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Author: sutton ✶  😊 😞
Number: of 48448 
Subject: Speaking of Doge
Date: 02/25/2025 2:28 PM
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In all of this recent nonsense, I haven't seen commentary on what a 'Doge' actually was.

It's kinda significant, and hiding in plain sight: "Doge of Venice acted as both the head of state and head of the Venetian oligarchy. Doges were elected for life"

It was a thousand-year, uh, ruling arrangement: "Doge derives from the Latin Dux, meaning "leader," and Venetian Italian for “duke”, highest official of the republic of Venice for over 1,000 years"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice

To repeat: "Head of state and the head of the oligarchy."

Let's see...in 2025, that would have to be, let's see... I guess a tech bro in the White House

Those who do not read their Wikipedia are destined to repeat it.

That is all

--sutton

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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
Number: of 15059 
Subject: Re: Speaking of Doge
Date: 02/25/2025 3:01 PM
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Yup.

The other feature of the Venetian Doge was this:

https://imagesofvenice.com/mouths-of-the-lion/

This was where you could go to the Bocche dei Leone in the Palace and denounce people you didn't like. Call it an early version of liberalism's cancel culture.
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