# On the use of acronyms **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 8, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-use-of-acronyms/969310 "2022-08-08T15:07:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-use-of-acronyms/969310/15 "2022-08-08T17:12:25Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > JFK is one of probably a handful of politicians and public figures who, in the U.S., are widely known by their initials (others would include FDR, RFK, LBJ, and MLK). I’m not sure how widely those initials are known/used for them outside of the U.S., however. I recall a thread complaining about calling AOC AOC when everybody was already calling her AOC… > [@AOC's "Green New Deal" pipe dream](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aocs-green-new-deal-pipe-dream/829160/): > > Mike Pesca delivers a nice takedown of AOC’s truthiness schtick in the latest episode of his daily Slate podcast The Gist, starting at 19:30: Note that Pesca (like me) is a center-left Democrat, and he explicitly says he would be cool with Scandinavian style democratic socialist policies, though he doubts they could get past political hurdles in the U.S. But what AOC is talking about here goes far beyond that, and what really alarms me is the Trump-style dismissal of the importance of fact c… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-use-of-acronyms/969310)._