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> trumpification (i.e. lies upon lies and speaking as if you have a significant mental problem) Why use both the term and explanation for it? Either the reader
by orangepanda 4y ago
> trumpification (i.e. lies upon lies and speaking as if you have a significant mental problem)
Why use both the term and explanation for it? Either the reader knows the term and has to skip the explanation, or skip the term and read just the explanation. When in doubt, using just the longer expression avoids useless noise
- nivenkos 4y ago
- mcv 4y agoByzantine is exactly the right word. Weak maybe not; a united EU would be the most powerful economic superpower in the world, and in some ways, the EU really does wield a lot of power, and often for good. But most of the time, the EU is very divided. And sometimes that's good, because it does justice to the diversity of opinion, and sometimes it's unbelievably impractical, because the EU fails to act or acts too slow on things that require more action. But byzantine is absolutely right. It's in a very large part backroom politics. Between democratically elected national governments, but still very opaque, with insufficient checks and balances, with too much access by corporate lobbyists (there was a time when two different factions proposed literally the exact same law independently from each other, which was clearly written by lobbyists).
- krageon 4y agoBecause the term is widely used, but after I wrote it I realised not every single reader might know that it means "to speak as if you have brain damage". So I added some explanation, everyone can participate now and some folks might expand their vocabulary.