"assholocene" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Blend of asshole + Holocene Etymology templates: {{blend|en|asshole|Holocene}} Blend of asshole + Holocene Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} assholocene (uncountable)
  1. (slang, derogatory, vulgar) The current era of human history, inhabited by assholes. Tags: derogatory, slang, uncountable, vulgar
    Sense id: en-assholocene-en-noun-elWJIJU8 Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "2023 October 26, Tadzio Müller, “Beyond ethics and rationality: welcome to the assholocene”, in Friedliche Sabotage, archived from the original on 2024-01-07",
          "text": "The epoch in human history in which assholisation, i.e. the normalisation of group-specific misanthropy, is a dominant political dynamic, and the nationalist, patriarchal asshole replaces the neoliberal sociopath as the dominant subject: this is what I call the assholocene - the age of assholes.",
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          "text": "During the past weeks, I’ve been casting about to see what ideas are already out there. Suggestions I’ve found include the Terrible Twenties, the Long 2016, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene.",
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