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What does bunkum mean?

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Noun
  1. (slang) Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense (countable).
  2. (Washington, DC) Bombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public applause. [1820s]
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But for the most part our endless classifying, grouping, and arranging is nothing but high-grade hokum, mixed with a lot of bunkum.
In Australia this question is dismissed as leftist bunkum, but in Europe, where the atmosphere is generally not as politically charged, it's just obvious.
I regret, however, to have to write that this idea of self-sacrifice is really all bunkum.
Cumulatively, however, the proliferation of obscurantist bunkum and the reaction against reason are a menace to civilisation.
After the invasion, she took the minister's word at face value, when a 30-second search on the internet could have told her it was bunkum.
In fact, it shows that all the half-hints at challenges and hard choices and pain heard from leading SF representatives over the weekend was bunkum.

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