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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.
“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.
I don't know, maybe I'm a weirdo, but I don't actually want stuff for nothing. If I'm getting something from you, I want you to get something in return that makes it worth your while. I don't want you to rip me off, but I want you to be able to live off of what you provide me and others. Of course, I also want to be able to earn enough doing what I do to be able to afford to pay you for what you do.
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.
Yeah. To me it's more sad than funny though, I feel like they probably just want to feel like they have a little control over their lives and like they don't exist in the oppressive circumstances we objectively do, and there just isn't much hope that isn't fake.
I agree. Not everyone is smart. It’s usually not people’s fault if they aren’t smart. There’s a lot to keep track of in the modern world that didn’t exist in the past. Shit, it’s hard for me.
Solar panels mostly, it's viable but expensive, hope your job pays well!
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”
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 their disposing 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 think they're more a symptom of some people wanting to feel special. Everywhere has selfish people indignant that they have to pay for goods and/or services they use.
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
while keeping the light son
seems a little racist
Wuh?
How is weight race??
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.
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.
Solar Panels
This guy captures sunlight for later
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?
I would suggest a bonfire and a torch.