Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts

• rah@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  the sealion

  I don’t understand what you mean.

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  • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity, and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.

    Whether or not you’re intending to do this your comments do come off a little bit like that. I don’t really like the term that much as people often use it to dismiss any further discussion, but it could be why the other commenters don’t want to chat.

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    • rah@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      feigning ignorance of the subject matter

      your comments do come off a little bit like that

      LOL damned if you do, damned if you don’t. If one doesn’t understand what another person means, there’s no way to gain understanding except to ask them. That people interpret genuine attempts to enter into dialogue as feigning ignorance shows, to me at least, how astonishingly low the average level of communication ability is.

      people often use it to dismiss any further discussion

      Communication can be too difficult for some.

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      • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Well the other thing is that it’s very difficult to instantly tell from a pseudonymous internet comment whether the writer is a normal person up for a civilised discussion or a troll just looking to wind people up. And no offence, but you sounded pretty pro-brexit so not unreasonable to suspect you were a troll!

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