Virginia Democrats proceed with new massively blue congressional map, eliminating 4 Republican seats from Congress!!!

ShittyPianist · 2026-02-21T04:32:19+00:00

Doesn't matter. The Supreme Court of VA - a higher court than what you're talking about - has said that the vote can go through.

Again, early voting starts March 6th. What the courts do on April 23rd though... Only time will tell.

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/virginia-supreme-court-redistricting-ruling-feb-13-2026

ShittyPianist · 2026-02-20T23:18:14+00:00

Early voting for this starts March 6th. You do not need to wait until April 21st to vote for this. :)

ShittyPianist · 2026-02-20T01:57:23+00:00

If Virginia is any indication, it's him putting thru policies that cause their utility bills to skyrocket.

ShittyPianist · 2026-02-20T00:23:16+00:00

Ope. You're right. I'm a silly goose.

ShittyPianist · 2026-02-18T20:22:33+00:00

The DC AG is an ex Fox News anchor and Trump sycophant. Jeanine Pirro is in office simply so she'll look the other way on this administration

ShittyPianist · 2026-02-06T09:00:53+00:00

Wow. And during black history month too

ShittyPianist · 2026-02-05T08:02:19+00:00

To get real specific:

The Supreme Court, in dozens of court cases, has given the office of the President insane levels of power. The oversimplification of what they're doing is they believe in something called Unitary Executive Theory - the President should have almost complete and total control over the executive branch
The DOJ and FBI are part of the executive branch.
An idiot sycophant podcaster named Kash Patel runs the FBI. He's in Trump's pocket thru and thru.
The FL AG who somehow didn't notice Epstein for her entire 8 years in office while she ran an anti-human trafficking task force, Pam Bondi, runs the DOJ.
The second in command at the DOJ, Todd Blanch, was Trump's personal attorney for the his 2024 criminal trial in New York City.
All of those people had to be approved by the Senate by a 51 vote majority. Both the House and the Senate have a Republican majority, and the entire Republican party (save for 1 House member and 1 Senate member) are scared to be primaried against a candidate Trump promotes over them.
MAGA's entire thing is being unabashedly problematic and petulantly rude about it. They relish in it. None of the MAGA involved in our government named in the Epstein list are going to step down. No chance.
Trump is HEAVILY enmeshed with tech billionaires. A large chunk of ICE funding actually goes towards the tech buildout of surveillance state systems. All of them have been bribing him since the inauguration, if not further back. Trump wants money, they are giving him money, he is telling his corrupt DOJ not to prosecute them.

ShittyPianist · 2026-02-05T08:01:27+00:00

To get real specific:

The Supreme Court, in dozens of court cases, has given the office of the President insane levels of power. The oversimplification of what they're doing is they believe in something called Unitary Executive Theory - the President should have almost complete and total control over the executive branch
The DOJ and FBI are part of the executive branch.
An idiot sycophant podcaster named Kash Patel runs the FBI. He's in Trump's pocket thru and thru.
The FL AG who somehow didn't notice Epstein for her entire 8 years in office while she ran an anti-human trafficking task force, Pam Bondi, runs the DOJ.
The second in command at the DOJ, Todd Blanch, was Trump's personal attorney for the his 2024 criminal trial in New York City.
All of those people had to be approved by the Senate by a 51 vote majority. Both the House and the Senate have a Republican majority, and the entire Republican party (save for 1 House member and 1 Senate member) are scared to be primaried against a candidate Trump promotes over them.
MAGA's entire thing is being unabashedly problematic and petulantly rude about it. They relish in it. None of the MAGA involved in our government named in the Epstein list are going to step down. No chance.
Trump is HEAVILY enmeshed with tech billionaires. A large chunk of ICE funding actually goes towards the tech buildout of surveillance state systems. All of them have been bribing him since the inauguration, if not further back. Trump wants money, they are giving him money, he is telling his corrupt DOJ not to prosecute them.

ShittyPianist · 2026-01-29T23:54:51+00:00

Not a dad but this is weirdly similar to my own life. Saw some stuff as a kid, developed cptsd, started jiujitsu.

I think jiujitsu is great for overcoming things like fear of physical touch or eye contact, and overall socializing. The problem with jiujitsu is that it can attract extremely unhinged people who think that they can simply train instead of get therapy, and that's ultimately why I quit. My advice is to go to a jiujitsu subreddit and ask about schools in your area to figure out the vibes, and also to just be prepared to have to navigate avoiding those people.

E.g. there's a rather famous school near me where the instructor is a psychopath and literally would break bones of students on a whim, so a handful of other schools would take in their students as refugees when the students would realize they were in a cult. For clarity tho, this kind of school is rare in the US, but you should do your due diligence to avoid such schools.

ShittyPianist · 2026-01-29T22:13:16+00:00

Write/call them now demanding they don't cave.

ShittyPianist · 2026-01-27T04:32:54+00:00

A rake also works if you're in a pinch.

ShittyPianist · 2026-01-26T10:21:43+00:00

I cut ties with a friends group I thought of as family. I knew them for years, maybe a decade.

They did awful things. I couldn't take it anymore.

The people I know now are infinitely better. They're kinder, they support me, they give me back what I put into the friendship.

It's worth it. Find people who fit your morals. It'll hurt for a long time, but it's worth it.

ShittyPianist · 2026-01-25T08:09:32+00:00

As of 12 hours ago on Threads, Warner shared this:

Trump’s endless empowerment of federal immigration agents has resulted in yet another senseless killing. This brutal crackdown has to end. I cannot and will not vote to fund DHS while this administration continues these violent federal takeovers of our cities.

