• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
    2202·
    9 months ago

    Dude I really want to say thank you for getting this group really running, and more importantly, letting it be really crazy people and not just ’ My uncle said something pro Trump’ like the last one devolved into

    • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1132·
      9 months ago

      I mean, people saying things pro trump are crazy, we’ve all just kind of acclimated to it, sadly.

      • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
        271·
        9 months ago

        True but it got old. And more importantly half the posts that ended up as the top post of the day there were just… Yay Trump. Not any kind of fun crazy like rambling on about that worm medicine or whatever the fuck it was.

        I want fun to read crazy like this. Not crazy that reminds me of reality lol

        • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
          8·
          9 months ago

          Exactly this.

          The other night I burst out laughing when I remembered Giuliani’s 2020 press conference at the Four Seasons Philadelphia. Doofuses saw “Four Seasons” in probably an ancient paper phonebook and thought it was going to be the upmarket hotel or the upmarket restaurant.

          Cut to America’s Mayor in front of a green warehouse run by Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

          They could not have tried something this audacious on Veep let alone House of Cards. It would not have been believable.

          On the other hand, then, everything wild, unlikely, overwrought, and ethically appalling in Veep and House of Cards is now within plausibility and reminds me too much of reality.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            5·
            9 months ago

            We’ve gone past ‘plausibility.’ The lead character in House of Cards clandestinely commits murder in the first season. We have a former president and possible future president who brags that he could murder someone and get away with it.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOPM
      50·
      9 months ago

      You’re most welcome! I’m glad people are enjoying.

      Facebook to me is terrible as a social media site but is also like a wonderful diary full of gossip and trash and crazy that I read like a novel. The things people will post about themselves publicly under their real name will never cease to amaze me.

      • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        9 months ago

        Facebook to me is terrible as a social media site but is also like a wonderful diary full of gossip and trash and crazy that I read like a novel.

        This is what has led me to hate most of humanity. Not just those people, but the people who enjoy watching it happen. How is that so entertaining? It’s like the people who watch honey boo boo, or nikki minaj or whatever…why do you find that trash entertaining instead of just hopelessly worrying?

        • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOPM
          13·
          9 months ago

          I spend a lot of time on Facebook dog whistling white supremacists to convince them that a vote for Joe Biden will kick off race war (and it works they vote for him!), as well as getting their accounts blown up for posting Nazi shit, as well as telling law enforcement on them. THAT’S depressing as fuck, so reading about sovereign citizens is my amusement.

          • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
            2·
            9 months ago

            Holy shit. I love beating a shitty system using its own shitty methods.

            My blue state has closed primaries and I have less fear of a Haley presidency than The Trumpire Strikes Back. Do I change my party registration to Republican in order to finally make my vote count for once even though Haley’d shellack Biden?

          • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            9 months ago

            I mean…yeah that’s great and all, but aren’t you realizing that…you know…you’re sitting there reading Nazi shit and following a bunch of skinheads?

            Why keep that kind of company just for laughs?

    • SSTF@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      This place is essentially just the SovCit zoo right now.

      Not that I’m complaining.

  • YaksDC@lemmy.world
    34·
    9 months ago

    I would love a community dedicated to sovcit nonsense. (could be this one under a new name)

  • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    31·
    9 months ago

    I like how they get the officer to write down his name and badge number, supposedly to do something with it involving laws.

    • Red_October@lemmy.world
      11·
      9 months ago

      The things SovCits do resemble laws less than they do occult magic spells. They just replace crystals with their at-home embosser and official-looking stamp. The rest is all gibberish.

  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    9 months ago

    Is this the same guy that posted their World Passport they wanted to use to avoid child support payments a couple days ago? Or is this a different lunatic with a fake passport?

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
        28·
        9 months ago

        It’s amazing to me that there are adults that are so sheltered, that they don’t understand how badly the government can fuck you up, and the cold, methodical, manner in which it will do it.

        • dynamojoe@lemmy.world
          22·
          9 months ago

          and the cold, methodical, manner in which it will do it.

          Your day in court is a very important day. You plan, sweat, panic, reassure yourself, panic again, and go through the five stages of grief all out of order before it arrives. For the prosecutor, it’s Tuesday. They are more worried about their vitamin C intake than what some rando on the docket might bring.

        • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
          9·
          9 months ago

          cold, methodical, manner

          This is a harsh wake-up call for a lot of people. I think most people have had the experience of being a nice, courteous person enough that some business or official bends the rules for you.

          “Oh, You filed document E-24 instead of E-24 Sub 1? Don’t worry about it, here’s the form you need, just take a moment and fill it out now”

          Speaking as a white male born to privilege, it happened often enough that I figured that’s the way the whole world works. Don’t expect anyone to break or bend any rules for you, but if you’re respectful, kind, and courteous, they may cut you some slack.

          But oh boy, I was not prepared for that harsh reality of dealing with the justice system. There’s no slack, there’s no “oopsie-daisys,” and if you’re late/without the paperwork, you’re fucked EXTRA hard. There’s no empathy, they don’t treat you like a person anymore, but as an “offender.” And once you’ve earned that moniker in the court systems eyes, you’re no longer deemed worthy of help or consideration.

          when it comes to the american justice system, the cruelty is the point.

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
      20·
      9 months ago

      I’ve seen “pub crawl passports”, where the intention is you get a stamp at every pub in town. I’m sure they work just as well in this application.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 months ago

      I couldn’t imagine an easier group to grift from than SovCits except maybe evangelicals (and sometimes both intersect), so very probably.

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      9 months ago

      I’d imagine governments would crack down very quickly on anyone making realistic fake passports. Maybe these are collector / hobby passports, like the ones some cities sell to tourists.