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You might as well search for kakistocracy as well.
kakistocracy /kăk″ĭ-stŏk′rə-sē, kä″kĭ-/ noun
- Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
- Government by the worst men.
- Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Top kek, I mean kak.
kakistocracy - see South Africa. Lol
I think we have definitive proof that the American public, in general, are idiots.
We had that in November
Twice in November.
We knew that since Dexter Manly went to college illiterate
Ain’t it great living in the smartest and most prepared society in history?
Becoming..? The country founded on the principle that only landowners and capitalists should be represented democratically is becoming an oligarchy?
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.
Yeah, I read that and was like... "Ya know, you're only about 260 years late..."
The one directly inspired by Rome, an oligarchy with strict class systems and slavery?
This is click baity. People don't exclusively look up things they have no idea about. I'm constantly searching terms to reaffirm my understanding or to get a more precise definition of them. Oligarchy in particular doesn't have a measurable identification which of course people are going to want to dig a little into it. Hell there's a comment on here that made me dig into it since they're stretching it's definition way past it's meaning
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.
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.
Ye's best start believin' in oligarchies.
Yer in one!
What we call laws are more like guidelines than actual rules we abide by…
Nah, laws are the things that bind the working class while not protecting them; and at the same time protects the oligarchs without binding them.
Welp. I'm glad people are learning about this though.
Google searches:
Early gorkey
O' Malarkey
Ooley gookey
O where's my car keys?
Huh, this actually seems legit. Compared to my ultra-scientific Google trends comparo it was half as popular of a search as Taylor Swift at its peak, which seems pretty big.
Oh damn, just comparing it to 'oligarchy' and it's much bigger.
Just to add, this proves:
Americans in general aren't following along on their own
This was also shown on election day when people googled "did Joe Biden drop out". Many voters had no idea Kamala Harris was even running for president.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/search-interest-did-joe-biden-211913111.html
I get a lot of folks are busy, working two jobs, dealing with childcare and healthcare and whatnot, but how deep do you have to bury your head in the sand to be so unaware or disconnected from an American Presidential election? It's unfathomable to me.
Holy F*CK. I live in another continent altogether, and couldn't filter out the American elections spam even if tried (and oh did I try....)
They're broke and desperate. Also, racist and sexist.
it's been made abundantly clear that a lot of americans have no fucking idea what anyone is talking about