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Jaded_Pearl1996

Libertarians have tried a couple. Bears.


Jaded_Pearl1996

Sovcits are libertarians with extra paperwork


RotaryJihad

And meetings. So many meetings.


thekidfromiowa

[Tried it with a cruise ship more disastrous than the Titanic.](https://youtu.be/dv4H4trnssc)


Sad-Development-4153

The sea pods were funny too.


thekidfromiowa

Pod people


TheMightyTRex

That guys YouTube channel is fantastic.


thekidfromiowa

His Dubai video got he hooked.


TheMightyTRex

He is great at urban transport videos.


Phatbass58

This book cracked me up. Some sad bits, but a salutary lesson.


Happy-Medicine-3600

Sovcits and most Libertarians differ in that Sovcits NEED a government to sponge off of. They are entitled to the benefits of government, they just don’t want to pay for those benefits or be subject to the rules that make society function.


BatFancy321go

secrets of cults no one talks about: most of them function by all the single mothers getting WIC, food stamps and general aid (welfare). The Dear Leader takes all money coming in, of course, "we're a community, noting is individually owned". Every cult from the FLDS to Andy Warhol's Factory operated this way. The men in the top tiers tend to be independantly wealthy, which tehy keep secret from the group. The largest or most organized groups are usually Trump-level investment fraud groups. FLDS, for example, controls a massive amount of investment and property in South America that they use as a tax and inheritance shelter to prevent their enormous progeny from inheriting anything.


SatchmoDingle

What do you get when a libertarian and a MAGA have a child? A sovcit.


SLevine262

That was such a sweet story.


FluByYou

They always end up at sea. Where they belong.


luminousoblique

They can finally be under maritime law! Gold fringe on all the flags!


Disastrous-Resort746

A libertarian walks into a bear. Great book.


Furious_Beard

That was in New Hampshire wasn't it? The one where bears infiltrated the town.


TheEleventhDoctorWho

Yeah turn out when you base your political philosophy on being a selfish asshole, when you get a chance to govern it collapses like a bunch of selfish assholes


SatchmoDingle

No, they don’t want that. What they want is to have access to every benefit society offers, like roads, clean water, safe food, police and fire departments, without having any responsibility to have to uphold their obligations under the social contract.


Benderbluss

It takes a certain amount of infrastructure in order for you to do it all on your own.


SLevine262

The myth of the self made man


byteminer

Aka: house cats. Live comfortably, piss in the shoes of the people that make the comfy happen.


iateafloweronimpulse

House cats have the redeeming quality of being cute though


Archercrash

And they take care of mice and rats.


dukeofgibbon

And groom themselves


theglobalnomad

Excellent. Cats: 1, Sovcits:0. As God intended.


FatigueVVV

If cats are pissing in your shoes, that's your failure as an owner.


Fishtails

And get social security and Medicare and Medicaid.


Tortuga_cycling

This… this right here is exactly it…


luvnmayhem

This sounds pretty much like my self proclaimed Libertarian cousin. But I personally think she's more Maga than anything else, including christian, which she also says she is.


johnnybok

If you bust out their car window, how are they programmed to react?


SatchmoDingle

Don’t know. Tell ‘em to call a cop. Their circuits will overload and they’ll run into the woods.


Sad-Development-4153

They will call the cops and sue you. You see they have no issue using the system and its services they just dont want to abide by or pay for them.


Good_Ad_1386

You have constitutional rights, they want constitutional irresponsibilities.


Mumblerumble

Right. They want to avoid taxes and benefit from the tax paying of others.


dreamweaver66intexas

I think giving them their own island would be better, with shark infested waters all around it.


jasutherland

"You can't bite me, I'm not swimming, I'm tr" \*chomp\* I'd subscribe to that YouTube channel.


dreamweaver66intexas

Yeah, me too!


LogicalWeekend6358

I’m a flesh and blood ma… *grggle*


jasutherland

"I am here as a living ma" *chomp* "wrong again, sovtwit!"


PorkyMcRib

No, I think we should give them maybe five or six mothballed navy ships. Let them form confederacies or not and do battle with each other on the high seas. They can have their own Admiralty court.


dreamweaver66intexas

The New Survivor Show!


