• Drusas@kbin.run
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      These people are severely undereducated. There’s a shockingly high number of Americans who are functionally illiterate.

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      When you pause in a thought, they have time to consider how insane it sounds. So all sovcits have to remain in the fugue state of crank rambling to make sure their worldview doesn’t have any air gaps to give anyone listening a second to question what’s being said.

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      I’m typing not writing. You only need punctuation if you’re writing, officer. I saw it on YouTube.

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    OP, have you ever seen a post saying “none of this works, you lied to me”?

    It amazes me this lot never seem to come to the realisation none of this works.

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      IMO if/when people snap out of it they just fade away and don’t post about it. We all have our pride. These people were convinced they were so much smarter than everyone else, that’s a tough pill to swallow. The same thing happens with cults and political beliefs. That’s why I try to keep things light hearted and civil when debating politics. Leave wiggle room for people to come around. It’s not about humiliating them, it’s about seeing the light

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      I was actually sitting here wondering the same thing. There’s plenty of evidence that none of this works yet they keep truckin’ along.

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        I think many eventually do realize they’ve been burned and just stop showing up in these forums/groups. But you don’t hear from them, just the diehards who are too deep into it and too dim to ever pick up on the fact that the SovCit movement is baseless nonsense no matter how often they’re confronted with evidence of these little magical loopholes failing to work.

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    “I’m traveling, not driving!”

    It baffles me that they always believe that this is a valid argument. What a bunch of morons.

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      they just think they have some kind of Konami code for real life. except it’s always about stupid shit like driving. they never extend the “logic” to other crimes.

      ok, so if you just commit murder can you get out of it by saying “I’m not murdering, I’m engaging in extreme hypnosis”?

      same thing for when they say “I’m not a citizen of the US/didn’t consent to the laws so they don’t apply to me” well ok so foreigners can just come in and do whatever they want?

      it’s incredible how much time they put into “researching” this inane set of beliefs but waste zero seconds thinking about the implications.

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      I’d like to learn how to travel in my car without actually drivimg. And also why a different word for the same thing should make a legal difference. This is dumber than flat earth shit

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        different wording is a high standard for them. they think capitalization makes a difference lol

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    If you write a whole paragraph and cant be bothered to organize your thoughts by using a single period, I can’t be bothered to read it. I am going to assume you have nothing of worth to say.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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      “Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”