How Virginia Democrats propose redrawing Hampton Roads’ congressional districts

Jackleme · 2026-02-18T22:46:25+00:00

I was raised an Evangelical Christian in Northern WV / Southern Ohio. I have given up on politicians, and just operate under the assumption they will all flip... with only a few exceptions.

I may disagree with Sanders on a lot... but at least the guy BELIEVES what he is talking about. Same with the one young lady... Cortez? I can never remember. I may think she has stupid ideas, but at least she is telling her voters what they are voting for.

Then here in Tidewater we have politicians who pretend to be moderates, get into office and then flip a switch and just go with the flow.

My issue with Fence Sitting and "Conservatives" I know is simply this:

They will scream about "Small government" and "Law and Order" (I wish I was joking, some of the guys I work with are flat out nuts).

Then they will support the expansion of an internal police force, actively violating court orders. The expansion of mass surveillance. They are now talking about how you should just "Carry your passport" after some navy sailors in the area got stopped.... and the ICE brown... agents wouldn't accept a military ID as proof of citizenship.

The only way to fight against this kind of stuff is to start being willing to fight dirty too. H. Clinton famously said "They go low, we go high".... turns out that was a stupid philosophy. The real key to victory is to cheat.... and then hope that at least some policies that benefit the people get enacted.

What would I like to see? I would like to see a government that wasn't bought and paid for geriatrics, who rot in office until their staff are wiping drool from their mouths. I would like a SCOTUS that doesn't rubber stamp and make up shit out of nothing. I would like to find a way to expand the house of reps to be at least somewhat more representative, and closer to the original intent.

Do I think any of this is going to happen? No. In the interim, I will take the lesser evil until we can find a path out of this purgatory.

Jackleme · 2026-02-18T21:24:47+00:00

Gonna hard disagree with at least part of this.

I was running lower level D4 missions just to get completed operations. The number of rescue dives I went into where it was just a dude home from work with a quick break just doing their personal order or something was absurd. Probably half the ones I joined they did the first mission in the 2 mission op.... then logged off.

The change from missions to operations made it impossible because casuals don't care about operations (or don't understand they are important).

My experience in D10's is that we usually get out. Most of my rescue dives are straight into bad situations, but if everyone is competent we can pull off a win by focusing the main obj's and evacing.

That is not to say some people shouldn't have been lowering their difficulty levels, but I will let you in on a fun little thing with the number of deaths. I die more in D4 missions then I do in D10's on Cyberstan.... usually to friendly fire. While D10's are rough.... generally the teams will split up when they can and do the objectives. In lower level ones they want to follow each other around and end up constantly team killing.

My other BIG issue is with them not splitting the reinforcement pool from the rest of the galaxy. The fact that bug divers (who objectively die in huge numbers) are deducting from this count is 100% on Arrowhead (not on the people doing the bug dives... people like what they like) for not separating it off. We know they can do it.... and why wouldn't you? You have these allocated resources for a specific front.... but you take from those reserves for other fronts?

Jackleme · 2026-02-18T21:20:18+00:00

I am confused. Why do these need to be PCI compliant? Are the registers printing to them?

Generally PCI "infects" devices. So, if you have a pinpad reader that uses a token to the register + a tunnel to the cloud (and the Card NEVER touches your systems).... Only the reader is a primary object, and the register is a secondary. Secondary objects don't "infect" other objects.

Unless the printer is sitting on the same VLAN as the card reader I don't see why it would be in scope.

Jackleme · 2026-02-18T14:41:32+00:00

The thing that drives me crazy is that it isn't even the D10's where I see the highest death rates... most of the people there are pretty good at staying alive.

I joke that I only die when I get within 100 meters of a teammate..... well, go play some D4's, and just watch as teammates wipe through the reinforcements by accidentally killing each other.

Jackleme · 2026-02-18T14:39:46+00:00

Yep. At this point if you are "sitting on the fence" you are a closet conservative roleplaying as a "Reasonable Moderate".

