Trolling, which trolls call "Trying to engage in a controversial yet civil debate and requesting evidence from someone who refuses to provide such evidence to back up their claims." In short, sealioning is a form of censorship, in which case the trolls aim to exhaust free speech -- and if people block the toxic trolls, said trolls will just open up new accounts in the hope of making people be silent.
Used to accurately describe trolls who "request evidence" of things that any SINCERE person could just Google themselves, if they SINCERELY wanted to know anything. But this is simply not their true intent. They have been trained to exhaust any actual civil debate by popping up like a loud sea lion to frustrate and annoy people into not talking about things which offend said sealions.
"Sealioning" as a term is used to point out trolls' dishonesty by putting the blame where it belongs, on the one troll who tries to shout down SINCERE conversations by calling their trolling "debate."
Used to accurately describe trolls who "request evidence" of things that any SINCERE person could just Google themselves, if they SINCERELY wanted to know anything. But this is simply not their true intent. They have been trained to exhaust any actual civil debate by popping up like a loud sea lion to frustrate and annoy people into not talking about things which offend said sealions.
"Sealioning" as a term is used to point out trolls' dishonesty by putting the blame where it belongs, on the one troll who tries to shout down SINCERE conversations by calling their trolling "debate."
Troll A : Can you give me a link to a study or article that validates your claim ?
Person A : Do you really need a study that validates my statement that water is wet? This sealioning is appallingly pathetic.
Person B : I have touched water, and it is indeed wet.
Troll A : Prove it !
Every rational person: Why do you feel it necessary to spend so much of your life sealioning? All you're doing is proving that no amount of "evidence" can sway you.
Person A : Do you really need a study that validates my statement that water is wet? This sealioning is appallingly pathetic.
Person B : I have touched water, and it is indeed wet.
Troll A : Prove it !
Every rational person: Why do you feel it necessary to spend so much of your life sealioning? All you're doing is proving that no amount of "evidence" can sway you.
by the modhatter June 03, 2023
Sealioning is a term used to describe the actions of villains who demand "citations" for things that are prima facie true, in an attempt to harass and silence facts that give them cognitive dissonance.
As you can see on this very page of definitions, conservatives will even Sealion the term "Sealioning," because it diminishes their capacity to use this fascist tactic.
As you can see on this very page of definitions, conservatives will even Sealion the term "Sealioning," because it diminishes their capacity to use this fascist tactic.
Person 1: An orange is an orange.
Troll 1: Can you provide a link to your claims?
Troll 2: Yeah, if you can't provide a link to prove that an orange is an orange, we own the libs once again!
Person 2: Don't worry, they're just Sealioning you. They're either bots, or just morons.
Troll 1: Can you provide a link to your claims?
Troll 2: Yeah, if you can't provide a link to prove that an orange is an orange, we own the libs once again!
Person 2: Don't worry, they're just Sealioning you. They're either bots, or just morons.
by the modhatter May 10, 2023
Verb
A type of trolling in which someone repeatedly asks bad-faith questions, in an effort to get the truth silenced online.
As you will see, trolls specifically hate the term "Sealioning," and will reply to it with... SEALIONING!
A type of trolling in which someone repeatedly asks bad-faith questions, in an effort to get the truth silenced online.
As you will see, trolls specifically hate the term "Sealioning," and will reply to it with... SEALIONING!
"Why doesn't that troll just Google it himself?"
"That's the point of Sealioning -- to make you so tired that you leave conversations and allow another platform to become Truth Social."
"That's the point of Sealioning -- to make you so tired that you leave conversations and allow another platform to become Truth Social."
by the modhatter June 06, 2022
Noun
In 2018, Trump admitted that Russia meddled in the 2016 election cycle. He denied he participated, as 2014 was before he began his MAGA campaign -- yet his own tweet, also from 2014, shows him preparing to run for President, using his MAGA campaign. Clearly, Putin had no interest in making the United States great again, so the real campaign was to Make Russia Great Again, or MRGA.
In 2018, Trump admitted that Russia meddled in the 2016 election cycle. He denied he participated, as 2014 was before he began his MAGA campaign -- yet his own tweet, also from 2014, shows him preparing to run for President, using his MAGA campaign. Clearly, Putin had no interest in making the United States great again, so the real campaign was to Make Russia Great Again, or MRGA.
