solsangraal@lemmy.zip to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoCotton says Trump’s ‘you won’t have to vote anymore’ comment was him ‘obviously making a joke’thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down119
arrow-up1216arrow-down1external-linkCotton says Trump’s ‘you won’t have to vote anymore’ comment was him ‘obviously making a joke’thehill.comsolsangraal@lemmy.zip to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square92fedilink
minus-squareNusmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up137·1 month ago“…unless, y’know, you’re fine with it. Then he was he was definitely serious.” It’s called a trial balloon.
minus-squarejumjummy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoExactly. These “jokes” are like a kid “joking” that they want another piece of cake. If you say no, it’s “I was only kidding”, but if you say yes, they’ll eat that cake.
minus-squareTiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoIf you say no, they’ll eat the cake when you aren’t looking
minus-squareReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoAnd also normalizing it.
“…unless, y’know, you’re fine with it. Then he was he was definitely serious.”
It’s called a trial balloon.
Exactly. These “jokes” are like a kid “joking” that they want another piece of cake. If you say no, it’s “I was only kidding”, but if you say yes, they’ll eat that cake.
If you say no, they’ll eat the cake when you aren’t looking
And also normalizing it.