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Sealioning (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ahlooolahhh@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

To expand on what others have said:

If you say "Trump praised president Xi for being a ruler for life" and someone asks for a source. That's fair because it's a specific claim you can and should get a source for.

If youre saying "Trump is a right wing grifter" an someone asks for a source, they are sealioning, because its something that's readily apparent to most people but would be more difficult to provide a source for and even if you did provide examples of him grifitng, the nature of a grift being a lie means it's difficult to 100% conclusively prove, even if its obvious to everyone, it let's the sealioner have plausible deniability to assume it's nit a grift.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's when you start your next comment with “On this article I will provide logical proof that…” Then proceed to write a several thousand words treatise about the topic that slowly transitions into Shrek smut fanfiction, then try to see how far into the text they notice. People forget that a source is just a fancy way of saying “someone else said once that”. Not all sources are valid or authoritative. If I am making a subjective claim, I don't need any fucking source, I am the source bitch.

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