I've been ambivalent about my participation before, so this isn't my first user account-- but I'm paying for this one, so I'll probably be a little more committed to it.
My name's Viktyr. I live in Wyoming. I'm a lifelong gun owner and gun rights activist who has gone from radical Libertarian to moderate Democrat to someone both more liberal and more progressive than the Democratic Party will tolerate amongst its ranks; in theory, I identify with the Pirate Party Movement and the Pirate Party USA, but in practice I find myself splitting my tickets between the least self-destructive Libertarians and the least authoritarian Democrats. I tried doing my part to help my party spread out in Middle America, but I found the task was not compatible with my mental health. I am beyond sick to death of agreeing with members of minority groups when they say that sizable portions of our population want to exterminate them, and then being called a fucking Nazi when I sugggest they might want to defend themselves. I am sick of the vast majority of the American people being politically more interested in burning their neighbor's house down than in building their own, but I've given up any last trace of hope in changing them.
I say that... but my main purpose in posting here is trying to find like-minded souls willing to appeal to the major Gun Rights Activism organizations and convincing them to start reaching out to young progressives-- actually making the preservation of our gun rights their top priority instead of the transparent promotion of Culture War fascism. This would include getting serious about root-cause mitigation instead of waving it as a red flag whenever gun control comes up and then actively resisting it.
Outside of my politics, my interests are speculative fiction (I'm a fantasy author), physical fitness and martial arts (a theoretical interest until I regain my mobility), and various forms of recreational gaming-- I design tabletop roleplaying games to accompany my fiction, and I'm designing an online multiplayer text-based game.
Hello from Wyoming
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