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[-] AtomicTacoSauce@lemmy.world 71 points 2 months ago

I was behind a huge redneck truck today that had a "plate" on the back saying essentially this, yet he had a "thin blue line" sticker on his back window. You just can't make this shit up.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Some of them believe that sticker (used to be the policeman's ball sticker, but I didn't put it together until recently) will make cops ignore them.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

IIRC one of those stickers, maybe policeman’s ball, was only available to cops and so you had to know one to get the sticker, and maybe then they’d identify “friends of the department” that way and go easy. Not a law or official policy, though.

And yeah I doubt thin blue line does much.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah, you had to buy tickets to the ball which meant you were financially supporting them. And they were probably more right than I want to admit for those stickers but less right than they believe for the thin blue line ones.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

You saw a sovcit!

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago

I am baffled by how this "movement" never seems to be running out of gullible people to attempt doing this. Because you know whoever tries it never lasts very long before they get a reality check. How much longer can it last before they run out?

[-] _____@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago

It's because the do your research crowd never post things that go against their bias.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

It’s a puzzle, because they’ve been doing this shit for decades

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

This has been happening since the 70s but stuff like Facebook definitely inflated it. It seems much worse since the days of Trump as everyone on the right has become certifiable. This is what disinformation does.

[-] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

They aren't really gullible. If you watch the youtube videos, it's pretty much always people that already had their licenses revoked, sometimes permanently. They're just trying to convince themselves there's some way to legally drive again.

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 months ago

And He said "Let there be motor vehicles".

Fucking troglodyte.

[-] alexc@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

And are they all being driven on private roads?

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Absolutely not.

[-] You_are_dust@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

They argue the definition of the word "drive" so you can't use that. I'm not certain where their definition comes from, but they argue that "driving" is only for commerce. So that's why they always say they are "traveling". So they don't need a driver's license because that is only for someone using a vehicle for business. From all I've seen, this typically results mostly in fines and court appearances. The fines they refuse to pay and they claim they can't "appear" somewhere.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

"no driver license or insurance required"

dude this has less legitimacy than a note from your mom.

[-] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

I wonder how that new truck was paid for.

[-] finley@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago

when they post pics of the repo man towing it, you'll have your answer

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

They charged it to the secret fund the government set up in their fake name, then posted about their success on Facebook. later haters

[-] sxan@midwest.social 14 points 2 months ago

I should have gone into the fake license plate business. Free money, man.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago
[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

One of those unique business opportunities that provides both actual work experience as well as the reason for their future work behind bars

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

If you're going to claim something is an inalienable right, learn that "inalienable" is the word you are supposed to use.

[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

But it was grated by their creator!

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

That guy grates

[-] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

Hate to defend a sovcit, but "unalienable" is a valid synonym of inalienable and was used in the Declaration of Independence

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Unalienable was a popular word at the time but less so now: https://www.dictionary.com/e/unalienable-vs-inalienable/

Regardless, it was more of an address of the hyphen.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago

Hate to defend a sovcit

Why? They showed ignorance on the same or contextually even worse level, while pushing some sort of "gotcha" moment.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Them fail English? That's unpossible!

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ready to install my argue-with-cops device.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago

Dang it someone already has the personalized state plate for "PRIVATE" here.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

You found the guy who manufactures the sovcit plates! Lol

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Ok, this one is so stupid I'm now convinced that these sovcit people actually want to get arrested... They're probably bored and dream of the day they get to create an embarrassing scene and then drag everything out in court to embarrass themselves further just because it's something to do and everyone will have to pay attention to them for a little while

At what point do we just go ahead and start calling this a mental illness?

[-] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

This wouldn't make it back from McAllen, Tx without getting swooped by CBP

[-] avisf@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

What's a sovcit? Cit as in citizen?

[-] avisf@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

nevermind, they seem to be what we call "Reichsbürger" in germany.

Conspiracy theorists that declare their house a kingdom and fight against being taxed by a state that "doesn't exist".

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Sovereign citizen. A fascinating bunch of crazies.

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