Exactly, I insist on calling it "US A I D" and it makes liberal friends so mad. It's not a foreign aid program, it's literally an agency created to do "soft power" dirty work that was too dirty even for the CIA.
They expect so little scrutiny they think just making the acronym look nice is enough to avoid trouble. I'm shocked they didn't quite get to making a department like COMFY : controlled opposition mass fabricated yahtzees
I love pointing out that "USAID" isn't an aid organisation, it's an acronym.
Exactly, I insist on calling it "US A I D" and it makes liberal friends so mad. It's not a foreign aid program, it's literally an agency created to do "soft power" dirty work that was too dirty even for the CIA.
They expect so little scrutiny they think just making the acronym look nice is enough to avoid trouble. I'm shocked they didn't quite get to making a department like COMFY : controlled opposition mass fabricated yahtzees