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Joined February 2022
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LASIK eye surgery costs roughly $2,100 per eye today. In 1998, it cost $2,200 per eye. Adjusted for inflation, you are paying about 60% less for a procedure that has simultaneously become faster, safer, and more precise. That is what markets do when left alone. Now compare that to a hearing aid. The FDA classified hearing aids as prescription medical devices for decades, locking you into audiologist appointments before you could buy a $3,000 device that a manufacturer could produce for $300. Or, look at insulin. Heavily regulated, patent-extended, and politically manipulated, a vial of Humalog ran over $330 in 2024 versus roughly $21 in Canada for a biosimilar. Same molecule. Different regulatory environment. LASIK sits in a peculiar gap. Insurers rarely cover it, which means third-party payment schemes never severed the price signal between provider and patient. You shop, clinics compete, manufacturers race to improve technology. The feedback loop that markets depend on functions exactly as it should. Regulated medical markets break that loop deliberately. The FDA's approval process costs pharmaceutical companies over $2.6 billion per new drug on average, erecting barriers that protect incumbents and punish smaller competitors who cannot absorb a decade of compliance costs. Patients then pay the premium on the back end. LASIK is the control in the experiment. The market won.
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America innovates 🇺🇸 Europe regulates 🇪🇺 Made in 46 hours by 135 agents. 8,624,565,970 tokens · 910 images · 261 clips
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Elon Musk
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Banger
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"The art of printing can be of great service in so far as it furthers the circulation of useful & tested books; but it can bring about serious evils… …it will, therefore, be necessary to maintain full control over the printers” - Pope Alexander VI, 1501
When elites try to convince you a new technology is a threat to YOU, it is often because it is a threat to THEM.
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Otter-Pops at the beach trailer. A silly model.
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Replying to @TristinHopper
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Replying to @WilliamShatner
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Write it up in a substack!!! 🫣👻🤣
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Bring it to the floor @LeaderJohnThune
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Galileo Galilei was born 462 years ago this Sunday.
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Great question.
Why isn’t the United States on this list?
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Who became a billionaire cooking books?
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To put France’s €30 million AI investment in perspective, it’s estimated that the cost across the EU to re-make bottling production lines for tethered bottle caps was as much as €8.7 billion.
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Our favorite reactions from @asmongold watching our most recent video #twitch #streamer #asmongold #EpsteinFiles #fyp #trending #truthinmedia
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Replying to @PeterSchiff
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History is an underrated mental health hack
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Our forefathers are calling
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vittorio
@IterIntellectus16 Dec 2025
the thing about calling DEI 'economic genocide' is that it undersells it yes, young White men were systematically excluded from careers during their peak marriage years, but that's just first-order effects. second-order: marriage market collapse. women date across and up. men without careers become invisible to the women who would have married them and disappear. the "eligible bachelor" pool shrinks. third-order: fertility crisis. fewer marriages, fewer children. but it's worse than just men not marrying or having families. the women who "won" the DEI lottery got careers instead of families, delayed fertility until it was too late. DEI attacked family formation from both sides, excluded men from provider roles AND diverted women from their fertility window. everyone lost. fourth-order: psychological. young men couldn't even name what was happening to them. the same institutions that excluded them told them they were "privileged", that complaining was proof of weakness. so they internalized failure as personal inadequacy rather than systemic rigging, retreated into depression, video games, porn. the symptoms we then pathologized as "male failure". the system broke them (on purpose) and blamed them for being broken. fifth-order: institutional trust gone. once you know positions are filled by demographics rather than competence, every credential becomes suspect (if not a priori worthless). is your doctor qualified or a diversity hire? your pilot? your engineer? you can't prove any individual is incompetent, but you can't trust any individual is competent either. medicine skepticism, academic failure, media skepticism, none of this emerged organically. it was manufactured by the DEI hire you can't be sure is qualified to treat you. sixth-order: reality became unspeakable. noticing any of this was a fireable offense. pointing out the obvious got you called a bigot, deplatformed or fired. pure totalitarian censorship and the problem couldn't even be acknowledged (until now, finally) men knew they were being cheated but couldn't say it. women sensed something was wrong with the men but couldn't identify it. relationships poisoned by a dynamic neither party could name. seventh-order: the feedback loop. fewer eligible men means more women competing for a shrinking pool, more women losing the marriage market, more resentment, more "men are trash", more support for DEI, fewer eligible men and the system accelerates itself. and the worst part is that DEI was just the economic arm. the same people and institutions pushed the complete package "toxic masculinity" to pathologize male identity "the future is female" as explicit zero-sum framing delusion "believe all women" to weaponize trust against men "men are trash" to normalize open contempt a coordinated ideological assault on family formation. and it even had a business model. HR departments exploded (millions of jobs invented to administer the regime). DEI consultants became a multi-billion dollar industry. politicians got voting blocs dependent on racial grievance. established boomers kept their positions while their competition was eliminated. the architects knew what they were doing you don't accidentally build a system that specifically targets men during peak marriage years, tells them they deserve it, makes it unspeakable to complain, attacks their identity as toxic, promotes women into career tracks that burn their fertility, then acts confused when society collapses if you wanted to suppress the fertility of a specific demographic, engineer the breakdown of trust between the sexes, and make it illegal to notice, the playbook would look exactly like this. DEI should be held responsible for the fertility crisis, the marriage collapse, the epidemic of male depression and suicide, the destruction of institutional trust, the atomization of society, and the manufactured war between men and women but DEI was the weapon the people who designed it, funded it, made it mandatory, enforced it through HR, fired anyone who resisted, called all opposition hate and racism, built careers and industries on its maintenance, they knew. and they're the ones who should be remembered as the architects of one of the worst crimes against humanity
One of the unspoken reasons for the decline in marriage and births: young men of marriage age had their careers derailed in favor of diversity hires. DEI is economic genocide.
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