bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

I got accused of “sealioning” the other day. This wasn’t a term they taught back in my CX debate days, so I had to look it up. Fortunately, the usual leftist almanacs have helpful entries.

Merriam-Webster: “‘Sealioning’ is a form of trolling meant to exhaust the other debate participant with no intention of real discourse.“

Hold up. “intention” is part of the definition? So in order to identify if someone is sealioning, you have to infer intent? First red flag.

Wikipedia: Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity, and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”

So many subjective words in that definition. Another red flag. Also, note the strong focus on intent yet again.

Intent is unprovable in rational debate, which is why rational definitions may not depend on it. Once you remove the unprovable intent element, the definition of sealioning is indistinguishable from an attempt at reasoned debate.

Which, I conclude, is the point of the rhetorical device.

Accusing someone of sealioning is an ad hominem argument which has almost no connotative meaning, and would be ineffective as an argument in a rational debate setting. Fortunately for its users, very little debate happens in a formal setting, and the accusation is perfect for an internet forum like reddit or twitter. Like so many other appeals to emotion, the insinuation of bad faith is a sure way to derail an argument that you’re losing. It shifts the discussion away from the validity of the argument, and to tone where the accuser can claim the high ground.

So the next time somebody accuses me of sealioning, I can conclude that they have run out of real arguments, and are just falling back on personal attacks out of reflex, at which point, I can comfortably declare victory in the discussion.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE ⚠️

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The #Dillo package for #Debian will be removed from the repositories in two weeks.

https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/230

The current maintainer seems to be unable to continue taking care of it, and I'm not familiar with Debian packages to maintain it myself.

Is there a Debian maintainer who could help us by adopting it? We already have a working package:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dillo/-/merge_requests/1

I have to say I use the #GNU #coretools more and more and really love the simplicity of it.

So flexible, so good to use. So fast, so widely available. Simply amazing!

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@bonifartius

The tableau was arranged like The Last Supper by Da Vinci, period.

I'm not baptized and I'm not religious.

What bothers me is that Jesus embodies certain values, and I find it creepy that he and these values have been replaced by a extremely made-up (= fake) obese person in tasteless clothes.

The obese people I know don't think their fat is great. They suffer from health issues and a poor quality of life.

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Nell demonstrating yet another way to use a dog bed #dogsofmastodon

🔴 🗺️ Germanic Tribes in the Roman Imperial Period

“Germanic Tribal World of the Provinical Roman Period between 50 BC to 300 AD”

#Europe #History #Germanic #Tribes #Map

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