What's with all the initials - ACB, RBG, AOC, etc?

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What's with all the initials - ACB, RBG, AOC, etc?

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Why are so many noteworthy female governmental figure referred to by their initials?

RBG - Ruth Bader Ginsberg
AOC - Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
ACB - Amy Coney Barrett
HRC - Horrible Rotten C@nt

I mean, there was JFK, but why are so many women referred to that way these days? Is it a Twitterworld thing?
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It's probably a Twitterbot NPC thing. Especially Hillary.
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The short attention span and poor linguistic skills of J-School graduates and their fans
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Re: What's with all the initials - ACB, RBG, AOC, etc?

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Safety with the lefty ones, if you say their full names 3 times they appear in front of you and if you don't have a pentagram set up you are screwed.
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Re: What's with all the initials - ACB, RBG, AOC, etc?

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With fire, smoke, brimstone, and antifa goblins sheltering under their leathery wings?

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Re: What's with all the initials - ACB, RBG, AOC, etc?

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Weetabix wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:05 pm With fire, smoke, brimstone, and antifa goblins sheltering under their leathery wings?

(h/t Correia for some stolen imagery)
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Re: What's with all the initials - ACB, RBG, AOC, etc?

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Captain Wheelgun wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:03 pm
Weetabix wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:05 pm With fire, smoke, brimstone, and antifa goblins sheltering under their leathery wings?

(h/t Correia for some stolen imagery)
Don’t forget the Finnish Death Metal band playing theme music. :D
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Never put any trust in pentagrams; always preferred kilograms of "00 buck"....
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It’s all the damn hyphenated last names.
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scipioafricanus wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:31 pm
Captain Wheelgun wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:03 pm
Weetabix wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:05 pm With fire, smoke, brimstone, and antifa goblins sheltering under their leathery wings?

(h/t Correia for some stolen imagery)
Don’t forget the Finnish Death Metal band playing theme music. :D
I would go with Sabaton, but that is Swedish Power Metal with an emphasis on Military History.
They have an excellent history focused youtube channel :ugeek:
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