#bootstraps — Public Fediverse posts

I keep trying to figure out how to get solar panels on roofs for 26 families living in 13 duplexes in Oregon. I had thought Rewiring America would be useful, but it's a conduit to contractors with packaged deals. I have gotten nothing useful out of it, perhaps because we're Nazis now.

Maybe a bank would come up with something *reasonable* for a complex with some seniors on fixed incomes, aka Social Security, but which isn't a senior community. Perhaps not. We're Nazis now.

The rest of the world gets solar panels. Our political parties gave us the roaring/frowning disapproval and open wallets of Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer.

Oil is king. It fuels tanks. Solar panels are for hippie tree huggers - amiright, Georgia-Pacific?

#ClimateChange #bootstraps #SolarPanels #fascism #oil #FossilFuels #war

I keep trying to figure out how to get solar panels on roofs for 26 families living in 13 duplexes in Oregon. I had thought Rewiring America would be useful, but it's a conduit to contractors with packaged deals. I have gotten nothing useful out of it, perhaps because we're Nazis now.

Maybe a bank would come up with something *reasonable* for a complex with some seniors on fixed incomes, aka Social Security, but which isn't a senior community. Perhaps not. We're Nazis now.

The rest of the world gets solar panels. Our political parties gave us the roaring/frowning disapproval and open wallets of Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer.

Oil is king. It fuels tanks. Solar panels are for hippie tree huggers - amiright, Georgia-Pacific?

#ClimateChange #bootstraps #SolarPanels #fascism #oil #FossilFuels #war

A quotation from Herbert Hoover

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Letter (1928-06-14) to George Moses

More about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/34175…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #humility #advancement #America #AmericanDream #bootstraps #entitlement #nomination #opportunity #presidency #ragstoriches #selfimprovement

This just keeps getting better. Wonderful pulling at the boostrap. Let's keep going. We have to take the internet to its intended end. So we can start anew.

https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/

#UsersAReFodder #InternetDystopia #zoom #bootstraps

This just keeps getting better. Wonderful pulling at the boostrap. Let's keep going. We have to take the internet to its intended end. So we can start anew.

https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/

#UsersAReFodder #InternetDystopia #zoom #bootstraps

All rulers under 30

All rulers under 30

https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/onehundredninetysix/p/598365/all-rulers-under-30

they be like "pull yourself up by your #bootstraps" like bro i aint even got the #boots on

they be like "pull yourself up by your #bootstraps" like bro i aint even got the #boots on

This is great for the people of North Carolina who voted for Trump.

Now they get to show their allegiance to this administration as they are forced to, I mean get to, rebuild their cities and towns on their own. #Bootstraps

Senator Thom Tillis reacts after FEMA rejects Hurricane Helene aid extension | wfmynews2.com
https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/weather/hurricane/helene/senator-thom-tillis-fema-rejects-hurricane-helene-aid-extension/83-2250115f-d6ae-4a73-840f-2ed63fcb3c94

This is great for the people of North Carolina who voted for Trump.

Now they get to show their allegiance to this administration as they are forced to, I mean get to, rebuild their cities and towns on their own. #Bootstraps

Senator Thom Tillis reacts after FEMA rejects Hurricane Helene aid extension | wfmynews2.com
https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/weather/hurricane/helene/senator-thom-tillis-fema-rejects-hurricane-helene-aid-extension/83-2250115f-d6ae-4a73-840f-2ed63fcb3c94

’#Why are #working-class #people conditioned to feel ashamed about owing unjust #debt? Why are we constantly told to embrace personal responsibility and “pull ourselves up by our #bootstraps”?

Because the ruling class spends billions shaping these narratives—encouraging us to police ourselves and each other instead of building solidarity.’

https://debtcollective.org/event/100-days-from-shame-to-solidarity-politicizing-sharing-your-story/

’#Why are #working-class #people conditioned to feel ashamed about owing unjust #debt? Why are we constantly told to embrace personal responsibility and “pull ourselves up by our #bootstraps”?

Because the ruling class spends billions shaping these narratives—encouraging us to police ourselves and each other instead of building solidarity.’

https://debtcollective.org/event/100-days-from-shame-to-solidarity-politicizing-sharing-your-story/

You can get the boot
Or pulled up by your bootstraps
Bloody boot reboot

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #USA #Ohio #October #Autumn #Fall #Boot #Boots #Bootstraps #Reboot #Akron

October 22, 2024

#bootstraps

#bootstraps

If you already have access to cocaine at the age of 14, chances are your environment invites all kinds of "alternative incomes"...

#Poverty is a bitch, so you "compensate". Expecting young ambitious people to "pull themselves up by their #bootstraps" when their families wallow in poverty is asking them to commit intellectual suicide at the behest of institutions.

So naturally poverty and crime go hand in hand. But it's always symptomatic of larger systemic issues.

If you already have access to cocaine at the age of 14, chances are your environment invites all kinds of "alternative incomes"...

#Poverty is a bitch, so you "compensate". Expecting young ambitious people to "pull themselves up by their #bootstraps" when their families wallow in poverty is asking them to commit intellectual suicide at the behest of institutions.

So naturally poverty and crime go hand in hand. But it's always symptomatic of larger systemic issues.

#RandomVignettes 114. Bootstraps
:krita: :cc_by: :sharesloved:

More vignettes: https://randomvignettes.jectoons.net

#webcomic #bootstraps #freeculture

#RandomVignettes 114. Bootstraps
:krita: :cc_by: :sharesloved:

More vignettes: https://randomvignettes.jectoons.net

#webcomic #bootstraps #freeculture

The GOP are now claiming slaves could have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/slavery-desantis-florida-history-gop-b2381746.html

#GOPSlaveryClaim #FloridaHistory #DeSantis #Bootstraps #ReparationsDebate #HistoricalRevisionism #Politics #News

The GOP are now claiming slaves could have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/slavery-desantis-florida-history-gop-b2381746.html

#GOPSlaveryClaim #FloridaHistory #DeSantis #Bootstraps #ReparationsDebate #HistoricalRevisionism #Politics #News

"Girl! Why are these #billionaires stuck at the bottom of the #ocean not pulling themselves up by their #bootstraps? It sounds like a #skill #issue honestly."

https://www.tumblr.com/161afa1312acab/720849536818511872?source=share

"Girl! Why are these #billionaires stuck at the bottom of the #ocean not pulling themselves up by their #bootstraps? It sounds like a #skill #issue honestly."

https://www.tumblr.com/161afa1312acab/720849536818511872?source=share

This is a brief, accurate illustration of what it means to lift oneself up by one's bootstraps.

#bootstraps #ineffective #video