firebomb a Walmart
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a November 2023 Twitter post by @LinkofSunshine: "People on twitter will really be like 'you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart' and then not firebomb a Walmart". Ironic usage increased during the Democratic Party's 2024 campaign and after their defeat.
Verb
[edit]firebomb a Walmart (third-person singular simple present firebombs a Walmart, present participle firebombing a Walmart, simple past and past participle firebombed a Walmart)
- (Internet slang, politics, derogatory) To take direct action, in the context that threats of such action are empty, or that such actions are counterproductive.
- 2024 April 28, @CartoonsHateHer, Twitter[1], archived from the original on 2024-12-06:
- Men will literally firebomb a WalMart instead of going to therapy
- 2024 July 13, @getfiscal, “Archived copy”, in Twitter[2], archived from the original on 14 July 2024:
- Looks like someone finally firebombed the Walmart
- 2024 November 10, @mrs_socialista, Twitter[3], archived from the original on 2024-12-06:
- Liberals are always taunting communists about when we will "firebomb a walmart" in protest, and this is when it would actually happen, but by liberals lol
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- “Firebomb a Walmart”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007