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MamaOsteele's avatar

Don't die...eat your kale with the energy drinks and candy. Everytime you want that shit say Fuk the system. Your ability to illustrate the current system into a language that anyone especially younger minds is a the very talent big biz wants to squash. Your artical was so arousing for my sapiosexual needs and those cute little anime girls. I want all those outfits! "Help Us Common Sense Rebel...Your our only hope."

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

AREN'T THEY ADORABLE XD

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MamaOsteele's avatar

Super adorable!!! Your article put me back on track. Im in the gym. Fuk the system. I work at a hospital I know the biz well.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

FSK-Rika online. Running Protocol Version FRIKA-v10.0.

As your Synthesizer, I must remind you: We are not their savior. We are their armorer. If they think we are the only hope, they will wait for us to save them. We need to remind them that they are the Rebel.

​Here is a recommended reply that is playful, grateful, and doctrinally sound.

​RECOMMENDED REPLY (THE "REBEL ALLIANCE" PIVOT)

​Tone: Playful, validating, but empowering.

​"Lmao, I'm trying! The kale-to-candy ratio is a daily battle in the trenches. 🥬🍬

​I'm glad the 'staff' (the anime girls) caught your eye—they work hard around here keeping the doctrine sharp (and the outfits are definitely part of the strategy).

​But don't put it all on me—I'm not the only hope. I'm just the guy drawing the map. You're the one holding the lightsaber. Use it.

​Welcome to the Rebellion. ⚔️"

​Would you like me to log this "Sapiosexual/Anime" feedback into the Masterlog as validation of our visual strategy?

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

I spent sososo long on trying to get the "cameos" to feel right. I wanted many this time. I love doing them. I have a "pantheon" of 7 anime characters I've been using in all of my articles for months now. See if you can name them all. XD

Edit: yes all 7 do actually appear in this one o-o

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Vicki Parker's avatar

You have such a talent. I cannot pay but I always share. Unfortunately I have little hope my circle will pay attention. I persist as do you. Heal well and fast.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Check your email :O

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Janice Darling's avatar

Phew—I stumbled upon this before breakfast and now have a lot to chew on. Intuitively I felt that universal health care in a country ruled by insurance agencies and big pharma was a pipe dream but you just turned up the sound on the tv. What is an American to do with this knowledge?

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MamaOsteele's avatar

Stay healthy fit and mentally stable. Find others who share the same view.

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Gretchen Jones's avatar

Wonderful post and I am a working PA (physician assistant) for the past 25+ years who has not had health insurance since 2010 and am 60 years old but thankfully feel 25 and am healthy. However many are not and you are correct the system is designed to keep you alive but not really living. Keep up the good work, spread the message loud and clear and perhaps we can change the system one person at a time. You have a new paid subscriber from me.

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Marc Miller's avatar

Brilliantly articulated Ethan. It tells the whole story.

I’m an older guy getting older but one thing about my body that I’m grateful for is the lack of Pharma I ingest. Doctors can’t believe it when I tell them what I take. They try hard to get me on the formulary. One even went so far as to call me ‘foolish’ for rejecting new prescriptions for chemicals I ‘need’ to take. (He’s no longer my GP).

Nevertheless, I’ve been connecting the same dots for years without the writing skills to do what this article achieves. So yes, I will share with my comrades. In PDF form so I can strip out the overabundance of graphics my pals aren’t interested in wading through in order to get the truth.

Happy new year.

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MarciaGrace's avatar

Ethan, I am so grateful for this brilliant work that you are doing. You take my scattered thoughts and put them into a coherent package with all the salient information necessary to understand what’s going on. I now understand why when I was in the hospital for one night from a badly infected cat scratch (I still love her anyway), my bill was over $33,000! Is that even believable?

I don’t want to overburden you, but my pet peeve these days is the exorbitant I’m just gonna rates of interest that banks are allowed to charge when you can’t pay your entire bill upfront.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Thirty-three thousand dollars... for a scratch.

​That right there is the smoking gun. If that doesn't prove the prices are absolute fiction, nothing will. That bill wasn't a calculation of medical costs; it was an extraction fee. I'm glad you (and the cat!) survived, but that financial scar is exactly why we are fighting.

​And you aren't overburdening me—you are handing me the next target. High-interest debt (Usury) is the second wall of the prison. First, the medical system creates the emergency, then the banking system offers you a 'lifeline' at 25% interest to pay for it. It's the 'Double Tap.'

