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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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This page looks wrong, my (no proof) intuitive etymology is that there has been conceptual drift from late 2000s origin in appropriated black slang, into more current meme templates like "me: fucks around | also me: finds out"