the Alighty Ollar

Homer Simpson's failed attempt at folding the Mad Magazine Fold-In

Question: What higher power do TV evangelists worship?

Real Answer: The Almighty Dollar

Homer's Failed Fold: The Alighty Ollar

The Alighty Ollar? Oh I get it!

by TornadoGordo April 18, 2018

Theory of Scientific Oligarchies

Focuses on the small, powerful networks of individuals—senior professors, editors, grant committee chairs—who wield disproportionate influence. These scientific oligarchs control resources and reputations, often perpetuating their own intellectual lineages and protecting the status quo through personal connections and peer review.

Theory of Scientific Oligarchies Example: A handful of senior figures in a field who sit on every major grant review panel, editorial board, and prize committee. They consistently award funding and prestige to their own former students and collaborators, creating a self-perpetuating oligarchy that controls the field's direction and limits upward mobility for outsiders.

by Dumu The Void February 7, 2026

We live in an oligarchy

Who's fault is that, dipshit?

Bernie "We live in an oligarchy!"

Hym "And why is that? Is it because you're politically impotent? Is it because you serve no purpose other that to neuter everyone around you so they have to be impotent with you. You're walking up a down escalator and calling it 'progress' while everyone else stands on the ground below you. And that's how you like it. YOU being in the way. And then you take a big fat step backward and then Emma fucking cries about it like it isn't your own goddamn fault. And then you sit there and bloviate about why Trump is winning except you can't draw the right conclusion because you're fucking stupid. Trump won because they are willing to empower people who CAN ACTUALLY DO THINGS. Because it WORKS BETTER than dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator. If everyone groups up to fight Majin Buu they lose. If everyone give Goku their energy their HE wins. If everyone give VEGETA their energy HE LOSES. You deserve to be ruled over by the mentally disabled billionaire. You piece of shit."

by Hym Iam December 30, 2024

GOP - Gilead Oligarch Plutocracy

The Political Party of the very few wealthiest people who are committed to forcing pregnancies to birth, empowering abusers, degrading women, dehumanizing LGBTQ+ people, dehumanizing and deporting human beings without proper immigration documentation, ignoring science, detesting education, valorizing violence, terrorizing racial, ethnic, sexual, and religious minorities of every kind.

GOP - Gilead Oligarch Plutocracy wants to remake the United States of America in the image of Gilead, the country that replaces the United States in Margaret Atwood's book, The Handmaid's Tale. And the GOP - Gilead Oligarch Plutocracy's detailed plan to achieve this theocracy is called Project 2025, which is funded by oligarchs, the tiny group of the most elite, wealthiest people who have ever lived.

by NeologianPJG February 2, 2025

Theory of Iron Rule of Oligarchies

A political science principle, sometimes called the "Iron Law of Oligarchy," stating that any large organization, including democratic states and revolutionary movements, inevitably develops a ruling elite (an oligarchy) that consolidates power, serves its own interests, and becomes detached from the rank-and-file. Democracy and egalitarian ideals inevitably decay into oligarchic control because complex administration requires specialization, which leads to concentration of knowledge and power.

Theory of Iron Rule of Oligarchies Example: A grassroots political party starts with radical democracy and rotating leadership. Within a few years, a small group of full-time organizers (the Oligarchy) controls the finances, messaging, and candidate selection. The Iron Rule has manifested: the need for efficiency and expertise created a permanent, self-perpetuating leadership class that now values its own power over the party's original ideals.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 4, 2026