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Room bursts into laughter as MAGA influencer flounders to name one way the economy has improved under Trump
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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I just don’t wanna do homework laid out by other people where I have to find specific things. Feels like sealioning.
I get this, and certainly posters do this sometimes. However, from a person asking a question they run the risk of assuming you hold a position and then wrongly going off on you for their own bad assumption (which ends up being strawmanning of you), or asking for clarity on your position with something that may smell like sealioning.
Sometimes making very specific claims does require providing accurate sources for your statement to make it credible. This wasn't one of those times.
You expressed your opinion (which you are perfectly entitled to), not claiming it was verifiable fact. The burden to explain that is much MUCH lower. I read your link. If you'd simply said: "I believe giving Nazis a platform promotes it. Jubilee tricked a guest speaker into talking to honest-to-goodness Nazis even though the guest speaker specifically refused to do that for the show." That would have been plenty for me. Even if i disagree with you, you would have made your position, and the rationale for it very clear without needing to google anything or find a link.
There will always be the danger of a bad faith poster. However, without approaching each person assuming they have the best intentions, I don't know how to avoid turning off genuine conversation. I certainly get into conversations with bad faith posters, or those that are so clearly out of their depth on the subject matter that they need an education on it way more than I'm willing to invest in for them. For those, I just let the conversation die.