A big component of sealioning, as I think you've pointed out, is one party pretending to not understand the intent or argument behind your reasoning and rephrasing it in a way to make it sound ridiculous, but in the form of a question. The goal is to counter someone's argument by hoping that they don't have the argumentative or expressive capacity to succinctly clarify themselves or identify that you're asking questions in bad faith.
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A snake can't sprint at you at 25 miles an hour and then rip you in half like a phone book as soon as it sees you. Nor would it. A panicked gorilla placed in a strange location like a mall will potentially kill anything in sight.
Sort of like reddit. There's less content, but also less comments just replying "lol, so true" to a political meme. That said, there's also, for some reason, more rape apologism than on reddit. Maybe it's because lemmy is even more male dominated than reddit was or is.
Or took "no" as an answer from a woman.
Trope. A troupe is a group of performers.
Literally almost spit out my iced latte this am watching.
Somehow, irrespective of indicating any kind of actual political ideology, this is the most liberal comment I have ever read on the internet.
Sounds like you got a lot of opinions on this topic. Maybe you should blog about it?
as if attention and a positive agenda on this stuff was a bad thing
This is culture war propaganda meant to make people think this problem - false rape accusations - is far more common than it actually is by putting a spotlight on it. Actual instances of rape - typically happening to women - never receive the degree of media attention as stories like this. Probably because rape is really fucking common and there are over 100,000 instances of reported rape (and rape is an infamously under-reported crime) by women in the United States alone every single year, most of which lead to no jail time, prosecution, or even a police investigation into offenders.
Nowhere in the actual post was it implied that this was a recent event
Context clues suggest it's recent. The image in question is a twitter screenshot from 2/7/2024. The current date is 2/10/2024. People are going to assume the twitter screenshot is in reference to current events, instead of an old fucking news article from over a decade ago. It's called a lie of omission.
Bro, have you seen the front page. People post ragebait constantly. It's just typically "Boomers something something, Zoomers something something better." This is just misogynistic instead of ageist.
It's okay. Being a person is hard and communicating is a big part of being a person.
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I had the attention span to sit down and play...maybe a quarter of GTA 5. If that. At this point, I don't want to have to figure out what I was supposed to do or where to go. I want like...10 to 15 minutes of gameplay I can put down and then do something else and then come back and have another 15 minutes that's equally self-contained. I just feel like GTA punishes you for trying to do that.