Not much of an update at all.

[sabotabby]

For those of you who haven't seen it, there's a new Gaybortion!: Robots!

For those of you who still want more giggles, read anarchists.

Also, I took more pictures of the neighbourhood cats but I'm not posting them yet. And I spilled coffee all over myself. That's it for news.

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EDIT: Okay, onto the serious stuff. I've seen some good posts about HR 4437 and the protests in LA lately. dobrovolets has a fantastic post here. Go read it, please.

I should add that, while the ruling class tends to create all sorts of useless and stupid laws, the most reprehensible of these have to do with borders and immigration. Drawing an imaginary line across some land that you've claimed as your own and then dictating that certain people don't have the right to cross it? It's simply anti-human.

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[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

The comic in anarchists? If you're referring to a specific post, tell us which one.

I never thought much about the drawing a line and saying certain people can't cross it. But while I'm not in favor of getting rid of government completely, my ideas of what it should be are infinitely different than what they are now.

[sabotabby]

Oh, there was just funny drama in anarchists. It's mostly gone now. :(

I think some functions of government are necessary. Whether eliminating the unnecessary ones would radically alter our systems of social organization to the point where a "government" can still be called a "government" is an entirely different story.

[earthlingmike.livejournal.com]

It's pretty rare that I catch the drama while it's still happening I guess. I noticed someone with diarhea of the keyboard who obviously didn't have a clue about anarchist concepts but apparently he thought he did.

I was talking about my ideal vision of our society recently with jaymoh. I'd like to replace most of government and corporate functions with 'collective' or 'cooperative' organizations. But when I think about it certain aspects of my ideas are always going to be essentially a government, even if only covering at most the geographic area of a city.