I'm trying to get the pigeon symbology. The article says it's essentially the French word for what would be called a "sucker" in the US, so the people who are u

I'm trying to get the pigeon symbology. The article says it's essentially the French word for what would be called a "sucker" in the US, so the people who are using it are obviously calling themselves suckers. But is this a protest of the French tax situation (i.e. French society is for suckers), or is a statement in defiance of traditional capitalist attitudes toward this sort of thing (i.e. perhaps we ARE suckers, but we don't care; we're still doing what we were before)? I couldn't get a sense from the article.