• pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Words change, aristocracy in ancient greece meant ‘rule by the best’ and they regarded inheritence as corruption. And while I’m sure president Xi is influential, I doubt he has the ‘absolute’ power for the word autocracy to fit.

    Olligarchy would’ve been more unambigous.

    I’m trying to play chess with a bunch of pidgeons who think they’re winning, smh

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      Words change, aristocracy in ancient greece

      I don’t live in ancient Greece, I live in the modern day where words are understood to mean what they mean now, not what they meant thousands of years ago.

      I’m trying to play chess with a bunch of pidgeons who think they’re winning, smh

      You are the pidgeon.