Yeah, just sad honestly if that is the case. It’s pretty typical though with most conservatives I have talked with, it’s this mentality of lifting your self up by your boot straps and not really caring about others. Which to me is a solely selfish and greedy outlook for any community as a whole. The problem with this though is they forget that alot of the rights that will inevitably be stripped away was a team effort going back for decades. Same thing applies to the immigrants that are conservative and cheer on whats happening in relation to immigration except these folks will have the leopard eating their faces alot sooner.

That 4D chess theory is also the reason those people believe in conspiracy theories. They cannot fathom occam’s razor and must apply the most illogical concept in order to shape the narrative to better fit their feelings and therefore worldviews rather accepting the simplest and therefore the most likely true reason behind things.

The party for pro-life huh. Amazing how they disregard years of medical expertise, study and data to fold the narrative that fits their desired reality.

This self-ish mentality is rife and something I noticed alot more during covid. When most people during that period would not even take basic measures to help protect their own community, mind you these same people are also always the ones that decry freedom of speech and rights. The right for them to say anything and also the right to not vaccinate. But then you ask them about trans, gay rights and abortion rights then you really see who they are, because it’s just rules for me but not for thee with these people.

Then they try the it’s against my religion approach, then you ask them about those same freedoms for other religions, whoa whoa slow down there because this level of freedom only applies to Christians. Hypocrites

Not to mention the gay conservatives that have essentially voted for their own rights to be chipped away at by the far right. It’s like they are wearing blinders to their own prejudice being ushered in again after decades of progress.

It’s truly staggering the amount of cognitive dissonance, hate yet at the same time the inability to even realise that the freedoms that these people try to strip away from others are also the same freedoms that will also be stripped away from them at some point as they through their own idiocracy inch themselves further into authoritarian dictatorship.

Yeah exactly right. I had to get them to introduce wording into my KPIs saying something like “Taking into consideration any extra project work I am asked to complete”. This means I can freely do both but my annual/quarterly review is judged fairly taking it all into consideration.

Not sure what the contracts are like where you are but here in my country that clause about extra duties and overtime when necessary can be defeated by doing a little of what they ask. 30 minutes of overtimes satisfies that contractual obligation as they never state X amount needs to be done. Same for extra duties. Do it once and at the min and thats your obligations fulfilled.