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      They aren’t entirely literate, so writing is awkward for them.

      Edit: And I actually don’t mean that as a dig. A huge percentage of the American populace is functionally illiterate or close to it.

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          Same with mine. Mine is ugly, but it is technically usually readable. But to figure mine out you don’t have to relearn everything you thought you knew about how life works. With them you never know what word will come next with their word salad, but when I write something that’s not readable the meaning will be able to be guessed or surmised.

          But then, who actually handwrites anything anymore? Other than a signature I mean. And I’m not just talking about the objective waste of existence that is cursive (at least at the moment, I have opinions on that too tho). Even basic hand writing is all but completely useless now. And the little things it is still used for are fading day by day.

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            )I still write things by hand because it seems to engage another part of my brain to help me remember. I can remember most of a shopping list that I’ve written down, even if I forgot the list itself. I have so little patience for forming words, and cursive actually can be written so much faster than print once it becomes second nature. I’ve fallen into a weird hybrid of cursive and print that defaults to whichever letter is able to be formed fastest. If you never got to the point where cursive happened “accidentally” then yeah I guess it can seem pointless, but it can be super useful with enough proficiency.

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              I guess that’s true now that you mention it. I never studied throughout high school but if I took notes on it I just knew it. 99% of the notes I took never even got looked at once after moving on to the next page, but I knew that stuff. Maybe this kind of thing is one of the last few uses to die. And this in and of itself won’t prevent it from becoming extinct eventually.

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              Dude I write the same way but I’ll do you one better. It’s a weird combination of cursive, print, upper case AND lower case letters. Just depends what would flow better from the previous letter and it can also vary depending on the type of writing instrument I’m holding.

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            “they want you to forget cursive because that’s what the Declaration of Independence used, if you can’t read it, you don’t know what it says” - sovereign citizen, probably.

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        It’s called essential tremor btw. And it’s not a symptom of bipolar as far as I know. That’s more psychomotor agitation.

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            You can have a tremor from alcohol withdrawal without it being the DTs. The DTs are extremely strong convulsions with hallucinations.

            Source: am an alcoholic.

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    I’m trying to decide if my favorite part about sovcits is their absolute cognitive dissonance, or the fact that they have a supreme knack for cherry-picking parts of US law they expect to have applied to or for them when they want to omit everything else in it.

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        In a similar way, I love how it’s not just that it didn’t work, but they get mad because they think the other party is lying about it. Like the utility company knows full well they have to take whatever worthless coupon is offered, but are just refusing because they think the SovCit will give up.

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          Wait til their welfare check comes in the form of those worthless coupons.

          I’m still trying to figure out if any sovshit or “first amendment auditor” has ever had a job. All the ones you find posting their own idiotic videos seem to have a lot of time to argue about everything. Literally everyone else in the world is just trying to get something done and move on with life, but every time a sov is involved, they just pull up a chair and will physically die on that “hill” before agreeing to move on or cooperate.

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      They are going to be so pissed when they find out that the postal service can reject their letter because the sending or receiving party does not have a mailbox of an acceptable shape, size or made of acceptable material.

      U.S. Postal Service STD-7B01

      Postal Service, Code of Federal Regulations 39 CFR Part 111, Standard 7A, Mailboxes, City and Rural Curbside

      See, I can look up random laws on Wikipedia too!

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    It’s actually a little smarter than most of these idiots. At least he can honestly say he “tried” to pay the bill. It’s not his fault the USPS took his envelope and had it destroyed because it was a biohazard.

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    At a certain point you spend more wasting your time writing all that crap than you would spend just buying a stamp.

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      Yes. That’s why the rest of us don’t go to war with bureaucracy on a daily basis.

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      WITH PREJUDICE*

      Or was it WITHOUT? All that magic mumbo-jumbo is so confusing.

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    Personally I think the mindfully placed Bible in the background of the shot is my favorite part of this gong show of a post.

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    Maybe he should put all that shit onto a cover sheet instead of doing unreadable scribbles all over the envelope…

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    Hi, quick question. Is this all this sub is now? Sovcit posts? It’s getting pretty fucking old really fucking fast.