Comments by "The Hermit" (@TheOleHermit) on "Forbes Breaking News"
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@pirate1254 In the USA, politicians are hired and fired by the majority of people to serve the needs of the people. No politician tells me what to do.
But, I'm intelligent enough to learn the scientific facts, then waited months to see whether anyone was having harmful side affects from a vaccine that tRump fast tracked through FDA approval.
So, last month, I walked into a Walmart pharmacy and was protected within a few minutes.
Now, I have nothing personally to worry about, even if unmasked around you.
Personally, I couldn't care less if tRumptard traitors commit suicide at his rallies. But, I feel sorry for their families, who have more sense.
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Average American teens have only 3 choices:
1) Stay with parents on unlivable minimum wages,
2) begin adulthood from under a mountain of crippling student loan debt, or
3) survive on the streets as prostitutes or drug dealers.
Taxpayers have 2 options:
1) Pay for temporary higher education to enable young folks to become respectable members of society, or
2} Pay for the life long incarceration of unemployable repeat felons.
On the other hand, privileged elite teens have free rides to unlimited wealth,, served to them on silver platters by their parents, including higher education in ivy league universities, free housing, free EVs, and free tax write offs from corrupt, Republicant politicians.
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@hxhdfjifzirstc894 BFS!!
FYI, I'm 70 years old. Been there and have traveled the same path, almost exactly as you've just described.
NEVER made over $40k pa, except for a few good years running my own company, which was reinvested right back into it.
NEVER had my head above water enough to support a family. NEVER had my own children, because I NEVER achieved the 3 bdrm 2 bath home, with the white picket fence and new car in a garage. .NEVER wasted $ on vacations, fancy clothes, nor nonsense.
Paid minimum price for 5 acres of raw land, installed my own septic system, 200 amp supply, and a 4 bdrm mfr'd home for a Thai wife, with 2 sons. Then, she divorced me 2 weeks after I retired, leaving me with the payments.
That ended my dream of building a monolithic concrete dome home, wwhich I had spent 20 years researching, attended building codes and autoCAD classes to design a 3D construction drawing, which only needed an engineer's stamp.
Now, thanks to choosing the lifestyle you've described, I'm a hermit, with no one to inherit my accomplishments, nor to share the knowledge I've acquired though out my life. Fortunately, I'm comfortably retired, living off of my Social Security benefits and an earned lifelong pension, while still driving my deceased older brother's 2000 Ford Taurus, which I purchased from his widow for only $3K.
I just stated the realities of today's job market and you've only destroyed that effort, by advising today's youth how to become losers, instead of how to succeed.
NO! The world has dramatically changed since you and I were teenagers, Pal. There is absolutely no reason for today's youth to endure the hardships that we have been subjected to by making the same bad choices as ours. People like you seem to get some kind of perverse sense of gratification in watching others struggle simply because you have.
I regret not achieving a degree in electronics while my old school mates doubled and tripled my income, for sitting behind a desk.
Now, retired I'm learning analog, digital, electronics, and C++ programming from YT to develop a home Laserium show system, like I used to perform at the London Planetarium, just for amusement, while waiting to die alone.
You're advice is 100% BS.
The American youth of the wealthiest country in the world deserve an education to prepare them for competing in tomorrow's global market, Not yesterday's.
Try applying for a $50k job, without a degree to start a family and you'll soon learn what today's kids are up against.
BTW, today's young women are also earning their own college degrees and wouldn't put up with supporting undereducated losers like you.
Get real and stop discouraging kids against attending college, as if it would be any skin off of your back.
Their higher tax scales afterwards will more than pay for their higher education.
Have you never even attended basic math classes?
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@Dbjjr26 No, I'm simply explaining scientific facts for simple minded people.
There's a big difference between having a small infection of a virus, similar to a mild flu, and dying of pneumonia.
If unvaccinated, some have died of flu, some have hardly noticed, depending upon their natural immune health. If vaccinated, only .3% of people who et infected with the COVID virus will end up being seriously ill enough to be hospitalized. The other 99.7% of infected COVID victims will end up in the hospital or possibly die. Get it?
I'm afraid of nothing, including my own death. But, as a 68 year old, single retiree, with RA immune issues, I prefer to not take foolish risks. This is still the only life I'll ever have and don't want to waste it on foolish stubbornism, like an impetuous brat.
