• jadero@slrpnk.net
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    9 months ago

    I’m partial to “terracide”. Pair it’s adjective(?) form, terracidal, with “maniac”, “profiteer”, or “tyrant” and you’ve really got something.

    If we’re looking for an overarching ideology, “terracidalism” works for me, giving us the companion word “terracidalist”.

    Writing this out, I have to say I like the sound of “Trump: terracidal tyrant.” It’s short, descriptive, easy to grasp, and even has that sweet, sweet alliteration, so useful in slogans, signs, etc. Replace the “:” with “is a” and you have a nice chant.

    I’m a Canadian. We still frequently refer to our Conservative party as Tories. That gives us “Tories: terracidal tyrants.” The chant would use “are” instead of the colon.

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      9 months ago

      I’m for it, for people like Trump. I don’t think it captured the stupidity of someone like my coworker, though. Terracidal has the implication of intent, it seems, but my coworker is just old and conservative (so dumb). Like he, unironically, declared he’s in support of better stewardship of the Earth and in the next sentence was praising Trump.

      There needs to be a term for someone too stupid to be alive. Belligerent is one word, but this is stupidity to the degree of self destruction.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, I don’t know how to describe that. My personal opinion is that being stupid or negligent doesn’t mean that “terracide” isn’t appropriate in the same way that “homicide” doesn’t imply intent in law, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to common speech.