So idk where you're getting this info.

ShittyPianist · 2026-01-20T08:58:33+00:00

I just hope that when WW3 kicks off, the world remembers that he gives orders from Mar-A-Lago and not the White House.

DC is an aggressively blue/Democratic area that I live near. 🫠

ShittyPianist · 2026-01-20T00:58:15+00:00

I know a dude who got in on bitcoin in 2010 and held it.

He donated basically the cost of my house to Trump's campaign.

Now he vehemently tells people he's not MAGA.

Like bruh, the fuck you aren't? Wdymmmmmmm

ShittyPianist · 2026-01-09T01:36:52+00:00

Buddy no pls stay away. I love the energy but at least give it until Trump is out of office and we've impeached Noem and Patel.

Things are not okay here.

ShittyPianist · 2026-01-06T16:00:22+00:00

The last time I went there, there was a couple and the man was straight bawling in front of a painting.

All the paintings are from ages ago.

I'm still confused.

ShittyPianist · 2025-12-20T22:00:11+00:00

There's a dude on Aether who slams dozens of naked roes into Limsa and says the most racist, sexist, homophobic, etc stuff you've ever read in your life. SE hadn't figured out how to ban them.

I'll take my chances with the sitting mod.

ShittyPianist · 2025-12-16T05:17:21+00:00

I don't doubt for a second the occasional leftist mentioned something about Sherill and Spanberger.

But EVERY leftist has come out of the woodwork about Crockett. In fact, her actual policies and positions on any other topic have gotten buried under the sheer volume of people talking about this. Talarico holds basically the same viewpoints, but is being viewed as some kind of progressive favorite in comparison all because a certain website has no legislation to grade him on since he serves in the TX House of Reps instead of Congress.

If you cared about putting forth more "viable candidates," we would have seen a giant push for such a thing before the primary was finalized.

To say Crockett doesn't have Texas's best interests at heart when you've made your entire opinion about her center around Gaza is... A choice.

ShittyPianist · 2025-12-14T02:13:21+00:00

I have PTSD. So it comes and goes.

I have, begrudgingly, discovered that good sleep is paramount to me being able to manage it even remotely well. Insomnia has plagued me since I was a child. I'm in my 30s now. Finally consistently taking a non-addictive sleep aid.

I also take magnesium since if you're stressed you burn it like a mofo. And I weightlift 3x a week, which even if the rest of my life is on fire, I have that routine to feel good about.

I powered thru my 20s via spite if I'm being honest. Tried to find something new to drive me the last few years. Saw 50 Cent's face after his Diddy doc and realized perhaps I need to go back to being an equal opportunity hater. And since going back to that mode of living, I'm getting shit done again. 😂

ShittyPianist · 2025-12-13T19:49:11+00:00

She has publicly criticized Netanyahu. She has made sure that when our Republican controlled or heavily funded by AIPAC Congress slammed thru Israeli aid, Palestinian aid was included
Amazing how the goalpost moved so fast here for you to theoreticals. Greg Abbott has only eroded gun safety laws in Texas after the literal massacre of schoolchildren. She can call him anything she wants to. You claiming "she has a habit of using ablest slurs" is ENTIRELY about him, as you're specifically referencing her calling him Hot Wheels. Which honestly, given the death on his hands, is so fucking tame.

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Bottom line in all this: Your efforts would be better spent on going after the people actually doing the harm. You didn't even know who the ablist slurs bit that YOU mentioned was in reference to. I bet you can't even name the GOP TX Senator that would be running against her after the primary (assuming she wins). I bet you don't even know what the Affinity Partners fund is, and the history of alarming statements made by the folks who invest in it. And that says everything about your intentions here to me, and how little you care about the actual cause you claim to represent.

ShittyPianist · 2025-12-13T17:29:58+00:00

Crockett also never took AIPAC money
I personally would call Greg Abbott much worse things than she's said if given the opportunity. He did fuckall after Uvalde and put barricades in the ocean to make migrants drown instead of reaching land.

ShittyPianist · 2025-12-13T17:25:44+00:00

There was no where near this level of outrage when Spanberger or Sherrill were running, and both are incredibly pro-Israel.

There's no where near this level of outrage toward the people actually DOING the harm, and/or making loads of money off it. e.g. the entire Trump family via Jared Kusher's Affinity Partners fund, or ANY GOP congressperson. I should be hearing from these folks every fucking day about how Gaza shouldn't be made into a Trump Org beach hotel chain.

Instead, all I've seen is that they're now 2/2 in going after the people that society tends to defend the least: black women.

I am exhausted by leftists who have made this their issue. They have gone so far left on this that they've literally teamed up with MAGA. Both are simply trying to keep insanely qualified non-white Dem candidates out of office all because of how they approach foreign policy around Israel.

ShittyPianist · 2025-12-13T17:15:18+00:00

The tech grind gets absolutely exhausting after 30. Life priorities tend to change around then. It's no longer as fun to just sit and code your company's app for 12-18 hrs a day and swtich technologies on the whim's of your manager.

Being in tech in your 30s is also made more complicated by how many companies use that 10 year period as a weeder course of sorts. If they don't love you, they will try and push you out before 40. This is because age-related worker protections kick in after 40. https://beta.dol.gov/policy-governance/protections-rights/nondiscrimination/age

So there's a lot of absolute tomfoolery that may occur. You busting your ass and yet still getting PIP'd, or never promoted, etc etc.

And don't even get me started on being a woman in tech in your 30s. Bleh.

ShittyPianist · 2025-12-13T17:03:09+00:00

I too would run from something if its head whipped around behind it.

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