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When Raider resigns Dredd tells him "Remember you're a citizen now, Raider. Obey the law." Or words to that effect; I'm not looking it up. Raider thinks (in narration) "I couldn't give a spug what Joe said."

Raider is one of the stories Karl Urban read when researching the role.

That's almost certainly what I was (mis)remembering, ta.

Nah it was another one I'm thinking of.  Dredd tells him to behave cos he's just a citizen now or something.

Pretty sure it was established early on that they're allowed to retire and be a normal cit- I've a vague memory of a black and white era story where a judge retires to get married.

Sorry for doing the Belgian Milkmaid fallacy or whatevs on you dude.  How about you replicate your Magic Consent Haxxoring powers by going down to your local nick and doing a line off the front desk?

In the pantheon of lolbertarians thinking they've found the cheat codes to reality "I didn't get charged cos I didn't sign a form" is even better than "sir, that flag makes this an admiralty court!"

Solidarity my dude. Fwiw a religious comrade is infinitely preferable to me than an atheist capitalist.

It's like, I dunno, trying to explain to an anime nerd that you don't want to think about Dragon Ball Z at all, and they write a 3000 word footnoted thesis about how you'd be able to cosplay as Super Saiyan Goku OR Son Gohan in their ideal society and how could you not want that?

You're right dude, people's credits would totally be able to compete with Virgin Crowns and not be undercut, loss-led, and undermined instantly, through positive thinking or The Secret or something

Holy shit. Yes, I too think social money creation would work without expropriation of private wealth and the absence of a state. Private capital wouldn't then *be* effectively a state (without even the pretense of representation) or anything. State oppression is thethe only oppression that exists.

Also, wage labour and capital accumulation is Good, and my child's education quality being utterly dependent on the munificence of private donors is also Good.

Also, everybody wants to have to pull out a slide-rule and spreadsheet to get their bins collected. Everybody else is as monomaniacally obsessed with contracts and (capital-L) Law as I am. This isn't a living nightmare where everyone's a cash obsessed, petit-bourgeois monad.

No way do syndicalists want to preserve capital and private property

Apart from being the dweeb scion of a rump of Tory enabling fuckwits who'll go back into coalition with them in a heartbeat, Farron voted to allow registrars not to carry out same-sex marriages on the basis of their religious beliefs, and generally has a history of absenteeism on key votes on LGBTQ and reproductive rights (see here).

The response of our own bombfucking pencil-dicked centrist shitlibs has been a joy (cf Tom Watson, disgusting walking tuber Ian Dunt, almost certainly the entire New Statesman crew). A day ago Trump was a Russian agent, bomb some brown people and all is forgiven.

I've seen people arguing against them not being means-tested, but not the general concept.

It amounts to the same thing. Means testing is gross and stigmatising, these spreadsheet obsessed dorks do it compulsively cos they want a permanent supplicant class.

Look, I don't think he's been effective with the media, but in this case he gave a nuanced answer to a contemptible question.  At best the reporting on his response was massively simplified.