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Re:The endgames of bad faith communication by hedora on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @10:38AM (#31003340)
"Gaslighting" has a different meaning (go watch the movie; it's a classic).

I haven't heard the other two terms, and wouldn't be able to guess what they mean.

Sea lions spend all day fighting over [arbitrary thing] to impress potential mates. I'm certain this happens on social media, and that most potential mates are as impressed as they are by an actual sea lion. :-)

Concern trolling seems to be too specific a term.

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Re:The endgames of bad faith communication by camtarn on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:12PM (#31005482)
Gaslighting seems to have mutated to mean "asserting strongly that something isn't true, which I've personally experienced to be true", or in the more extreme cases, "...which I believe to be true."

IMO it's an annoying corruption of what was actually a rather useful term, but there you go.

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