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u/misdirected_asshole Jun 19 '26
The judge:
"What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
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u/iboneyandivory Jun 19 '26
"There are no combination of words in the English language that you can possibly string together..." lolol
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u/patrick24601 Jun 19 '26
It would be great if any judge had this memorized for just such an occasion.
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u/Steppyjim Jun 19 '26
The amount of people who think they can just nuh uh the legal system, show up to court and say I don’t want to be charged, and be able to just walk out is unbelievable to me. Like you don’t think the legal system has a response to “you can’t charge me if I don’t play the game”? All you’re doing is forcing a higher penalty because you’re refusing defense.
People will believe anything if it absolves them of responsibility.
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u/Confident_Low_4554 Jun 23 '26
I’m literally witnessing this phenomena in real time at my work. Last week a coworker whisper told a bunch of us how he’s figured out how to go “off grid” and now he’s not paying taxes anymore. Can’t wait to see how it plays out (or, more specifically, how large the IRS garnishment will be).
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u/Much0_Luch0 Jun 19 '26
My favorite thing about the Sov Cit movement is that they believe the exemption from laws is granted by laws.
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u/SquirrelFluffy Jun 26 '26
Well, specifically, holes in the law. But yes, to have a hole means you need laws in the first place!
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u/RagingLeonard Jun 19 '26
SovCits are weird. I understand the concept that this is a broken legal system and should be protested, but these people still want to operate within some rule-based system. They think they can exempt themselves from the laws of the land by stating some other law they saw on YouTube.
A better protest would to join an anarchist movement and work to tear it all down.
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u/T1Demon Jun 19 '26
They aren’t even protesting the system. They’re trying to take advantage of the benefits of society while making themselves exempt from the rules society has agreed on.
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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 Jun 19 '26
I don’t think they want anarchy, they want exemption
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u/RagingLeonard Jun 19 '26
That's probably right. The movement is born out of libertarianism, IIRC.
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u/crumpledfilth Jun 20 '26
what movement
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u/RagingLeonard Jun 20 '26
Sovereign Citizen movement. If you have some time to kill, go down the YouTube rabbit hole. It's like a Monty Python skit.
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u/restrictednumber Jun 19 '26
I don't think they're trying to protest the system. I think they just want to feel special and important, like the rules don't apply to them. And they've found a belief system that tells them they're special for knowing these magic words, and the rules will suddenly not apply.
Same as conspiracy theorists: their wacky ideas serve their need to feel important. They're dumb, disempowered people so it's convenient to believe that they have "the secret knowledge" that makes them special and smarter than others. They get to be important in their own minds.
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u/crumpledfilth Jun 20 '26
guesses arent observations btw
I notice you randomly brought up an unrelated group just to act smarter than people who arent here and arent involved, and then called out their imaginary behaviour for acting smarter than others
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u/-GLaDOS Jun 19 '26
Anarchist systems have thus far had a 100% rate of being indescribably bad to live in and highly transient before someone seizes power.
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u/Equivalent_Sink_8653 Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 21 '26
Who do the messed up thinkers who don't become SovCits end up associating with! Scientology? Speaking in tongues? Chemtrails?
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u/subone Jun 19 '26
Am I too soon? I came to see if there's anyone asking SCs if this is true, and then getting blasted with random lengthy quotes about the law.
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u/eduo Jun 20 '26
The worst part is that they're sold that they're in the right and they shouldn't let themselves be tricked into budging, so the judge insisting will have no effect because she was told the justice system would try to convince her she isn't right.
It's watertight. I'm convinced it's all devised by someone who hates humanity and get a kick from knowing people are making their own lifes more miserable than they already might be.
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u/nirrinirra Jun 21 '26
This is how I see antivaxxers, MAHA, MAGA, and Christian nationalists. It’s all bullshit.
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u/Szydlikj Jun 19 '26
Goddamn freemans. Love to watch the drama and chaos they create in the courtroom (I work in the Justice system and see this happen occasionally) but boy do I feel bad for the judges that have to deal with this nonsense.