• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    So, I can understand wanting to live alone in the middle of nowhere and not being bothered by anyone else. I got no problem with off-the-grid mountain men, but signing up for multiple credit cards, and spending that money with NO intention of paying any of it back, is just straight up theft.

    How can these goons expect to take whatever they want without contributing anything at all?

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      Yes, the mind of the sovcit is well-nigh impenetrable to those of us who suffer from reasonableness.

      TL;DR: they cray

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      The only reason I’m hesitant to call it theft is because those giant credit companies make money off of their loan shark cards

      Edit: Oh boy, I made a hot take! Theft assumes that a person had a right to something to begin with. Shoplifting from Walmart is morally acceptable, it’s cool to make credit cards with an alias and not pay it back, and all cops are bastards. Just don’t expect to get away without consequences.

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        How is one action related to the other? This isn’t some Robin Hood type of person stealing from the big bad corporation to feed other people. It’s just a fraudster who somehow thinks they are entitled to this money.

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          Sometimes people do the right thing for the wrong reason. It’s based and cool to fuck over a credit company. The problem is that sovcit believe they can participate in the system and be absolved of consequences, and because they don’t understand anything about modern sociopolitical trends they often do a bunch of stupid shit like trying to pay their loans with “coupons”.

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            Yeah, the sovcit isn’t being based and cool fucking over the credit company. The credit company shrugs, does everything they can to ruin the sovcit financial standing in response, and then proceeds to just grab a bit more cash from the other cardholders to cover any losses. The credit company will make sure it is whole either way.

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          It’s not so much about white knighting for the multibillion dollar company. It’s recognizing that any cash the sovcit manages to make multibillion dollar company lose will just have that company pull it out of the pockets of the people that do pay their bills. So trying to claim that sovcit has any vaguely moral high ground in sticking it to those credit card companies is ridiculous.

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            It’s recognizing that any cash the sovcit manages to make multibillion dollar company lose will just have that company pull it out of the pockets of the people that do pay their bills.

            This relies on the assumption that credit card companies are not already extracting as much value as they can from those bill payers. If they thought they could get away with raising rates on people without turning enough away to make it a net loss, it seems to me that they would have already.

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        I mean, it legally IS theft, well, fraud technically. The company 100% deserving it doesn’t change that fact lol.

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        I get you. I have no love for those banks, but the surprised Pikachu face on Sovcits when the magic coupon doesn’t work is just embarrassing.

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          Tbf, it’s also hilarious! Every time they can’t get away with their libertarian nonsense, I get a little happier

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    Is this person claiming that “sovereign citizens” are not required to pay their credit card bills? Wtf is a “coupon payment”?

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        Oh, I’m well aware of that lol I’ve just never heard one say outright that they’re entitled to free credit cards they can use but not pay for. I read some of the other posts OP made about it and apparently this person thinks they’re entitled to free power from the power company too lol

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          First, abaondon logic.

          Okay now that you’ve done that here’s how it works: Because the world operates without our explicit say-so, we get everything for free. we do this by reminding them that we are not “account numbers” but human beings, and if they want account numbers they can have this one we just scribbled down on the back of a cigarette carton and it’s probably good for whatever the balance of the card is. That’s up to them to figure out.

          And if this sounds like absolute insanity, I would remind everyone that people are still supporting a demented rapist and failed insurrectionist for President. Write to your local news and tell them to cut the shit.

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      That’s their term for money. They believe money stopped being money and turned into coupons when we dropped the gold standard. Due to this, they believe they can just send out an IOU and have it treated like valid currency.

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      Not only that, but if they don’t get their way, they think maybe using the court system of the government they don’t think applies to them is an option. Seems either you would be sovereign and outside the jurisdiction and therefore the courts can’t help you, or the courts can help you and all the sovereign nonsense is wrong. So they try to have it the best of both ways, all the privilege, none of the accountability.

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    I will grant one thing: the whole “the card agreement says that using the card counts as accepting the agreement” is circular logic like “the Bible is true because it says it’s true”. There should be an obligation to get that agreement before any card is issued. Using a card shouldn’t cancel out any requirement of informed consent. These people clearly don’t have a good understanding about how any of this works, even if they are trying to abuse these things in the way they understand them.

    Like there were aspects of my credit cards, that I was using in good faith, that I didn’t really understand until years after I’d been using them.

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      I’m not sure if it’s different in the states, but in the UK it’s definitely like that.
      You sign the agreement, the card is dispatched.
      The card arrives with more literature, and it is made very clear that by using the card you accept the terms.
      If you decide that you don’t like the terms, you can return it un-used, or even I believe within 14 days you can cancel everything and just pay off any money you’ve spent with it.

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          There’s often things that beneficial to the user in those terms too. Buyer protections, terms with specific vendor types, etc.

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            Correct. As well as literature and mandatory language detailing how to report fraud, or complain to a specific governing agency if you believe the card issuer is treating you unfairly or not complying with applicable laws. In the US, that would likely be the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau).

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      You do get a copy of the card agreement before a card is issued. Banks are pretty tightly regulated in this area.

      Note that is not always the case, which is why car makers can surveil you simply for riding in the car. Being in the car constitutes acceptance.

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      It is not circular logic. It’s closer to “you’ve agreed to the terms of the Bible because you used the Bible for your benefit.” Still not quite the same as the credit card agreement, but closer. Clearly not circular.

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    Perhaps unsurprisingly, this sovcit is so bad at MS Paint they doxxed themselves with their original post. I’d say you won’t believe their political affiliation, but you would.

    OP, it might be an idea to remove this. I’m sure there’s an argument to be made for letting them bring down hell upon their own heads by being idiots, but nobody actually deserves the internet knowing who they are and where they live. Or at least, this person certainly doesn’t. They’ve got enough problems, like a mountain of credit card debt.