“Pawn of the government”
“Being used as a pawn”
Specifically when using it as a comparison in chess, pawns are incredibly powerful in chess so the comparison doesn’t hold.
That’s all of my bs. Bye.
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4 RepliesEdited by SYKEVANDAL: 3/16/2022 3:52:28 PMThe term ‘Pawn’ is absolutely a Chess reference. The Pawn, while equally powerful enough to take out any piece on the board, is by far the most limited in its innate ability to do so. Additionally, their positional state on the board is such as to act as a body shield to the “more important” pieces behind it. More specifically, to protect ‘The King’. As such, the term Pawn has come to have a derogatory meaning representative of an individual who is expendable and under the control of someone superior, as opposed to controlling their own destiny,…even foregoing self-preservation. Edit: An alternative, but not quite as meaningful,… how do you feel about the term “cannon fodder”?