I had similar experience. Went to an art installation run by group of young lefties, and upon entering they say: “if you see any racism or sexism, you should come to us and report it”.
I was taken aback and immediately felt uncomfortable. Why did they need to say this? Do they have a problem with racism and sexism? Which would have been unusual because it was a lefty place.
The real question is does any of this stuff need to actually be said?
My view is it just provides cover for powerful people to take out their enemies based on rule interpretations and technicalities.
Democracy is dying because the progressive left is attacking free speech, refusing to accept the results of legitimate elections, calling for impeachment of democratically elected leaders since day 1, and when in power, subverting the democratic process through re-interpreting statutes instead of going through the legislative branch (clean power plan).
Conservatism is the best defense we have of democracy. Respect for the constitution, respect of the legislative process, and maintaining freedom of speech and federalism are key.
I used to get such incredible enjoyment from just coding all day, then listening to music and coding all night while drinking.
It was better than going out and seeing friends or doing anything else.
On the programming side, needing just a keyboard in front of you with the potential to make a million+ dollar company was always such an incredible motivation.
So it was like, you are not just listening to music and drinking and having a good time...I was getting all that enjoyment while also working on something that could have a huge pay-off, and that was intrinsically enjoyable anyway.
The reality though is that the quality of work you do while drinking is sub-par. It is a huge motivation boost initially and can throw you into a different mindset to let you pound through a couple of hours of work that would have been boring. It can brake a procrastination cycle where you might have been staring at a huge mountain of work, unable to take the first step.
But if its no work compared to some work, this can sometimes be a good thing.
It did reach a point where I would work all night, wake up late in the afternoon, and then be looking forward to the sun would going down before having another drink.
But honestly, I never saw it as a problem. And it really never became a problem. It just naturally balanced itself out. If you drink too much, you feel shit the next day, so you drink less and tell yourself off.
During the day I get high off exercise which is just as good. Evenings, sometimes I'll have a beer or two, but usually its already too late before I even consider it so I go to bed.
For me, I think programming in and of itself, and music, and exercise are all just as good as drinking, such that it never became addictive.
I can see it would be an issue if you experienced burn out, you have deadlines at work, and the only thing that eases the feeling of burnout is drinking. But I see drinking more as inertia, rather than fuel.
I think its very unique to everyone's built-in motivational systems and life circumstances.
Politics is all about lying and people do it on all sides all the time.
It feels compulsive because the MSM keeps covering Trump so much, and never offering comparisons to show that its not out of the ordinary on the other side.
> He’s objectively a problematic person as a leader
This is the problem right here. You are speaking from your bubble. I don't see how people can use "objectively" for such broad declarations such as "problematic person".
The MSM is ridiculously left biased. They don't even see that they are either.
Record highs in the stock market, +3% GDP growth, low unemployment. I'm curious, how else do we measure a President?
If an employee feels they can deactivate Trump's account of their last day, and seeing the left lean of all top employees, I think its pretty clear what the culture is like inside the company, and that this kind of abuse is probably widespread.
If the messaging and actions from the company focused on supporting free speech, listening to all points of view, etc. then you might think otherwise. But it is clearly hostile to the right, and even publicly mulls over deleting the President's account because he supposedly bullied Kim Jong.
Sorry dude. I have a lot of respect for those who voice non-left opinions publicly. Something I would never do myself because of the repercussions in SV. Its insane. And I would not expose my IP to any of these services either, because as we see, there are uncontrolled, bleeding-hearts who are probably not afraid and maybe feel its their duty to unmask/dox ppl.
This time period has solidified my acknowledgement for the need for true legal protections of freedom of speech, and ultimately the need for society to respect this as a whole. Something that should be ingrained in all citizens as much as possible. Before Trump, I never thought that people could go this crazy with censorship. And I somehow thought that the smart people of SV would get this...
I was taken aback and immediately felt uncomfortable. Why did they need to say this? Do they have a problem with racism and sexism? Which would have been unusual because it was a lefty place.
The real question is does any of this stuff need to actually be said?
My view is it just provides cover for powerful people to take out their enemies based on rule interpretations and technicalities.