unapologetically a Braves and Mariners fan. Stargate and Battlestar Galactica are the two best SciFi shows. Slava Ukraine.
Misery
Joined May 2017
- Tweets77.8K
- Following1.8K
- Followers608
- Likes45.2K
Pinned Tweet
The @GOP is led by idiots who don't want to govern. @RepMattGaetz is just one cog in this wheel. Trump has hust increased the decline. Good men and women like @RepYoungKim and @SpeakerMcCarthy serve in an unserious time. I don't think I could do it. #idiots
Nobody owes you anything, especially a political opinion. Grow up.
I have a serious problem with certain V-Tubers who play the whole “I’m not political” card.
You’re in an industry largely made up of women, many of whom are disabled or queer, a lot of them artists. Their lives & livelihoods are constantly at risk.
You should care.
12
Bring Back Stargate retweeted
Point de situation rapide sur la guerre en Ukraine 🇺🇦
Cette année, la situation s’est nettement améliorée pour Kiev, tant sur le front que dans l’organisation générale des affaires militaires. Le printemps et le début de l’été ont été marqués par de nombreux succès ukrainiens, en particulier deux contre-offensives, l’une à Lyman, l’autre dans le sud, qui ont donné des résultats conséquents durant l’été et jusqu’au début de l’automne. En parallèle, les Ukrainiens sont parvenus à stopper la progression russe en direction de Zaporijjia et à la ralentir dans le Donbass. Les opérations russes visant à créer une zone tampon le long de la frontière n’ont donné que peu de résultats, sauf dans l’oblast de Kharkiv, où l’armée russe a progressé dans l’est.
Ces succès s’accompagnent d’une nouvelle réorganisation de l’armée. La fin du commandement de Syrsky et l’arrivée de Drapatyi, très apprécié des troupes, ont mis fin à une partie des problèmes de commandement, de corruption et d’emploi des troupes d’assaut. Les décisions de Drapatyi ont notamment permis de stabiliser la situation en direction de Sloviansk.
L’Ukraine a également développé cette année un large arsenal de drones capables de frapper dans la profondeur intermédiaire (mid-range) russe, ce qui fait grimper les pertes russes. Les forces russes peinent désormais à acheminer des hommes au plus près du front. Elles perdent plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’hommes par mois si l’on compte les tués, les blessés et les disparus, avec un record symbolique de 54 000 pertes le mois dernier selon les sources ukrainiennes, un chiffre invérifiable. Ces frappes mid-range touchent l’ensemble des territoires occupés et compliquent la logistique russe. Entrepôts, dépôts de munitions, bases arrière, axes logistiques, ports, aéroports et infrastructures énergétiques sont ciblés très régulièrement.
Les Ukrainiens ont aussi développé de nouveaux vecteurs pour frapper en profondeur sur le territoire russe. Ils ont frappé des raffineries russes plus de 105 fois cette année, ainsi que des dizaines de dépôts pétroliers. Le coût de la guerre pour la Russie a explosé cette année, entre l’envolée du prix du recrutement, le coût des frappes ukrainiennes et une guerre qui s’éternise. Moscou fait face à un vrai problème de recrutement, auquel elle tente de remédier non pas par une mobilisation, mais en fixant des objectifs de recrutement aux oblasts.
Pour autant, la situation est loin d’être parfaite pour l’Ukraine. La Russie poursuit sa progression dans le Donbass en engageant de très nombreux soldats. Les forces ukrainiennes manquent cruellement d’hommes et subissent toujours trop de pertes. Elles tentent de compenser par davantage de drones, notamment des drones terrestres pour les missions logistiques.
L’Ukraine a aussi un problème de défense aérienne. Elle n’est plus en mesure d’intercepter les missiles russes et n’a pas les moyens d’abattre tous les drones. Cela survient alors que le nombre de frappes russes explose avec le développement de nouveaux vecteurs longue portée, à commencer par la famille des Geran : les Geran-2 qui saturent la défense aérienne, les Geran-4 qui mènent des frappes ciblées guidées par caméra, et les Geran-5, ces drones-missiles qui frappent quotidiennement l’arrière du pays. Les Russes ont aussi développé d’autres types de missiles tirés depuis des avions ou des hélicoptères, comme les Banderol, les Onyx ou les Dan-T. Dans le même temps, le nombre de frappes de missiles balistiques et de croisière s’envole, alors que l’Ukraine manque d’intercepteurs.
