Eastern-European GNI per-capita for 2023 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.CD?locations=ME-MD
I wrote an article exploring the political ramifications of the Protestant vs Catholic/Orthodox divide and how it may serve the Right:
https://ubersoy.com/understanding-the-protestant-vs-catholicorthodox
https://ubersoy.com/understanding-the-protestant-vs-catholicorthodox
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Understanding The Protestant vs Catholic/Orthodox Divide
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐎𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐱 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬
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A trailer for my upcoming Whatifalthist mental breakdown video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PIuqGNS9KI
I wrote a really long Substack thread documenting Rudyard's descent to complete madness going back a good number of years. If you’re curious about the timeline and want to understand how it all unfolded, there’s no better source than the following detailed account: https://ubersoy.com/p/a-timeline-of-whatifalthists-mental
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A Timeline of Whatifalthist's Mental Breakdown
Documenting Rudyard's descent to madness stretching back 5 years
The interrogation of the first two North Korean POWs. Goes as you expect. The Russian-Korean planning was so good these niggas had no idea they were even fighting in Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UNFz9L8odM
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Допрос пленных военных из Северной Кореи в Украине
Военнослужащие Вооруженных сил Украины (ВСУ) в Курской области взяли в плен двух северокорейских военных, участвующих в войне против Украины в составе войск России. Об этом 11 января сообщил в Telegram украинский президент Владимир Зеленский, опубликовав…
Not many people are aware of the fact that Lauren Southern has a younger bisexual sister “Jessica” which is what Lauren would have grown up to be if not for her fake political grift and trad-wife appearance.
Jessica mostly does music and partying
Jessica mostly does music and partying
Top 5 biggest lolcows on the right:
1. Chudyard “the raped”
2. James Lindsay “the based”
3. Banania
4. Elmo (he moved one spot up after being exposed for faking his game stats in PoE)
5. Peterstein
1. Chudyard “the raped”
2. James Lindsay “the based”
3. Banania
4. Elmo (he moved one spot up after being exposed for faking his game stats in PoE)
5. Peterstein
Drug prices are high because of the government. Call me a lolbert, but it's true. Here's why:
Drug prices are high directly due to the drug patenting system, maintained by the FDA. You want to know why it's impossible to get cheap medicine? Because a company owns the patent on said medicine, and will only license out the authority to manufacture, say, insulin to other companies that pay a huge sum of money to do so. This is also why medicine in other countries is far, far cheaper while being of the same or better quality: they don't have to care about the US patent system, so most of the time there is nothing in the way.
Evergreening of patents, or being able to patent anything 'closely related' to the medicine you are creating, betrays the spirit if not the letter of patent law. The idea was, you patent something, you can ensure you profit off of that thing for the lifetime of the patent with the tradeoff that once the patent expires, it is added to the sum total of human knowledge and can be used by anyone. Now we have patents that are infinitely renewable, meaning anyone else that would WANT to make drugs cheaper generally can't, because government authority (read: force) will be used against them if they try to. Both Left and Right agree that monopolies are bad; why is it that only the Right can see that government is the biggest monopoly of them all, and much of what it does is only in service of other monopolies?
I genuinely cannot understand the thought process that concludes "Government is the problem. Clearly, the solution is more government. Also, understanding that the solution to government is more government makes me IMMENSELY smarter than you and I will hold it over your head in every discussion. What do you mean reducing restrictions on the manufacture of lifesaving drugs would bring down drug prices? Don't you know companies are Greedy™ and Evil™ because I define them as Greedy™ and Evil™?"
Drug prices are high directly due to the drug patenting system, maintained by the FDA. You want to know why it's impossible to get cheap medicine? Because a company owns the patent on said medicine, and will only license out the authority to manufacture, say, insulin to other companies that pay a huge sum of money to do so. This is also why medicine in other countries is far, far cheaper while being of the same or better quality: they don't have to care about the US patent system, so most of the time there is nothing in the way.
Evergreening of patents, or being able to patent anything 'closely related' to the medicine you are creating, betrays the spirit if not the letter of patent law. The idea was, you patent something, you can ensure you profit off of that thing for the lifetime of the patent with the tradeoff that once the patent expires, it is added to the sum total of human knowledge and can be used by anyone. Now we have patents that are infinitely renewable, meaning anyone else that would WANT to make drugs cheaper generally can't, because government authority (read: force) will be used against them if they try to. Both Left and Right agree that monopolies are bad; why is it that only the Right can see that government is the biggest monopoly of them all, and much of what it does is only in service of other monopolies?
I genuinely cannot understand the thought process that concludes "Government is the problem. Clearly, the solution is more government. Also, understanding that the solution to government is more government makes me IMMENSELY smarter than you and I will hold it over your head in every discussion. What do you mean reducing restrictions on the manufacture of lifesaving drugs would bring down drug prices? Don't you know companies are Greedy™ and Evil™ because I define them as Greedy™ and Evil™?"
I am truly the ubersoy (don't know how accurate these estimations are of course)