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I mostly here it used in an ironic/self-deprecating way to talk about exploratory experimental behaviors. This link seems to suggest it began as a posturing dare, warning adversaries NOT to be experimentally provocative.
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* hear ** I seem to be making more homonym typos lately. Sign that typing is now oral culture directed by auditory speech circuits?
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I don’t get how it’s an antonym to the Gadsden flag (“don’t tread on me”) though. It’s more like a synonym that’s left-coded? Also is it significant that the parody snake is a cobra (with a grenade…? Suicide-bomb signifier?) rather than a rattler?
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The drift to positive valence is something like culture war neutral-ironic? You accept the risks of potentially treading on dangerous critters…
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard the aggressive version in the wild; not on Twitter and definitely not irl. I live a peaceful life in good online and offline neighborhoods apparently.
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it's drifted, yeah. used to be a kind of "come at me bro and you'll see what happens" and then some people were like, actually, i like to fuck around. fucking around is how we learn things. so I would certainly like to FAAFO
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Definitely only heard it as an aggressive warning. I saw a tiktok recently that provided the HR-friendly version: "Please test that assumption at your earliest convenience"
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I’ve not used it, but I think it treats such a universal human behavior that both the “poison ivy” and the threat uses refer back to the same thing - actions have consequences / skin in the game.
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I’ve only stumbled across it w/r/t 2nd amendment self defense. Specifically “I don’t rely on the state to resolve potentially life threatening intrusions into my property.” Particularly salient around last years riots and property rights when cops wouldn’t respond to calls.
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