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[–] AFKBRBChocolate 165 points 10 months ago (13 children)

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.

[–] ChicoSuave 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] NegativeInf 21 points 10 months ago

I swear SovCits are an embedded cargo cult.

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[–] Anticorp 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

SovCits have been who boomers were really talking about when they said "millennials"?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

“Sovereign citizen” is a really complicated way to say freeloader..

[–] VelvetStorm 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] moistclump 12 points 10 months ago

Maybe what they’ve wanted this whole time is jail. Even free food and housing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Pronell 72 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Simple answer, but they won't like it.

Autopay.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 15 points 10 months ago

Live in a tent down by the river and stock up on batteries.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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”

[–] ComradePorkRoll 43 points 10 months ago (4 children)

This is that libertarian mindset to a t.

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[–] pixxelkick 62 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Solar panels mostly, it's viable but expensive, hope your job pays well!

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago (63 children)

SovCits are a symptom of the breakdown of the social contract, not one of the causes.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Hamartia 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's rooted in white supremacy and anti-Semitism. They are the ones breaking the social contract.

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[–] JustZ 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] afraid_of_zombies 9 points 10 months ago

Or maybe they never got past the stage of development where they understand that other people exist.

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[–] A_Very_Big_Fan 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] glitch1985 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They don't recognize the backspace keys authority.

[–] ElectricCattleman 40 points 10 months ago

I DO NOT HAVE AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY WITH THE BACKSPACE KEY

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (8 children)

while keeping the light son

seems a little racist

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Entertaining, yes.. until you live next to one and they decide that, for example, your backyard is their dumpster.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But then they could demand to open an embassy inside my house.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Tell them they can but they will need an international passport, recommend an eBay store that you own. Sell them one.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

They would be introduced to my sovereign right to beat their ass.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just use an alternative power source than the power grid. Water, solar, wind, etc.

[–] Agent641 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Homemade nuclear reactor it is, then!

Unrelated but why does the air suddenly taste like metal?

[–] Thrawne 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

If you can hear the rad you might have a bigger problem than you realize.

[–] Gigan 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] trumpetmouth 20 points 9 months ago

Simple: get rid of the heavy son.

[–] son_named_bort 20 points 10 months ago

Light some candles

[–] afraid_of_zombies 20 points 10 months ago

Utility companies hate this one trick, which is why they cut you off.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

I too want to know this one trick.

[–] JimVanDeventer 15 points 9 months ago

Build an enormous induction coil under the power lines?

[–] shalafi 10 points 10 months ago

No contract, no power. Super simple stuff.

How could they twist that?

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