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SovCits are all like this: they want the benefits of living in our society but they don't want to pay any of the costs. They want to drive on the roads, but not pay taxes or vehicle registration. They want utilities like electricity and water, but not pay the bills. They think they're entitled to stuff without cost. They don't even want to pay their child support.
SovCits think words have an inherent magical power and knowing the right words gives them more power than if some other rando person. Their entitlement is from them thinking they have outsmarted the system. They are what dumb people think smart people act like.
I swear SovCits are an embedded cargo cult.
SovCits have been who boomers were really talking about when they said "millennials"?
“Sovereign citizen” is a really complicated way to say freeloader..
I mean, to be fair, I don't want to pay any of that either. If I could get away with not paying anything while getting all the benefits of paying, then I would, but im not an absolute moron so I pay my taxes and bills.
Maybe what they’ve wanted this whole time is jail. Even free food and housing.
they want the benefits of living in our society but they don’t want to pay any of the costs
Same tbh, at least in the sense of wanting to be allowed to exist by default.
The difference is that we understand that real change needs to be ushered in for that to happen, while they just bury their heads in the sand and pretend it already did.
Simple answer, but they won't like it.
Autopay.
Live in a tent down by the river and stock up on batteries.
These sovereign citizens are really thinking they found some sort of glitch in the system. “I dOnt rEcoGnize tHe goVERmEnT anD sOcieTY, I dIdnT siGn No soCiaL cOnTrAct buT I dO like yaLls LEctriCiTY”
Solar panels mostly, it's viable but expensive, hope your job pays well!
SovCits are a symptom of the breakdown of the social contract, not one of the causes.
It's more a symptom of village idiots finding each other on the web and convincing themselves that they are not idiots. Its a feature of an interconnected world.
They have the morality of an atomized corporation. Always trying to externalise costs to the rest of the planet. All that matters is their own short term needs.
It's like a cargo cult of late stage capitalism.
It's rooted in white supremacy and anti-Semitism. They are the ones breaking the social contract.
Definitely not a cause. For a while they were a pain in the ass. Courts and lawyers didn't know how to deal with them and they would keep coming back and back with appeals and collateral actions. Now there's a whole playbook for disposing of their bullshit, doesn't jam things up anymore.
It was originally a mail order scam targeting poor, uneducated people who were charged with crimes, desperate to believe any promise of help.
Or maybe they never got past the stage of development where they understand that other people exist.
I'm noticing a common theme with the "sovereign citizens" where they can't for the life of them look at what they're typing or use the backspace key
They don't recognize the backspace keys authority.
I DO NOT HAVE AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY WITH THE BACKSPACE KEY
It's easy. Strip the wires before and after your electric meter, and attach jumper cables to either side.
It's safe to do this with no protective equipment, just be sure to shout "I do not understand your intent" at the electricity first. That way it will be unable to fry you.
Sovereign citizens are hilariously entertaining. I love it when they post videos of themselves in court and decide on their own that they "won" because the judge got pissed off and walked away after dismissing everyone.
Entertaining, yes.. until you live next to one and they decide that, for example, your backyard is their dumpster.
You just have to meet them on their crazy level. Make a treaty with them that says something along the lines of "I corporation yourname hereby certify that my neighbor corporation theirname is a freeman of the land in-exchange that our territory boundaries are respected"
But then they could demand to open an embassy inside my house.
Tell them they can but they will need an international passport, recommend an eBay store that you own. Sell them one.
They would be introduced to my sovereign right to beat their ass.
Just use an alternative power source than the power grid. Water, solar, wind, etc.
Homemade nuclear reactor it is, then!
Unrelated but why does the air suddenly taste like metal?
Sounds rad
If you can hear the rad you might have a bigger problem than you realize.
Simple: get rid of the heavy son.
Utility companies hate this one trick, which is why they cut you off.
Light some candles
I too want to know this one trick.
Build an enormous induction coil under the power lines?
No contract, no power. Super simple stuff.
How could they twist that?