So "magical thinking" explains why they believe this stuff in the first place, but what explains why they keep believing it after it doesn't work? Even in a fantasy setting, it doesn't make sense. If you thought vampires couldn't come into your house uninvited but then a vampire did exactly that, you'd run away. These people would lecture the vampire about what his weaknesses really were and then go online and complain that the vampire sucked their blood when he wasn't supposed to.
It more or less starts with the mostly true belief that everything is contracts as far as the government is concerned. Then they apply the faulty logic that they can unilaterally withdraw from any contract they feel like. From there everything more or less follows a predictable pattern that they can pick and choose contracts to follow at their discretion.
As far as I understand, when it doesn’t work for them they just double down, and assume they did something wrong in their arcane incantation of the magic law words, like they didn’t write their name in all caps or they invoked wrote down the wrong spell random legalese phrase.
"I am filming everything! Now, NOW I'm turning into a creature of the shadows, ok? I don't have a treaty with you, Nosferatu. Call our lawyer!"
Crying wife: "Which one?"
I love how they act like they didn't essentially force the cops to remove them from the car. I'm no fan of cops basically ever, but they're generally way more patient with sovcits than I would be. I'd be telling them we can skip right to the part where I break their window because I have other shit to do than listen to nonsense for 20 minutes. We all know where the conversation is going, let's just move it along.
Considering sovcits have killed cops, cops are right to be apprehensive with them. I am no fan of cops either but honestly sovcits should be considered very dangerous.
Exactly. Stop thinking like Reddit where everything needs some tiny niche community. Lemmy is not big enough yet. If you don't like it, block the words "sovcit" or "sovereign" and you won't see them.
I don't make people only look at what I like. I say "that's dumb", downvote, and move on.
Private tags for private roads. The state owns the public roads and represents the public. We've all agreed to pitch in costs and register vehicles on our roads. If you want to use them, that's all you have to do, otherwise it's trespassing.
Buggies are animal-powered, and by law (in nearly all states) that exempts the vehicle from needing plates. You don't have to be Amish to "take advantage" of this "loophole."
Indiana actually does require a license plate and fee for a horse drawn carriage. Most other states do not at this time, though there are proposals in some.
That means that it has happened at least once before, meaning that one can hope to see them recognize a pattern of behavior when they keep doing their dumb shit.
Eh who am I kidding, they'll just keep looking for that one magic spell that will solve their issues.
But he's not arguing! He doesn't answer questions because he's private and thus travelling, which isn't driving, and thus he doesn't need to answer the questions, thereby in accordance with UCC 101.69-LOL... /S
The thing is a lot of the insane people of Facebook are crazy in a depressing way, like they're schizophrenic or conservative or antivaxxers and it just makes me sad. Sovcits are guaranteed hilarity who are doing this to themselves. So they make for good content.
When I was 24 I met a guy who was enjoying wierd concepts and philosophy, as one does, as I also do. We traded some books and ideas, he was around for a few months. But he got into SovCit stuff talking with me. I thought, this guys nice, but he dont shower much, I dont know about this SovCit stuff.
A few months later the national police force showed up at my house looking for one of my guys, he wasnt there but I took the opportunity to ask the officers about this SovCit idea... they were angry at first but once I calmed them down they explained to me that SovCits are just nutters that lose in court...
And thats the story of how I learned not to go to jail by trying to make up my own rules as I go along.