"give a rat's ass" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002 February 18, Molly Ivins, “Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?”, in Time:",
          "text": "I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing.",
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          "ref": "2008 March 24, Jim Moore, “Save Our Sonics group is angry, articulate”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA, retrieved 2011-05-11:",
          "text": "Anderson also said he doesn't think \"the NBA gives a rat's ass about Seattle,\" and he's upset with Howard Schultz for selling the team to Bennett.",
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          "ref": "2008 August 12, Gregg Keizer, “New exploit poisons patched DNS servers, claims researcher”, in PC World, Australia, retrieved 2011-05-11:",
          "text": "\"[W]e could completely secure the DNS or at least the parts of DNS whose operators gave a rat's ass about security,\" Vixie concluded.",
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          "ref": "2002 February 18, Molly Ivins, “Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?”, in Time:",
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