Newspeak for torture, used by the CIA and its allies. "Stress and duress" tactics are used in interrogations, and refer to a variety of tortures and forms of mistreatment which the CIA thinks are OK. These include:
sleep deprivation
overload of light
complete darkness
stripping and sexually humiliating prisoners
threatening to torture and rape prisoners
threatening prisoners' families
making prisoners stand, sit etc. in uncomfortable positions to induce pain
denial of satisfaction of basic rights and needs such as food, bedding, clothing and exercise
deliberate cultural insensitivity and intolerance
verbal abuse
use of painful "restraint" techniques
beatings
sleep deprivation
overload of light
complete darkness
stripping and sexually humiliating prisoners
threatening to torture and rape prisoners
threatening prisoners' families
making prisoners stand, sit etc. in uncomfortable positions to induce pain
denial of satisfaction of basic rights and needs such as food, bedding, clothing and exercise
deliberate cultural insensitivity and intolerance
verbal abuse
use of painful "restraint" techniques
beatings
These techniques are widespread also in US prisons, although nominally illegal. They are more widely used in deregulated offshore gulags such as Guantanamo Bay, abu Ghraib in Iraq and Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan.
Don't be fooled - these tactics ARE TORTURE, and are defined as such both by the UN and by experts in trauma. Their role is to break down the sense of personality of the prisoner and to deliberately induce psychological trauma and crisis.
They are directly referred to in CIA handbooks - so the photos from abu Ghraib show a systematic pattern of torture, NOT rogue acts by a few stupid/evil/misguided soldiers.
Don't be fooled - these tactics ARE TORTURE, and are defined as such both by the UN and by experts in trauma. Their role is to break down the sense of personality of the prisoner and to deliberately induce psychological trauma and crisis.
They are directly referred to in CIA handbooks - so the photos from abu Ghraib show a systematic pattern of torture, NOT rogue acts by a few stupid/evil/misguided soldiers.
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Used in a sentence - "I can't believe you slept with her, she is so scrusty! You'd better go get yourself checked."
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Bars are unsupervised outpatient stress-reduction clinics that serve cheap over-the-counter medications with lots of side effects.
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its johnny's birthday today, I say we just pitch in 5 each on stress and roll and Suge Knight blunt.
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Get the stress mug.A bunch of low life fuckboys that don’t know how to respect girls. The girls aren’t much better either. You think you’re in a relationship but you wanna go cheat on ur boyfriend the next night. Right. Don’t forget about the fact that the boys do the same. EVEN worse. they are all addicted to flash drives. Lampeter Starasburg boys LOVE to turn off their snap maps because they know damn well they are doing something they shouldn’t be. Also, most bitches that walk foot in this school damn well got some type of STD, so beware. Good luck to all my fellow friends who associate themselves with these lard ass niggas. i wish u luck. don’t introduce them to your mothers. and definitely not your father. ps- be sure not to send your nudes over snap, they secretly screenshot and put in groupchat. such fucks.
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Get the Lampeter-Strasburg mug.Primarily used in an academic setting to describe a scenario where a person has no choice but to mindlessly follow along with a situation that may have negative consequences or be completely void of logic and reason.
This originally referred to the Kafkaesque attempt to learn the philosophy of the German-Jew Leo Strauss (an attempt best described as a futile, self-infliction of mental anguish) but has since evolved into a more generic term. Professors and advocates of Strauss' philosophy are known for being staunch defenders of his writings through even the most devastating of critiques.
Characteristics of Strauss' writings are:
-Summing up the ideologies and life's work of a philosopher in a brief, passing remark when a thorough and in-depth knowledge would be necessary to comprehend the arguments being made.
-Writing ironically or, without warning, speaking from the perspective of a writer he completely disagrees with.
-Using the same logical fallacies that he criticizes in others.
-Writing an endnote that fills multiple pages of text.
The term is applied when an absurd lack of reason or logic has forced the victim into an uncomfortable corner.
This originally referred to the Kafkaesque attempt to learn the philosophy of the German-Jew Leo Strauss (an attempt best described as a futile, self-infliction of mental anguish) but has since evolved into a more generic term. Professors and advocates of Strauss' philosophy are known for being staunch defenders of his writings through even the most devastating of critiques.
Characteristics of Strauss' writings are:
-Summing up the ideologies and life's work of a philosopher in a brief, passing remark when a thorough and in-depth knowledge would be necessary to comprehend the arguments being made.
-Writing ironically or, without warning, speaking from the perspective of a writer he completely disagrees with.
-Using the same logical fallacies that he criticizes in others.
-Writing an endnote that fills multiple pages of text.
The term is applied when an absurd lack of reason or logic has forced the victim into an uncomfortable corner.
Student A: "But didn't Aristotle say (example)?"
Professor: "Ah but Strauss said about Aristotle that (loosely related example). Does that make more sense now?"
Student A: "Ok..."
Student B: *whispers* "You got Strauss'd"
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Student A: "How are your finals going?"
Student B: "Fine, except my professor moved up the due
date on the term paper. Now I have 3 papers due on the same day."
Student A: "You got Strauss'd."
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Professor: "Ah but Strauss said about Aristotle that (loosely related example). Does that make more sense now?"
Student A: "Ok..."
Student B: *whispers* "You got Strauss'd"
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Student A: "How are your finals going?"
Student B: "Fine, except my professor moved up the due
date on the term paper. Now I have 3 papers due on the same day."
Student A: "You got Strauss'd."
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Person A: Hey, what's wrong with Steve? He seemed psyched about hooking up with that tan chick last night?
Perosn B: It's post-orgasmic stress disorder. Turns out that chick was from Jersey - now he's fucked for life 'cause no matter what he says she's always gonna think he thinks she's the shit.
Perosn B: It's post-orgasmic stress disorder. Turns out that chick was from Jersey - now he's fucked for life 'cause no matter what he says she's always gonna think he thinks she's the shit.
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