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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 10 months agoThat’s how you know we’re all living in oligarchies masquerading as democracies. I mean, the rich and powerful in “democracies” get away with literal mass murder and ecocide, and the worst they face from the state 99% of the time is a slap on the wrist that’s 1/1000th the profit of their crimes.
The only time oligarchs fall is if they fuck with other oligarchs, or to protect other oligarchs. How many hundreds/thousands of pedo’s were ignored with Epstein and Maxwell taking the fall?
Maeve@kbin.social 10 months ago
Kleptocracies. That’s the word.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I prefer kakistocracy. Fits the whole thing rather than just the theft. Image
Maeve@kbin.social 10 months ago
Tbf aristocracies are a shit government, too. Source: history
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, but the meaning of the word doesn’t fit reality: true aristocracy (as in, the people governing TRULY being the best ones, without a doubt) would pretty much just be democracy without demagogues, spin doctors and other forms of corruption of the process…