The honking of a car horn, consisting of three long blasts followed by four short ones, followed by two long ones, to mimic the rhythm of the pro-labor, call-and-response chant:
The study of democracy—particularly liberal democracy—using the critical tools of Sovietology. Democratology examines how elections, parliaments, and constitutions function as rituals of legitimation, often producing outcomes that serve elite interests despite popular participation. It analyzes voter suppression, gerrymandering, media bias, and campaign finance as the functional equivalent of one‑party state control—different mechanisms, same effect of limiting meaningful choice. Democratology does not reject democracy but insists on studying how actually‑existing democracies manage to reproduce inequality and elite rule under the banner of popular sovereignty.
Example: “Her democratology of US elections revealed that despite millions of votes, the outcome was determined by a handful of ‘swing’ districts where both parties colluded to keep viable third parties off the ballot.”
Boys who enjoy yaoi (a genre in Japan that contains sexual and/or romantic relations between two men); literally translates to "rotten boy"; corresponding female : fujoshi
May I have an order of regular degular buttermilk pancakes? Without all the added jazz? Hold the blueberry smiley face, strawberry glaze, chocolate chips and whipped cream.