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
“Siblings in Dionysus”
@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?
Well said my comrade in the coming revolution!
@celesteh Not to be contrarian, but isn’t “My brother in Christ” usually used incredulously? Like when someone has a ridiculous take that would make them unsuitable for comradeship?
Open to counterpoints from folks who speak internet better than I do.
Yeah, maybe, but as someone who constantly has bad takes, I demand inclusion!
@baconandcoconut @colorblindcowboy
A good revolution will not be like the old Soviet system where dead dictators became drop-in replacements for saints in a climate of mandated orthodox atheism.
But it sure as heck is not going to be hegemonically Christian. 'Haha, ironic, I'm demanding you to be Christian ❤️'. Just some cheeky Christian nationalism!!
They need to knock that off before they can get into any lifeboats.
@baconandcoconut @colorblindcowboy
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Any political group affiliation that insists on Christianity is at least proximate to Christian nationalism.
Like, this is easy for Christians and atheists from a Christian background to laugh off, but, in the current climate, this is more than alienating to members of minority religions.
@celesteh @colorblindcowboy yep. hence the "brother in Christ" being applied as the "universal" group even if being said to someone who vehemently does not want to be counted as one, because "you're one of us anyway, like it or not" *is* Christian fundamentalism
and as such "comrade in the coming revolution" would be consistent to apply the same way even to people who would absolutely be class traitors in such a thing
@celesteh love this, I'm in!
I sometimes use "status quo enjoyers" to describe that particular group.
@celesteh one con. Namely Viktor Orban. With his departure, the Revolution has BEGUN. I invite you to consider striking the word "coming", at least inside the EU...
With that caveat, my comrade in the revolution, I wholeheartedly support your effort, for reasons stated!
I'm so happy for Hungary
Sorry, are you asserting that anarchists support Christian hegemony??
Or are you just mad that anarcho-communists sometimes use unicode symbols?
@celesteh okay i see you aren’t one of the terrible ones
keep in mind there are a lot of people who will very rightfully block you on the spot for the hammer & sickle in your profile without even engaging first
it’s the symbol of authoritarian tankies first and foremost
"One of the good ones" omg. The number of times I've heard this phrase as a migrant....
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