choose violence

According to Know Your Meme, first used in the idiomatic sense in a tweet posted June 21, 2019 by @mtheadnothought: "azealia banks wakes up every morning and chooses violence tbh the dedication is outstanding", itself inspired by line of dialogue in the 2016 Game of Thrones episode "No One" (see I choose violence).

• "wake up and choose violence"
• "In a post on his Instagram story Thursday, the Saturday Night Live head writer [Michael Che] expressed his desire to "make fun of Simone Biles." In the next post, he wrote: "I got like 3 mins of Simone Biles jokes in my head. I'm going to the cellar tonight to say them into a microphone. As the dorky kids say, I'm choosing violence.""
• "RuPaul Charles chose violence on this week's episode of Drag Race UK when he chose to eliminate, not one, but two fan-favourite contestants from the competition."
• "Still, the broadcast decided to show that Verstappen was leading him by more than 77 seconds. Sharing a snap of the visual, one Twitter user posted: "F1 CHOSE VIOLENCE WITH THIS GRAPHIC.""
• "For Payne's sake, we hope he figures out who he wants to be soon — and that it's not the same man who woke up and chose violence on Logan Paul's podcast."
• "I have read enough online listing BS — and watched enough terrible HGTV to make my own realtor's head hurt — that the line between parody and straight-faced is probably permanently blurred for me. The internal adjustments you learn to make to the manic cheerleading for basic structural details—sorry, "charming historical elements"—are a reflex at this point, to say nothing of the eye strain from listings that considered proper capitalization and punctuation and chose violence instead."