"I'm a MAGA patriot!"
"If you were really a patriot, you would know the actual name of the United States, MRGA."
"If you were really a patriot, you would know the actual name of the United States, MRGA."
by the modhatter June 19, 2024
Horseshoe Law was once a theory, but the events of the 21st Century have established it as accepted law. However, it leaves certain questions unanswered. For example, the original Horseshoe Law sometimes neglects to mention the role of economics, and the fact that Democrats are not on the side of the Horseshoe, but at the bottom. Democrats are egalitarians -- what explains why some people climb up the right side through conservatism and others through white libertarianism? What finally unites both sides at the gap?
Pyramid Theory suggests that we all start at 0 on an X Axis. Narcissists move as far as they can to one end of the axis or the other, but realize they want to climb up the socioeconomic ladder. But narcissism is lonely without peons, so eventually they lean the ladder back to the middle, meeting narcissists from the other side at the top of the Pyramid, free to practice their Autocracy over the base.
Pyramid Theory suggests that we all start at 0 on an X Axis. Narcissists move as far as they can to one end of the axis or the other, but realize they want to climb up the socioeconomic ladder. But narcissism is lonely without peons, so eventually they lean the ladder back to the middle, meeting narcissists from the other side at the top of the Pyramid, free to practice their Autocracy over the base.
"I get why conservatives would open up two fronts against the Democrats, but those two candidates seemed so far apart -- why did Russia support both of them, and how did they know it would work?"
"At one end of the spectrum, you have Trumpers. At the other, you have Closet Trumpers. One side is proudly racist. The other scrambles for some rationalization that their racism isn't actually racist -- it's just 'identity politics,' 'economic anxiety,' or some other 'distraction.' Find someone willing to regurgitate those old lies, and you have control over the two sides of Pyramid Theory."
"At one end of the spectrum, you have Trumpers. At the other, you have Closet Trumpers. One side is proudly racist. The other scrambles for some rationalization that their racism isn't actually racist -- it's just 'identity politics,' 'economic anxiety,' or some other 'distraction.' Find someone willing to regurgitate those old lies, and you have control over the two sides of Pyramid Theory."
by the modhatter June 12, 2025
You're telling me I should have nominated Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton? Oh great, so I can elect one WHAM or another. No thanks!
by the modhatter November 11, 2016
In 2014, Russia recruited Trump to run his MAGA ("Make America Great Again") more accurately "Make Russia Great Again," or MRGA. Now,MAGA has recruited Steve Schmidt of Sarah Palin "Game Change" infamy to run "Pass The Torch," encouraging President Biden to drop off the ballot, at a time when Primary voters do not want him to bow out, and the GOP will not allow Democrats to replace him. It suggests President Biden has cognitive issues, based on a debate at which Trump expressed his own cognitive disorders for the entire program. Under the Constitution, if something did happen to President Biden, he would be replaced by Vice President Harris -- one of the main jobs OF the Vice Presidency. But, to the Patriarchy, she is a Triple Threat -- Female, Black, and South Asian. Pass The Torch is hoping to bypass VP Harris by nominating "Drop Out Dean" Phillips, the sore loser who ran in the primary, and couldn't even beat President Biden in New Hampshire, where he didn't appear because NH tried to subvert South Carolina's new role as First In The Nation, and voters wrote in President Biden in a landslide.
As part of Pass The Torch, big donors have successfully blackmailed a handful of all white, predominantly male Congressional Democrats. Hence, the white Pass The Torch movement reminds people of the "Unite The Right"/"Unite The White" Charlottesville tiki torch Klan rally. Hence, supporters of the Project 2025/Agenda 47/Pass The Torch are identified as Torch MAGA.
As part of Pass The Torch, big donors have successfully blackmailed a handful of all white, predominantly male Congressional Democrats. Hence, the white Pass The Torch movement reminds people of the "Unite The Right"/"Unite The White" Charlottesville tiki torch Klan rally. Hence, supporters of the Project 2025/Agenda 47/Pass The Torch are identified as Torch MAGA.
Marianne Williams: "Democrats needed to have a primary!"
14 Million Voters: "We DID, Torch MAGA. You lost."
14 Million Voters: "We DID, Torch MAGA. You lost."
by the modhatter July 21, 2024