One bit of idiocy naturally overlaps with another.
A pandemic is just about the worst possible circumstance for someone seeking to assert their independence as a free individual.
Regardless of their intelligence they seem to have used wisdom as their dump stat.
Verily, it is so.
Interesting site but it buries a lot of truth in editorializing and even name-calling. Wouldn’t pass the main Wikipedia’s neutrality standards.
Um… no shit.
Why on Earth would RationalWiki pass another website’s neutrality standards when they openly have no intention of doing so?
RationalWiki is a step above the Urban Dictionary.
Nothing will ever plum the depths of the late lamented (?) Encyclopedia Dramatica…
That site is what would happen if 4chan ran Wikipedia.
RationalWiki is an independent website, not owned or operated by Wikipedia. They do have in common a low tolerance of pseudoscience and crankery, with RationalWiki having a sassier tone.
Crank magnetism is a well-known phenomenon, which as the linked article mentions was first described as such in an article on the Denialism blog in 2007. There are numerous other sources that have discussed crank magnetism.
I wouldn’t assume that snarkiness is incompatible with factual reporting. What do you believe is false in RationalWiki’s article, or is it just that they were mean to the likes of David Icke and Alex Jones?
I didn’t say that anything they posted was false; just that appeals to emotion seem rather incompatible with a dedication to rationalism. The facts should speak for themselves.
Sov cit Lexus driver buys a license plate from Amazon, wins fabulous prizes.
Drawing attention to yourself with a fake plate is always a good idea, especially if you’re transporting meth and three guns in the vehicle.
Turns out there are a variety of Moroccan license plates available on Amazon, including this one.
What they don’t seem to appreciate is that there really used to be “Freemen on the Land”; they used to be called “Indians”. What happened was that the US government seized their land, killed any of them that objected too strenuously, and herded the survivors into internment settlements. What do F.o.t.L. claim to have going for them that the “Indians” did not?
I really like the side bar about Pseudolaw: “Traveling us crazy.”
This is another sovcit-adjacent type of video. Not actual sovcits, but it helps answer the question “how can anyone be so stupid as to claim to be a sovcit?”. It also helps answer the question “how could anyone have voted for Trump?”. I didn’t see any Trump flags but one of the eventual arrestees was draped in a Confederate flag, which is generally part of the same MAGAt culture.
The video is only 16 minutes long, but if even that is too much for you, here’s the quick summary. Police are called because two gentlemen in a house, which we may collectively refer to as “neighours from hell”, have so much junk scattered over their front lawn that it’s basically a municipal dump, a lot of it has scattered out into the street and is blocking traffic, and the aforementioned gentlemen are also blasting very loud music over the entire neighbourhood.
The first officers on the scene try to reason with them but quickly decide to call for backup. Suffice it to say that by the time it’s over, 5 or 6 hours later, a SWAT team has arrived and has deployed a bulldozer-like armoured tactical vehicle.
There’s no particular evidence (yet) that the following story has a SovCit angle. But it sure sounds similar to @wolfpup’s cite.
Specifically it was a replica of the flag from the First Corps, Army of Tennessee.
Which is a bit odd since this took place in Flagler County, in Florida. But then again, this guy is both God and the President of the United States (as well as “The Fucking Devil”) so he and his son can do whatever they want.
It seems to me this was an incident of drugs and/or mental illness rather than ideology (or at least not just ideology).
Very observant of you, thank you! I was just going by my impression of a brief glimpse of it which was indeed quite different from the classic Confederate flag, but still, conveyed the same ideology.
The ability to have such a fluid identity is quite impressive! 
And why is it that the warmest climates seem to be associated with the highest incidents of insanity? While we always have the classic “Florida Man”, there’s also “Insane Texas Dude” and “Southern California Lunatic”.
There are plenty of crazy folks in places like Idaho and Colorado. Or closer to home for me, Eastern Washington (which gets extremely cold in the winter).
It’s just too cold for “crazy shirtless guy hanging out on his porch” stuff. I also think that the warm weather encourages crazy to come outside and interact with the public, which is how law enforcement gets involved.
Even in the clip above, the cops were telling the guy that they just wanted the road to be cleared. If he wanted to break stuff and be an idiot on his own property, that’s his business. They explicitly said that when he broke a bottle in his front yard. They only came to his house in the first place because he’d blocked the road with his junk. If it was cold, he probably wouldn’t have spread his nonsense out into the street. So, weather does absolutely play a factor. People huddled inside in front of a radiator listening to country music and watching OANN while complaining about invading brown people and the CIA putting chips in their head are more likely to mind their own batshit business.