The group meeting went well today. I feel really good about myself because I've never really been a leader in anything before, and it was really cool to know that I set this meeting up and was able to get everyone to come. I guess I tend to overthink and freak out about things, and it always turns out to be no big deal.
And my "friend with benefits" started talking to me again and we went to this hipster supermarket today to shop for dinner. Of course, we went straight into politics and talked about how the Trump admin. "took away trans rights for bathrooms" recently. My argument was that trans people have already been using the opposite bathroom anyway, and since this has to do with schools, children should not be transgender anyway since they don't know what they want until their brain is developed. His argument was basically "muh feelings". Ok...sorry I'm biased lol...he said "why do you care about what people do?" And I told him when they become adults they can do whatever, but if children can't consent to sex, they shouldn't consent to delaying their puberty and making themselves infertile since their prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed. He said that "it would make them happy" and I talked about the high suicide rate in transgender people because of regret, and he said that was just Republican rhetoric. Since I know he is a Cancer, I kinda poked the soft spot of his Crab-self for fun and said "Listen, we live in a world of alternative facts." I was just kidding, but he blew up on me in front of the store and said that I am everything he hates about humanity. We both decided to stop talking about politics, and since I was going to meet his fiancé, he told me that I should just go back to alternative-me around him and pretend to be a liberal. I found out that they are both literal socialists and his fiancé was part of Bernie's campaign.
So I got to meet him and we made some shrimp scampi together and watched Grumpy Old Men together on the sofa....but uh it kinda turned into a "rotisserie" situation at the end of the night LMAO sorry. He probably enjoyed degrading me though because of my beliefs.
Anyway, something weird is happening to me. I think I'm becoming a liberal.. I signed up to be this grass roots environmental dude where I go out and protest and talk to people about how Trump is going to poison our water. So I guess that's what I'm doing this summer. I guess my new friends are making me more liberal? Is liberalism a disease or something? Just kidding
Anyway, I'm starting to hate Trump more every day. I thought he was putting up an act during the campaign, but now I think he really is like that I'm kinda horrified. Like, he has the vocabulary of a 5 year old in all his rallies. I always cringed at the back of my mind of how stupid he sounds sometimes, but I wanted to keep supporting my candidate since I constantly feel like I have to defend him from the mainstream media. Maybe that was the point all along? What if the mainstream media was doing some kind of reverse psychology on me? Is this a psy-ops? Then I realized....why do I even NEED to defend him? I'm not benefiting from it. He's super rich so why should I care? I feel like I voted against my best interests. He's just disappointed me with all the people he's put around him too. Betsy DeVos? Omg I can't even believe I defended her. Steve Bannon? Ew. Mike Pence? Ew. I hate all those people. I wanna be a liberal again.
hwhatting wrote:Maybe you know this and just wanted to vent, in that case ignore my response. But the reason they let you do that is that working in a team and also organizing a team are skills that are needed constantly in the workplace, especially if you want a better-paid job. (Yes, there are probably well-paid jobs for lone wolf coders and similar geniuses, but that's not very frequent.) Of course, in a workplace you won't experience the degrees of laziness and shirking you have now encountered at community college (although some of the things I've seen come close), So it's best to chalk it up as an experience from which you can learn vital lessons, in an environment where not too much depends on it. (And if it's a consolation, I also hated group projects back at school.)
Yeah I understand, but I just don't want to be the guy to ruin someone's grade and I don't like how we're supposed to "evaluate" each other.
Travis B. wrote:
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When I did group projects back in school, at the slightest indication that my other team members were less than competent, I would normally take it upon myself to do the whole project for everyone, just so that I did not have to rely on such individuals and have them affect my grade.
Yep, that's what I've been doing so far. I go all out on shit like this.