• The Snark Urge
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    1015 months ago

    I can’t even tell what they’re thinking. It sounds like they’re trying to pay their bills with chaos magic

    • @Hawke@lemmy.world
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      465 months ago

      I think it’s something about how if you write your name in all caps that counts as a different legal entity because magic words. So business as usual for these folks.

      • @breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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        tldr - Birth certificates are actually “ownership documents” over a “corporation” or “entity” or “person” (which is also somehow different than the individual?), which is signed over to the government by the parents. These have names in ALL CAPS as does other documents.

        Sovcits believe the ALL CAPS name is the “entity” and Normal Case name is the “individual’s name”

        edit - this is the explanation im poorly recalling https://lemmy.world/post/11345648

        • The Snark Urge
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          235 months ago

          So I was right

          Have they tried cumming on their letters first? I hear that charges the sigils really good

          • @CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            115 months ago

            I haven’t heard of cum, but some of them do put a bloody thumbprint with their signature. And everybody knows that blood magic is powerful.

          • @xor
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            35 months ago

            instructions unclear, now a catholic priest… please advise

        • @grue@lemmy.world
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          165 months ago

          It would blow these people’s minds if somebody pointed out to them that the ALL CAPS thing was due to nothing more than a technological limitation of really old computers.

          • TheEntity
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            135 months ago

            This is some seriously weird shit. I can understand not willing to be a part of a country forced upon you. Not how it would work, but I get the idea in an abstract way. But the moment this boat bullshit gets brought up… oh boy.

          • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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            95 months ago

            Yeah, they claim all courts operate improperly under maritime law, because the judges are actually agents of a foreign power, and that a gold fringed American flag signifies that. But it’s secret. So they put the flag up so everything is “proper” but they don’t actually have jurisdiction.

            It’s a clusterfuck of terrible theories based on outdated laws and treaties.

    • @Omnificer@lemmy.world
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      335 months ago

      It’s kind of similar to numerology and cargo cults. They understand there is a cause and effect, but think that ritualistic actions are the cause to achieve their effect, instead of understanding that actual law is only superficially similar to ritual.

    • HonkyTonkWoman
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      95 months ago

      Didn’t you read her letter? This living woman is clearly aware of… well… things.

      • The Snark Urge
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        22 months ago

        It’s more fun to be wrong. Many mistakes are available, hail Eris.

    • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      05 months ago

      Sovereign citizens often get started by the siren song of magic money loopholes, which unfortunately people charge them money for as part of a pretty gnarly scam.

      The basic logic of the scam is that when we moved off the gold standard, money stopped being money because it wasn’t backed up by anything “real”.
      Since money isn’t actually real money, you can instead give a “coupon” or other named bit of paper that says it’s redeemable for the substance that backs the money, because that’s what money is.
      So instead of paying with hard to get paper that’s not backed by gold, you pay with easy to get paper that’s not backed by gold.

      The catch, of course, is that’s not what money is, how it works, someone is charging real money for this, and it’s a federal felony.

      So this person is, at best, in financial distress leaving them vulnerable to a cruel scam, and ignorant and gullible enough to believe some very odd things about the law involving YOUR NAME IN CAPITAL LETTERS being legally distinct from Your Name In Title Case.

        • @ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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          05 months ago

          It’s not counterfeiting because they’re not passing it off as US currency. It’s using a fictitious financial instrument, which is more when you’re pretending it has value, as opposed to pretending it’s something that has value.

          I think the distinction really only matters legally or if someone has specifically said they’re being technical. :)

  • @Hawke@lemmy.world
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    365 months ago

    To be fair, money is a magic coupon too. So they just didn’t pay with the right magic coupon.

    • @RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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      I agree and get the joke. A long time ago we all agreed it’s a bit silly to carry all these valuables around, so we write them on pieces of paper and trade those. The value of an asset the paper represents is magic, but the paper itself has a “direct” value.

      Somewhere we decided 50 cows are worth a car, and 10 cars are worth a house. The paper is just to help communicate and trade. Don’t hate the paper, hate the game.

      • Froyn
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        65 months ago

        Krapopolis did an episode that covered it quite well.

  • @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    25 months ago

    The name of this place is insanepeoplefacebook yet 99% of the posts are about the same group of idiots who seem to think being sovereign comes with legal protection to not Pay for services they do/did receive. And that the system will just let them.

    Frankly its giving actual moral objection againt the state and acts of civil disobedience a bad name.

    To truly become a sovereign citizen is to expacf to become a martyr, to drink the hemlock out of moral conviction. which is a discussion i would love to have on anarchist lemmy but appeared to be impossible here.

    I’ll see myself out.

  • @csm10495@sh.itjust.works
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    15 months ago

    The more I see these, the more I want to read the responses people in the group give. Like what do they say ‘to help’?