Top kek, I mean kak.

kakistocracy - see South Africa. Lol

Ah, so that’s where “Heritage Foundation” comes from.

While your at it, lets throw in Gerontocracy

Fun fact: the Greek word kakistos (meaning “worst”), from which the first part of kakistocracy derives, comes from the Proto-Indo European root *kakka- which means “to defecate.” Source: Etymonline

In other words, kakistocracy can be considered: Being governed by shit.

ETA another related fact.: the word cacophony (meaning “harsh or unpleasant discordance of sound”) also shares this root. It came to English via Latin, so the spelling is different, but the origin remains the same. Which is to say, a “cacophony” is a shitty sound.

You really think that many Americans speak Greek? Most don’t even make high school level literacy in their native language.

Eh, at least they’re trying to learn more about the subject. I think the real concern is people that don’t know what’s going on and don’t care to find out.

Don’t worry. We’ll be defunding public education soon.

COVID killed so many of the believers of bullshit. I don’t think it helped

God, why would I want to binge oligarchy?! /s

I genuinely can’t believe that there is any overlap at all with the maybe 500 people who actually listened to his speech or even read an article summarizing it and those who don’t know what the meaning of “oligarchy” is.

How does anyone get engaged enough in the political process to watch a speech from Biden and not recall Bernie Sanders saying this every day of his life for the last 30 years?

Anyone who had any other understanding has failed to communicate with the American public.

Defunding schools doing it’s job

Americans have been so fat and happy that they’re literally sick. They need a few more LA fires and pandemics to wake up from the intellectual coma they’re in.

Not the brightest bunch

I mean obviously he knows how he’s part of evil, now that he’s at the end of his career or life I guess the personal benefits don’t outweigh the guilt anymore.

He won’t be alive long enough to witness the disaster, so why should he care?

-The baby boomers advocates.

So, Joe, Buddy, what exactly did you do in your four years a half century to actually curb the power of the oligarchy?

The answer is that he’s been actively working for the oligarchy-beholden establishment since before most of us were even born.

This is like the retiring CEO of Shell warning that extracting and burning fossil fuels might have deleterious effects on the global climate.

Kleptocracy is even better…

This can be said about almost any article that claims people type a specific word into a search engine after someone says it. There were a lot of articles about people looking up jury nullification after Luigi was arrested. Or people looking up the word tariff after trump said it. It’s just a quick way to find more information about the specific instance the word was used in. I didn’t search the term tariff because I didn’t know what it was, i searched it because I wanted to know what trump and his supporters thought it was.

Hell, I looked this up just now fully knowing what an oligarchy was because a) I was curious about the formal definition and b) I wanted to learn more about the history

Additionally, any mention of a word in a speech like that will result in an uptick in search usage – but that doesn’t let anyone quantify anything.

You’d see an uptick if a single person over baseline average looked it up from the speech, and everyone else understood it.

“X is trending in search because people don’t know it” is always a fallacy. See also: reporting on increased search for “who are the presidential candidates” a few days before the election.

Yeah, I read that and was like… “Ya know, you’re only about 260 years late…”

Yes, because the early USA did not resemble an modern oligarchy but rather a plutocracy which despite its problems still has greater room for a merit based system than a modern oligarchy provides. We are intentionally concentrating a tremendous amount of wealth in the hands of very few people.

The one directly inspired by Rome, an oligarchy with strict class systems and slavery?

Communist + Yhadist. Yeah, they had easy remarks and still failed.

Sad.

Bruh, he missed the perfect opportunity to call Obama a communist.

I guess he couldn’t think of a buzzword for “C” so he just left it out. Never mind, someone already said this

Wow, he couldn’t think of a single c based accusation to level at the Obama presidency?

Wasn’t Beck also one of the people who got super obsessed with Obama smoking crack or something in college?

Because it doesn’t look like an Onion headline?

You’re right, but focusing on Pelosi when Biden himself is an excellent example smacks of whataboutism.

It isn’t a whataboutism (since she and Biden have very much been working together on behalf of the oligarchs), but it looks like one to the casual observer, which is probably why you’re being bombarded with unfair downvotes in a Liberal (as opposed to Left) leaning community.

You should google oligarchy!

Oligarchy, like when Johann Rupert influences the South African markets and politics through his massive wealth and business empire… Or is it only oligarchy when Americans do it?

when Nancy pelosi sets herself up as a defacto leader using insider trading

Dude. You should put down the bong long enough to read up on what was covered in the high school civics class you slept through.