#trump cup
I wish people would stop mocking the shitty trump cup thing as a “protest” and being like “lol republicans dont know how to protest” over it because that’s not what it is. And mocking or minimizing it reduces its gravity or severity, gets us to stop taking it seriously. We can’t afford to treat even disorganized reactionaries like cartoon bumbling clowns. Their intentions are harmful.
It’snota protest. It’s (whether they’d like to consider it as such or not) an incompetent try at psychological terrorism. But the intent is there, regardless of execution. It’s an attempt to force a service employee to yell out Donald’s name and remind everyone present who won, assert dominance over people in the area who resist or rightly maintain criticism of Donald. It’s like teabagging. And the approach in this case is founded in hatred of and entitlement over service employees. It is a creepy claiming of a neutral space as ‘for’ their demagogue and as his followers for them. Even though it’s pretty clear Donald doesn’t give a shit about them in the least.
It’s not a protest. it’s straight-up aggression. It just doesn’t involve physical violence or something that could be considered criminal. It’s not inept bungling resistance against forces that aren’t there. It’s hamfisted but effective bullying of people who are there.
This is what I’ve been trying to find the words for.
what is the trump cup?
People are ‘protesting/boycotting’ Starbucks for their anti-Trump stance by going to Starbucks and giving their name as Trump when they order and verbally abusing baristas who don’t write Trump on the cup.
what the hell.
That explanation though…
