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Bloodletting for fever. Confident. Standard practice. Mercury tablets for syphilis. Confident. Widely prescribed. Radium water for low energy. Confident. Sold in pharmacies. Lobotomies for anxiety. Confident. Won a Nobel Prize. Thalidomide for morning sickness. Confident. Distributed to millions. Cigarettes for throat irritation. Confident. Doctor-endorsed advertising. Heroin for coughs. Confident. Marketed by Bayer. DDT sprayed in children's schools. Confident. Government-approved. Margarine instead of butter. Confident. Heart-healthy alternative. Dietary fat causes heart disease. Confident. Fifty years of guidelines. Statins for everyone over fifty. Confident. Best-selling drug in history. Seed oils are safe. Confident. Endorsed by every major health body. Meat is carcinogenic. Confident. WHO classification still stands. Every generation of doctors was confident. Every generation was wrong about something they were certain of. The question isn't whether to trust doctors. The question is which part of the current list turns out to be the thalidomide.

If you gave away $126 billion to subsidize free flights between LA and San Francisco at current demand levels, you could fund roughly 150 to 200 years of travel before the money runs out.

I do not want to raise tamed boys. I want to raise moral boys. There is a difference. To mother boys is to be one of the first voices that tells them what their strength is for, and so I must learn. Every mother of sons faces a difficult decision: Do I shape them to fit the world as it is, or do I raise them to reshape the world as it ought to be? There is a wildness in boys that is not a flaw of creation but a part of it. A gift given by God Himself. A desire to run, to chase, to build, to break, to defend, to explore the unknown and come home covered in dust as if they had conquered the world. If we kill their spirits for the sake of convenience, for quiet classrooms and tidy living rooms, we may win temporary peace, but the cost is at the expense of a future man. And this truth is prevalent all around us.

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate" my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations. poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive

No Democrat ever explains who these mysterious 15 million Democrats are... the ones who magically materialized in 2020 to "stop Trump" but then completely ghosted the polls when it was time to show up for the first woman president... twice?" The numbers don't lie: 2024: Trump crushes it with 71.85 million votes. Kamala Harris limps in at 66.98 million. 2020: Joe Biden supposedly racks up 81.28 million votes (sure, Jan). Trump gets 74.22 million. 2016: Hillary Clinton, the original "first woman President" barely scrapes 65.85 million. So let me get this straight... These phantom 15 million "Biden believers" flooded the zone to save democracy from Trump in 2020... but when it came to backing the actual historic female candidate - not once, but twice.. they suddenly had better things to do? Like, what, binge-watching Netflix and pretending the border wasn't wide open? They never existed in the first place. And Democrats still can't explain it without sounding like they're auditioning for a bad spy novel. "It was the mail-in ballots! The enthusiasm! The... uh... COVID!" Bitch, please. The math is doing the talking, and it's serving nothing but receipts. Your "most popular President in history" was a one-time miracle that vanished faster than Kamala's gag reflex. Turns out the only thing Democrats are consistent at is murdering babies, making excuses... and losing.

"Any system where a young woman lives without any oversight produces sluts A 21 year old girl has sexual desires. If you put her in an environment with tons of men with zero oversight, she will act on them. Your options are to either keep them home or marry them early If you want to marry her at 28, what are you even expecting them to do? Wait until 28 to sex in the modern cultural environment? That just makes you a dumb/bad parent who is responsible for spoiling the girl. People want to start having sex at around 15-18 years old. At some point you have to give it them via marriage or they will find it elsewhere if they can This is an era where birth control is everywhere, premarital sex is not a taboo, and social reputations do not stick This is why in every stable society of the past, women went from the care of their fathers to the care of their husband There was no intermittent party phase It is a modern concept that does not work. It turns women into whores"

Covid didn’t break medicine. It exposed what medicine had become. Doctors trained to follow orders—not think. So when it mattered most, too many didn’t stand up for the patient in front of them. That’s the real crisis.

Elementary school damages some kids. Middle school damages most of them. Little kids are still hopeful and optimistic. But middle school? Brutality, vulgarity, exposure to sex and drugs, bullying. Your sweet, innocent child you raised carefully, put in an environment with the worst elements you can imagine. And you don't know about it. Ralph Waldo Emerson said it: parents pay the schoolmaster to teach their child, but it's the schoolboys who actually educate him. Peer pressure is massive. What your kid won't tell you about is what everyone else is doing. If you could listen in, you wouldn't want your child exposed to half of it.

Why do I need a firmware update to use my own living room? Three years ago, I decided my house needed to be a "smart home." I spent $800 on WiFi-enabled lightbulbs. This was a catastrophic mistake. Yesterday, the internet went out for ten minutes. My wife tried to turn on the kitchen lights using the physical wall switch like a Luddite. The bulbs factory reset themselves. Now they cycle through rave colors while emitting a high-pitched pairing frequency. I spent my entire Saturday trying to connect my kitchen ceiling to our router using a 2.4GHz band. I am a 52-year-old man standing on a stepping stool screaming at a lightbulb because my phone can't find its Bluetooth signal. Tomorrow I'm going to Home Depot to buy $2 incandescent bulbs. I want my house to be stupid again.

I understand why I seem “mean”, but the only way you get women to change their opinion on something like feminism is to repeatedly make your opposition look so stupid that it becomes deeply embarrassing to hold that opinion publicly. That’s what will make other women flip on the subject, and unfortunately, it’s the only thing that will work.

Hot take that’s actually historically accurate: Women have ALWAYS worked. Every culture. Every era. Every economic system. The difference? It used to be home-based and family-integrated. You didn’t surrender your children to an institution, fight traffic, and spend 9 hours under fluorescent lights. “Women shouldn’t work” isn’t traditional. It’s not even historical. It’s a myth. The real conversation we should be having: why did we build a society where thriving economically requires severing family bonds and why do we call that progress?

American is a healthy 28 year old, he decided to skip paying for health insurance this year because the cheapest plan was $900 per month with a high deductible He had to spend 2 nights in the ER without insurance, he breaks down the bill “This is my receipt from spending 2 days in the hospital: - It totaled about $24,000 - My CT scan alone was $8,300 - Laboratory, 6,000 - IV therapy, $1,020, $4,000 in total And while $24,000 seems like a lot of money, let me show you something. This is what I'm actually paying, $2,478 because when you don't have insurance, these hospitals give you a discount. They discounted $22,000 off of this bill” “But if I had insurance, I wouldn't have gotten that discount. So it would've been a $24,000 bill billed to my insurance, and then my insurance would've said, ‘Hey, you have a $5,000 deductible. You need to pay $5,000 for this last emergency room visit.’ Then you tack on the $900 a month that I'd be paying for that insurance. I'd be paying $20K this year for healthcare. So the craziest part about this is even if I have another hospital visit, by the end of this year, I'm still gonna be paying less than I would if I had insurance. At minimum, my cost for healthcare this year would've been $20,000 with insurance. Right now I'm at $2,400.” US Health Insurance is a scam

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The feminist utopia is a police state. Wake up, gentlemen. War is upon you.

The evolution of U.S. taxes Why did Americans stop fighting back? 😭

Yesterday, I rode my bike to the liquor store, bought a bottle of whiskey, and put it in my basket. As I was about to leave, I thought, if I fall, that bottle will break. So I drank it all before heading home. Turned out to be a great decision. I fell off my bike seven times on the way back.

When women rule, civilizations fall.