The Antisocial Socialist

Ask me things. Tell me things. Let's have some good old-fashioned LJ discussions.

Some of my more remote friends have expressed an interest in being updated as soon as there's news, so here is a post for doing that. Local friends, if you have information to share, this is where to do so.

Plz note that it is public and unlocked so be discreet.

See you on the flip side. I love all of you crazy fuckers.

Lots of comments to my last entry to the effect of, "Okay, so what do we do?"

There's some obvious ones, like donating to the Red Cross, and some fun ones, like sending Harper to Mars. (Which might not help the people of Attawapiskat, but it certainly can't hurt.)

I feel that we are creative people, though. If Kalle Lasn can make an offhand suggestion in Adbusters and have it blossom into OWS, you'd think the great minds of the intertubes can help out here.

(Actually, one of my critiques of OWS is that it mostly dropped the ball on indigenous rights issues. The situation in Attawapiskat was well known before the Canadian Occupy camps were raided; here is this big group of people that could have been occupying government offices demanding that they do something. Instead they had drum circles. Anyway.)

Whenever there's a disaster in another part of the world, I see the internet doing stuff. Fandom raises money for earthquake and tsunami relief. Anonymous hacks the bad guys. The word gets spread around FB and LJ and Twitter with those little repost buttons.

This isn't any different. This is a humanitarian catastrophe and our government is making it worse. Let's put our heads together and come up with a way to do something.

Open thread: List your ideas, no matter how ridiculous. Maybe one will catch on.

It was culpster's birthday (happy birthday, culpster!) and a bunch of us came up with a concept for a card or board game based on communal living.

Some of the cards/plays:

Hippie Couchsurfer Card
Food Not Bombs Sets Up In Your Kitchen
Vegan Potluck
House Meeting: Miss a turn
Sex in Public Places
Stoner Roommates
Random Bunny
Roommate's Cat Eats Other Roommate's Beta Fish
Borrowing Clothes
Clean the Bathroom Card
House Drama: Move back five spaces
Who's Underwear Is In My Bathrobe Pocket?
No More Ramen!
Consensus Decision-Making: Nobody moves until everyone rolls the same number

Feel free to contribute your own or suggest a structure.

frandroid has a neat game going here that ought to be spread around a bit more. Here are the rules:

If you were to travel in time and allowed to kill one person to change the course of history, who would that be?

The usual answer to this is the head of state who most personifies evil in the modern era. But what if we tried to pick the "smallest" person (in the sense of their highest lifetime office/social position) possible, in relation to their maximum geopolitical impact on today's world?

For additional fun, don't post your reasoning and let people guess at why you picked that person.

(He picked this dude with some clever reasoning; I like it.)

I confess I am absolutely terrible at this game. Not because I'm inherently peaceful or kind, but for the same reason that I'm a lousy chess player: I'm incapable of thinking two moves in advance. You have to be strategic—there's no point in killing Hitler, or Hitler's mom, because someone would inevitably rise to fill the same place (there will be no arguing the Great Man Theory of history on this LJ or anywhere else).

Today's pick shall be Henry Morton Stanley for me. There are two reasons—one humanitarian and obvious, the other personal.

I also confess that I'm posting this for reasons rather unrelated to the original meme. Though only one of you will correctly guess why.

So have at it, friends list. I give you a hypothetical TARDIS, you tell me whom you'd land it on.

What is your karaoke song?

What would your karaoke song be if karaoke bars had any and all possible songs available?

zingerella and I have determined by skientifical research (a.k.a. polling a bunch of our friends at Stitch n' Bitch) that two iconic movies of the 80s and 90s, Terminator 2 and Aliens, have helped a lot of lesbians figure out their sexuality and have nudged otherwise straight women just a little farther along the Kinsey Scale. All of the women involved in this conversation of a certain generation who had seen said movies agreed.


Oh, admit it.

But what we also realized was that we have no idea whether the equivalent sorts of movies exist for men because, well, male sexuality is very confusing. We sort of figure that there are certain Kinsey-shifting actors and movies out there, but we're not entirely sure what they are.


We think that this guy would probably do it, though.

So we require your input, O Livejournal friends and acquaintances. Which movies and actors made you gay(er)?

Your favourite apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic fiction—tell me it.

Post something funny to justify the use of LOLMarx.

What's the most depressing ending in a work of fiction that you can think of?

Oh yes, and why?