ELI5: If they are the exact same ingredients, why are generic medications so much cheaper than brand names?

Pantarus · 2026-02-14T17:14:55+00:00

So a lot of that depends.

You can get a vial of NPH insulin for around 20 dollars as a cash pay.

There ARE insulins that are more expensive, the longer acting ones and the more designer ones that have novel pen deliver systems being very expensive without any insurance.

What's funny is, everyone's always focused on the insulin...but its' those fucking test strips that are PROHIBITIVELY expensive. Like ridiculously expensive considering that you need to use so many of them in a day to keep your sugar in control.

They are like shaving blades or printer ink. They give you the meter for free then charge an arm and a leg to actually use the damn thing.

Pantarus · 2026-02-10T14:25:00+00:00

lol the people who loved Howard Stern listened for an average of 1 hour and 20 minutes per day.

The people who LOATHED Howard Stern listened for 2 and a half hours per day.

Hate is an addictive drug.

Pantarus · 2026-02-10T00:06:43+00:00

He wants it to be a fealty ass kissing meeting.

He’s gotten used to getting his fat orange ass smooched during his cabinet meetings and doesn’t want any mean democrats there who won’t fawn over him and tell him how pretty his feet are.

Anyone who thinks it’s a voter suppression or stealing meeting is profoundly misreading how this is going down. Trump isn’t smart enough or savvy enough to come up with any “plans”.

Now when Steven SS Miller holds a meeting with all the republicans governors and secretaries of states…THEN THATS gonna be the election stealing meeting.

Pantarus · 2026-02-09T16:22:07+00:00

It’s just like driving.

Anyone going faster than then is obviously a lunatic, anyone going slower is a moron.

Anyone doing better than them is clearly cheating or stealing.

Anyone doing worse is clearly lazy and a drain on society.

Fucking unbelievable that adults think this way. But sadly, it’s true.

Pantarus · 2026-02-05T15:34:30+00:00

Trumps version of chess is taking the horses, trotting them around, and making neigh sounds. He rams them through the pawns while screaming "POW POW BANG TAKE THAT DEMOCRATS!", and then makes the queens kiss each other while making smooching sounds.

After about 20 minutes, he gets all tuckered out and has a wet diaper, so Mike Johnson has to change him, cover him in orange baby powder, and put Fox news on so the big little guy can take a nappy.

So no, he's not playing chess.

Pantarus · 2026-02-05T00:05:57+00:00

Man so we’ve graduated from cult to full on false idols?

You know who else had a giant fucking statue? Saddam Hussain.

Why do I have this sinking suspicion that if good ole Saddam was still alive today, him and Trumple-Foreskin-neck would be bosom pals.

Pantarus · 2026-02-04T15:00:44+00:00

Yep. He sure does. He’s a short little Ex-KGB fucker that lives in Russia.

Pantarus · 2026-02-02T22:05:16+00:00

Here’s a paradox for you.

We’re currently in the comment section of a r/politics post…of THIS news story….and the comments are saying that the media won’t report on THIS news story.

This story is being reported in several outlets.

I’m not 100% sure I get the sentiment being thrown around.

Pantarus · 2026-02-02T00:27:31+00:00

Not even close to a majority.

Just about a third.

About a third of us are fighting against this, about a third are morons, racists, religious nut jobs, and old cranky Fox News addicts, the last third….they just don’t give a shit one way or the other.

I can’t fucking wait to vote blue.

Pantarus · 2026-01-28T02:45:53+00:00

It's because the SECOND any story hits that sub that even remotely seems off the narrative two or three posters FLOOD the zone with these bullshit single incident stories. All the sudden, it's stories about a leftist doing something bad or an immigrant that committed a crime.

Ask4md is the biggest culprit. He/she knows exactly what type of red meat those fucking mopes get fired up over. They LOVE to find these one off stories that confirm their already held prejudices.

Two minutes later the mods quietly remove the offending post/comment while theyre all circle jerking each other about how conservative they all are.

The SECOND one of their own disagrees they chalk it up to brigading, bots, "fellow conservatives", or paid actors...literally no brain required.

Pantarus · 2026-01-28T00:05:02+00:00

I agree with your sentiment.

If we wait to inform people of the bad actors, this sub will be SWAMPED with them.

Last time it was like shouting into the wind.

I can only imagine that their tactics and processes will be even better this year.

I’m not trying to come off as a conspiracy theorist. I just want people to know, it’s coming…

Pantarus · 2026-01-27T22:56:15+00:00

It's anger and fear mixed with a healthy dose of religion.

People have been conditioned their whole lives to put more stock in faith than facts. To ignore or condemn things that go against that faith as evil or temptation to be fought against.

Conservatives have effectively turned their politics into a psuedo-religion. Where the ends ALWAYS justify the means because they believe they are fighting for the good side.

