• MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      15 days ago

      From now on, whenever I see somebody doing the TACO thing, I’m going to assume they are accelerationists trying to get Trump to do something horrific. I don’t know why else you would do it. Surely nobody has deluded themselves into thinking they can just bully the guy out of office and then everything goes back to normal, right? Right?

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        15 days ago

        It refers to tariffs, specifically.

        You don’t see the benefit of calling Trump a chicken? That the bully is, in fact, weak? I do.

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          14 days ago

          I don’t see the benefit, no. What exactly is the end goal? Best case scenario he chickens out and gets all flustered on Truth social and everybody has a good laugh, worst case scenario he doesn’t chicken out because people keeping calling him chicken, and his petty little ass does something even more fucked up.

          Like, isn’t that the whole point of bullying someone and calling them a chicken to specifically get them to do the thing?

          “Jump, chicken, you won’t do it!”. “Boooock bock bock bock!”

          Does that sound like someone that doesn’t want the person they’re talking to to jump?

          Which is why, from this point forward, I will assume anybody saying this TACO shit is actually trying to goad Trump into an even more extreme response.

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        14 days ago

        So tiptoe around the bully and change your behavior in the hopes he decides to leave you alone?

        Screw him, and screw his feelings. We have the right to free speech, it’s not “free speech as long as we don’t upset a jerk.” If he goes off the rails and pulls a Nero over it, that’s on HIM. I’m not gonna tiptoe around him with this “he who must not be named” crap in the hopes that he can be appeased by keeping quiet, and I’m ESPECIALLY not going to do it for MY servant, which is what he, as the president, is.

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          10 days ago

          No, don’t tip toe. Actually do something. Go agitate. Get fucking angry. Throw a brick through a window. Start a community garden and call it the “Fuck Trump Garden”, but calling him taco on the internet is probably the least helpful thing you can be doing. Do it, chicken. Fucking do it. Bawk bawk bawk bawk. Chicken.