This gave me cause to revisit Caitlin’s excellent interview on leftist birds. While I want to go with the antifa bird, Brazilian Tanager, I’ll say crows for sake of variety since they can formulate plans, communicate over long distances and amongst different murders, and hold grudges and vengeances. Plus they’re smart af!
It must be the Irish Republican Phoenix. Introduced by the Phoenix National and Literary Society in 1856, "the word Phoenix signifying that the Irish cause was again to rise from the ashes of our martyred nationality". The group's aim was to bring intellectuals into the Irish republican movement and encourage a revival of Gaelic customs and culture, ultimately leading to the overthrow of the English occupation. They were suppressed for sedition in 1859 and rounded up, but they directly influenced the Uprising in 1916 and the phoenix was later resurrected and taken up again by the IRA during the Troubles. Éire Abú!
Let's all give it up to the Harris Hawk for this one.
Reasons that this is the one:
1. Harris Hawks work together to hunt, which is rare in birds. They cooperate to provide for everyone. They mostly weigh around two pounds, and because they work in groups, they take down rabbits that are twice as large as them.
2. Because of their sexual dimorphism, the women are larger. This also lines up with anti-fascism, where dudes should probably let the women take charge.
3. They don't just hunt from the air. If you've ever seen a hawk or falcon miss and land, they rarely get another shot at something. Harris's hawk runs after things as well as hunting from the air, so they are a multimodal fighting machine.
4. They protect the courts at Wimbledon, which means that they have observed the classes and probably have formed opinions about class warfare.
On the other hand:
It's a bird named after a dude. This is rarely a good thing.
Domestic Pigeon. There's tons of them so there's numbers. They're smart. Have a history of being used in subterfuge & full scale wars. They're great messengers. They're victims of class warfare having gone from domestic pets of the wealthy to being outcasts that many people think of as pests
If you want a bird to be in the trenches with you, I'd go with a cassowary. They are sneaky and good at escaping without detection, they can eat poisonous fruit without issues, and they have no tongue so they're not going to rat you out. During courtship, females step on the male's back before deciding whether to mate or not, and if they're not into it, they'll attack the guy, which seems pretty good for gender relations as far as the bird world goes? And if someone tries to mess with a cassowary, it is capable of literally kicking them to death.
I’m leaning toward grackles. Fierce and appropriately intimidating-looking (up for the job, visually, of scaring fascists), totally feisty, yet still collectively oriented and almost always working in groups. They’re kind-off assholes in my yard, but I think they might be up to this job.
This gave me cause to revisit Caitlin’s excellent interview on leftist birds. While I want to go with the antifa bird, Brazilian Tanager, I’ll say crows for sake of variety since they can formulate plans, communicate over long distances and amongst different murders, and hold grudges and vengeances. Plus they’re smart af!
https://www.discourseblog.com/p/what-are-the-most-socialist-birds
It must be the Irish Republican Phoenix. Introduced by the Phoenix National and Literary Society in 1856, "the word Phoenix signifying that the Irish cause was again to rise from the ashes of our martyred nationality". The group's aim was to bring intellectuals into the Irish republican movement and encourage a revival of Gaelic customs and culture, ultimately leading to the overthrow of the English occupation. They were suppressed for sedition in 1859 and rounded up, but they directly influenced the Uprising in 1916 and the phoenix was later resurrected and taken up again by the IRA during the Troubles. Éire Abú!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army_Badge.svg
Let's all give it up to the Harris Hawk for this one.
Reasons that this is the one:
1. Harris Hawks work together to hunt, which is rare in birds. They cooperate to provide for everyone. They mostly weigh around two pounds, and because they work in groups, they take down rabbits that are twice as large as them.
2. Because of their sexual dimorphism, the women are larger. This also lines up with anti-fascism, where dudes should probably let the women take charge.
3. They don't just hunt from the air. If you've ever seen a hawk or falcon miss and land, they rarely get another shot at something. Harris's hawk runs after things as well as hunting from the air, so they are a multimodal fighting machine.
4. They protect the courts at Wimbledon, which means that they have observed the classes and probably have formed opinions about class warfare.
On the other hand:
It's a bird named after a dude. This is rarely a good thing.
great pick, and well supported by evidence!
Domestic Pigeon. There's tons of them so there's numbers. They're smart. Have a history of being used in subterfuge & full scale wars. They're great messengers. They're victims of class warfare having gone from domestic pets of the wealthy to being outcasts that many people think of as pests
If you want a bird to be in the trenches with you, I'd go with a cassowary. They are sneaky and good at escaping without detection, they can eat poisonous fruit without issues, and they have no tongue so they're not going to rat you out. During courtship, females step on the male's back before deciding whether to mate or not, and if they're not into it, they'll attack the guy, which seems pretty good for gender relations as far as the bird world goes? And if someone tries to mess with a cassowary, it is capable of literally kicking them to death.
Peacock, because the rainbow plumage will also irritate fundamentalist Christians
this may be a boring pick but my first thought was crows. they just sem like comrades, i dunno.
I’m leaning toward grackles. Fierce and appropriately intimidating-looking (up for the job, visually, of scaring fascists), totally feisty, yet still collectively oriented and almost always working in groups. They’re kind-off assholes in my yard, but I think they might be up to this job.
Canadian Goose: https://www.facebook.com/reel/580217291137218
Acorn woodpecker. Socialist collective.