that is all you are doing.
I'll not engage with a process involving and enriching a US military-industrial corporation. Sad times when that's deemed weird on Urban.
At heart, that appears to offer quite a defeatist council of despair; why bother to resist one aspect of the neoliberal consolidator state's corporate outsourcing when there are so many other examples?
How did you make the decision that the only thing you are going to do is the one that requires you to sit on your arse and do nothing?
useful for making points on urban too
From the OP in this thread I’ve been clear about how/why I have decided not to complete or return a census form. And, yes that decision does obviously involve not doing what the state demands; that kind of follows. I’ve also said, more than once, that I don’t think rejecting the compulsion to engage with a US military corporation is pointless. That is an individual moral decision just as your decision to comply is.
Pare 1 - your moral position is worth what you put into it. Which in your case is nothing.
Were you aware that the PCS had called for a Scottish style year postponement of the E&W census on Covid safety grounds?belboid : A whole lot of your posts have made plenty of good sense about the census, for example #155.
But that last one (concernng Dennis Nielsen) seems to make no sense whatsover ....
brogdale : Please don't leave the thread, I've disagreed with more of what you've posted than agreed, but everything you posted has made me think , and this thread has included some great discussion about aspects of the census that I wasn't aware of.
It doesn't say that explicitly in the letter...unless I've missed it.
In one interview Nielsen was confronted with the fact that he has a mass murderer. His reply was that 'aye, I killed a few people, but look at Thatcher, she's killed tens of thousands, she's the real mass murderer.'belboid : A whole lot of your posts have made plenty of good sense about the census, for example #155.
But that last one (concernng Dennis Nielsen) seems to make no sense whatsover ....
Give over, pal.
after youGive over, pal.
As you wish, but I can't believe this is really how you want to be posting on here.after you
and I still cannot believe you want to keep posting drivel, ignoring the vast majority of points raised in criticism and sneering at low paid temp workers.As you wish, but I can't believe this is really how you want to be posting on here.
I'm just not getting what you think you're going to achieve with such a personalised attack style of posting. I've started a thread about the census and been upfront from the OP that I've decided not to engage with the process. I appreciate that you disagree with that position; fair enough...but do you really think that the name-calling stuff might change minds?
(it's not that badly paid)
There's a longstanding tradition on this board of taking the piss out of people talking bollocks and being highly selective in what parts of arguments they respond to. I am simply continuing in that tradition.I'm just not getting what you think you're going to achieve with such a personalised attack style of posting. I've started a thread about the census and been upfront from the OP that I've decided not to engage with the process. I appreciate that you disagree with that position; fair enough...but do you really think that the name-calling stuff might change minds?
Honestly, I think your posting on this thread has come across as quite strange. For taking a view that you object to I've been called, amongst other things, a pointless, moralistic petty bourgeois individual/dilettante, a fucking dick, a laughable mess of contradictions, deluded, a 'normally intelligent' conspiraloon who is less of a cunt than a massive cunt (like Dennis Nielsen).
And been accused of talking bollocks, crap, writing tosh, complete and utter drivel (repeatedly) playing into the hands of & supporting the Tories, making false libertarian arguments like Spiked online. Being a personally indulgent lazy cop-out offering a mess of contradictions and false reasoning that I don’t understand equating to a pointless, failed nothing position and sounding like a conspiraloon. Engaged in a personal indulgence about which I’m foolish, repeatedly wrong; wrong on virtually everything, offering no evidence with a desire to get everything completely and utterly wrong whilst scrabbling around pulling any old shit off the internet like a conspiraloon. Offering nothing worthwhile but falsehood after falsehood in a wilfully ignorant and dishonest manner that helps those that I claim to oppose whilst sitting on my arse, doing nothing but bullshit rationalisation that helps to reduce resources in working class areas whilst claiming the moral high ground.
Impressive in it's own way, but not really the way to persuade others of the integrity of your position?
Or maybe I'm just taking an old-fashioned view of how discussions take place. Who knows?
I genuinely thought that posters might like the opportunity to talk about the census.
I've disputed many of those along the way (eg, you got the name of the arms company, what they do wrong, who they employ wrong and how much they are paid wrong), and have said some of your replies have been contradictory whilst in other cases you have replied to criticisms of your argument by saying 'yes it is', if that much. There have also been various comments which are true but of no relevance to whether one should complete the form or not.
