Oh political violence bad... like this?

Interesting snippet:

Utah State University students launched a petition to bar Kirk and Turning Point USA from visiting the campus on his college tour. "Charlie Kirk, a highly polarizing figure, does not align with the core values and ideology that Utah State University strives to epitomize."

Thank you, I pre-ordered this and cannot wait!!

I also finally ordered They Called Us Enemy - very apropos for the current times, unfortunately... I think every member of Congress should have it on their required reading list.

"... [Sealioning] may take the form of incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate, and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings."

UPDATE: found another technique:

(3) "Sea-lioning" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealion...

"a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence... while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity and feigning ignorance of the subject matter..."

The technique wastes an opponent's time and may cast doubt on the opponent's debating ability for an audience unfamiliar with the technique, especially if no independent fact-checking is involved, or if the audience has limited knowledge of the topics."

Each point raised by the Gish galloper takes considerably longer to refute than to assert.

(2) the "Gish gallop" - "During a typical Gish gallop, the galloper confronts an opponent with a rapid series of specious arguments, half-truths, misrepresentations and outright lies, making it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of the debate.

See also: the (in)famous Steve Bannon quote: "The Democrats don't matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit."

This was originally a Soviet technique, and has been effectively used by Putin. The footnotes on the Wikipedia article cite many Trump instances also. Interesting that Trump emulates the Russians, eh?!

(1) "Firehose of Falsehoods" - "a propaganda technique in which a large number of messages are broadcast rapidly, repetitively, and continuously over multiple channels (like news and social media) without regard for truth or consistency"

Hey!!