Résultat : l’Ukraine traverse une situation énergétique chaotique et a subi des frappes importantes sur sa logistique terrestre, maritime et ferroviaire ainsi que sur ses entrepôts. La Russie dispose d’un net avantage dans cette guerre des frappes, ce qui pèse sur l’économie ukrainienne. C’est là que l’Ukraine est le plus en difficulté : elle manque d’argent et de moyens, sa population ne cesse de diminuer, et le financement européen reste une épée de Damoclès.
En résumé, la situation sur le front est bien meilleure pour l’Ukraine qu’au cours des trois dernières années. Kiev a en partie stabilisé le front, mène des contre-offensives à plusieurs endroits et tue un nombre record de soldats russes. C’est très inquiétant pour la Russie, qui n’arrive plus à avancer et se concentre sur les frappes en profondeur. À l’inverse, l’Ukraine éprouve de grandes difficultés en défense intérieure et subit de plein fouet une attrition de ses moyens civils, industriels et énergétiques à l’arrière. Incapable depuis près de cinq ans de vaincre militairement l’armée ukrainienne, la Russie semble chercher à faire capituler le pays par des frappes massives sur ses arrières.
Le soutien à l’Ukraine, lui, ne faiblit pas : les financements européens remplacent avec constance les financements américains, mais ils restent incertains et le coût de la guerre augmente. La guerre coûte évidemment très cher à l’Ukraine, mais aussi à la Russie, contrainte de réduire ses dépenses d’infrastructures, de santé et d’éducation pour combler les déficits creusés par la guerre. La guerre risque donc de durer.
These people don't owe you their opinions on politics when it is this divisive. They are allowed some privacy for fucks sake
unavailable
12
I'll even add to this that when you see Kansas, Texas, and possibly Mississippi go Blue in an election year, having your VP go out and blame Israel and not take responsibility for their hand in the problem is a bad way to begin your response.
(Long tweet warning)
In which I anger everyone.
1. The Democrats won because the Democrat candidates persuaded more people that the Democrat positions would answer the problems that those people have. I can hear the instant but that's not true, those answers are not answers, they are actions that will compound the problems! Agreed. And the Republican candidates failed to persuade people that was the case.
I will type this until my fingers bleed: the locus of responsibility for a candidate being elected to office lies with the candidate, not with the voters. It is the candidate's job, indeed, the candidate's only job, to persuade people to vote for said candidate.
Positive persuasion (vote for me because I can fix that) is far more appealing than negative persuasion (do not vote for that other person, they will make it worse).
People want to support something, not prevent something. The reason why saying the only thing that a prevent defense prevents is winning is funny is because it has the ring of truth.
The Democrats listened to what the public was saying it wanted and then replied that hey, the Republicans haven't done anything to make that better, in fact, the Republicans made it worse, and we can make it better! I repeat, that I (and likely most of those reading this) think that the policies the Democrats advocate will make those problem worse is irrelevant. What is relevant for getting elected is persuading people that the problems facing those people matter and that the candidate has a plan to fix it.
The idiotic central premise of What's The Matter With Kansas, namely that voters don't actually know what's in their best interest, the political class does, does not become less idiotic when it is being spewed by those on the Right.
People are screaming, as loudly as possible, that they are drowning. The response by far, far too many people on the Right is to sneer to paddle harder. Contempt is met with contempt, as it should be.
The Republicans in Congress have failed, catastrophically so, to take any actions to implement the policies that those self same Republicans claim will improve matters. If those policies are so important and so good and so necessary, then why has legislation implementing those policies not been passed? The Democrats most decidedly are able to pass what the Democrats deem important. Why have the Republicans not done the same?
You cannot beat something with nothing is a truism for a reason.
I will also type until my fingers bleed the following: there has to be a pay off for a sacrifice or people will not make that sacrifice. That pay off does not need to be immediate, however, there has to be some visible progress toward that pay off for a person to keep making the sacrifice. Put the hours in to get the promotion, exercise and diet to lose the weight, take political positions which may make you a social pariah, possibly even a professional pariah must have at least tiny tangible steps towards pay off.
What did support for a Republican trifecta get? Judges, yes. The tax bill, yes. And what else? What other actions by Congress took place to make the sacrifice worth it? Any action by the Executive can, will, and, arguably, should, be undone by the Executive who gets elected who opposes those actions. What actions die the Republican Congress take to codify the positions the Republicans claim are so important? Well. Pretty much none. It is reasonable for a person to look at that and say those policies must not be that important to solve problems.
