#pacifist — Public Fediverse posts

Danie
- enjoys #soup, #CloseHarmony, #mountainhiking, #repairing, and #vegan food, but not #procrastination, #CognitiveDissonance, #Necropolitics, or #InstitutionalRacism;
- supports fair trade and #FairChain/#FairShare (FairTrade is a colonial concept that reinforces inequality), #organic, and therefore avoids shops and online stores run by exploiters (of the earth, including people);
- believes that most people are decent, and look up to those who stand for love and radical equality and ‘drive the money-changers from the temple’, but are naturally fearful and therefore easily choose leaders who sell hatred, discrimination in service of those who exploit;
- is a militant #pacifist with an understanding of defensive violence (against mosquitoes and exploiters);
- has the privilege of being able to choose paid work that benefits the world and ...
- philosophises briefly on the world and then at length on the text he has written;
- fact-checks what he shares, and the authors he quotes, but sometimes not, or only afterwards;

#introduction

A bit about me:

- Live and work in #Cardiff / #Caerdydd

- Football fan (#ncafc, #oufc, any non-league; also help produce a #NewportCounty podcast)

- Dad to two boys

- Like a bit of #running

- Non-religious but #Quaker-adjacent

- Apolitical but a committed #pacifist and #republican (#NotMyKing)

- #DysguCymraeg

- #SocialScientist, with a particular interest in #SocialPolicy and #devolution

- Founder of the #ShoutyBlokesWithGuitars hashtag - share your recommendations!