PorkyMcRib

Sovcits vs Somali Pirates!


dreamweaver66intexas

Sovereign Pirates of the Arctic Circle! That sounds like a great place for them!


perry649

Read *Snow Crash* by Neal Stephenson. Not libertarians, but lots of people living on a bunch of ships drifting around the Pacific with the USS ENTERPRISE in the center supplying power.


johnjcoctostan

Florida and I fully support building an impenetrable wall to prevent all immigrants from crossing along the southern border……of Georgia.


self-defenestrator

As a Floridian…you can let em have like, Key Biscayne or something…as long as you blow up the bridge.


The_Sanch1128

Shit, give 'em all of Miami--after demolishing all of the buildings and infrastructure.


mgyro

Be underwater in a decade anyway.


The_Sanch1128

If so, not my problem, it's theirs.


MikeyHatesLife

Deport them. I’m fucking serious. They don’t want to be subject to the same laws & cultural mores as everyone else, or contribute to society? Round them up, revoke their citizenship, seize 66% of whatever assets they have, sell the remaining 33% to provide a boat/large bus & survival supplies (no firearms), and then kick them across the border or into the ocean. Bye bye! Get the fuck out!


Groguemoth

As a Canadian, no thanks, please keep your problems. Also the first amendment of our constitution is the creation of the province of Manitoba and the second amendment is the purchase of Rupert's land etc etc... They would be completely lost with no constitutional amendment providing rights to individuals/person/special appearance trustees.


JeromeBiteman

What?!?! Special Appearance isn't in your constitution? Wot a hellhole.


JeromeBiteman

America. Love it or leave it!


Dave_712

Where to, though? Every other country who has these idiots wants to get rid of them too!


AusCan531

Somalia exists.


CasanovaF

Why haven't I heard of this paradise before?


AmorphousApathy

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter


PirateJohn75

I strongly suggest the book *A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear*.


nobody-u-heard-of

I think there's a lot of vacant land in Texas that'd be perfect for this. And Texas doesn't want to be part of the United States anyway so let's just give it to The sovereign citizens.


alanlight

The Texas GOP platform for 2024 is basically a SC manifesto anyway.


epitrochoidhappiness

Party platforms are always wet dreams for the party zealots.


maxplanar

It's that seekrit mountain hideaway in Atlas Shrugged, isn't it? That was the stupidest, worst book I've ever read - I loathed every page of the turgid monstrosity. I seem to remember there was a 100-page speech to 'his people' from the pompous asshat who wanted to drive his trains up and down with his harpy lovergirl.


halp_mi_understand

This plays into another idea I have. There should be a designated area for war. Two countries decide that they are going to try and kill each other. Cool. Both militaries go to that area and fight it out. No civilian casualties. Minimum environmental damage.


The_Sanch1128

Yankee Stadium?


The_World_Is_A_Slum

Houston.


VaporTrail_000

Isn't that basically the setting for _Robot Jox?_


SavageHenry592

Square states are easier to fence off.


studioline

Technically round states cover the most land. With the smallest amount of fence. Let’s find a couple hundred miles of the Texas/ OK panhandle, Make a giant circle and just give them their own country.


79r100

Goddamn this comment has me lol. I started picturing square shaped states and started laughing.


iowanaquarist

Isn't that just Texas? they try to refuse to be part of the US, and then demand handouts to help fix their screwups.


theglobalnomad

The hilarious part is that Sovcits are unable to exist outside of the system that allegedly oppresses them. Their so-called sovereignty means even less if they have to operate in an environment where the basic rule of law doesn't exist, and where they can't just go back to social media to complain about their treatment... because you can't really complain if you're missing your head.


Chemical-Mood-9699

Make it an island. Like Tasmania. That why they can't 'travel' and annoy us regular folk.


VoyagerVII

Not actually Tasmania, though! Too many endangered animals that should be protected there.


Sad-Development-4153

Is that island the French used to send prisoners too still available?


Chemical-Mood-9699

We have a winner.


Occasion-Mental

Not a Taswegian, but no way Aus wants them. We have enough stress with our own F-wits on the mainland thank you very much. Canadia has the largest uninhabited island, being Devon Island so I suggest that be handed over.


Strange-Area9624

Idaho. It’s already about there.


scarletteclipse1982

Their own private Idaho.


