or you misspeak and correct yourself with an apology and get hit with HAHA SO WHICH IS IT YOU CANT EVEN GET YOUR STORY STRAIGHT

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    It’s exactly what you’re doing, you… marine mammal! [I’m joking.]

    Serious now, this Wikipedia page has an amazing definition:

    Rhetorically, sealioning fuses persistent questioning—often about basic information, information easily found elsewhere, or unrelated or tangential points—with a loudly-insisted-upon commitment to reasonable debate. It disguises itself as a sincere attempt to learn and communicate. Sealioning thus works both to exhaust a target’s patience, attention, and communicative effort, and to portray the target as unreasonable. While the questions of the “sea lion” may seem innocent, they’re intended maliciously and have harmful consequences.

    So it’s basically “I’ll keep trying to engage you in a debate, because eventually you’ll lose patience and shut up”.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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        If you’re from USA: it’s like Conservapedia, but your government hates it. It’s widely used in the free world though.

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          i had never heard of conservapedia until reading your comment and after reading some articles i can confidently say that gray matter is leaking from my ears

          edit: typo

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            Same, I am truly speechless !

            “I’ve tried editing Wikipedia, and found it and the biased editors who dominate it censor or change facts to suit their views. In one case my factual edits were removed within 60 seconds—so editing Wikipedia is no longer a viable approach.”

            they edit it according their point of view without giving credit to mine even if mine is the only correct one