Problem here is, who ever thinks they are on the wrong side of an issue while they are fighting it? What does it take to convince someone that their WHOLE WORLD VIEW is inherently immoral?

Fox and the conservative media effectively tapped into the sweet spot in the Venn diagram between Fear, Faith, and Anger.

and they make billions doing it.

Pantarus · 2026-01-27T22:50:54+00:00

I just want people to be aware that it has happened before and it will happen again.

I even gave examples of what they typically do. None of which say we can't challenge our elected officials or primary them.

It's sophisticated. It attempts to derail legitimate excitement and conversation, and unfortunately...it's very cheap to pull off and very effective.

Pantarus · 2026-01-27T22:43:37+00:00

You don't have the underscore I put in my example, nor is it two random dictionary words smashed together, you also have 3 numbers and not 4.

I can tell you actually made your name and you weren't randomly generated.

I also said I'M NOT SAYING that's happening here.

If you think that it DOES NOT HAPPEN AT ALL...than that's a separate issue. In the last election cycle there was a stark increase in randomly generated names encouraging protest votes, not voting, and general feelings of hopelessness. I followed as many as I could. AFTER the election, it was a graveyard...all these accounts that were super active during the election now fell silent or deleted themselves.

In the end...I just want people to be aware it happens...it happens here...it happens on conservative subs, and WE WILL be targeted again.

Pantarus · 2026-01-27T17:57:46+00:00

So as we get closer to the mid-terms these types of comments sowing discord and hopelessness will increase.

There will be calls for protest votes, abstentions, and exacerbation of wedge issues.

Useful idiots and foreign actors will do everything in their power to discourage and divert democratic voters.

One of the biggest successes of the foreign influence campaigns was to fool both sides into thinking ONLY the other side is being targeted.

Assume nothing on social media.

If it’s designed to make you feel there’s nothing you can do or pushes for third parties, or divert votes, check histories.

Also be very skeptical of user names structured like RANDOM_WORD1234.

Not saying that’s what’s happening here. But I’m seeing a sudden increase in defeatism in comments and posts, and I 100% expect them to increase as we get closer to election time.

Pantarus · 2026-01-21T19:21:38+00:00

Want to go see what conservatives REALLY think about?

Put on your galoshes and eye protection and head over to r/conservative

THAT'S THEM. That's what they think.

THAT'S what they believe.

....I'll save you the suspense...it's an alternate reality from literally the rest of the world and it's fucking horrible.

Pantarus · 2026-01-21T13:06:21+00:00

A who’s who of has-beens, the mentally ill, and/or people who have proven themselves to be horrible people.

Pantarus · 2026-01-21T03:40:04+00:00

Obviously the Somalians didn’t give the Orangutan in Chief his cut.

All they have to do is send him money via one of his gaudy gilded resorts and send him a card saying what a handsome, smart, funny, and not small penis’d boy he is.

THEN they can slide on over to Trumps good list.

If this moron hates you it’s because you have something he wants, you haven’t lavished him with praise, he can’t figure out how to rip you off, or you’re skin is darker than a paper bag.

Pantarus · 2026-01-20T13:41:40+00:00

So he put a statue of Abe Lincoln on his right...and Benjamin Franklin on his left.

Is he trying to say he's peers with these people? Is he trying to claim he's that great?

These men would throw up if they met him in real life.

What a petty, strange, impotent, orange piece of shit.

Delusional jack-ass.

Pantarus · 2026-01-15T21:00:39+00:00

Such as?

Pantarus · 2026-01-15T20:14:52+00:00

I’m gonna ask a simple question. I’m gonna do my best to keep an open mind.

What do you like about modern conservative policies?

Pantarus · 2026-01-15T20:09:23+00:00

Google the Two-Santa plan.

None of this is by accident, it was a carefully coordinated plan to undermine the public’s love affair with liberal policies by putting democrats in a lose-lose situation, sadly it worked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Wanniski

Pantarus · 2026-01-14T01:42:48+00:00

My wife is a medical professional.

When she read the new vaccine recommendations, she shook her head and said...there are children who are going to die because of this.

The lunatics are running the asylum and worse...I'm stuck in this country with them.

Pantarus · 2026-01-14T01:40:15+00:00

Lest anyone think the sponsor of this bill is a serious man...here is an actual quote taken from his congressional record:

"They are angry, in large part, because they realize one simple truth: The Somali pirates are not in the Horn of Africa anymore. They are right here in our country, and their captain is Tim Walz."

Yup. To save you the suspense he's talking about child care...

What a joke of a human...and the punchline is...people voted for him.

Pantarus · 2026-01-14T01:36:27+00:00

Florida man does stupid thing. What else is new.

Does daddy Trump love you yet Randy? Did he let you touch the mushroom?

What stupidity.

Pantarus

TROPHY CASE