• nutsack@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    you can be a sovereign citizen any time you want by renouncing your citizenship. it’s a real thing you can do and it has a process. and then you’re completely fucked.

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      You generally can’t be made stateless, from my understanding, so unless you have dual citizenship, I doubt you could.

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        1 year ago

        not according to Wikipedia

        the U.S. does not prohibit its citizens from making themselves stateless, but the State Department strongly recommends against it,

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        Aside from the fact that this isn’t true for people giving up their citizenship (in the US at least), it’s especially not true around the world. Lots of people are born stateless or made stateless during conflict or upheaval.