broligarchyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

broligarchy (countable and uncountable, plural broligarchies)

1. (neologism, politics) A small group of ultrawealthy men who exert inordinate control or influence within a political structure, particularly while espousing views regarded as anti-democratic, technofascist, and masculinist.
   • 2024 August 31, Carole Cadwalladr, “Don’t rejoice yet, Elon Musk and his tech bros-in-arms are winning the global battle for the truth”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 February 2025:

     Last week saw perhaps the first major showdown between the pseudo cryptolibertarianism they both espouse and that old-fashioned, resolutely analogue concept known as the nation state. For anyone who has spent any time pondering the intergalactic levels of entitlement among the tech broligarchy and the – until now – total impunity they’ve faced, the arrest and subsequent charging of Durov was a singular moment.

   • 2024 November 24, Brooke Harrington, “What the Broligarchs Want from Trump”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 November 2024:

     The yet-to-be-created entity's acronym, DOGE, is something of a joke—a reference to a cryptocurrency named for an internet meme involving a Shiba Inu. But its appointed task of reorganizing the federal bureaucracy and slashing its spending heralds a new political arrangement in Washington: a broligarchy, in which tremendous power is flowing to tech and finance magnates, some of whom appear indifferent or even overtly hostile to democratic tradition.

   • 2025 January 24, Aambar Agarwal, “Welcome to the broligarchy”, in The Case Western Reserve Observer‎, volume LVI, number 16, page 9:

     Yet, with our current president profiting from it, it is clear that the broligarchy is here to stay.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:broligarchy.

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Further reading

• “broligarchy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.