• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “and I said wrong” and the bank manager agreed and gave me a million dollars and everyone applauded.

    Oh no wait, that’s not what happened at all. But you keep not taking no for an answer. I hear banks have armed security these days.

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      4 months ago

      This bit is slightly less removed from reality than the average SovCit rant. The collateral is the house, but the piece of paper (deed/lien) says who legally owns the house. Without that documentation, the bank wouldn’t accept the fact that a house merely exists, as collateral for the loan.

      But like any good SovCit, they take the grain of truth and try to fill a canyon with it.

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      I read that part of the sentence about 20 times and I still haven’t got a clue what it’s supposed to mean.

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        4 months ago

        “Wood” = “would”

        These posts are allergic to punctuation. So there also should be a “.” or something after the “would”.

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        4 months ago

        You have to get fluent in misspellings, wrong words, and lack of punctuation to read SovCit. It’s “…like I knew they would; if notes box bankers…”

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    What is a “medallion stamp negotiable instrument”?

    But nice of her to share her cheat codes with her friend. That’s what I did on the playground in the 90s, too.

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    Sovcit yet again misunderstands basic economics.

    A vast oversimplification, but currencies hold value because of a combination of being backed up by material assets and trust in the backer.

    If your currency is neither backed by something of value, nor trusted by literally anybody, then your currency holds no value - end of story.

    If anybody could just write note on a random piece of paper that said it was worth $10 million and cash it at the bank, don’t they think somebody high-profile would’ve done just that by now?

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    The best thing in these is “deciphering” the actions of the poor person their interacting with. Banker handled it well lol.