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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

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Sealioning (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ahlooolahhh to c/comicstrips

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‘Sealioning’ is the word that sums up why Twitter discussion is so unbearable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

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[–] qarbone 2 points 9 months ago

We're all on the internet, you can look up the actual definition for "strawman" like I just did.

To paraphrase: strawmanning an argument is not so concretely about "putting words in anyone's mouth".

It is the process of debating a newly-created stance/position/idea that is easily disproven and visibly flawed when this new position may or may not be related to anything in the pre-existing debate. You don't have to be 'responding to anyone'; in fact, it fits more if you are not arguing something that anyone in the debate has referenced before.