Comments by "Russian Bot 441" (@russianbot4418) on "The Atlantic" channel.

Jesus, Actually you do. Kids not learning your parables and teachings about how to be responsible has a huge amount to do with the problems they have now. (The bible isn't a science book, It's a very well written- how not to fuck your life up - tips book.) I dare say that the closest thing many of these kids have to your advice and teachings now is from people like Jordan Peterson telling them to quit blaming others for their own mistakes, misfortunes and shortcomings plus clean their damn rooms and just try to not make their tomorrows worse than they have to be. Kinda sad that those simple bits of advice and far more is so moving for so many now, and that's from a former atheist!
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J skyler, well said. The ones who are going to make it in life are those who are willing to step back from themselves and make a attempt to objectively look at and fix their own shortcomings. If you're playing the blame game for excuses for why your life sucks, guess what? Nobody gives a shit about you anymore than you do about some random stranger in some town half way across the country blaming you for his shity life. If you want a better life then get off that fake social media crap and deal with the short term dopamine drip withdrawals that going to come with it. Yea, life will suck for a week or a few then it wont anymore and then you can start replacing that dopamine drip with a new one that's hopefully geared around you finding satisfaction in fixing your damn life in a many way and you can handle so it at least doesn't get worse. Make a point of building a better you a little bit a t a time very day, a new real you that just makes the haters all hate with envious jealous even more as you fix your life and make yourself into something better!
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@camellias.7106 Unfortunately that stigma and shame is what used to drive people to find legitimate help to overcome their issues and become better more functional people. People who could and would often go on to help other who are dealing with the same problem they once had to face. Now they just slap a fake victim card on it and tell them to join a bigger group of equally screwed up people and rage against every not as screwed up person they find for every insane imagined reason that pops into their malfunctioning brains.
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There's more to it. Personal health and fitness play a huge roll in our sexual wants and capacity to perform. If you're in our early 20's and already pushing 50+ pounds overweight plus walking up a flight of stairs wipes you out for a hour you're pretty much boned in the libedo and sexual perfomance department before you even start, i f you even if you have anyone to start with. Beyond that, just for meeting the opposite sex, if you look like a soft pile of pasty mashed potatoes roughly shaped into a humanoid form trying to grow beard you are not what the bulk of society (especially the physically fit and healthy we are biologically wired to see as good mates) sees as sexually attractive. Toss the ice cold soaking wet blanket of poor real life face to face social interaction skills over all of that mess and well. Your probably gonna die a virgin or spend your life with someone as bad off or worse than yourself hoping like hell a massive heart attack takes you before your 35 and your shit really starts going down hill. Point is, looks matter a lot and if all you can pick up is unwashed land whales with horrible personalities, well. You're probably working the 1:1 lowest common denominator game whether you want to admit to it or not.
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@MRuby-qb9bd There seems to be some huge misunderstandings of what rural and small town life is. It's nowhere close to the claimed isolation so many here seem to insist it is. All of our communities are pretty close knit, (factually far closer than the typical big city) not sparse and unconnected. We may have physical distance between us but everyone here has multiple levels of their own transportation too that nullifies it or even encourages going out and enjoying the wide open spaces more. Ever meet up with anyone and go 4 wheeling or off road motorcycling or snowmobiling or horse back riding or looking for artifacts the settlers and indians of old left behind? Out here its just more ways we socialize and enjoy or wide open spaces at the same time! To us big city life is nothing but living in a golden cage! Hell no! Let me fly free on my hundreds of miles of dirt roads and prairie trials and vast acreages of wide open fields that many dont see more than me and 10 other people in a year while I go and see all my friends (and their hot sisters) as I travel!
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@Wobbothe3rd if you think NYC is a great place to live because of the space you are sadly mistaken and grossly under traveled as well and that doesn't come close to revealing how absurdly poor your understandings of the reality of rest of the country and social interaction there really is either. Especially if you think NYC has great open spaces to meet people or do anything else in! FYI, central park is 840 acres. I have more land than that all to myself to roam and do whatever the hell I want just out my backyard, front yard, and side yards. In fact just the walk to the far point of my family property and back is near the length of central park. As for social interaction, it's only awkward if you're awkward at doing it. I'm not and thusly I can go anywhere and start up a interesting and positively memorable conversation with anyone (even you if given the chance in person) if I so wish to. It's a learned skill and with practice it can be honed to pop those social bubbles to no limit if you want it to.
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JamesonWhiskey810 OOOHH... You're S class. FYI. The average rural farmer owns half a dozen or more pieces of equipment that cost as much or multiple times more than your car plus own a small town or mores worth of land yet have a lowly age science degree at best. Also very few people who work trades work are crippled by age 45. In fact long term health and fitness tracking statistics strongly show people who have worked basic labor jobs are those now most likely to live the longest if for no other reason than their work keeps them active and fit.
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@Wobbothe3rd You are aware that there is whole litteral world out there beyond NYC, right? A world of people a spaces that have things nobody like you in the big cities comes close to understanding for what they really are or how they work correctly. Ever drive down a back road at 3AM and get out and look at the stars knowing you're probably the only person within several miles in any direction? I have! Ever walk across a few miles of open field at midnight by moonlight knowing you're the only person out there? I have! Ever explore a wooded area or coulee that you know has not seem 10 people in the last century? I have!
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JamesonWhiskey810 What makes you think I haven't worked those jobs or that I was too dumb to move up and out of them as opportunity gave room to? Ever work the oil fields making $100K a year starting pay? I Have and as a technician who didn't have to do the hard labor stuff! Ever get a commercial driver license and drive big rigs? I have and now do it seasonally as a good paying hobby! Ever drive large tractors, farming and heavy construction machinery? I have and even make good money fixing them now plus have my own growing collection of them at my disposal! Ever renovate and or build your own house or shop or even a basic workshed? I have and am working one my second bigger home now as a 10 year pay as I go project! Ever learn a new skill so that you can design and build labor/time/money saving things just to prove you can? I have and regularly do! Ever travel the country and see and learn new things from new people in places you never knew existed? I have and do yearly now! As for my age, my last major physical put me in better health and fitness than the typical persons nearing 2/3 my age. Not because I am that fit (I'm fit but not super fit) but because today's youth are setting such a dismal and getting worse standard now. Beyond tha,t I am now well enough resourced from learning and doing all this things and more that I to not have to work a normal job if I dont want to anymore. My stocks took off thanks to President Trumps work on building the economy up over the last two years and now seeing $1000 gains every week or even every day is my new normal now. Now that said, the only thing keeping you or anyone else from having what I have and more is believing that some good old fashioned hard work and ethics is going to do bad things to you. Bullshit. Yes, if you do nothing but hard remedial labor for decades on end and never learn to do new things, but if you work your way up into higher paying positions not based on raw labor as I did, then no.
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