Bridgeweaver

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I am many things, a husband, a father, a writer, an Audio producer, a musician, a teacher, and a practicing witch, among other things. I'm someone who believes wholeheartedly in the proposition that lifting others lifts me and makes the world a better place.
I am also very human and imperfectly embody my ideals. I ask that those who follow this stream to respectfully call me out when I fail, that I may learn better.
pronounshe/him, though I reserve the right to subvert expectations of masculinity whenever I find them boring.
I Work forSignum University https://www.signumuniversity.org
I make:music, mead, beer, friends, writers
BridgeweaverApr 7, 2024
@leadore @failedLyndonLaRouchite @callisto I don't see the post-roe trend the way you do as the Party still keeps trying to bury people with leftward positions, and especially if, Heaven forefend, you don't like our support of Israel's war in Gaza. Show me a party ready to lead and I'll get excited. Otherwise, it's one more tactical vote. This will not convince my child whose first election is this year.
BridgeweaverApr 7, 2024
@leadore @failedLyndonLaRouchite @callisto I see it the other way round. Voting for the moderate positioned candidates allows them to skate on the hard calls that are needed, because we do not force them to choose between our votes and the comfortable positions they hold. This will be the tenth Presidential election I vote in, and I've only once actually voted for a candidate. 1/
BridgeweaverApr 7, 2024
@leadore @failedLyndonLaRouchite @callisto Also, having a moral problem with supporting genocide is not "waiting for the perfect candidate." It's saying that when our friends do something beyond acceptability, we call them on it and put pressure on them to change.
BridgeweaverApr 7, 2024
@leadore @failedLyndonLaRouchite @callisto The difference is that I do not fundamentally believe that the Democratic Party *will ever* be a party of progressives, and that the moderation strategy they're adopting out of fear of losing will in the end hand the ground to the very Republicans we oppose. And in continuing to hold our noses and vote for them, we incentivize the same cowardice that is a loser.
BridgeweaverApr 7, 2024
@failedLyndonLaRouchite @leadore @callisto Sure, but you might have to do the same to an Arab American's home if Biden wins and you would have to say, "Sorry, my fear of #Trump forced me to dehumanize you and decide that your suffering is worth less. That rhetoric does not convince.
BridgeweaverApr 7, 2024
Have run my family through character creation in #daggerheart. To a person, they didn't like the background or connections questions part of character creation. We just talked things through in that regard, so we'll see how that works.
BridgeweaverApr 7, 2024
@leadore @failedLyndonLaRouchite @callisto And yes I know the practicals of that response, but there does come a time when one has to question the fundamentals of a system that, no matter which side wins, the have-nots will continue losing, maybe more quickly on one side, but still losing until a totally different politics is forced into being.
BridgeweaverApr 7, 2024
@leadore @failedLyndonLaRouchite @callisto I disagree with this conclusion. What is the use of having a lever of power without it being related to your core principles and who you are? And if the party you keep tactically voting for never becomes the party of your principles, what are you supposed to do? It might be salutary for the Democratic Party to lose everything and have to become a party of the resistance.1/
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@callisto I would very heavyheartedly say, "If you want to have the room to keep fighting to move the Democratic Party to being a true alternative to the Fascists, you can't let the Fascists govern."
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@alexhall @JEkis I use it when I wish to acknowledge that someone has said something that is (well, not wrong) but that I do not entirely agree with. It's a nuanced inching along the spectrum from that's absolutely right to "are you on something that I don't want to ever have?"