Chomskyite

A socialist who believes almost religiously in the doctrines of Noam Chomsky. Usually edgy socialist teens or undergraduates who want to sound really smart in political discussions. A subspecies of people who use terms from Marxist theory in general conversations because they know that people will ask what they mean. Only one person can verse Chomskyite theories without sounding pretentious and that person is Noam Chomsky.

Person: "Man, this costs way to much"
Chomskyite: "Yeah, that's the Corporatocracy for you. Y'know they also distort the political landscape?"
Person: "What are you, a Chomskyite?"
Chomskyite: "Yes, but I prefer Libertarian Socialist."

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Defenestration

The act of throwing someone out of a window. It was repurposed for discussion among intellectual circles to refer to cases in history in which a leader or influential individual was forcefully deposed from power and replaced by the person who deposed them. Originally repurposed due to the creation of the French First Republic, when many Jacobin loyalists (radical anti-monarchists) threw sympathisers of constitutional monarchy (moderate revolutionary) out of windows to fill their representative seats with other Jacobin loyalists.

"What happened to Omar al Bashir?"
"Oh, the military got rid of him in an act of defenestration"