I can hear the curb your enthusiasm theme playing when the guy is told it is not a valid travel document. 🤡
I’m less familiar with these sovcits but this post got me thinking, what do y’all think the Venn diagram between this type of person and those who complain about “illegal” immigrants looks like? Are these the same nutjob racists or are they a different kind of nutjob?
When you start digging into who is behind the conspiracy, you tend to hit “the Jews” (or a corresponding dogwhistle) pretty reliably, which leads to concerns less about illegal immigrants, and more about brown people.
I had a friend who went from moon landing conspiracism to flat earth, sovcit, Nazi over the course of a couple of years. I called the coming Nazism well over a year ahead of time, and people thought I was nuts. When most conspiracies blame the Jews, I can’t understand why people get surprised by it.
A lot of sovcits are actually black (the Moorish Science Temple has a lot of them for some reason), but they all haaaaaate Jews. Sovereign citizen movement has roots in white supremacy for sure though.
I wonder if they realized how fucked they would be if they managed to leave the US, refused entry at the next country, then refused entry back to the US.
Nah that’s what the photo ID is for.
I am seriously wondering why they ordered eleven copies. Why would you even be able to order more than one?
I mean, yes, this is scam, but still…
Where do you see 11 copies?
XI is the Latin Nummer for the Arabic 11
I read that as x1, as in the only wanted one time. They’re not the same height, so I don’t think it’s Roman numerals.
…How do these people not realise they’re being scammed? It’s… blatant!
It could only be more obvious if the documents were being held by a Nigerian Prince who wanted to send $1 million along with them! I feel like I could walk up to one of these fools and tell them, “I am actively scamming you, but if you trust me with a few dollars, magical fairies will come and restore you to your prime and grant you and those you love eternal youth, life, and wealth,” and they’d give me everything they could get their hands on!
It’s almost hard to not pity them at this point…
The Facebook groups have thousands of people. I think the parallels between these people and Qanon are pretty significant.
It would be fun to come up with a grift like this but use the same twisted legalese to claim what they are paying for is worthless. If you can’t beat em, join em.
I would worry someone might try to sue you or prosecute you for making fake documents. I’m wondering if I could do a similar grift for the flat earthers. Seems more tricky to capitalize on that but less likely to land you in legal trouble.
Maybe selling long hidden true maps of the flat earth infused with wisdom of the ancients would do the trick. It must also adhere to other conspiracies though, like a Finland sea in place of Finland
Wait, Finland isn’t real? I missed that memo. Why would they suspect Finland wasn’t real?
I have been so tempted over the years to set up scams for crazy people. Homeopathy, SovCits, crystal healing, Trump fans. My greed is slightly less powerful than the self-loathing I’d endure having to have more contact and immersion in these worlds - to do a good scam, you have to know the domain, talk the talk, and I just can’t.
But I don’t hate the people scamming these suckers. It isn’t like not scamming them is going to help them be less stupid.
The best (worst?) part about this… that address is a church
They are being scammed by a church, but is a time honored tradition
Pretty much every one that goes to Church is being scammed by a church.
Some people like the community aspect of it, and doing charity / volunteer work. But other than that you are mostly right.
To be fair, it’s probably a randomly chosen address that has nothing to do with the church. It’s not exactly like they’re going to process returns.
Isn’t that the address this application is being sent to?
I mean, is selling fake medicine for fake illnesses really a crime?
homeopathy you rang?
Amazing thought experiment.
Someones gonna get their ass rotorootered by the TSA the second they try to go through customs with this
You kinda want them to manage to get past the TSA so they can get arrested trying to illegally enter another country and have to decide if getting help from the state department is worth admitting they are a US citizen
I haven’t traveled out of the US in quite a while but I don’t think you have to show TSA a passport but you do need identification to get through
A lot of the time (if not always), they require you to use your passport as your ID for international flights
Some countries, like Australia, require you to show the airline a valid visa before you fly. If you land without one, the airline is responsible for the cost to repatriate you. Obviously to get a visa, you’d need a valid passport.
