantly. https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/scotus-potus-flotus https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/scotus-potus-flotus