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Machiavellianism

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Malthusianism

The idea that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear; derived from 1798 Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus who believed population numbers are maintained by "preventive checks" and "positive checks".

Managed decline

The management of the decline (or "sunset") phase at the end of a lifecycle (enterprise life cycle), with the goal of minimizing costs or other forms of losses and harm. The concept originated in business where it referred to the management of companies and industries, but has since spread beyond to be used in other contexts - such as economies, nations, and populations.

Marcusianism

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Mary Sue

Generic fictional stock 2D heroic character who appears absurd, boring, and without personality or character by being so perfect, idealized, flawless, competent, multi-skilled, impossibly talented, even in the context of the fictional setting, and often as an author's self-insertion.

Marxism

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Mass formation

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McNamara fallacy, aka quantitative fallacy

  1. Erroneous reasoning based solely on numeric metrics.'
  2. To make a decision based solely on quantitative observations or metrics and ignore all others (that cannot be proven).
  3. " When the McNamara discipline is applied too literally, the first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. The second step is to disregard that which can't easily be measured or given a quantitative value. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. The fo[u]rth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide. "
~ Wikipedia: McNamara fallacy

Meaningful liberty

Main article: Meaningful liberty, a listicle guide to political alternative ideologies and conceptual solutions to counter and resist the corrupt corporatocracy tyranny.
My gas utility wanted me to fill out an online survey.

Monopoly

A monopoly is a market in which one person or company is the only supplier of a particular good or service. A monopoly is characterized by a lack of economic competition to produce a particular thing, a lack of viable substitute goods, and the possibility of a high monopoly price well above the seller's marginal cost that leads to a high monopoly profit. The verb monopolise or monopolize refers to the process by which a company gains the ability to raise prices or exclude competitors. In economics, a monopoly is a single seller. In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices, which is associated with unfair price raises. Although monopolies may be big businesses, size is not a characteristic of a monopoly, as a small business may still have the power to raise prices in a small industry (or market).
~ Wikipedia: Monopoly
A Guatemalan policeman holds a suspect at gunpoint during a security checkpoint exercise. Due to the monopoly on violence held by the state, the policeman is allowed to use force and the threat of force legally, while the suspect is not.

Monopoly on violence

In political philosophy, a monopoly on violence or monopoly on the legal use of force is the property of a polity that is the only entity in its jurisdiction to legitimately use force, and thus the supreme authority of that area.
~ Wikipedia: Monopoly on violence

Monopsony

In economics, a market structure in which a single buyer substantially controls the market as the major purchaser of goods and services offered by many would-be sellers. (Like a monopoly of selling, a monopsony of buying. (ie. Walmart buying from Chinese manufacturers.))

Moulage

The art of applying mock injuries healthy to "patient's" (crisis actors) providing elements of realism for the purpose of training emergency response teams, other medical and military personnel, and/or in propaganda/psyops staged crisis events, possibly combined with authentic trauma.
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