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The type of thing where someone in a general school chat promotes something like the nft collection they are minting and you want to passively aggresivelly respond

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If it's a conservative or religious person trying to justify something:

"That's really interesting, why do you think --insert brief summary of their topic/first sentence-- ?"

Continue this until they realize they've either painted themselves into a corner or they realize I'm trolling them several monologues/pages later. It's the uno reverso card when they try wasting my time.

[โ€“] Soleos 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not an insult, it's a specific form of trolling/harassment called sealioning.

[โ€“] graymess 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's really interesting. Why do they call it sealioning?