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    This one seems to exceed some threshold for me. The ones that try to buy cars with nonexistent money are bad, but sort of pass as misguided. But this seems like premeditated theft. He went to a rental agency, intending to keep it.

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      Bro, he had all the right forms. And recorded trust. Why couldn’t they just let him steal it? Some things just don’t make sense.

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      Just the natural progression. Enterprise should seek their funding from the back taxes the Corporation of the United States owes him.

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        That is wild! The craziest part is that he was able to convince a court that he had a right to live in the hotel for free indefinitely. If he hadn’t tried to pull the “I own this now” shit, he could have lived rent free in Manhattan forever from the sounds of things.

        This nutjob actually found a real loophole and exploited it, then shot himself in the foot by getting greedy. I assume he’s been evicted at this point.

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        What the actual fuck. He successfully got the room for indefinite time, because he used a loophole, and the court agreed? Insane.

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    Is “recorded trust” him yelling"TRUST" into a microphone over and over?

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    What the fuck has been happening with these people? They used to just be weirdos that thought they could drive (travel) without a licence and didn’t think they had to comply with a bunch of laws, but mostly administrative stuff. When did they morph into a group that’s all about stealing stuff with magic paperwork?

    I used to see them as a bunch of goofs that were mostly harmless, aside from things like driving without insurance. Now they’re just a bunch of thieves trying to get over on anyone and everyone.

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      It’s not stealing, it’s using “cheat codes”

      They believe that life has cheat codes that only they know about.

      Or some other middleeastern ppl in the magic land of of 'Srael knows about it, and the sov city ppl have figured it out and wants to be rich as well.

      Or “I’m smart but not rich. How come they over the are rich but dumb? Makes no sense. Except CHEAT CODES”

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      They have honestly never been harmless. Sovcits are a movement borne out of white supremacists and have become a favourite of black extremist groups too. They can be quite violent.

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    Guys, I’ve sent a 1099a with ALL CAPS signed name at 45° angle to slow down the rotation of the earth so that I get longer nights for longer sleeps. But they just ghosted my corporate self. Any immediate remedy suggestions?

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    Does that mean I can “buy” all of a sovcit 's belongings with fake money too? Supposing there is anything in their belongings that isn’t stolen property, that is.

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      No, you can “borrow” them and when you don’t give it back, just ask to put it on your tab as a representative of Uncle Sam. Or something like that.

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      Why even buy them. Just take them and claim they are your legal salvage and if they want they can write an appeal to the Moorish naval courts.

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    I love how they expect

    a) their “findings” to be secret and suppressed so they are the only ones to have “discovered” it b) some random clerk at Enterprise to be able to process their secret paperwork

    If the clerk at Enterprise knew that we all can just splurge without any repercussions because of secret knowledge… why do you think that clerk brought his own, sad, reheated microwave meal to work today instead of devouring Surf&Turf Wagyu, eh?

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    I can’t believe these amateurs. He clearly forgot to file a Declaration of Impending Balance Surrender.

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    How is this shit not a joke? It’s SO hard to believe this is real. I know it is… but this pushes the envelope of what is realistically stupid.

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      And they’re so dead ass about it all too. One thing I’ve noticed is that conservatives, sovcits, and Nazis all have zero sense of humour.

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    They really seem to think that every business out there has just overlooked whatever secret loophole these SovCit idiots think allows them to just take whatever they want. Apparently a form 1099A is for the transfer of abandoned property, and 1099C is for dismissing debt.

    So it looks like this smoothbrain thought that the car rented to them was abandoned by the rental company, and they could also just… sign a paper that makes their own debt go away.

    I love how the SovCits also always seem to mention that they’ve never heard back from anyone who successfully pulled off this little stunt, as though that’s no sort of hint that it doesn’t actually work that way.

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      They mention this EVERY time, and are utterly bewildered by the fact that it didn’t work for them. I’ve never seen anything like it. I realize there are sovcit “gurus” on Telegram and such that tell them this, but they never seem to learn from one another and their failures. It’s wild.

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        If they could learn from experience, they wouldn’t be stupid enough to believe it in the first place. Its not surprising they don’t learn, its the sole requirement for this philosophy…

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        IIRC they use the discharging debt one to discharge debt that other people hold over them. So they borrow money and then try to forgive their own debt.