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Hey, maybe poor people don't deserve to starve? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If lemmy.world finds this, please tell my starving children that I love them.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

There's also the fact that it originated as an expression meaning "doing something impossible" since pulling on your own bootstraps would PREVENT you from getting up.

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