I hate it when Americans assume everybody understands their abbreviations. What the fuck is a PAC? Or like when You write GOP when you mean conservatives. That doesn’t help anybody.
I hate when people are so incapable and dumb that, despite having a world of information at their fingertips, they would rather complain about not knowing something about us politics, in the comment section of something about us politics, than just do a 10 second Internet search.
GOP is Grand Ole Party. It’s the Republican party’s second name.
PAC is political action committee. It’s an organization that is not legally the candidate or their election slush fund to elect a person or people. Basically it’s a way to spend money on a political thing that ignores all campaign finance rules.
Both terms are incredibly common in America. TV and radio will use both without offering an explanation.
although lemmy’s /politics isn’t only American politics you should be aware this sub was US politics only on The Other Place.
however, as it’s not ELI5, I feel like it’s reasonable to use common jargon when discussing a topic. I shouldn’t need to explain what wattage is if this was discussing power stations, I shouldn’t need to explain what FPS is if discussing video games.
Per search engine: PAC — Political action committee: an organization established by a corporation or other special interest to raise money from individuals for a political campaign or other political cause.
I hate it when Americans assume everybody understands their abbreviations. What the fuck is a PAC? Or like when You write GOP when you mean conservatives. That doesn’t help anybody.
I hate when people are so incapable and dumb that, despite having a world of information at their fingertips, they would rather complain about not knowing something about us politics, in the comment section of something about us politics, than just do a 10 second Internet search.
GOP is Grand Ole Party. It’s the Republican party’s second name.
PAC is political action committee. It’s an organization that is not legally the candidate or their election slush fund to elect a person or people. Basically it’s a way to spend money on a political thing that ignores all campaign finance rules.
Both terms are incredibly common in America. TV and radio will use both without offering an explanation.
although lemmy’s /politics isn’t only American politics you should be aware this sub was US politics only on The Other Place.
however, as it’s not ELI5, I feel like it’s reasonable to use common jargon when discussing a topic. I shouldn’t need to explain what wattage is if this was discussing power stations, I shouldn’t need to explain what FPS is if discussing video games.
Per search engine: PAC — Political action committee: an organization established by a corporation or other special interest to raise money from individuals for a political campaign or other political cause.