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I know these sovereign citizen people exist, but sometimes when I read these things, I can't help but think somebody is just fan fic spoofing the whole thing. Like there can't really be anybody this delusional, right?
Maybe don't answer that.
Back when I was a young man, I loved stupid conspiracies. I thought it was like the old nosleep on Reddit. Everyone who was saying these things were in on the joke and everyone who took it seriously and complained about it was just stupid.
I learned better. I was joking but a lot of people weren't. I realized one of my exes was a serious conspiracy theorist and not just playing along with me. It was a sad day.
A sad moment in my life was when I watched my beloved shit posting flat world Facebook group went from a place where we had debates using incredibly flimsy science about flat earth to real people not realizing it was a joke and taking it as fact.
The smirks and winks lead to shouting matches. Silly banter ended up being personal attacks and threats. The monthly "long rant" became daily.
The crazy conspiracy theorists folks won.
AndbThe "birds aren't real" folks are going to get it next.
And the scary thing is many of these flat earthers moved on to the Q world. It was like a gateway entrance to Qanon. Once you're going down the slippery slope territory...
When this nonsense points to the Jews every single time, you can't get all surprised when the cookers turn Nazi.
This is the conclusion I came to years ago being an edgelord. I used to make all sorts of off color, shit jokes to lampoon racists, sexists, etc. When I realized some people laughing were doing so for all the wrong reasons because it's actually been normalizing it... shit. Whoops
“I want to not pay back loans. I’m petitioning magistrate and god to have it erased. And if the govt can throw in a car, fully paid for, power windows, power everything, cherry red. That’s also what I want. Oh, and my free gas card. Abra-cadabra? Is that the code word?”
And why is it always “magistrate”? Never judge or such.
Secret words, friend. It’s the name of the game.
Hoping for a fancy wig; makes it more official.
These same people are rallying against any and all student loan forgiveness
“Sure! How about the, uh, 6000 SUX?”
Dude I know one with a law degree. Law firm I've consulted at for decades accidentally hired him. Favor to a friend of one of the partners. He lasted maybe three months before he committed major malpractice and quit before they could fire him?
It's a hell of an act if so. These groups have thousands of people.
That's honestly how I look at most of reality for a while now.