• spujb@lemmy.cafe
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      6 months ago

      well i am missing your point i guess, sorry. could you rephrase what you are saying ? im quite lost

      edit: like what is “the problem” involved here? what are the journalists saying that is misleading?

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        6 months ago

        well i am missing your point i guess

        Yes, despite it being very simple and my having explained it clearly…

        sorry

        No, being “confusing and distracting” by muddying the waters was you whole point. You’re clearly arguing in bad faith. It’s just that I called you out.

        Facing the consequences of your actions is not a state of victimhood.

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          6 months ago

          i literally don’t know what you are talking about, lol. just asking for clarification because my initial reading was clearly wrong :)

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            6 months ago

            Sealioning

            Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassmentthat 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.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”,[5] and has been likened to a  denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[6] The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki,[7] which The Independent called “the most apt description of Twitter you’ll ever see”.[8]

            Just asking questions

            Just asking questions (also known as JAQing off, or as emojis: “🤔🤔🤔”[1]) is a way of attempting to make wild accusations acceptable (and hopefully not legally actionable) by framing them as questions rather than statements. It shifts the burden of proof to one’s opponent; rather than laboriously having to prove that all politicians are reptoid scum, one can pull out one single odd piece of evidence and force the opponent to explain why the evidence is wrong.

            The tactic is closely related to loaded questions or leading questions (which are usually employed when using it), Gish Gallops (when asking a huge number of rapid-fire questions without regard for the answers), and Argumentum ad nauseam (when asking the same question over and over in an attempt to overwhelm refutations).