Demanding sacrifice while acting to prevent the payoff will result in the rational conclusion the sacrifice is not worth it.
The Democrats persuaded more people that the Democrats would solve their problems. The Democrats persuaded more people that the Democrats agree that the problems are problems in the first place. The Democrats did not treat voters as recalcitrant children who don't actually know what is important. Funny how that resulted in the Democrats winning. It's a mystery, really.
II. And if you weren't furious with me before, you will be now.
The other side gets to win. That's how the entire representative democracy system works.
Each side presents its case to the voters. The voters decide which case the voters find more persuasive. That's how it works.
Only children scream that the other side winning means the election was illegitimate and the voters were stupid.
The other side gets to win too. The other side gets to say, hey, our ideas will work better. Voters get to decide that the voters believe that.
That is how it works.
Refusing to accept the legitimacy of the other side winning is toxic to the very idea of representative democracy.
Sometimes, my side loses and the other side wins. That is life. It is incumbent on me, and I do mean the personal me here, to consider that maybe my ideas aren't actually the best for most people and maybe my premises are wrong and maybe my ideas and premises are better but I need to recalibrate how I present them. That's what adults do.
Screaming that the voters are stupid and the other side isn't legitimate is what children do.
To sum up, the Democrats persuaded more people to believe they would do what they say and fix things and so be it.
/fin
124
Bring Back Stargate retweeted
If you know Econ you know tariffs were the biggest unforced error of the Trump presidency, and the root cause of what is going down tonight. Just look at the numbers; sure people don’t like higher gas prices but they’re not the main reason food costs more and they’re not much higher than they were during Biden. Plus they’re recent; the tariffs began nearly day 1 of the Trump Admin and at a time when he was put in office by working class people who rebelled against the high prices they paid for everything during Biden. With tariffs Trump took those prices higher with a regressive tax on working people who don’t have the means to speculate around them in stocks. On top of that, tariffs never stoked the manufacturing boom that was promised. It’s so obvious but for MAGA to admit tariffs were wrong would be like arguing the 2020 election wasn’t stolen
And the GOP won't learn the lesson, and the Democrats will squander this victory, and the cycle will just fucking continue
⭕ The writing was on the wall for tonight’s disaster. Tucker Carlson, Kelly, and the rest of the woke right got exactly what they wanted: a GOP defeat they can blame on Israel and Bibi for supposedly “dragging” Trump into war.
In my view, Trump’s biggest mistake was failing to finish the job against Iran in March. Instead, he listened to bad advice from Vance and got stuck in drawn-out negotiations—giving Tehran exactly what it wanted: more time.
Combine that with a slate of truly horrible GOP candidates, and here we are.
What a depressing night.
12
Bring Back Stargate retweeted
I would like to point out that the assassination of Charlie Kirk could have easily led to the biggest awakening and red wave in American history.
Instead, Candace Owens hijacked it and made it about herself.
It will never not be ironic that the people who leave states like California for government mismanagement will vote for the same policies that they left.
This quoted post is unavailable.
1
35
Bring Back Stargate retweeted
I’ve said for a long time now that far too many people base their entire political ideology now on Trump (supporting or opposing).
But it really has been amazing to watch how many have abandoned all other views and standards because they now frame their politics that way.
So, are they finally solving the AWOL issue?
Ukraine’s 125th Heavy Mechanized Brigade says it has been rebuilt over the past year after joining the 3rd Army Corps. In October 2025 it reported just 17% staffing, no tanks, artillery or armored vehicles, and almost no drone crews. It now says core units are 95-100% staffed, 1,500 personnel have returned from unauthorized absence, and reconnaissance, FPV, heavy bomber drone and ground robotic units have expanded sharply. The brigade now operates Bradley IFVs, Leopard tanks and artillery. #Ukraine
21
How exactly does a lawfully elected government commit a coup?
‼️ A coup d’état is underway in Poland. The forces acting on behalf of the current government have unlawfully entered the Constitutional Tribunal and are preventing legally appointed judges from entering.
The President of Poland is urgently cutting short his visit abroad and returning to Warsaw.
19
Becoming an engineer that installs alarms, and then doing a career change at 30 to become a Nurse Practitioner is not anything to be proud of folks....that's what this dumbass thinks.
10