To be honest I really expected more of a deliberate/motivated misreading of something that at least exists somewhere

I was curious enough to actually go find the 6th edition on open library. The actual definition:

Money. In usual and ordinary acceptation it means coins and paper currency used as a circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate. Lane v Railey, 280 KY. 319, 133 S.W.2d 74, 79, 81.

A medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government as part of its currency. U.C.C. S 1-201(24).

Neither “sawdust” nor “beaver pellets” appear anywhere in the 1700-page book. Googling that phrase turns up only this very thread.

It’s still lemmy, but the mander.xyz instance is exactly this for science

Yeah that’s kinda his point. Their posturing around guns and whatever other machismo is based on no actual experience at all, it’s just LARPing

The first couple of paragraphs at least also sound like sleep paralysis, as interpreted by a schizophrenic perhaps

Uh… Ask, I guess?

Your premise is wrong in like… A bunch of ways. We sure as shit do not live in a post-scarcity society lol

It’s like a Nathan Fielder production, where the mere fact of its existence amounts to its own kind of performance art piece, outside of the art of the thing itself.

Like how could such an object come to exist in the world? It stretches the mind in whole new directions.

Because allowing them would be functionally the same as requiring them. Especially when there’s already a “primary” no-PED league.

This would be such an absolute stunner too if it were decorated by the sane

I don’t really know what “original use” would mean – most emojis aren’t really made with some specific usage in mind, they’re just pictograms. The use is to be able to show a skull when you wanna

As an aside, sovcits are not an exclusively US phenomenon. Most Commonwealth nations have some version of “freemen on the land” which is basically the same thing, though the specific details they fixate on may be different. I’ve also heard there’s a German version as well.

Even in the US it’s not exclusively MAGA-ish militia types or super fundamentalists. There’s also the Moorish National strain, for example, which operates under the idea that the US Government is actually just a corporation operating under the sovereignty of an imaginary “Moorish Empire” in Africa, East India Company-style, whose existence is covered up by some kind of conspiracy