Danie

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;

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