question about non-current politics(?) stuff 

i know i asked this at some point before but our memory is bad, could someone explain what exactly a "sovereign citizen" is and why people say that as though it means laws don't apply to them

we saw mention of it again and i don't remember what we were told about it before but it feels like we're going to just get a whole lot of nonsense/garbage if we search it
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question about non-current politics(?) stuff 

@Felthry They're basically people who believe all sorts of nonsense about legal systems that boils down to "if I do this arcane and wacky thing, laws don't apply to me".

question about non-current politics(?) stuff 

@Felthry There's a lot of conspiracy theories and fake get rich quick schemes and thought leaders who claim "just use this strategy and it works I swear" while selling books of nonsense for hundreds of dollars.

And the further you dig into it the more tiring it gets. Don't.

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re: question about non-current politics(?) stuff 

@Cauda yeah that last bit is why i asked on here instaed of searching it
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re: question about non-current politics(?) stuff 

@Felthry Very fair.

But yeah a lot of it is just flat out they don't want to pay taxes or have the government enforce laws against them in any way and often will get violent about that belief.

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