• Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    Out of all the segmented degenerate hiveminds in the US, I think sovereign citizens often baffle me the most.

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      10 months ago

      I will admit, sometimes I start to think, maybe they are on to something…

      My best friend from childhood sometimes slips into SC territory. We don’t talk often but when we do, it can be a doozy. HE was never like this before COVID.

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      10 months ago

      The most profoundly puzzling thing to me is their insistence that magic words will somehow make authorities back off.

      Like, they believe that there is this grand conspiracy involving the Federal Reserve and maritime law and birth names and whatever else. And yet they also believe that the forces behind this conspiracy must acquiesce if you just invoke the right language.

      Do they never consider that an entity powerful enough to do all that could also just ignore their demands? Like, even if the conspiracy is true, why would its perpetrators just give up because some random person told them to?

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        10 months ago

        My guess would be that by using the right words they pretend to be part of that power, because how else would one tell apart the laymen and true sovereign citizens.

        Don’t know if that even has anything in common with what they say their reasons are, that’s too crazy to read 😅

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        10 months ago

        It’s the same impulse that made medieval people believe they could defend themselves from fairies and demons by saying the right things the right way. Some part of the insanity demands that a person who sees through the illusion can somehow win against the evil conspirators