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Deadeye313 retweeted
The FDA doesn't just regulate drugs. It operates the most profitable monopoly in human history, and you're paying the price in blood and treasure every single day.
When you hear "FDA approval," your mind conjures images of white-coated scientists protecting you from snake oil. The FDA creates artificial scarcity in life-saving medicines by granting exclusive market access to companies willing to navigate their $2.6 billion regulatory maze. Pfizer doesn't fear competition from superior drugs. They fear competition from cheaper drugs that work just as well.
Consider insulin. Frederick Banting sold his patent for $1 in 1923, believing diabetics shouldn't die from poverty. Today, three companies control 90% of the global insulin market, charging Americans $300 per vial for a substance that costs $6 to produce. The FDA's approval monopoly makes this possible. Every time a biosimilar manufacturer tries to enter the market with cheaper insulin, they face the same billion-dollar regulatory gauntlet that protects the incumbents.
The FDA's clinical trial requirements don't exist in a vacuum. They favor large pharmaceutical companies with deep pockets while crushing smaller innovators who might develop better, cheaper alternatives. A small biotech firm in Austin might discover a cancer treatment that works better than existing options, but they'll need $500 million and a decade of trials to prove what their lab already knows. Meanwhile, cancer patients die waiting for permission to buy medicine that already exists.
You live in a system where the government decides which medicines you can purchase with your own money, then wonders why healthcare costs bankrupt families while pharmaceutical executives buy third yachts.
Deadeye313 retweeted
Under Trump, the Forest Service is gutting labs that cost ONE DOLLAR in rent so they can cram scientists into a Fort Collins office that costs taxpayers a million a year.
As reported by NPR, Trump's 2027 budget zeroes out Forest Service research entirely. Three hundred and nine million dollars, gone. Fifty-seven of the agency's seventy-seven research stations are on the chopping block.
These are the forests generations of Americans have hiked, hunted, camped, and prayed in. Sacred ground for almost anyone who's ever stepped outside in this country.
And the "efficiency" pitch? A scam.
The research station in Hilo, Hawaii sits on 30,000 acres the federal government rents for a one-time fee of ONE DOLLAR, locked in until 2067. The Michigan Tech lease? One dollar paid in 1963, free ever since. Another site costs the agency $600 a month for two rooms.
The destination they want everyone shipped to in Fort Collins runs taxpayers a million a year.
Read that again. They're closing dollar leases to expand a million-dollar lease.
Scientists in Baltimore have spent years planting white oak saplings that need three decades to mature. You can't FedEx a forest to Colorado. You can't manage a Hawaiian ecosystem from a cubicle in Utah.
Researchers told NPR they'll quit before they relocate. Which is the point.
Meanwhile, Trump has openly pledged to ramp up logging on federal land. Gut the scientists who document the damage, and there's nobody left to sound the alarm when ancient forests get clear-cut for profit.
These are the people who tell us when wildfire season turns deadly. Who track invasive beetles eating through pine. Who teach cities how to recycle dead trees instead of dumping them in landfills.
You don't dismantle the world's largest forestry research network because you're worried about a maintenance bill. You dismantle it because somebody plans to take a chainsaw to what the public owns and doesn't want a paper trail.
The forests don't belong to Tom Schultz. They don't belong to Trump. They belong to every American who has ever stood quiet under a hundred-year-old tree and understood, for one second, that some things are not for sale.
Defend them now, or explain it to your grandkids later.
Deadeye313 retweeted
βThe strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.β
β Isaac Asimov
Deadeye313 retweeted
Can't raise minimum wage because it will kill jobs.
Can't raise taxes on the bourgeoisie class because it will kill jobs.
Can't ditch oil because it will kill jobs.
But when these companies replace 50% of their workforce with AI, it's "sorry, that's just the way it goes."