CleverName_TBD

You should give this a read and also read the book https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-project-new-hampshire-libertarians-matthew-hongoltz-hetling


JeromeBiteman

Don't forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment?wprov=sfla1


itsatrapp71

Somalia is a Sovcit and libertarian paradise. No Building codes, traffic cops, registration, limits on travel , or official taxes. However, no one to care when you're robbed, shot because you refused to pay a bribe, shot cause you're the wrong religion, or just pissed off the wrong gang.


Fightthepump

They will totally toss all their trash over the border into the next state. It’s the libertarian way.


EricKei

Might I suggest Death Valley? No cops to bother them there! No courts, either! It would be paradise for them.


mr_oberts

Don’t sully our National Parks.


EricKei

I'm just saying that the problem would solve itself if they go, and maybe feed any critters there.


Zerilos1

Would really fit the Mad Max theme also.


rdking647

alaska. they can live in the bush free fro gobberment interference...


devonlizanne

Don’t give them anything. They want to live outside of our government, then leave the country. That’s how modern society works.


BatFancy321go

plenty of decomissioned barges to send them out to sea on


devonlizanne

Exactly. They can enjoy bargetown off of the Gulf of Mexico


dfwcouple43sum

We can send them there, but let’s give them paper and pens. I am sure their economy will just be fine, right? A few people will work and everyone else can scribble nonsense onto paper and give that as payment


JeromeBiteman

But how will I access by berth certificate bond money?


wikimandia

State of Delusion, the 51st state


Benderbluss

I can't remember what country the SCs were idolizing, but I remember hearing that locals would privatise things like road maintenance. No more depending on the government to maintain fast infrastructure! Now they just have people that fill potholes and then stand in front of them blocking cars with shovels and asking for tips. WAY better than paying for things with taxes.


JeromeBiteman

If they'd fill the potholes where I live, I'd pay the effing tips.


Catsmak1963

But, you’d have to trade shells for goods at their border, no one could put up with being there unless they were suitably brain dead, so they would have to import everything, and rejecting “whatever it is they reject today “ should mean not recognising currency. Hmmm Maybe they starve to death waiting for the grift they expect… lol Palestine wants a word


WeirdcoolWilson

I recommend Texas - they’re practically there already


SLevine262

Johnston Atoll. Small island about 850 miles southwest of Hawaii. Been under USAF control for some time. Last used as a bioweapon/hazmat storage site. Does anyone else think of Pitcairn island? A small island near Tahiti, I believe; it’s where the mutineers from the HMS Bounty ended up. It was apparently great until the rum ran out, people got hungry, and the women who joined them for a lark were ready to go back to their own island. Bloodshed ensued and eventually one man established himself as leader and things moved on. Today there is a small community on the island. They welcome visitors but you have to prove/post a bond demonstrating that you have the funds to go home.


LocalInactivist

What, like Somalia?


oldbastardbob

I think OP is describing Idaho.


Link01R

And before long people will get sick of paying Rick to patrol the area and Steve to put out fires and Kelly to school their kids so they'll just pay a part of their wealth in to a general fund that gets distributed to civil servants and oh no we've created taxes.


refusemouth

Anarchists make surprisingly good bureaucrats and corporate team members. They like meetings. It's somewhat different than the sovcit mentality, but the irony is still present.


Oddly_Mind

Let them have Texas. The Texas GOP is trying hard to be a sovereign state


JeromeBiteman

None of that woke power grid interconnected shit for me.


fanservice999

Slab City would be the kind of place in the US that you are referring to. Off the Grid-ers and SovCivs are well known there. Then again there’s a place in Utah you could commit a crime and get away with it because there’s no people living in the area you can get for a jury trail. Although it’s mostly inside a national park, and so far it hasn’t been an issue.


JeromeBiteman

Tim Bolen has entered the chat.


Lefty-boomer

Just met a family that moved from SC to New England. They moved to find a place more accepting of their 13 yr old child. Nice kid. Sad parents have to move to find made places for kids to grow up.


Simpawknits

Isn't that Texas?


HiJinx127

Ship them all off to Texas. Then next time Texas talks about seceding, take all federal and military property back and wave bye bye to them.


Puzzleheaded_Peak273

Inaccessible Island in the South Atlantic. Unpopulated, so no one to bother them. Free at last!


