Sealioning, no not the animal, the behavior on social media and a point

[Bucky]

25. I have to own up to being guilty of this

There's a Facebook discussion group I participate in which is about 65% RWNJs by headcount and about 80% RWNJs by post-count.
They make a LOT of posts that make sweeping prejudicial statements about Clinton or Obama or Ocasio-Cortes or liberals in general (whom they usually call socialists) and especially irrelevant shit about abortion. They're not sophisticated at all; some days it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

I hold their feet to the fire. I call them out. I post stats and links and logical arguments. But I also constantly ask them to provide examples of whatever bullshit they're spewing. My goal is to draw their own cognitive dissonance to their attention. My motives are at least 30% perverse, since I know I won't "win over" most of them. I'm partly there for the joy of disrupting their echo chamber. And I think what I do is a social utility. I think they need to hear how the other half thinks.

Am I a sea lion? I prefer to think of myself as a missionary among the heathens.