Mr. Retric (short for Repeater 🙃🦜) reminds you how to be a conscious individual today.
Namely:
✨Believe that good will triumph over evil;
✨Donate so that this good can defend itself against the mighty evil 🐝😉 https://t.co/Ps0VDA7nmr
✨Cultivate a healthy dose of russophobia.
Everything else is optional.
Thank you to everyone who believes in the victory of good and supports our fight! 🇺🇦
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have shot down another russian Zala and one Supercam 🐝💥
These russian reconnaissance UAVs direct artillery and missiles. By destroying them, we protect the lives, equipment, and property of both military personnel and civilians.
Thank you to @sternenko 's community for funding these much-needed Wild Hornets.
The peacemongers have failed.
Escalation was not managed, conflicts were not contained, people were not protected, laws were not respected. Now I hear victory is "unrealistic" and not even worth fighting for. But I see things very differently, and here's why. 👇🧵1/10
October was the hardest month for Ukraine due to unprecedented russian drone attacks—over 2,000 compared to fewer than 1,000 in previous months.
With winter approaching, russia aims to cause mass blackouts. In response, we, the Wild Hornets, are developing innovative Sting interceptor drones to strengthen Ukraine’s defense 🐝💪
Read more about our fight in the Forbes article, thanks to @David_Hambling for it!
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Rob, thanks for watching the press conference. Maricopa County expects 400,000 ballot envelopes will be dropped off today. Those have to be verified, opened, & then 800,000 pages will be fed into tabulators. We have room if you want to help, Rob. You can do it!
not too late! you can drive people to the polls, buy pizza for people waiting at the polls, help protect the elections in the aftermath if you live in a county where the result will be challenged...
You already helped to secure 47,400€ out of the required 65,175€! If we can scare up to 50,000 today, that will be a fantastic result!
🐝🇺🇦 Campaign link: https://t.co/M6sZ2f6jmx
It's election day here in the USA. 🇺🇸 If you are eligible and have not already voted, go vote. If your friends are eligible, ask them to vote. Keep calling your members of Congress and supporting Ukraine.
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#LetUkraineStrikeBack
If you vote today thank the election workers. Often your interaction will be with a volunteer at a polling place who may be paid a pittance. Their service means we can have a democracy
Make plans to vote in the election tomorrow if you are eligible. 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Join us at 17th NW and Pennsylvania Avenue by Eisenhower Executive office building from 5-6pm tomorrow and this week.
#LetUkraineStrikeBack
Eyes of those defying lies.
Those who defend Ukraine🇺🇦on the front lines know the true price of freedom. If you do, too, please let these heroes know you’re with them:
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“Did you see the new poll? What about Hispanic voters in rural Pennsylvania? Who’s going to win??”
Getting bombarded with questions like this. Here’s my answer: There is no crystal ball or oracle poll. Anything can happen. That being said, my unscientific American gut feeling says: Harris will win.
Why? Momentum. We haven’t seen the Democratic base this fired up since 2008. In 2016 people were not enthused by Clinton, to put it mildly, and Trump was, for all his douchebaggery, a trailblazer and underdog. He had momentum on his side. In 2020, Dems were decidedly unexcited about candidate Biden and Trump had incumbency on his side. But after four years of his toxic chaos, many moderates who gave Trump a chance in 2016 dropped him in 2020. It’s unlikely that large numbers of moderate and conservative, non-MAGA voters who dumped Trump four years ago will go back to him now. Yes, the MAGA base are loud and proud, but they weren’t enough to decide the election in 2020 and haven’t grown enough to do it in 2024.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of regular Americans are volunteering and millions are donating to #HarrisWalz2024 at record-breaking levels. The self-organizing, community mobilizing, and sheer energy reminds me of what we saw in 2008. It’s hard to explain this kind of American grassroots election organizing to non-Americans unfamiliar with it: imagine regular folks of all ages and walks of life, in small towns and big cities alike, going around knocking on doors, registering people to vote, chatting with them about political issues. On Election Day, they coordinate phone banks, physically drive people to the polls, bring drinks and snacks and music for voters waiting in long lines, give legal advice on voting rights where needed, etc. The scale of these “get out the vote” operations make a difference in tight districts, where the margin of victory can be just thousands or even hundreds of votes.
That being said: Unpollable misogyny hurt Clinton in 2016 and will no doubt hit Harris too. The question is, to what extent? Enough to compensate for the lack of energized moderate Republican voters or to detract from three generations of highly motivated women voters turning out? I doubt it.
This isn’t a prediction, just a gut feeling. One thing is certain, however: if Trump loses, he will try to overturn the result. Americans for Harris will need to vote in droves, and then defend the result through a storm of lies and intimidation through to Inauguration Day. Just remember: that’s a small price to pay to protect the democracy and civil rights past generations died fighting for.
Ukraine was neutral in 2013. Putin invaded anyway. Neutrality proved inadequate then and is inadequate now. The map of Cold Europe is not a guide to policy judgment today. Ask the Finns.
Russia is interested in demolishing and subjugating Ukraine, not in making it neutral.
Freezing Russia's invasion of Ukraine isn't a recipe for stability—it'll only give Russia and other authoritarians the incentive to launch new wars of aggression.
Only daily hard work brings results 💪
And this applies to everything. We are working to ensure our defenders can eliminate as many of the enemy as possible 🐝💥
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