• scytale
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    2 days ago

    I believe the W-8 BEN form is for declaring yourself a foreign person for tax purposes, so they’re probably trying to avoid taxes because they’re sovcits. Funny that they put America as their country of origin because 1. Yes it’s not a country as the bank said, 2. They have no other country to put in there because they’re from the US, and 3. Putting the US as your country in a form for foreign nationals is peak irony.

    • @jeffw@lemmy.world
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      42 days ago

      Isn’t there a thing where they think that the US wasn’t founded in 1776 and there’s some alternate nation and we know because the flag has gold trim? Idk, something like that

      • VindictiveJudge
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        32 days ago

        It’s something about the US government being a private corporation and the “real” America being some kind of anarchic state with laws that the gov corp needs to follow despite there not actually being a “true” federal government to enforce them. The gold fringe flag is something about hanging one in a court room makes or means it’s a naval military court and therefor has no jurisdiction over anyone not in the navy.