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Double think 

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Double think mean to believe in two things that dont match up. For example it's like believing that black people are inferior to white people but also believing that segregation was a bad thing. Or like priding yourself of being a Nazi but hating Nazism
I am a communist but i dont want to collectivise anything. Thats Double think
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Same-Brain Double-Think 

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An exclamatory phrase used when more than one person comes up with the same idea, uses the same phrase, or shares the same opinion at the same time.
“We should go to the beach this weekend.”
“I was just thinking that!”
“Hey, same-brain double-think!”

doublethink 

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"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morally while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forger it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself--that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word "doublethink" involved the use of doublethink."

doublethink 

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Newspeak word, and the most important pillar of Ingsoc. Doublethink is the ability to hold two contradictory opinions at the same time without noticing the contradiction. It also refers to the mind trick to accept the changes to history made by the Party, and in accepting them, forgetting that the mind trick was ever performed, and then forgetting the forgetting, etc.
"Ashes. Not even identifiable ashes. Dust. It does not exist. It never existed."
"But it did exist! It does exist! It exists in memory. I remember it. You remember it."
"I do not remember it," said O'Brien.

nutritional doublethink 

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The simultaneous acceptance of two contradictory beliefs about a food.

The term nutritional doublethink is derived from George Orwell’s book, 1984. In 1984, the ruling party encouraged doublethink, defined as the ability to simultaneously hold two contradictory thoughts in one's head without recognizing the contradiction. We can apply the concept of doublethink to nutrition.
Cookies and cream low-fat yogurt is an example of nutritional doublethink. Low-fat yogurt implies healthy, but inherently we know cookies are unhealthy. By accepting the food as both unhealthy and healthy, we are holding two contradictory concepts about a food in our head, without recognizing the contradiction.

doublethink 

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When one is forced to express that a lie is truth, despite his knowledge of the real facts. Orgininated in the book 1984 in the fictional Socialist government of Ingsoc
Bobby committed doublethink when he said to his young daughter that she could do anything that she set her mind to it, despite the fact that he knew that was a lie.

(But in the book 1984, doublethink is more of a serious act of course)
doublethink by Matthew Peters January 9, 2004

Doublethink 

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The stage after Schrödinger's Woman, doublethink is the ability to hold two contradictory opinions about said woman and forget the one which does not approve with your narrative (usually after a failed pickup attempt)
Bloke 1: "Mate, I thought you said you loved that bird!"
Bloke 2: "No, she's a fat slag. I've never loved her"
Bloke 1: "Are you going mental or are you just forcing doublethink on yourself?"
Doublethink by fearlessmonkey8 February 9, 2023
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Overstand 

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To understand a topic or statement to the highest extent.
Leroy, after being told the tenth time by his sister, did overstand her idea of robbing the 7-11.
Overstand by Elf Eater March 23, 2003
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minimap 

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A map that mostly tells you where everything is
Friend 1: Follow me there is a player nearby
Friend 2: How do you know?
Friend 1: Minimap
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Pink Cloud

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12 step recovery jargon referring to someone new who talks about how great life is, now that they're sober. Usually meaning that the person is out of touch with reality.
The new guy seems pretty happy for a dude who has no job, no money and no family. He must be on a pink cloud.
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Dotard 

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An aging individual who has long lost the ability to make rational sense.
That dotard is going to get us all blown up, if he doesn't calm down .
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Chancla

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The deadliest weapon known to a Latin kid; a flying slipper/ flip-flop.
My mom hit me with a chancla.
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Striver 

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The striver is an interesting phenomenon that is seen across college campuses. In essence, the striver is an over-achiever who comes from a working or middle class family. He may be an immigrant. He may have been a slacker in HS who was "born again" into an academic wunderkind. Or he may just be an over-achiever who is keeping at it.

The striver is willing to sacrifice his social life at the expense of Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. The striver is the guy who stays at the library long after you are gone. The striver is the guy who takes 30 credits/semester and considers anything below an A/4.0 failure. The striver doesn't work on campus, he is too busy finding ways to pad his resume instead of working retail or workstudy. The striver lets his grades pay his education by applying to ten scholarships a year.

The striver is a future Soros/Fullbright/Rhodes/Gates/Marshall/etc. fellow. The striver lives to study. For the striver, their fun comes from the rewards they expect to receive in return for their diligence. Be it Law School, B-School, academia, or politics. The striver seeks to find the American Dream through academic success.
Anthony was a striver. He transfered from a TTT to an IVY and graduated in 2 years. He studied his ass off and went to Penn Law. He got a Biglaw offer. But lost it all because of an unmoderated mesasgeboard.

Successful strivers:
- Barack Obama
- Harold Koh
Striver by URM Striver January 3, 2009
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