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[–] AtomicTacoSauce@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 years ago (1 children)

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 6 points 2 years 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 years ago

You saw a sovcit!

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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 23 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

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

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years 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 years 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.

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And are they all being driven on private roads?

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Absolutely not.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

"no driver license or insurance required"

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

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wonder how that new truck was paid for.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years 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 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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 years ago (3 children)

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 years ago (1 children)

But it was grated by their creator!

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

That guy grates

[–] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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 years 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 years 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 years ago

Them fail English? That's unpossible!

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

You found the guy who manufactures the sovcit plates! Lol

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

Ready to install my argue-with-cops device.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years 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 years ago

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