• Ignotum@lemmy.world
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    Instead of buying that latte, why don’t you instead buy some bootstraps and pull on them

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      For those who don’t know, this phrase has come full circle.

      Image of literal bootstraps

      It started as something literally impossible. Then people started using it to say they did it anyway. Expecting what is supposed to be impossible out of people is insane.

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        in a way we can view it as a term to mean “LYING” about how you succeeded. How did you get so in shape for your role? Clean diet and exercise. How did you make your first million? Pulling myself into the air by my bootstraps.