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[–] 22 points 9 months ago

While the other answers are funny, the real answer nowadays is either "murder" or "assassination". There is not really a more specific word for it.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Regicide is a Latin lego word created at a time when people had long stopped speaking proper Latin. It combines "of the king" with "killer." It followed an established pattern like fratricide, killer of the brother. Note that we slightly perverted the Latin grammar over time by using these words to speak of the killing rather than the killer.

    My Latin is shit. I'm not aware of a snappy expression that encompasses "Head of state or government" so we can add -cide to the end like all political scandals since Watergate get -gate at the end.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Disenshittification

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago
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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    'lone gunman'

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago
    [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    The name regicide has had millennia to develop, while I think it is likely that this novel method of obfuscating the succession crisis has not had similar time or cause for neologization.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    JFK'ed

    Just like every scandal is now a [X]-gate

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago
    [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Depending on the subject, I think it would be called catharsis.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago