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But muh bootstraps!

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Can grab those bootstraps if you can’t afford boots 🤷‍♂️
- Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is physically impossible, so having boots or not doesn't change the circumstances.
  
  https://uselessetymology.com/2019/11/07/the-origins-of-the-phrase-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps/
  
  Thanks for the link. The perfidy of contorting the meaning from an impossible task to something everyone should be able to do is sickening. But I'm not surprised.
  
  It’s a figure of speech. And I was saying that you can’t get ahead in life without a living wage. Kinda surprised you didn’t understand that. Hmmm.
  
  I did understand what you mean and rejected it. Life is not about money and personal gain.

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