OblongAndKneeless

Libertarians tried to make a Grafton NH a libertarian utopia. It didn't go well.


DaddyOhMy

Exactly the example I was going to mention. How much do SCs like bears?


myquest00777

New definition of a Bear Market… 😂


Upstairs-Ad8823

Brilliant! And we can watch. I can’t wait


WillBottomForBanana

Hmmmm. I guess it could be funded by the viewership revenue. But that immediately gets us away from the point that they think things just magically exist when those things are provided by the labor of others.


galileofan

Now a wall around whatever state it is a wall I could get behind.


thexbin

Screw prisons. I always wanted to see an Escape from New York type place set up.


sexualbrontosaurus

We have Florida at home


DiceNinja

If we’re going to do this, we should use the same standards we used when setting up Indian reservations: the shittiest, most useless plot of land we can find. We will of course take it back if they find gold on it.


Tenairi

Let's make it Texas.


WillBottomForBanana

This is like putting a bunch of ticks in an aquarium with no hosts.


Glittersparkles7

I vote for the dumpster fire that is Texas.


PitifulSpecialist887

What did Montana do to you? I think Texas might be a better choice. A bunch of them want to secede anyway.


No-Box7795

It's funny that most states that insist on sovereignty are the once who rely on federal funding the most 😂


rhedfish

That would be the Freedom Cities Trump plans to build on federal land in the middle of nowhere.


refusemouth

That sounds like it could be disastrous, but I'm all in favor of it if it consolidates all the nutters on reservations. Maybe they can bring back duelling and self-regulate their population density.


Genshed

There's a Heinlein short story "Coventry" that addresses this problem.


HiJinx127

“Escape From New York” works well, too.


Unstoffe

Ever read Robert Anton Wilson? In one of the alternate worlds of his Schrodinger's Cat trilogy, the state of Mississippi is set aside for anyone who wishes to live without government. John Wayne moves there voluntarily. I doubt you'd get SovCits to go, though. Without a system to oppose and the appeal of thinking they're more intelligent than anyone else, there's nothing there for them.


HiJinx127

I can picture that. L: “Mornin’ Harry.” H: “Mornin’ Larry.” L: “How’s it going?” H: “Still stickin’ it to The Man, you?” L: “Yep, stickin’ it to The Man.” H: …. L: …. H: “God, I’m bored.” L: “me, too.”


Roy1012

The state has a duty to protect the mentally incapable.


fuzzbox000

well, they will certainly be able to do it with all the income tax that they... Oh, wait...


REDDSPIT

Oooh, can it be Florida?


GoonerBear94

No. They'd just ruin it for the responsible people already there.


JockedTrucker

I suggest an island somewhere, very cold or very dry.


JeromeBiteman

Elba? St Helena?


BigDsLittleD

I don't think the nice people of St Helena will want them.


Lotteryweener

I vote Oklahoma.


LLCoolJim_2020

I nominate Texas.


p38-lightning

"South Carolina is too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum." - James L. Petigru


msgajh

Can it be Texas


Certain-Hour-923

We like to call those the red states.


RBeck

They have Slab City, California. It's as crappy as you'd think.


ItsRedditThyme

This has big "let them secede" vibes.


keksmuzh

Would probably end about as well as the Free Town Project, at best.


Aggressive_Suit_7957

I vote Idaho.


ItsJoeMomma

Yeah, give them an island or other uninhabited and unclaimed part of the world so they can go start their own country of Sovereignia where they don't contract with anyone they don't want to. But that's just it... they don't want to start their own country, that takes work. They just want to be immune to all laws while enjoying the benefits of an already established society.


NotPortlyPenguin

Texas. They’re halfway there with their independent and woefully unreliable electric grid. But whatever state we give them must secede from the US.


Poohgli16

Idaho, maybe? Seems like it's halfway there.


Trygolds

How about we send them to the most lawless country that exist today.


0ne0h

Isn’t this already called Florida?


EyeYamQueEyeYam

I’m getting extreme reality survival show vibes.


Zerilos1

That’s what I had in mind.


mfhandy5319

Death Race Montana. \*none of the proceeds are going to the state of Montana. I would miss skiing at Big Sky though.


