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    Of course, as they’re not “dealerships” but rather “dealer ships”, they’re governed by admiralty law, and obliged to accept berth certificates for credit.

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      This isn’t a fucking joke. She invoked tier 7 ecclesiastical jurisdiction. You can’t just do that.

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      These people must be so scared all the damn time. Imagine being so overwhelmed by reality that you create such nonsense. As if tax has ever been anything but ’ I have an army outside, you give me your stuff now. I’ll be back next summer’. I’d love to see a movie about a group of sovcits in a post apocalypse. Do they act like laws are still real? Do they create new laws? What is their basis of reality?

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        The ones I’ve joined the groups of are about a tenth desperate people trying to find a way out of financial problems or trying to get their kids back from CAS, and the rest are pretty obnoxious and either think they’ve found some magic loophole or secret pathway, or just seem oblivious to the problems they cause and fanatical. I honestly find them almost all to be really unlikeable, completely convinced they are right, not even really helping each other with their crazy ideas; a few are clearly mentally ill and in the grip of delusional beliefs as well. But really and truly I find most of them to be obnoxious and unlikeable. Also several people are just trying to get out of paying child support and really are almost all terrible parents it seems.

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    Thank you @BonesOfTheMoon.

    Every time I have a genuine curiosity of what it would be like to take the most severe concussion in the history of the universe, and suddenly not understand how the core fundamentals of reality functioned… you post one of these, and it’s a satisfying insight into how that would be. 🤣

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      As someone who actually works in neurology, I can take you all the way to the bottom of brain function in a minute. But sovcits always win out over even the most severely affected of my patients.

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    The sheer incoherence, misspelling, and first-grade grammar tells you right away this is a sovcit.

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      Short for “sovereign citizen”, a group of people who believe they do not have to adhere to any laws because they reject the notion they are citizens of a nation and justify it with conspiracy nonsense.

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          The latter. Everyone believes that they have solved the system, but no one can produce proof. Only increasing degrees of delusion. There are some common items like the UCC and “5-star passports” but after that is fractures into all these supposed loopholes

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          There are loosely associated groups within them. Some of them are Moorish sovcits, which are loosely associated with the Moorish Science Temple, although they don’t like that, and they’re all black people who claim to be indigenous to the US. Some of them call themselves secured party creditors, and another big group go by American State Nationals. They’re not like an organization, just a bunch of whackadoos who believe the same kind of crazy. I highly recommend looking them up on YouTube because there’s a million videos of them getting pulled over, arguing with the cops that they don’t have to have a license or insurance because they’re travelling not driving and then getting yanked out of their cars and tased. They believe they can pay their bills and they have fake license plates that say Private, and sometimes fake passports.

          Here is a good article about them:

          https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/sovereign-citizen-movement-united-states

          One of their fake plates; there are a few other kinds but this is the most common.

          Another kind, the American State Nationals kind:

          American State Nationals ID, the red fingerprint is a thing they do for some unknown reason on documents and ID:

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      A special breed of idiot who firmly believes that you can reverse debt by saying “no, you owe me that”. They usually do that with a brain-gymnastics interpretation of laws and by adding weird markings to legal documents like invoices. Somehow, taping a coin to an invoice and returning it to the sender somehow pays any debt no matter how high. They are instructed by so-called gurus, which ironically refuse any alternative form of payment (e.g. said “coin on the invoice”) except real dollars.

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      Someone who has convinced themselves that they can use legal sounding words as magical spells and that they don’t have to follow the rules of society