alt Hacker NewsI really despise when the term technocrat is misused. It has a very specific meaning in politics and is nowhere near "broligarch", "plutocrat from the tech industry", or any of the thousand different, legitimate ways to describe what people sometimes mean when they mistakenly say "technocrat". How can a political opinion be taken seriously when this extremely basic level of literacy on the topic is missing?
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drivingmenuts • today at 10:50 AM
It is difficult to seriously consider the opinion of someone who clearly fails to understand the difference between denotative and connotative meaning.
Not to "well ackchyually" your "well ackchyually", but language evolves. I guess in a few years we'll consider it just another instance of semantic shift, perhaps with a splash of folk etymology[1].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_etymology