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[–] 56 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Politicians have been making backronyms for forever, like the USA FREEDOM act, the USA PATRIOT act, RESTRICT act, and so forth.

I'm just glad this is one I can get behind.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Don't forget about CAN-SPAM! (which honestly, given it's arguably a triple entendre, is hilarious)

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing

    Amazing. They actually integrated the hyphen into the acronym. But alas...

    The CAN-SPAM Act is occasionally referred to by critics as the "You-Can-Spam" Act because the bill fails to prohibit many types of e-mail spam and preempts some state laws that would otherwise have provided victims with practical means of redress.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Exactly where the arguable triple entendre comes in!

    • "Can spam" as in "put spam in the garbage can".
    • "Can Spam" as in the literal canned meat product Spam that Internet spam derives its name from.
    • And now the third: "can spam" as in "you're allowed to spam because this law sucks".
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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    OK, now I get it. My brain was too lazy to even try to decipher "triple entendre".

    I'm still amazed by the hyphen. Is there a profession of literal wordsmith that comes up with such things? Probably got fired by DOGE.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Let's not forget the No Child Left Behind act which was a massive corporate property tax cut which elemininated funding for public schools which caused many across USA to shut down... Including ones in my own district, who went in a $27mil debt within like 2 years of that passing, and our school treasury complelty disappearing in shame.

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