Asinine rhetorical questions? bruh, I’m defending myself from your insults and falsehoods. And yeah, I’m responding to comment chains, so what? I want to hear what people say; I’m a candidate. I’m already learning a lot.

Truthfully, I think you’re sealioning, at least according to your moving definitions, which you’ve already changed.

You only have 6 comments on Agora in the past day, all of which contain you attacking others.

• You’re calling me a troll.

• You’ve called other people trolls in this very thread,

• You’re telling others they’re arguing in bad-faith,

And you’ve also listed your information incorrectly twice, both my burggit account and Bit’s comment chain. I like the Bit thread a lot since you make claims about Bit despite not knowing what the deleted comments contained.

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But hey, let’s read through this paper anywho!

Sealioning, which can be performed by a single user or as a tag-team effort, may feel familiar: it evokes the toddler who incessantly asks why, the adolescent who has just discovered philosophy, the condescending family member who disapproves of your life choices.

Questions—shaped by explicit or implicit expectations about who has the right to question and who can be questioned about what—impose labor by demanding the questioned party either answer or appear indifferent; providing explanations and maintaining patience takes time and effort

What a nice broad definition, this can include everything – convenient! But condescending and denying people the ability to question you? Sounds familiar, perhaps the very same that calls others trolls, bad-faith actors and sealions whenever they disagreed with you.

Oh, and uhhhh… This is really embarrassing, but you’re also sealioning by your very own paper, oops.

On the other, sealioning exploits threading capabilities and often launches through search. A social media platform with comprehensive search functions is a database in which every word is indexed, and every public word retrievable. Keyword searches thus become scouting tools for attacks.

Like you listing my burggit account (having to find my separate account that I’ve never linked before), you listing deleted comments from a large comment chain.

(Honestly this is a stupid definition. Using the search function is sealioning? Fuck off with that, Amy Johnson.)

my take? Sealioning is just a narcissist person’s argument to get out of one or deny anyone shooting them down. As you said yourself:

Co-existing in a space isn’t an open invitation for you to repeatedly argue the same point past a persons point of comfort, for the sake of your personal definition of “debate”. When it’s clear the debate has run its course and the person is clearly being emotionally effected, if you persist then you’re acting in bad faith.

Ah, the irony~