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Does this ever work? I just wonder what fuels this collective insanity. If it's never worked before, is the goal to keep trying until it does and then constitutes legal precedent?
It has never worked, but there are people online pretending it has, which makes some people who aren't very smart think maybe it'll work for them, too.
I see a huge untapped business opportunity in selling “how to” courses and templates to sovcits
For fifty bucks I'll tell you exactly how to make money scamming people.
"does that actually work"
"No it never does... But it might work for us"
-Arrested development
Millions of people are saddled with bills they can't pay and an uncaring and complicated bureaucracy they struggle to navigate because of poor education, then they find a community of people claiming to have the solution to all of their problems. It doesn't have to work, they just have to believe it does and they will rationalize away any sign that it doesn't. The sovcit community gives them a feeling of autonomy and control they will not easily part with.
They're very seldom a poverty problem. I never post the ones who are just trying to desperately find a solution. The ones I post are all hardcore anti government lunatics who want to get everything for free.
As I said above, poor education has nothing to do with it.
Elaine Brown was a dentist.
Jerry Kane gave business seminars.
Gavin Eugene Long was a data network specialist in the U.S. military.
Malcolm Roberts has an engineering degree.
Those are just the most visible people due to their wealth and influence. For every rich sovcit there are probably a thousand in abject poverty. They live in rural areas, usually in mobile homes, and fly Gadsden flags. I've known several. Try working for an ISP as an installer or repairman and some might even take a few shots at you.
Aside from the Bundys, which are not there, those are all the biggest SovCit criminals cases, so it's weird that you are just dismissing them like that.
And I wouldn't say a dentist or a military IT guy had wealth or influence.
The majority of sovcits aren't getting into shootouts with police, those are extreme examples. Most of them are just people trying to get out of paying debt.
Someone recently said something to me about needing to show hard data. Trying to remember who that was...
If only I could remember who that was...
Sovcits are almost certainly under studied, but if I took enough time I'm sure I could find some research showing that less educated people are more likely to fall for scams.
Be right back...
Edit: Here you go
They're stupid and their in-group are also mostly idiots.
Facebook and other platforms are partly culpable because they could stamp this out to prevent it was spreading, but they don't care.
No response means the magic gibberish has worked, and rejection means that they move on to the next step of paper terrorism. When they wind up in court they further dig in. It's peak "us vs them" mindset.