• Signtist
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    The issue is that they don’t believe the US government is legitimate. From what I’ve gathered, they think that the real US is theirs by right, and that the entity that we know of as the government is essentially a parasitic corporation that has convinced everyone it’s the real governing body so that we fund it with our taxes. Though, even if you had a logical explanation within the confines of their worldview as to why they can’t drive without a license, they’d still pretend they had some excuse not to listen to it.

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      1. US govt not real

      2. Convince people to pay taxes to fake government

      3. Fake govt has the ability to enforce laws

      4. Therefore becomes actual govt

      5. 🤔

      6. Real govt

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        All governments are invalid monopolies on violence.

        But they’re still a monopoly on violence. Thinking magic words will save you is insanity.

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      the entity that we know of as the government is essentially a parasitic corporation

      So they’re not entirely wrong

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        Correct, but the difference is that it’s legitimate AND parasitic. So we can’t just ignore it like they want to.

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      Okay, but they’re still driving on the property of that parasitic corporation. Since they didn’t contribute any taxes towards building it, they don’t have any rights on that road.

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        Well they believe it’s parasitic in that the US somehow funds the roads, while the parasitic government company doesn’t. It’s not true, but they don’t believe the government does literally anything but take the people’s money.

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          Where does the legitimate government get the money to build roads if the illegitimate government is intercepting all of it from the god fearing citizens that have been paying out of their pocket for decades?

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            If it made sense it wouldn’t be a conspiracy theory. All it takes is one guy claiming some private good-guy billionaire has been funding the real US this whole time and they’d eat it up, throwing it at anyone who doubts them as if it’s some undeniable fact.

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        Even the SCP works with various government branches though.

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      The issue is they’ll make up whatever mouth noises let them do what they want.

      Saying they have beliefs is a category error.

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        I think it’s both, which is the root of the problem; they’ll make something up, then believe it wholeheartedly. There’s nothing you can do to argue against someone like that.