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TIL “Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps” was originally meant sarcastically, or to suggest an impossible accomplishment, because it is impossible for someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps (media.kbin.social)
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[–] sadreality@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess nobody ever told the boomers...

[–] fckgwrhqq2yxrkt@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nah, they have just been mocking us the whole time, knowing we were fucked.