solsangraal@lemmy.zip to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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 · 2 months agomessage-square92fedilink
minus-squareNusmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up137·2 months 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-22 months 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-up11·2 months agoIf you say no, they’ll eat the cake when you aren’t looking
minus-squareReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months 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.