Completely irrelevant news

[sabotabby]

I've been told that today is Buy Nothing Day. I'm not normally a consumer whore or anything, but I think I will celebrate it by being one. You know, just to be contrary. Also, I've already bought a coffee -- at the Second Cup, no less! It annoys me that a lot of people think that Adbusters' notions of switching one sort of consumer capitalism to a "better" consumer capitalism is actual activism.

The magazine has very pretty pictures, though.

In other news, career criminal and whiny baby Lord Black is asking for his Canadian citizenship back. I guess maybe he shouldn't have said those nasty things about us when he renounced it in the first place. Excuse me for a sec...

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh man, I hope they give his citizenship to the poorest Haïtian refugee they can possibly find -- preferably a poor Haïtian communist refugee. Who has converted to Islam. And is gay. And drives a cab. That'd be the best thing ever.

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[morgoid.livejournal.com]

I agree. I think that's why anarchism wouldn't work, ultimately. If businesses could get away selling biohazardous carcinogens as shampoo, they'd do it if the payoff was good enough.

But then, I'm also of the opinion that corporations would flay babies alive as tributes to Satan if it would guarantee profits.

Actually, not just facesless corprorations. I'm pretty sure there are just plain assholes out there who would too (as long as they didn't have to do it themselves that is).

Boy, I'm sure down on peoples!

[sabotabby]

Well, that'd be anarcho-capitalism. Actual anarchism might not work for other reasons, but it'd have to entail dismantling large corporations and eliminating any sort of profit motive.