The rest of your rant is a meaningless projection of your own ignorance.
It's your life at risk, unless you infect everyone else around you. People like you are also responsible for the last delta wave putting US back into masking and potential lockdowns. Then, you'll blame it in the 'fascist Biden administration' after he has done everything within his power to save lives and get life back to normal. Is your selfish will more important than our nation getting back to normal or do you want more mask laws and mandatory vaccinations?
630,000 deaths and lock downs haven't been enough for you?
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@jeanmader2302 IMO, most people get rich by exploiting others until they are poor. It's all about feeding their own greed, not benefiting our country. This is exactly why corrupt 'rich' businessmen, like tRump make bad public servants, which is the duty of a POTUS. Biden understands the difference and is lifting up the downtrodden.
Poverty is created by ignorance, insufficient education, and shear bad luck. Many poor people have good hearts, so they share what little they have with others, until there's nothing more to share.
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the gates of heaven" (this atheist agrees).
Capitalism is pure greed. Greed is an unquenchable thirst.
Only heartless people would ignore fellow countrymen starving in the streets or reject children seeking asylum from ruthless drug cartels. It's uncivilized. Yet, this is the moral state of the USA, the wealthiest nation on earth. It's an embarrassment upon humanity.
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@IAmTheRealBill The fact is, I was never talking about vaccines within the US. I was responding to the video link's data regarding India's Astrazenika cases of adverse side affects, which is what that commentor was pushing.
There's a gaping hole in the messaging about this entire subject. VACCINES DON'T STOP VIRUSES, THE AUTOIMMUNE SYSTEM DOES.
The vaccines are only triggering the immune system to attack specific viruses. That trigger can happen by being infected via aerial contact, physical touch, or by injecting a dormant, harmless version of the targeted virus, aka vaccine.
The longer a virus is in circulation, the more time it has to mutate and adapt. Perhaps, it even becomes resistant to previous vaccinations. Who knows.
Therefore, the immune system needs to 'see' the infection in order to ward it off and suppress it. Meanwhile, while not ill, the vaccinated person s mildly infected and potentially contagious to others.
FFS, I've only got a HS education from 1970 and this shit is obvious to me. Why is everyone acting so stupid about simple scientific knowledge?
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Please save your breath. I grew up hearing that same sort of man's twisted preaching and brainwashing.
Every person is an individual who was born without sin. Good is only the opposition of bad, yin and yang, on whatever level you like. Good and bad are mere judgments, based upon one's personal opinion, which is based upon social acceptance within a community.
We don't share the same communities, so our definitions of good and bad probably differ. A gun could be good or bad, depending upon the situation and intentions of its holder. I digress.
No one deserves death (except mass murderers, as a deterrent). Who told you that and why would you even think that way? Death s only the end of life's cycle, nothing more nothing less. Finito. Nada mass.
Santa Claus doesn't exist, Child. There's no reward for being nice at the end of life's season. There's no eternal punishment for living a naughty life. It's all just a fairy tale to condition young minds and instill moral values. But, it's just make believe, with no physical scientific evidence.
sorry to be the one to burst your bubble, but your faith is jeopardizing over 8 billion years of the only known instance of natural evolution in the universe.
Believe whatever you want, but don't throw away life, just because of some insane hallucinogenic dream 2000 years ago. They're nothing special. Millions of people have experienced such nightmares that your faith has selected as gospel from your imaginary god.
Don't doom mankind over nothing but misguided faith.
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@raystrong6712 I sincerely hope that your predictions come to pass, Sir. With that level of forgiveness, it would serve as proof that blacks are truly the superior race.
But, I hope the day comes when a person's heart becomes a much more significant indicator of a person's worthiness of respect, rather than skin tone. Perhaps, someday we will all become persons of equal color, which would moot the entire subject of racism. Wouldn't that be a beautiful sight to behold?
The more white supremacists fight and ferment their hatred, the more repulsive they become to more educated moderates, regardless of racial heritage. It's a yin/yang kind of thing, each force countering the other with ebbs and flows, but never to the extremes.
Even animals understand the difference between fairness and abuse. Mankind is no different from any other lifeforms, having the same needs and desires for love and survival. But, that's a different subject, my Friend.
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