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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: idiots walk among us
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:28:28 -0000 (UTC)
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Kevrob wrote:
> Don wrote:

<snip>

>> It's a septical spectacle (so to speak) to witness the Anglosphere
>> desperately cling to its glorious past. Last week theatrocratical [1]
>> Trump took the cake with Zelensky, no? What would Plato say?

<snip>

>> Note.
>>
>> [1] Think theatrocracy not theocracy.
>>
> You are using an idiosyncratic definition.
>
> " government by the people assembled in their theater (as in the
> Athenian democracy) "
>
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theatrocracy
>
> Not very Trumpian. Dramatocracy might do.

You're absolutely correct, of course. To paraphrase Rummy, "you go to
ideation with the words you have." Neo-theatrocracy is another
candidate.

Danke,

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