Audiobook narrator, voluntaryist, homeschooling dad
Indianapolis, IN
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Adrian Bisson retweeted
Name one? How about a few?
Rockefeller lowered the cost of kerosene through efficient refining and distribution.
Ford made automobiles affordable through mass production.
Carnegie reduced steel production costs through industrial innovation.
Walton lowered retail prices through bulk purchasing and efficient logistics.
Dell made computers cheaper by eliminating retail intermediaries.
Kamprad made furniture affordable through flat-pack manufacturing and distribution.
Bezos intensified retail competition through Amazon.
Koum made international messaging practically free through WhatsApp.
Page and Brin made search, navigation, email, and translation available without direct charges.
And that's barely scratching the surface.
In fact, it would be considerably more challenging to find a billionaire who earned their fortune through voluntary trade without lowering costs, improving quality, increasing productivity, or making something more accessible.
That's how fortunes are generally made in competitive markets. You create value for others, and the more people you serve, the greater your potential reward.
You don't even have to buy from these businesses to benefit. Their competitors must improve their offerings or risk losing customers.
These clout chasers destroy their credibility daily without so much as flinching.
They enjoy the accumulated benefits of capitalist innovation while confidently demanding evidence that any of it ever happened.
The economic illiteracy would be impressive if it weren't so commonplace.
Adrian Bisson retweeted
Ludwig von Mises built the intellectual case against central planning so thoroughly that his critics never actually refuted it. They ignored it, mocked it, then watched the Soviet Union collapse in 1991, confirming every word.
His 1920 paper on socialist calculation cut to the bone: without private property and genuine price signals, planners fly blind. Prices carry information no committee can replicate. Kill the market, kill the signal, and you get Soviet bread lines and Venezuelan grocery shelves stripped bare.
Mises lived this. He fled Vienna in 1940 with the Nazis closing in, arrived in New York nearly broke, and rebuilt his career at NYU largely without a paid faculty position. The establishment academia of his era dismissed him because he made their Keynesian comfort too expensive to keep.
Human Action, published in 1949, remains the most comprehensive defense of individual liberty and market order ever written. You live inside an economy shaped by bad ideas Mises systematically destroyed, but nobody told you.
Adrian Bisson retweeted
The answer isn’t getting the right person into power.
The answer is limiting power so that the person doesn’t matter.
You don't have to share these activists' politics to see it. Per WIRED: 11 undercover agents in Signal chats and churches, Reaper drone footage, every plate in a meeting's lot. Charge whoever used force. Spying on critics isn't policing. After midterms you’ll be targeted instead.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is running one of the largest anti-left-wing surveillance operations in U.S. history, according to WIRED.
Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained records showing HSI conducted sweeping spying on left-wing activists under operations including Project Whipple Shield and Operation Puppet Master, authorized by National Security Presidential Memorandum 7. President Donald Trump signed the memorandum in September 2025, following the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
The effort, which experts compare to COINTELPRO, involved roughly 120 HSI agents, including 11 undercovers, who infiltrated activist groups, churches, martial arts trainings, marches, and Signal chats. Agents used Reaper drones and PATRIOT Act-era tools, photographed vehicles, and monitored conferences in other cities. Prosecutors claim the defendants organized to impede ICE during Operation Metro Surge; defense attorneys say the charges criminalize lawful protest.
Newly disclosed DHS records detail undercover agents posing as community members. One, using the Signal username “peanutbutterjelly,” attended “ICE watch” and legal observer trainings, screenshot protest plans, offered help with fundraising and flyers, and reported no threats to public safety.
Other agents photographed demonstrators, trailed individuals to coffee shops and churches, and attended meetings of groups like the Sunrise Movement and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, where discussions focused on peaceful protest. A DHS spokesperson declined to comment on specific methods.
Follow @fowatchfloor for more breaking news and intel.
Surprised to see dems embracing the capitalist principle of creative destruction, but I agree: let them fail. But a non-binding resolution won’t stop the Fed, and in 2008 and 2020 Fed emergency lending rescued wrongdoers. Make it law, enforce it. Profits private, losses private.
Adrian Bisson retweeted
Prosperity and peace are imminently attainable for everyone in this country. We need merely to transcend the parties that keep us fighting each other, throw off the corporate and foreign influence on our government, and return to the principles laid out in our Constitution.
Adrian Bisson retweeted
Art Nouveau door from 1897 designed by architect Ernest Blerot, Brussels, Belgium.
i've narrated audiobooks for over a decade. the hardest part isn't the recording, it's picking which auditions to do.
so i made Cue: paste any audiobook or voiceover listing and get a straight read on the rate, fit, and whether to bother. free Grok Bot template.
You *can* log it into ACX and it will sort out the wheat from the chaff and give you great advice.
x.ai/bot/j7ZGmU3FhqpOAj0l2qX…
Adrian Bisson retweeted
Argon has this amazing natural understanding of the world. It can do so many things from first principles.
Here's a pelican riding a bike, using fourier epicycles.
Video made by Argon.
Time-synced Lyria 3.5 music prompted by Argon.
Gemini 4 Argon is live.
blog.google/innovation-and-a…
There's a lot to show you.
Adrian Bisson retweeted
Oh he sent me an email, I think I’ll respond.
So yes, actually you did do something wrong President Trump, let’s first start with your broken campaign promises.
You protected your pedophile rapists friends instead of women who were raped when they were just teenage girls and you STILL REFUSE to release the Epstein files.
You started an unprovoked war with Iran that the vast majority of Americans do NOT support. You killed hundreds of children at a school in Iran and innocent people and are responsible for 21 U.S. service members deaths and 865 wounded. Your stupid war that you claim you have won like 50 times has destroyed our bases in the Middle East and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military equipment and weapons, while depleting our weapons and ammunitions.
You are supporting, funding, and aiding genocide in Gaza that has resulted in approximately 22,000 children murdered, thousands of children with amputations, and over 70,000 orphans. And your so called Board of “Peace” has done nothing to stop war and is planning to oversee the very profitable reconstruction and take over of Gaza. One can only guess who all will get those blood money contracts, the Epstein class and associates.
And let’s talk about the basics that every single US president is supposed to guarantee to its citizens. Affordable cost of living and affordable fuel in which you have 100% failed to deliver and actually driven inflation and irresponsibly driven the cost of gasoline and diesel to record high levels.
So did you do something wrong?
Yes in summary, YOU are the snake that you warned us all about in the poem you read over and over.
You never cared about putting America first or making America great again.
You are the deep state, the Epstein class, and America last.
And my mistake was supporting you in the first place.
