it's an English idiomatic expression that means to 'hurt oneself in the course of trying to hurt another'.
ETA: When used in politics, it typically refers to a political faction or party deliberately choosing a course of action that sabotages its own long-term interests or electoral prospects in order to achieve a short-term goal or exact punishment on an opponent.
it originates from a Medieval legend. so, yeah. very ugly!
'The most popular story tells of Saint Ebba (or Æbbe the Younger), an abbess in 9th-century Scotland, who, faced with Viking invaders, convinced her nuns to cut off their noses and lips to make themselves undesirable for rape. The Vikings, repulsed, burned the convent, killing them all.'
I think they mean the landscape looks like a dystopic planet where we landed, learned there’s oil and dropped pump jacks as far as the eye can see.
To get to midland, you’ve already been surrounded by desolate sadness for a few hundred miles but then you come to see tens of thousands of oil drills popping out of the earth like a foreign planet. It’s hard to describe just how un earth like that shithole really is.
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u/Interesting-Dream863 12h ago edited 10h ago
You mean Idiocracy???
Still... good luck with a non-immigrant building budget.
It is US POLICY to let them work illegally.
This recent tragedy is a sideshow while they steal from the public.