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A review of some terms useful in political analysis & polemics</div>
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smartass, asshole, bullshit, shithole</div>
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<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.4px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">smartass</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> (ˈsmɑːtˌæs)</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">adj</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">a US word for
<a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/smartarse" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1f6fb9" class=""><b class="">smartarse</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 </span></div>
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<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27.4px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">= smartarse</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> (ˈsmɑːtˌɑːs)</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">derogatory</i>
<i class="">slang</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">a.
</b>a clever person, esp one who parades his knowledge offensively</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #313131; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">b.
</b>(<i class="">as modifier</i>): </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">smartarse guidebooks</i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #313131; background-color: #ffffff" class="">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">ˈsmartˌarsed</b>
<i class="">adj</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 </span></div>
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<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 32.4px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">ass·hole</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> (ăs′hōl′)</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">n.</i>
<i class="">Vulgar Slang</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">1.
</b>The anus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">2.
</b>A contemptible or detestable person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">3.
</b>The most miserable or undesirable place in a particular area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #313131; background-color: #ffffff" class="">[<a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/ass" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(31, 111, 185);" class=""><b class="">ass</b></span></a>
+ <a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/hole" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(31, 111, 185);" class=""><b class="">hole</b></span></a>.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 </span></div>
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(ˈæsˌhoʊl) </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">n. Vulgar Slang.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #313131; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">1.
</b><a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/anus" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(31, 111, 185);" class=""><b class="">anus.</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">2.a.
</b>a stupid, mean, or contemptible person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">b.
</b>the worst part of a place or thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 </span></div>
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> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Characteristic utterance: “Don’t you know who I am?” </div>
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<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 27px; line-height: normal;" class="">—</span>See: Aaron James,
<i class="">Assholes</i>: A Theory (Doubleday, 2012, 221 pages.) [Ph.D. in philosophy, Harvard University; professor of philosophy & department chair, UCal Irvine.] ~ RSz. </div>
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bullshit (bull, B.S.)<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 26px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">
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> Re: Harry Frankfort, <i class="">On Bullshit</i> (Princeton U.P., 2005, 67 pages)</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take
the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is
so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, "we have no theory."</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt proceeds
by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. He argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims
about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least
acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.</span></div>
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cp. humbug, drivel, hogwash, bunk (bunkum, buncombe), garbage, poppycock. etc. (q.v.) </div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">shit-hole</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">
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taboo</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">a very bad place; a disgusting place</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014</span></div>
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