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Brad R. Torgersen

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Brad R. Torgersen

@BradRTorgersen

Full-time Army POG. CW4. Sci-fi writing. Has won some awards.

Wasatch Front

Joined April 2022

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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Jun 14
Eye glasses since 1979, age 5. 🤓 First cataract surgery (w/ artificial lens implant) in 2014. Second cataract surgery (another artificial lens implant, other eye) in 2017. First retina detachment repair (right eye) in 2021. Second retina detachment (complications, two
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Apr 3, 2025
If tariffs are a terrible idea and no sane politician would use them, why do 90% of America's "partner" nations use tariffs against America? I'm really trying to understand why an economic tool that's been used by other countries for a long time, is suddenly bad. 🫤
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Nov 16, 2025
Three Mile Island and Chernobyl convinced the entire planet nuclear fission was catastrophically unsafe. Despite the fact Three Mile island's containment system worked exactly as designed, preventing a genuine catastrophe. And Chernobyl was a catastrophe because the Soviets were
Sacred Cow Shipyards
@SCShipyards
Nov 16, 2025
You could have had damned-near-perfectly green, functionally free electricity for the past literal-decades if it weren't for backbirth imbeciles who convinced the world that no one can safely use spicy rocks since commies couldn't figure out how to. Damned shame.
GIF
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Jul 28, 2023
Replying to @shoe0nhead
How does one apply for entrance to this lovely alternative universe? 😁
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Oct 9, 2024
Replying to @jacobin
The black people and homosexuals Che murdered, simply because he hated blacks and gays, could not be reached for comment.
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
May 2, 2024
I'm going to try to keep this as short as possible. But a particular kind of cultural erasure and re-writing has once again reared its ugly head, thus I feel compelled to state a few facts regarding one of my particularly beloved franchises. The Star Trek of my youth was not
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Mar 3, 2025
Sharing, with the author's permission:
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Mar 28, 2025
Replying to @MiddleearthMixr
These accounts kill me. Half the time I suspect they're not even British. It's Ukraine agit-prop.
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
May 18, 2024
Replying to @SouthernMarxist
Nobody can ever answer why "freedom fighters" need to kidnap and rape Jewish girls. Can you? 🤔
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Aug 26, 2024
Replying to @AnnLesbyPhD and @MattWalshBlog
LMRAO! 😉
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Nov 10, 2024
Replying to @GPrime85
When black people do greekface, it's empowering. When greeks do blackface, it's evil and racist. So, "Shut up, you bigot!" they explained.
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Aug 12, 2024
Replying to @DouglasKMurray and @elonmusk
The people who applauded the blaring sensationalism of the death of George Floyd, for the sake of riots, arson, and worse, are now angry at Elon Musk because he doesn't help the UK government suppress public reporting of violence by immigrants. Charming.
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Mar 16, 2025
Replying to @SketchesbyBoze
Carnegie is of a generation of moguls who understood that to buy moral respectability (for being obscenely wealthy) one must make tremendous philanthropic investment for which there was no obvious return.
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Brad R. Torgersen
@BradRTorgersen
Mar 9, 2025
Arguably one of the worst books to be selected by America's highschools; to enshrine as a "must read" in various English classes. It did not age well past its era, nor its East Coast audience. The problems and people are all tedious. The equivalent of modern Martha's Vineyard
Jeremy Wayne Tate
@JeremyTate41
Mar 8, 2025
Replying to @JeremyTate41
2. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
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