Most wacky conspiracy theories manage to survive by being impossible to either prove or disprove, but Sovereign Citizens love filming themselves trying to talk their way out of being arrested or charged and subsequently eating shit. All the conspiracists these days are downloading their beliefs from YouTube and going wherever the algorithm takes them, so anyone looking at information on Sovereign Citizenery is also seeing the videos of people trying to put it into action and failing miserably.
How do people convince themselves that this is real when there are so many videos of people with similarly melted brains proving that this absolutely never works? I'm genuinely curious about what the rationale is. Do they think all the videos of judges telling Sovereign Citizens to shut the fuck up are fake, or that they didn't follow the script closely enough?
Yeah, it's this, they've discovered the treats machine is no longer distributing treats at enough volume, and instead of recognising the deviations as desperate attempts to keep it functioning at all, have decided that reading the 200-year-old operations manual and stripping away all those jury-rigged supports is the best way to restore the flow.
Civic religion cargo cult, they're dazzled by the power of the state over their lives (like, idk, speed limits and bans on raw milk) but also don't understand where it comes from or how it works so they're reduced to ritualistically mimicking its language and symbols in an attempt to wield the power for themselves.
How do people convince themselves that this is real when there are so many videos of people with similarly melted brains proving that this absolutely never works?
It's a question of faith, not evidence, like any religion.
love how folks who 100% believe this also fly the blue lives matter flag without a smidge of self-awareness
Because at the end of the day it's just their justification for "I'm white and I can do whatever the hell I want"
remember last year when amon bundy said he supported blm and his followers freaked out
I once made a much more respectful Blue Lives flag by maintaining the red, white and blue.
by making a blue silhouette of an officer filled with 50 stars and 13 red streaks running down
Its Utopianism... the bad kind... "Hey, if I know the magic words, I can get out of any trouble!!" Its Harry Potter shit that predates Harry Potter by generations.
Got into an argument with my roomate whether it's degrading to call a chef 'chef' during kitchen hours. I just call them by their fucking name. He insists that it's necessary when things are busy for communication. I have worked five star restaurants and millionair 3 course 'charity' meals and never once have I had to call my chef by his fucking title and they would hate it if you did. He was a chef at a truck stop once. Hmmmm
https://wearechefs.com/6-reasons-yes-chef-is-still-important/
He sent me this as an argument. It's two points of 'because this is how a French guy 180 years ago decided it should be done' and 'its aboud ruspect, capish?' it's also on a site called We Are Chefs so I'm guessing it's written by chefs. He really didn't understand the difference between dogma and an actual pragmatic means of doing things.
Is that gold fringe on the flag made up? They use that one all the time.
Aha but you see those judges are actually wrong about what the law says, they'll surely be booted out once I explain the situation to Teacher.
It's what happens when you grow up in a country where you're told that FREEDOM FROM TYRANNY and all that is paramount, but then you start to realize that, even in a society full of FREEDOM there's rules to be followed, and those rules suck: you gotta pay fees to get a licence, and then you can't do some stuff, and maybe you get a fine for some neighbourhood bylaw and now have to go to court. It's the freedom fetish of American civic religion coming up against the reality of living in a modern society.