“But I got a visa! See? It’s the $500 visa gift card that I used to buy this passport”
Yes, but heavens forbid getting a bank account.
Now I’m tempted to start an online service to issue visas to all destinations for World Passports owners…
I don’t know about TSA (I’ve never not used my passport as ID when traveling internationally).
But the airlines will validate your documents before giving you a boarding pass. You have to either scan it into the app or show it to an agent at check-in.
Yes, lets go with that instead.
Oh to be a fly on the wall…
of the WORLD, Craig
Isn’t applying for a passport like this, from any third party, kind of directly counter to what sovcits say they stand for? What with the sending of photos and money to a shadowy organisation to be registered in a database, and all.
What sovcits believe in is being as much of a stupid dumbass as possible because being intelligent makes you a sheep.
I’d be a sucker to not buy the 10 year passport for $100!!
Omg, what a great scam! I could just sell meaningless documents to stupid fucks and quit my job.
Same energy over here in germany. People buy id cards stating they are citizens of the „Deutsches Reich“. Of course there are several groups claiming they are an exile government, succesors, etc. and ripping of delusional people. Frankly, no pity from me.
I wish I didn’t have a conscience, so I could fleece those people myself and get rich of their stupidity.
I feel this about so, so many things. I could probably drop ship so many “let’s go Brandon” flags from the cheapest print shop and make a bundle, but then I’d be contributing to that brain-melting stupidity.
So find the people that are doing it and just steal from them.
They’re a big thing in Australia too!
I’d guess, no matter where you are,
batshit crazy ideassovereign citizens got there first
Countries that have accepted the World Passport
The following is a list of countries which, on at least one occasion, have recognized the World Passport on a “de facto” basis, by stamping a national visa and/or entry/exit stamp.
I like the fact that they argue their passport isn’t fake because some bored / overworked customs guy once stamped it.
Their website has a Legal section as well, but I’m too tired to look through it.
The World Passport is a fantasy travel document sold by the World Service Authority, a non-profit organization founded by Garry Davis in 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Passport
Wikipedia’s throwing down.
Also I had to find this list:
https://worldservice.org/visas.html
They’re claiming 191 out of 192 countries recognise their shitty document.
“Yeah I’m gonna get me a World Passport and get me out of the weight of all this oppressive government, I might be able to get into… (checks notes) Burkina Faso.”
On second thought going to a country which has been hit by proper coups, direct Islamic State interference & has legal slavery may actually be an enlightening experience for the type of people to buy this. Splurge away!
It impresses me with how many stamps of entry they actually collected over time. Even if for some of countries all of the stamp samples are for the same year more than quarter of a century ago
Yes thats a document. A meaningless one, but it sure is a document.
They are for sure including countries that have stamped it “no entry.” Technically it has been stamped. I’m pretty sure policy is to stamp a little logo and some check boxes onto whatever document is presented, and if it’s not a legit document, it is stamped as such.
You could have your passport stamped at the tourists’ office in Machu Pichu (to show that you have been there). I should have got my world passport stamped! (I took a picture with a Lama instead of doing that queue).
Who wants to open a business with me to fleece sovcits who think this kind of thing is legit?
I mean, it looks like that business is already there selling passports. Maybe we could sell them World Vehicle Registration plates?
I’m in
They have these “Divine Identity” cards they buy too, I’ll post it later.
You son of a bitch. I’m in.
Sure. As long as it doesn’t conflict with my business ripping off maga nuts by selling trump 2024 merch.
Would be nice if the merch could re-brand itself several months after being bought
Or my business of selling repackaged scented oils labelled as Covid cures.
Or my business selling truck nuts.
Or Jeep vagina tow hitch adapters…
Dropshipping MAGA stuff straight from China is TIGHT
Lmao did you just record this yourself?
No sorry I wish my voice was this animated, this is just an AI TTS voice I made that I enjoy having read random things
