I love this for some reason. Maybe it's having to deal with sovereign citizens in the past. I always just wanted to say "you never agreed to be part of our society so you don't want to follow our rules - OK but why are you here? Why do you use our roads, buy things in our shops, use our cell phone towers? No one will make you pay tax if you go into the bush and live self sufficiently on your own, if you stay away from the society that you don't want to be a part of then no one will force anything on you, they won't even know you're there!"

I particularly liked the sovereign citizens protesting outside the DIA. "We don't recognize your right to issue birth certificates, but for some reason it's also really important to us that you don't let people change their sex on their birth certificate. Also please issue me a birth certificate so I can go to other organisations and prove the document means nothing or something like that".

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

OK but why are you here?

Becasue they want all the benefits and convenance of living in a modern society while also accepting none of the responsibilities that arise from living in a modern society.

Dive on roads? Of course, that is our natural right!

Pay taxes to upkeep the road network? Nah, I never agreed to that...

They are adults that are pissed that their childhood notions of being an adult (being able to do what they want, when they want and no one can tell them no) is not reality.