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aretecracy

A political concept that promotes the professionalization of politics by requiring candidates for public office to meet ethical, civic, or professional qualifications before running in open elections.

In an aretecratic system, prior qualification comes first and democratic elections come second. The qualification process may be supervised by independent bodies or decentralized institutions, such as accredited universities or professional organizations, through exams, interviews, or evaluation criteria.
Under aretecracy, candidates are vetted for competence and integrity before voters choose among them.
aretecracy by Resvrgam January 1, 2026
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Aretocracy 

From greek αρετοκρατίας, ἀρετή ("perfect adaptation, excellence, virtue") + κράτος ("rule").

It is a form of government based on the virtue of leaders and their people. It is based on honor, fidelity, loyalty, courage, temperance, prudence, dignity, mercy, spirituality, morality, truth, discipline, hierarchy, authority, severity and respectability. It completely despises democracy and bourgeois liberal values (progressism and liberalism), popular massification (populism), demagoguery, the secular state, modernity, scientistic atheism, extreme rationality, materialism, expansionist capitalism and imperialism. He is a staunch enemy of socialist statism, fascist totalitarianism and liberal atomization.
"Aretocracy is government of virtue and freedom in authority, responsibility and respect."
Aretocracy by tradical May 27, 2023
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artocracy 

It is defined as the ruling system when people are governed by the deliberate shortage of food, especially bread to manipulate their social behavior.
In Central Africa, many civilians were manipulated by the shortage of food and they were humiliated by artocracy of Jean - Bedel Bokassa who claimed himself as an emperor.
artocracy by Mohamed123 March 16, 2024
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”
Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026
Word of the Day on May 23, 2026
well known from south park
rednecks get angrry that future folk took there jobs so they yell
They took ouare jerbs!
Them future folk took ouare jerbs!
jerb by Jimberley Kim April 7, 2005
Word of the Day on May 22, 2026
An Irish phrase meaning shit, derived from ass
(Not to be confused with the literal description of one's buttocks)
"Did you hear the song Aylek$ dropped?"
"Hardly. Her music is absolute cheeks."

"My boyfriend say LaFlame is cheeks."
"Tell your boyfriend I said it's his mixtape that's cheeks."
Cheeks by thecartisan April 26, 2020
Word of the Day on May 21, 2026

sans sheriff 

Lawless use of fonts or typography, with no regard to aesthetics or legibility
I'm putting this CV straight in the bin. Written totally sans sheriff.
sans sheriff by Jamarley July 3, 2019
Word of the Day on May 20, 2026