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"html": "On Smarm\n\n\nFirst there was snark, the \"hostile, knowing, bitter tone of contempt\"; bullshit criticism of anything that doesn't fit one's own flimsily constructed worldview. But as Gawker's Tom Scocca posits, it's a reaction to smarm, an equally odious posture of self-satisfaction; the notion of being above criticism of any kind, which is built on similarly shoddy foundations. Both are as smug, selfish and ignorant as each other.\n",
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