Just say ruling class or owner class. It’s easier for you to spell and easier for the average reader to understand (and accept, if they’ve been subjected to anti-communist propaganda).
“Corpos”.
Or, to use William Gibson’s more current vernacular:
“Klepts”.
EDIT:
Yep. The main reason to use bourgeoisie would be to seem smart or in discussion about materials that use it or you’re French. Outside that, common native language translations are always more effective.
We gotta bring back the term “robber barons.”
‘Filthy parasites’ also works.
“Corpo Scum.”
Careful there, might attract more extremist xenophobes there, same vocabulary and all…
Which is why I prefer rich assholes, billionaire idiots or people who rather prefer to destroy earth then share it.
I’m okay with making them suffer that cognitive dissonance.
vampires
Except vampires at least drink the blood they steal
hey take it up with Karl Marx, i’m not who came up with the metaphor
He was a Harman living in the mid 19the century! The creatures he would’ve meant when he said ‘vampire’ are barely the same as what you’d mean!
I hate “ruling class”. It feels defeatist. Like yeah, they are the rulers what can ya do about it?
They are the current rulers. Rulers can be overthrown. And I think that framing it that way gives people an accurate idea of what will be required.
Or “capitalist owners” more precisely.
Is this where ‘bougie’ came from?
Because most people can’t spell the OG version?
Borgussy
It’s french, you’re encouraged to not know how to spell it.
It’s pretty bougie to know how to spell bourgeoisie, ngl.
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(grimace sits in a deck chair on a boat in the frankly nightmarish klasky csupo ronald mcdonald adventures cartoon in which the mcdonaldland residents become kinky pirates, that itself aired in a tv show that viciously ripped off its entire concept and format from Peewee’s Playhouse during the time in which Paul Reubens himself was being ostracized from public life for being a gay man. they even got mark mothersbaugh, who did the music both for Rugrats and the playhouse itself, to write the score. (satire becomes reality, spud boy?) anyway i edited the screenshot so grimace is confidently saying “burgwer Z” while captain ronald mcjack fucking sparrow and his talking dog who looks and sounds like The Gromble from aaahh real monsters look on in horror.) :::
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Americans pronouncing crossaint (kho-sant) : kwa-son!
Americans pronouncing bourgeoisie (bor djwa zee) : burgerzee
Haves and not haves
Workers vs owners
Trust fund babies
Billionaires
Wealth hoarders
Today’s language actually has lots of options
- dragons
- fuckheads
- shitheels
- oligarchs
- problems
Dragons are extremely cool magical fantasy creatures
Rich fucks are extremely real and cool as rotten dog shit
Guillotine lubricant
B-our-geo-is-ie… I spell it out as if it’s a phrase. A nonsensical, incomprehensible phrase but it works 🤷🏾♂️
This is how I learned to remember to spell “together” as a small child. To-get-her. Shit works lol
Together? I hardly know her.
Bureau of Bourgeoisie Boulangeries
Technoghouls
Gabalghouls
I just go for the term of my forefathers “rich profligate sonsovbitches” I may talk like a hick but I am learned, though I also refuse to speak French if I can help it, whole damned language feels like Latin with a concussion and several problems.
burger-z
The borgys…
Don’t at me, you know I’m right. We need to defrenchify to reenrichify the Inglish languadj… goddang it.
The burgeroise
In France, we litteraly learn to spell it in first grade. We still have the bourgeoisie though…
French spelling needs to go on a diet and shed some superfluous letters. We have a city pronounced the same as Bordeaux here in Norway: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vt11qRzt3wvzbhar6
The R in Bordeaux is not silent. Is there also one pronounced in that Norwegian name?
