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Patrick Heizer

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Patrick Heizer

@PatrickHeizer

Biomedical engineer, permaculture farmer, Camus scholar, Maryland supremacy, husband, and father.

Frederick, MD

thecounterpoint.substack.com

Joined December 2009

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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Jul 11, 2025
Otto von Bismarck is one of the most impactful people to have shaped the modern world, yet few know anything about him. I genuinely believe he is one of the most important figures for our age. Why? Because of artificial intelligence. Link below:
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Jun 18, 2025
The Democratic VP candidate in 2024.
Blake Allen
@Blake_Allen13
Jun 18, 2025
If Democrats could get over their hesitation associated with hunting, there’s a pretty clear coalition to be built with outdoorsmen organizations on a raft of environmental and land use issues. Republican plans to sell off millions of acres of public land is an obvious example
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Feb 25, 2025
I will revive the 90s desk area for my children. It will be a shrine through which they learn the Internet.
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Apr 30, 2025
Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the deficit. Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the deficit.
Sarah Longwell
@SarahLongwell25
Apr 30, 2025
Roughly 50% of the reason I became a Republican was I genuinely believe our national debt is an emergency and a national security risk. But after living some life it is clear to me that Republicans only talk about lowering the debt, they don’t actually do it.
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Oct 20, 2025
North America has the highest quality grasslands and savannas in the entire world. We could and should be entirely independent from globalized meat production. Any meat import is a policy error.
*Walter Bloomberg
@DeItaone
Oct 20, 2025
TRUMP SAYS US IS CONSIDERING BUYING BEEF FROM ARGENTINA
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Mar 17, 2025
techsiren ♥︎
@techhsiren
Mar 15, 2025
is there a specific post that you still think about
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Aug 1, 2025
The red areas wouldn't produce much food either, as they are wholly reliant on subsidies funded by the economic activity of the blue areas.
Enguerrand VII de Coucy
@ingelramdecoucy
Jul 31, 2025
Everybody in the blue areas would also starve to death within a month… I say “blue areas” because there’s no such thing as a “blue state”
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Jun 19, 2025
What a sad life it must be to think that there should be a market price on pristine wilderness and ecosystems.
Alex Godofsky
@AlexGodofsky
Jun 18, 2025
There should be no federally owned land in the US that isn't committed to a specific use valued over the market price of the land, and actually in use for that purpose.
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Aug 28, 2024
I am a scientist at a major pharmaceutical company. Chemistry was one of my majors. I fully know and understand the benefits of synthetic chemicals. Almost every time I see someone's garage/farm, I am astonished by the array, amounts, and profligate use of synthetic chemicals.
Dave Peasant, Aspiring Lorax
@aspiringpeasant
Aug 27, 2024
Counterpoint: my rural neighbors spray down the creek with poison every year.
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Nov 28, 2024
Replying to @jeremykauffman
Libertarian brain rot: Auction off our collect public goods for private gain, selling out the common man to the greedy and wealthy.
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Dec 16, 2024
"Ban soda from SNAP" sounds like an easy win, but it's clear many people haven't thought about this for more than three seconds. Government bureaucrats would have to go item by item to determine what is acceptable.
Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Dec 15, 2024
Replying to @drmarkhyman
So you want to massively raise administrative costs of the program while also having the government determine what is and isn't healthy?
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Aug 13, 2024
Replying to @timgill924
A prime example of why I'll never return to academia.
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Jan 18, 2024
Replying to @Eric_Erins
More economic precarity and inequality, corporate and political oligarchy, most expensive healthcare in the developed world, lack of robust public transportation, multiple factors that enhance alienation while corroding communities
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Patrick Heizer
@PatrickHeizer
Aug 20, 2025
Revoke 5-10% of driver's licenses and tens of thousands of lives will be saved, prices for auto, property, and health insurance will all decline, multiple forms of pollution, traffic, road maintenance costs will all decrease, & there will be new demand for public transportation.
Deva Hazarika
@devahaz
Aug 20, 2025
One thing that always strikes me is how much focus there is on crime and personal safety for obvious reasons, yet Americans just seem to accept that over 40,000 people die in traffic accidents every year and never really talk about trying to bring that number down
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