@[email protected] 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.commessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1233
arrow-up1233external-linkCotton says Trump’s ‘you won’t have to vote anymore’ comment was him ‘obviously making a joke’thehill.com@[email protected] to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square101fedilink
minus-squareNusmlinkfedilinkEnglish138•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink29•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 IRLlinkfedilink11•2 months agoIf you say no, they’ll eat the cake when you aren’t looking
“…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.