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re: uspol re: "bootstraps" 

@LexYeen@snouts.online Yup. Same basic logic behind "giving 110%" somehow becoming an expected standard, and "life ain't fair" becoming a justification for making it more unfair.

Took me the better part of 30 years to fight off the gaslighting of that whole Norman Vincent Peele cult. Even my dear kind liberal mom used to insist "you can achieve anything you put your mind to"--without a single thought spares to how DEPRESSING that would be to an imaginative kid, since it obviously implied, QED, all the beautiful things that nobody had apparently put their mind to, then. ("Okay, Mom, fine. Then I wanna be a unicorn." "Then you better put your mind to it, smartass " OK, maybe she wasn't ALL wrong. *neigh*)

re: uspol re: "bootstraps" 

@zebratron2084 @LexYeen talked to my ma yesterday and im weeing her off of the bootstrap nonsense

shes said it a lot (pelase please tho, understand to both of us are driven into a panicked state when we hear "step up to the plate" and "it is what it is")

ive been substituting the bootstrap thing with "grin and bare it" and "rough and tough"

as the thing to mean applying yourself and your mind to a bad situation to survive it

re: uspol re: "bootstraps", abusive father mention, packrat 

@zebratron2084 @LexYeen i hate that phrase tho

john however, he hasnt changed and isnt even trying

my ma is

(im even trying to help her pack long distance)

((im giving her hermes travel tips))

@zebratron2084 @LexYeen packing is a nightmare with her

shes going somewhere for 8 days and is trying to take three overpacked bags

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