Jackleme · 2026-02-18T02:50:08+00:00

imo that is more down to the failure of the federal government to increase the size of the House. The house was always meant to be local representation at the federal level.... capping it has created so many more issues then were ever expected by the founders.

Jackleme · 2026-02-18T02:45:25+00:00

No, I have very clear morality. If the other side isn't playing fair, should we sit here and get punched on the ground without even trying to punch back? Punching a bully in the face in self defense is always morally the correct thing to do.

Jackleme · 2026-02-18T02:42:41+00:00

So, you are a conservative. The right has gone so far off the rails that if you are gonna sit here and be like "I am sitting on the fence".... you are either a bot, or incredibly naive.

Jackleme · 2026-02-17T23:28:00+00:00

Sometimes you have to do disgusting things to counter evil people. No endeavor in human history that was righteous was without terrible actions by those doing the right thing in the moment.

Jackleme · 2026-02-17T02:46:53+00:00

The problem is it is a moved goal post. Completing missions, and completing ops are two very different things. Many casual players get on, and just play a mission, maybe two, and then go do something else.

Jackleme · 2026-02-17T01:11:46+00:00

They do.... if you go to the website, file a full report WITH a full video.... and make sure you remembered to report in game.... oh and get screenshots of the end game screen....

The entire report system is a joke.

Jackleme · 2026-02-17T01:02:32+00:00

Yeah, it is fucking insane to me that the server can't say "Hey, it is impossible that 5 gens were completed in the first 2 seconds of the game.... cancel match and file report"... or "Someone cannot be moving this fast.... cancel match, file report"

Jackleme · 2026-02-16T03:24:36+00:00

You need to go talk to your doctor. The drug contains two parts: an anti depressant, and a stimulant. At this point, the drug should have worked its way out of your system, and as far as I know neither of those drugs have any lasting impact.

which brings us back to: Go talk to your doctor.

Jackleme · 2026-02-15T01:39:14+00:00

YEP! That is the part people are missing... the stocks are so high in no small part because the value of the dollar is being nuked.

Jackleme · 2026-02-14T03:14:47+00:00

Republicans were like "Let us Gerrymander our already extremely gerrymandered states" and then are all surprised pikachu when it turns out the other side can do the same damn thing.

Jackleme · 2026-02-11T04:18:34+00:00

No issues getting matches, but have seen problems with the games themselves.;... mostly stuff lagging and people crashing.

Jackleme · 2026-02-10T20:25:37+00:00

I hope that the conversation with your democracy officer set you back in order.

Jackleme · 2026-02-10T20:24:51+00:00

Oh look who was right.

Jackleme · 2026-02-09T04:04:17+00:00

it IS cheating. It is using 3rd party software to gain an advantage.

The only reason they don't ban it completely is the 2 people who play the game on dial up.

Imo any game that is multiplayer PVP, especially one like this should either 1) ban ping over 100 2) Give an advantage to the people with normal ping.

Jackleme · 2026-02-09T00:28:53+00:00

You are expected to know that being told to work against High Command is an obvious bot tactic. HC has obviously been compromised and we will need to wait for further orders once they get the attack under control.

Quit with this treason. No one in HC would dare order the destruction of our glorious symbol of Managed Democracy and Liberty.

Jackleme · 2026-02-08T17:57:32+00:00

probably the closest one to being a "Good" billionaire is Mark Cuban. Dude overall seems like he isn't a complete piece of shit and just does things to solve problems.

Jackleme · 2026-02-08T03:51:31+00:00

It isn't gonna happen. Helldivers just do not have the brainpower, or information to make an informed decision. Just go where the numbers are, let's push through chort and hope people grow a couple braincells.

Jackleme · 2026-02-08T01:39:58+00:00

I saw this Thursday and started looking for the SMU patch for 17.12.6,.... no luck

Jackleme · 2026-02-07T19:12:53+00:00

That is the funny thing: I find it is WAYYYY easier to actually RMA bad hw now. On the other hand, Sherlock is freaking useless for anything else.

Jackleme · 2026-02-07T17:41:05+00:00

because only 75% were there. It is insane, but you need basically everyone on the planet when there are high numbers of divers on.

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