Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 month agoWith stuff like Tesla and Twitter, it can keep away the weird nerds who search those terms in hopes of white-knight-sealioning a conversation into oblivion. I think it just became part of the lexicon.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sealioning?
eldoom@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Have you ever heard a sea lion? They’re super loud and they all get together and bark.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Ahahaha that’s great
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/sea-lioning
rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 month ago
hisssss
use this link: knowyourmeme.com/memes/sea-lioning
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dang, that comic will be ten years old next week.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I gotta be honest, the sea lion is not the bad guy in this comic. Guy randomly says some racist shit, and a member of the group he’s being racist against calls him out for being racist, so he then uses that as justification for the initial racist statement.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sea lion is slang for a type of behavior a person exhibits not an immutable characteristic of the person like the color of their skin. They didn’t have to prove the behavior because the behavior expressed IS the behavior.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Racism justifies harassment and home invasion? I don’t think I can necessarily agree with that.
The point Malki was making, I think (and the way I take it) is less about the purpose or content of the discourse and more about the harassment veiled in false civility as a means of silencing discussion. Pretend he’s not a sea lion, but a conservative, and you’ll get the intended effect.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
It’s mocking the type of people that try to turn anything and everything into some sort of formal debate when it was just a casual conversation then act like they’ve won some sort of argument when you don’t engage.