professional idiot

In contrast to the rank-and-file "useful idiot" (typically a disposable agitator), a "professional idiot" earns a living satisfying regime objectives. Examples include teachers, scientists, economics, and journalists promoting establishment narratives, and shock jocks and controlled-opposition figures pushing fall-back propaganda (loudly-advertised phony deplatforming pogroms may be instituted against these latter figures with declining levels of interest in order to remind you, the rube, that they exist). The professional idiot is intensely adverse to actual productive work, and invariably gravitates to careers in government and its associated parasitic organizations, or to other roles permitting him to talk for a living.

The difference between a professional idiot and a traitor is that the idiot believes in the bullshit he spouts whereas a traitor is consciously aware of the hidden goals of the entity he supports or receives compensation from. That said, the line differentiating professional idiocy from treason is amorphous, and much apparent "idiocy" is simply a cunning ruse on the part of knowing agents of influence, so much so that, for the clearest picture, the prudent observer will invert Hanlon's Razor to read thus: "Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice."

"Paul Krugman is the quintessential professional idiot."

by Bezzle Bedeviled January 12, 2020

rack mount professional

The phrase "Rack mount professional" , implies in a sarcastic manner, that if a piece of audio equipment is rack mounted into a equipment rack, it must be of pro quality.

Items that are considered to be "rack mount professional" :

Rack mount pyramid amplifiers are awsome.

Rack mount behringer compressors are state of the art...

by big n.s. February 17, 2009

the second-oldest profession

Engineering.

The various religious texts record that in the beginning there was chaos, from which a God created the heavens and earth. That's a feat of engineering. God also said "let there be light" and there was light - a task which now universally falls to the electrical engineer.

But why, then, is engineering only the second-oldest profession? The oldest profession is lawyer. Who do you think created all of that chaos?

by bitchuck September 30, 2023

pothead professional

A regular cannabis user who successfully pursues a professional career.

I saw my high school principal at a festival this summer; he's a pothead professional.

by DiggityDank February 18, 2006

professional bullshitter

noun
a person who tells lies for a living.

"This politician is a professional bullshitter."

by phubix May 18, 2016

professional noob

someone who uses cheap or stupid tatics in video games such as camping, blindly rushing and spraying bullets, but they're very very good at it

Short Form: PN - Professional Noob

damn dude, your a total PN

by Snarf April 9, 2004

gracious professionalism

This term was coined by Professor Woodie Flowers for the FIRST robotics competition. The definition has never been precisely outlined, but it's connotation is widely understood and may be summarized as this: "Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition."

Lending a spare part to an opponent in order to keep them from forfeiting a match is a prime example of gracious professionalism.

by Andy Ross April 26, 2004