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   Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 02:16:30 JST Kim Scheinberg

   I know there are words like kleptocracy, kakistocracy, corporatocracy, etc

   What's the word for government run by the "Oh yeah? What you are gonna do about it?" ethos?

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 04:23:41 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     If you grew up the youngest child to sadistic older brothers and absent parents, these last few weeks feel awfully familiar. I'm trying really hard to remind myself that I'm an adult now, not a helpless child, but it's super hard not to get demoralized.

     They will all eventually turn on one another. They always do. But it's going to take longer than I'd thought. They have an entire treasury to drain first, and even the worst business plans take a while to blow through trillions of dollars.

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 06:55:08 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     • BobDevney

     @BobDevney
     I defer all decisions on greek-derived neologisms to @20002ist

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     BobDevney (bobdevney@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 06:55:09 JST BobDevney

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     We might make up one possibility derived from the Greek word "plektes." [Pronounced "PLAKE-tace."] Apparently it means a violent person or bully; from a Greek verb meaning "to strike."

     So: plektestocracy? [PLAKE-tess-TOKH-ruh-see]

     #Politics #Word #Etymology

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     Live, Laugh, Punch Nazis (20002ist@thepit.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2025 09:28:07 JST Live, Laugh, Punch Nazis

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     • BobDevney

     @kims @BobDevney πλήκτης has the sense of brawler, but not quite the same as “bully.” The adjective θρασύς comes closer as it connotes insolence or arrogance. If you want fancy, θραςύδειλος isn’t bad, although a coinage from Aristophanes isn’t the kind of thing you’d use in normal prose.

     TLDR: I’d probably go with “thrasocracy.”