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  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

    Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[5][6][7][8] It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”,[9]

    The sealioner feigns ignorance and politeness while making relentless demands for answers and evidence (while often ignoring or sidestepping any evidence the target has already presented), under the guise of “just trying to have a debate”,[5][6][8][11] so that when the target is eventually provoked into an angry response, the sealioner can act as the aggrieved party, and the target presented as closed-minded and unreasonable.[7][12][13] Another maneuver of sealioning is the “Just Asking Questions” tactic, which frames false or misleading statements in the form of questions.[14][15] Sealioning has been described as “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”.[9] Sealioning can be performed by an individual or by a group acting in concert.[16]








  • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.comtopolitics @lemmy.worldHelp explain to me
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    17 days ago

    Unfortunately you don’t get things because you want them, you get things that actually exist.

    No progressive/leftist party or candidate exists that can gain more than a couple of percent of the vote.

    In that world, you choose the most progressive viable candidate.

    to me, there are clear differences between the Republicans and the Democrats, and the choice is obvious. Both in values and action - they support labor, climate, diversity, education, access to health care, anticorruption, etc…