> The only accusations I've seen of sealioning were by the left. Exactly. Think about it. The regime's supporters always accuse everyone else of what it does, yes? They project. We all know this. I'd seen the meme years ago, and I was thinking about it today, and it dawned on me, this is exactly what NPCs and the american mainstream have been doing all along. The fact they claimed it first, doesn't restrain us from calling bullshit or pointing out their hypocrisy. > These are leftist memes. Which they engage in. I am not a leftist, and I take issue with what appears to be your implication or insinuation of that. It amounts to the rhetorical equivalent of using guilt-by-association to limit or reserve rhetoric in a sort of "prior restraint", or a form of argument, to one-side. I've seen this enough, that we ought to have a name for this tactic, this "you can't argue that way, or use that meme, only xyz argues *in that manner*." I think I'll call it the *no-true-polar-bear fallacy.*