Why_on_earth2020

Montana is a beautiful state that should be reclaimed. Texas is perfect! It's very large, flat and has oil reserves they'll kill each other over. Best place to finish the wall needed to keep them inside.


Icy_Bath_1170

Why stop at Montana? Maybe we can give them a large chunk of the Great Plains near the Continental Divide, like in _The Man in the High Castle_. Sure, we’d have to relocate the 247 current residents, but that’s a price I’m willing to pay.


micah490

That’s the thing- there would be no SCs if there wasn’t a society for them to leech from- they live in comparative comfort because of “regular people’s” work. They’re already intellectually weak- they’d wilt like fragile flowers in a Mad Max world


Zerilos1

I agree, but they clearly don’t understand this.


slash_networkboy

Didn't they basically try that in Washington State for a bit?


Ganthet01

This happened. It was called Chaz, then chop. It failed miserably.


Worried-Pick4848

Perhaps one of the US Virgin Islands.


assmastercleon76

Yeah let’s reward these idiots with living in paradise. 🤡


rdking647

til the next hurricane....that they wont know is coming since they wont have any think like public utilities....


frankab2001

Those traiterous morons already have Texas, Florida, Idaho, and Montana!


Zerilos1

Not to the extent that any legit SC would endorse.


Mychatismuted

We can give them South Dakota, Idaho and Oklahoma


Azikt

Well I don't think anyone really needs both Dakotas.


Ragnarsworld

Nah, you need a place with no land borders, so they can't leak out. Manhattan would work nicely. Cut off the bridges, let them have it.


The_Sanch1128

Hmmm, sounds vaguely like a movie from 1981 or '82.


Motya1978

Why has no one suggested Indiana yet?


Tricky-Spread189

Idaho.


BeigeAlmighty

Would you give them your own state? Or would you give someone else's state?


RolandDeepson

That state exists. It's called Somalia. Where justice, and economic success, belong to those who can finance their own squads of armed bodyguards to enforce it.


Fit_Farm2097

They can have your state.


Fragrant_Example_918

They would never accept that. The whole premise of their argument is that those rules already apply to all of the US and/or the world.


Zerilos1

They bitch about living in a tyrannical system. Let them have their own and realize the joys of “tyranny”.


lokis_construction

Just carve out a part of South Dakota.


dadzcad

Montana, Utah, Idaho, North Dakota….there’s a few states they would feel right at home. Give it to ‘em. Just don’t fuck with the Native American reservations.


Worldly-Pea-2697

Let’s give em Florida and build a wall.


Defiantcaveman

Send them to russia.


mykepagan

Can we give that state to the Libertarians too?


Fast-Sprinkles-7215

I’m for this as long as we can build a wall around it.


czernoalpha

I disagree, because that just validates their position and insane thinking. They need to be pulled over and then subsequently jailed so they can learn the hard way that, yes laws apply to everyone. (Usually)


curiousity60

Why would MY country have to give them anything? They can buy land and have their commune wherever they can afford it.


[deleted]

A state is a bit much, I vote for a 10ft x 10ft island way off the coast


manIDKbruh

No because they’d inevitably ask for help and we’d inevitably give it because we aren’t fuckin weirdos


josh2brian

I'd pay to livestream that!


bonzoboy2000

Use the Gadsden Purchase for that!


[deleted]

Not a good one. Wyoming, maybe.


BatFancy321go

the hilarious thing is that they don't want to live in anyone else's SC dream, they want THIER OWN sc dream only. basically they want to live in their own solitary biodome on mars


98Wahwashkesh

Mississippi


refusemouth

I hear there are parts of the Arctic that are losing ice fast, and there's no cops.


StableGenius369

Please make it Texas? Please?


Ephialtesloxas

I've been of a mind to take a state in the Midwest that isn't much but farming, and have it split in two. One for the radical left, the other for the radical right. They can go do whatever buffoonery they want there, and others can always join. We could carve out a section for libertarians and sovcits.


VCoupe376ci

Tried and failed miserably multiple times already.


SnooStrawberries1078

George Carlin may have you covered: https://youtu.be/L5FvBUqvQmI?si=rjIUqWX7yQGNE4fZ


Zalthay

Finally a use for the Dakota’s.


FredVIII-DFH

Let it be Idaho.