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DE Reichsbürger are continental analogues of US SovCits; from the relative timing I'm guessing the former (even if unaware of it) are derivative of the latter.

Anyone know the etymology of this memetic complex?

(farthest back I have been able to trace has been the US during the late Warren Court period)

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Someone posted here, and then deleted, that US income tax conspiracy theories (and, in a prior century, gold vs silver debates) are antecedents of the SovCit complex.

There's likely some there there; when I read Pound's apology for (italian OG) Fascism, he sounded in parts amazingly like a modern goldbug.

Here's someone arguing that the armed (and potentially violent) strain of nuttery came in ~1970: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/...

and 1930s tax revolt (16A is bogus!) crossed with 1950s bigotry (14A is bogus!) as broader roots here: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ca4-16-04183/pd...

Uhm. Reichsbürger aren't noticeably cosmopolitan. Understanding foreign languages isn't their thing. Pedantry is, though.

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