• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    "I gave the government extra money for a vanity plate so that I can tell the world that I don’t support or recognize the government. "

    • wagesj45@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      Pretty sure it’s not an official plate. The sovereign citizens will print their own. Sometimes like this in an effort to fool cops into thinking its a regular plate so they don’t get pulled over.

    • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      It’s not a customized plate, it’s just straight up fake. Sov citizens buy them, and cops often don’t even pull then over because they’re so fucking annoying to deal with.

      • Hupf@feddit.org
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        2 months ago

        How is handcuffing and unceremoniously throwing someone in jail annoying?

        • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Just a guess, but it’s probably just because the person would end up throwing a tantrum. “YOU CAN’T ARREST ME! I’M BEING ARRESTED! I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG! WHERE’S YOUR PROOF!” (Or something like that.) As anyone around them tries to ignore the guy shouting at the top of his lungs and trying to do his best not to get handcuffed.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    2 months ago

    In America I have the right to travel FOR FREE! recites garbage thinking they’re a lawyer.

    Yeah, the right to travel. No restrictions against travel. You are very welcome to walk on over to another state for free. You can ask your friend for a ride and go over there. It’s just if you want to drive your own personal car on public roads, you have to pay to register it. Oh, did you not think that they obviously included that in the lawbooks? I’m sorry to burst your bubble but actual lawyers covered their asses, Jimmy Youtuber didn’t find out one sick way around it.

    • Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      I’m not sure the book has been closed on this one. You don’t have to be a sov citizen to read the constitution and know that laws get passed all the time that violate civil rights for instance. Laws get overturned when they are challenged and someone has standing. Appeals courts are issuing rulings all the time that reverse what many assume was iron clad and untouchable. Jimmy YouTuber could be wrong but if he tests it and appeals with standing, we might just be surprised by the outcome.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Are lawyers taking up cases about stuff like whether the government has a right to mandate holding a driver’s license to legally drive?

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        You can drive all you want on private land without having a license or insurance or registering your car. Some states even have tax-free fuel (especially diesel) you can buy for ag equipment, since the fuel tax is for maintaining roads.

        But when you use public roads you have to follow the rules and pitch in towards their maintenance.

        • Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de
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          2 months ago

          All true. Most of the argument about free travel isn’t about taxes per se. It’s about being able to travel on those for which you paid taxes without further restrictive encumbrance. I’m sorry arguing for that but at the same time I understand the constitutional case for it.

          • rhombus@sh.itjust.works
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            2 months ago

            I can guarantee you that most of the right-to-travel people are also 100% against taxes of any kind. I have a coworker who believes no one should need a license or car registration and is also fully against any kind of taxes whatsoever. If you mention public roads he just says “we made do without them before”.

        • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          The reason it’s there, that 9/10 of a cent or pence or w.e is the same reason why lot’s of prices are $XX.99. It seems like it’s a lot cheaper than the 1 cent or 1/10th of a cent that it actually is. For fuel specifically, it started to be added so that gas stations could pay new taxes implemented in 1934(USA), but still make a profit. Back then the cost/gal of fuel was pennies, so adding a full cent to the cost to cover those taxes was deemed a deal breaker, since sometimes it would be ½-¼ 1/10 the cost of the gallon.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This why I always carry a red crayon to mark a 45° line across their driver-side window. Then they can never drive it again.