Proposal to replace "my brother in Christ" with "my comrade in the coming revolution".
Pros:
* Assumes the best in people
* Gender neutral
* Does not enshrine Christian hegemony
* Counterrevolutionaries, liberals, and status quo defenders can have a little minor irritation as a treat
Cons:
None
@celesteh there is one con.
The liberals will take the phrase over and claim the revolution is voting.
Yeah, people who are too full of their own revolutionary fervour to vote against people like Orban and Trump are not comrades, but cosplayers.
Voting is really very far from enough by itself, but its also necessary.
You might want to read up on the SAVE act.
Let's see how things go for Hungary, I guess. I can't help but see the removal of Orban as very positive.
Goldman was amazing, but she also died in 1940 and things have changed a bit since then. A lot of what she said was deliberately edgy and provocative. She wanted to annoy people. Her quotable little lines need to be taken in that context of trying to provoke people into greater action. It's true that voting isn't the primary method of change, but we shouldn't take it as received gospel that it's therefore useless. Obviously she wanted to be published and quoted, but I doubt she wished the be canonised as the final word, given how antireligious she was.
If she really meant to say that we shouldn't use a particular lever of power to pick our opponent, then she was wrong on that point.
@celesteh @fiend_unpleasant Also, I mean, if you want voting to change things you have to change minds in who gets voted for.
Like, changing the Overton window is a whole separate thing from voting.
@squishymage42 @fiend_unpleasant
Changing the overton window is a big part of the real work!
@fiend_unpleasant Hey, she lived through two times when the Czar just dissolved the Duma because he didn't like what they had voted up, didn't she?
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