steak commando

English

Noun

steak commando (plural steak commandos)

1. (Philippines, derogatory) Someone who advocates for conflict and radical action while themselves living in relative peace and luxury.
   • 1987 January 22, James Clad, “The 5th Column”, in Far Eastern Economic Review, volume 135, number 4, Hong Kong: Far Eastern Economic Review Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32, column 3:

     Some observers' jaundiced view that Aquino has done little to change the basic political climate are buttressed by the legions of "steak commandos" (a derisive Manila word for comfortable Filipinos self-exiled in the US during the Marcos years) flocking home since February 1986.

   • 2000, Peter Ackerman, Jack DuVall, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave, →ISBN, page 376:

     By the summer of 1983, people were calling Ninoy "a steak commando" who was having a good time in the States while his countrymen were suffering, recalled former Senator Francisco Rodrigo.

   • 2006, Journal of the Geological Society of the Philippines, volume 61, number 1, page 61:

     He might have sounded to some like a steak commando, urging compatriots to fight while he slugged his beer in California.

   • 2022 August 21, Larah Vinda Del Mundo, “How Marcos suppressed the truth behind Ninoy Aquino's assassination”, in VERA Files‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-06-09:

     The response signed by the Filipino diplomat noticeably focused on poisoning the well, calling Manglapus a "discredited politician," a "steak commando" and a "political has-been."

See also

• café revolutionary
• champagne socialist
• chickenhawk