Ah. The source of your anger.
The local Overton window shifted. You’d found a bubble you liked and now it’s different and more perspectives are flooding in. Not all perspectives are informed, but you are being credibly challenged now.
The big fish in a small pond finds itself in a different body of water.
I’m not insulting people until very recently and it’s only you. You cast a wide net with your anger and it’s helping no one. And it hurts your cause.
I never said you sealion me. Not once. You keep seeing things as said that aren’t. And then you complain about reading comprehension of your sparring partners.
It’s shameful. And I’m not using that lightly. You act shamefully. It’s fucking embarrassing the way you’re trying to advance ideas by insulting people.
Other people are here. Adapt.
If we need to have a thread about maladaptive rhetoric so you cam deem my discussion on topic I’ll point out that posting a single clown emoji or vomit one is not topical, either. It only further lowers discourse and makes you into an easily discarded clown.
And I doubt you want that.
No, my complaint isn’t about the Overton window shifting. In fact, I’ve repeatedly explained to you what my actual complaint is which you continue to ignore while making straw man arguments.
My complaint, once again is about people such as yourself sealioning into threads to make personal attacks when you read something you disagree with. I’ve explicitly said that I welcome disagreement and genuine discussion that’s respectful and informed. And I’ve asked you repeatedly to consider doing that if you’re not happy with the type replies you’re seeing when you start trolling.
You never said I sealion you, but you keep trying to make some sort of equivalence between you jumping in to start fights and me reacting in kind. In other words, treat others the way you want to be treated or grow a thicker skin.
The only thing that’s shameful here is what you’re doing and your utter lack of self awareness.
I have no intention to adapting to reddit style trolling where people drown out meaningful discussion with namecalling and personal attacks. Again, respect is earned, and if you want to have a respectful discussion then engage with people respectfully. It’s not a hard concept.
I’m not jumping in to start fights. I jump in to ask why you’re doing it.
There’s a difference. Clown faces (a pattern, not an instance), vomit emoji… all that is is you doing something for your feels and to feel better than. They do exactly zero for anything a normal, mature peraon would hope to generate.
You say you want meaningful exchange and you doggedly defend yourself as you bring the discourse down to single emoji and knee-jerk judgments.
You’re creating an unhelpful dynamic. Being likeable helps. Being right is “logically” enough. For persuasion, it is a distant second on a good day.
Being more likeable and less glib can help. Or, You’re not here to help. You’re here to feel better than. Your choice and you get to choose, but be consistent. If it’s the later, don’t criticize it in others, please.
Let’s go one further and I’ll ask other than when I told you themat you required evidence and you were being a hypocrite, when did I demand evidence over and over? Or do you not know what sealioning is?
I’m not demanding evidence. I’m asking why you’re so darn incivil to so many people. You look like an unsympathetic Don Quixote and it helps none of your points.
And if you’re not here to persuade, why post so many of a specific kind of article.
Again. I don’t follow you around. I’m in certain communities for a reason. And then you shit all over them.
It’s daft, touched-in-the-head kind of behavior.
It’s weird that you keep asking why I reply to people in kind when I’ve explicitly explained why repeatedly. I get offended when people sealion into my posts and make personal attacks against me. There’s no great mystery here.
I don’t feel the need to act mature or dignified with people I consider to be assholes. When somebody slides into my threads to call me a tankie, I have zero respect for that person. It’s that simple. I’m not the one creating the unhelpful dynamic, I just respond in kind to people who attack me because they don’t like the content of what I say.
Being more likeable and less glib can help, but none of us are perfect. My personal character flaw is that I don’t take it well when people attack me in this way.
I’m here to persuade people who are willing to have a civil discussion engaging with the topic of the post. You’ll find that I’m always civil talking to people who are civil in kind regardless of whether I agree with them or not.
So, when you see me post in certain communities you frequent, and you have a differing opinion then feel free to explain what you disagree on and have a discussion about it. Be the change you want to see in the world and all that.
