{"id":17173,"date":"2020-10-12T00:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17173"},"modified":"2020-10-12T00:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:55:18","slug":"a-sea-lion-in-the-twitter-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/10\/12\/a-sea-lion-in-the-twitter-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sea-Lion In The Twitter Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

     \u201cSealioning<\/a>\u201d is defined by \u00fee olde Urban Dictionary thusly:<\/p>\n

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\u201cA subtle form of trolling involving \u2018bad-faith\u2019 questions. You disingenuously frame your conversation as a sincere request to be enlightened, placing the burden of educating you entirely on the other party. If your bait is successful, the other party may engage, painstakingly laying out their logic and evidence in the false hope of helping someone learn. In fact you are attempting to harass or waste the time of the other party, and have no intention of truly entertaining their point of view. Instead, you react to each piece of information by misinterpreting it or requesting further clarification, ad nauseum.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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     An example recently presented itself to your humble author on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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Often anything that does not fit the narrative is labeled as propaganda. Have anything cogent that isn\u2019t a generic label to add to the discourse? I\u2019ve read some of his stuff, I\u2019m all ears…<\/p>\n

— Joe G (@JRGWolf24) September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n