• rtxn@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’d love to know what kind of legislation this living brain donor is misunderstanding to have come up with the idea of using a fucking quarter to settle a (likely significantly greater) debt.

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      There is no legislation that they’re misunderstanding. They believe that the United States went bankrupt and was sold to pay is debts. And ever since then, the United States has fraudulently entered it’s citizens into contracts with this private entity. Evidence for this includes your name being IN ALL CAPITALS on any official document, thereby indicating that the contract implied by that document is not referring to your “person” but to your “straw man”, a trust set up by the United States for each of it’s citizens so that it can collect their taxes to continue to pay it’s debts.

      And this is only the surface level weirdness. Watch Münecat’s video essay about them. It’s fascinating

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        Don’t they believe they’re paying with their own like $3M account or something?

        Like, the government put aside $1,004,744,685,000,000 ($3M per US citizen, 1.04 quadrillion dollars) and they’re using their “allotted” $3M to pay their debts?

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        9 months ago

        I gotta say, since reading your comment last night and I went to watch that sovcit Münecat video, I’ve spent my day cleaning my house watching a bunch of her videos (well, like two more. They’re long.) She’s fuckin hilarious. And very informative. But she got quite a few laughs out of me all day. Thanks for the rec. I gotta go back and watch her back catalogue now. Lovin’ a good video essay rabbit hole

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    9 months ago

    So while everyone can see that this is dumb, there is actually precedent for sending bills to companies for services that weren’t rendered. If you can get them to sign for it, they are legally bound. There was a guy who was financing with his bank and he basically altered the contract(that they didn’t expect him to read to begin with) to give him no spending limit, 0% interest, and a bunch of other stuff, and he sent it back for them to sign it. Because they actually didn’t read it but signed it anyways, when it was taken to court he did win.

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      Although that case is real, it did not happen in the US; I believe it was Russia or some other former Soviet Republic. Under systems of law evolved from British common law, it is generally held as necessary to inform the other party of such a change to the contract.

      Sending bills for services not rendered can actually result in payment from large corporations because they are constantly receiving bills, so if it looks right there is a chance someone will just pay it. However, I believe it is also fraud if they notice and can thus get you in trouble; remember, the law is primarily there to protect companies and rich people.

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        Yeah, if you say you did something for them but didn’t, that’s fraud.

        I think you can technically get away with just sending them a letter asking for money, but you have to be careful not to imply that they owe you the money or you did anything you didn’t do.

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        9 months ago

        I do some ordering for work and am confident if someone really wanted they could sneak something by me. You know once for a small amount of money.

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      9 months ago

      It was for a credit card company and was in Europe. In the USA you would end up a convicted felon in prison for that.

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    9 months ago

    It’s not even .9 troy ounces of silver. Quarters made before 1965 are 90% silver but the amount of silver is only .18 troy ounces which is worth approximately $4.10 USD keeping in mind that melting US currency is not legal.

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      9 months ago

      I was just about to chime in when I saw the fucking quarter. How do you get to be so bad at being a sov cit that you don’t even know how “real” money (silver and gold) works?

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          i guess yeah, applying an incedible amount of pressure to deform the penny (which inherently also increases temperature)

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            Makes sense why they always come out warm. Also, if it’s illegal to destroy currency, how do they get away with it? Is it just cause they’re pennies?