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| Ad Ad Ad Hominem | Complaining that critics are making ad hominem attacks on you after you have already made ad hominem attacks on them. |
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| Ad Hominem | A fallacy that involves replying to an argument or assertion by attempting to discredit the person or assertion based solely upon some unrelated fact about the person offering the argument. |
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| Agent Provocateur | A person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another. |
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| All-Or-Nothingism | When a person is mocked because their recommended policy does not completely solve some problem. |
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| Amerika | An underground metaphor for a fascist USA reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or like Franz Kafka's 1946 novel of the same name. |
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| Anonymous Sources | An appeal or attribution of information to a powerful and knowing person of high stature who is so important that the identity must remain secret. |
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| Antediluvian | Of or belonging to the period before the Flood. A very old, old-fashioned, or out of date; antiquated; primitive: antediluvian ideas. |
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| Anti-Idiotarianism | Used by right-wing bloggers to denote opposition to "idiots" of all political stripes which refers to Islamic terrorists and their alleged sympathisers in the Western political left. |
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| Anti-Semitism | Hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious or racial/ethnic group. Note that it is NOT the same thing as Anti-Zionism! |
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| Astroturf | A grassroots program that involves the instant manufacturing of public support for a point of view in which either uninformed activists are recruited or means of deception are used to recruit them. |
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| Astroturfing | The use of paid shills to create the impression of a popular movement, through means like letters to newspapers from soi-disant "concerned citizens", paid opinion pieces, and the formation of grass-roots lobbying groups that are actually funded by a PR group. |
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| Asymmetric Warfare | Activities of saboteurs, partisans, or assassins who were not clearly engaged in war or terrorism activities, but seek to avoid the consequential labelling as being fighters or terrorists by using this term to provide themselves with cover. |
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| Attack Ad | A short 15-60 second piece of political advertising almost always aired during an electoral campaign, but maybe as a third party ad. It is the key feature of negative campaigning and is often used to discredit a key political figure. |
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| Attackumentary | Polemical screeds in the form of documentaries. When it employs political satire, it is a variant of a mockumentary. |
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| Augmentation | Increasing a statement or information by addition so that the information rides on the exposure of some arbitrary topic and subtly augments the original message to carry the propagandist's own message along with it. |
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