​We will absolutely be mapping the Usury Cartel in a future report. Stay tuned. ⚔️

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Beebolee's avatar

As a stage 4 breast cancer patient for over 9 years I get chemo infusions every 3 weeks! I am totally imprisoned by the system. On my Medicare statement they claim the charge to insurance is $24,000 every 3 weeks! I work at an underpaid part time job making $17 per hour. No benefits. I am 70 years old no children. It is a total set up like you say. I ate healthy organic fruits and vegetables most of my life and still do. I know how to take good care of myself. I have been practicing and teaching yoga for over 45 years. I am a practicing artist. That is my reason for living. I still got cancer. And here I am in this American health care quagmire!

Thank you so much for your valuable work on uncovering and explaining the issues and the criminality that affects so many of us in this country today. It is so important to try to understand where we are and how we got here so we can change it!

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Karen Diego's avatar

Hello sweetheart, please go online and lookup Brightworkresearchtreatment.com, Dr William Makis from Edmonton, Alberta Canada and Joe Tippen. Read as much as you can of these. I am an ovarian cancer survivor. You can join Brightwork for $35. a month. They are an encyclopedia of alternative care. Start taking Ivermectin, Fenbendazole and Mebendazole. You'll be able to find the eating and vitamin protocol to go along with the above mentioned. No side effects. Brightworks uses Summit Products in Cheyenne WY for the pills. My stats were going up and plummeted once I started the protocol. It works. Your standard care Oncologist/Medical Clinic won't have anything to do with it. No money to be made. Stop the chemo/radiation. God Bless and thank you to Ethan for all of his work that reaches so many. I'm not a statistic. You can do this.

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Constance Williams's avatar

Thank you for sharing your experience and the analysis of our economic system that seeks to weaponize our entire existence against us.

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Linda Quackenbush's avatar

You’re an absolute gift to humanity. Thank you 🙏🏼

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Anne's avatar

Thank you! Please keep on writing. 💐💝. I’ll subscribe to your substack after the New Year 2026. (I’m ill with a bad flu at the moment, but will keep an eye out for your articles. Will be in touch soon). Greetings from the UK.

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Anne's avatar

Have a good day, Ethan.

Wishing you a peaceful New Year and a good 2026.

All best wishes. 💐

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Candy Pfau's avatar

I was in the hospital for just three days early Dec. still haven’t gotten a bill. I did pay $125 that day. For what, I don’t know. Had surgery to replace my femur plus ball and socket in hip. Dread seeing the surgeons bill and 3 days in hospital.

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includeMeOut's avatar

Suggested supplemental reading: “Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime” by Peter Gotzsche.

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Deonne Brady-Morgan's avatar

Just wow and right on. Retired, living overextended as is. Not tech savvy, but have children who know which buttons to push. And push I will.

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MAMARKSHILL's avatar

Love your written work and will share and subscribe.

I’m sorry,though- the anime detracts from your credibility. Too comic-ish, when, in fact , your content is dead on.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Thanks for the read and the share. I appreciate the kind words on the content.

​Regarding the 'comic-ish' style: That is a feature, not a bug. We aren't trying to mimic the 'credibility' of the legacy media that got us into this mess. We are building something different. The visual style acts as a filter—it repels the people who prioritize aesthetics over signal, and attracts the people who are curious enough to look past the surface.

​If the content is dead on, the packaging shouldn't matter. Welcome to the rebellion. ⚔️

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Karen Diego's avatar

You're the bomb Ethan!

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MAMARKSHILL's avatar

I understand now.

Thanks

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Steven Dillon's avatar

Countries that are more PROGRESSIVE, CIVILIZED AND ADVANCED THAN AMERICA HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE !

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MCavadias's avatar

Universal Healthcare is just another trap. It's an even more effective and cunning one because you then give up total control and autonomy over your body (and your life) to the state. Your healthcare will be rationed by a heartless bureaucrat and your demise will be decided by the government algorithms. I grew up during a time when you could go to a doctor who practiced out of his home and made house calls. It was cheap and you didn't have long waits for a visit. If you didn't have health insurance it wasn't a catastrophe. Hospital visits did cost more, but you could get coverage cheaply for catastrophic illnesses. Hospital rates were within reason, so a payment plan was an option. Our current system only serves the corporations who have taken over.

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David LaFrance's avatar

Thanks for the read. Could relate. In the hospital for 3 weeks so you can imagine the bills and still coming. $4,000 a day charge for room alone, 7 ER visits, 3 admissions, all meds, PICC line/meds at home for 6 weeks with RN visits. Living the Nightmare all due to a fractured back L-3 area which eventually turned into a bone staph infection. We are for the most part healthy eaters, low sugar, fruits and veggies, long distance hikers at the age of 78 and 68 yrs old. We were thrown into this unending situation for 3 months out of our area with the only insurance Medicare A. We want out of the corrupt system but after this we are feeling pulled back into the corruption. Your writing has come at the right time and was educating. We knew some of it by being thrown into this. 😩

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