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NH Libertarian Party shares post that suggests assassinating Harris would be heroic (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I cannot imagine a situation in which Kamala Harris is assassinated that doesn’t end in either president walz or a coup.

Assassination is politically unpopular even against unpopular candidates, and Walz seems extremely popular.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

they've been off their rocker for a while

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

New hampshire has a bunch of fuckhead fools

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Have you been there?

In terms of "states" I lump New Hampshire in with Vermont. There's something about the people in the region that blurs the border; you cannot tell when you've crossed from one state to the next, save for the signs or by checking your position on a map. Their defining feature is the piles of garbage in their front yards, as natural to the landscape as rocks. The half-built cars, the half-destroyed cars; the falling-down outbuildings, roofs covered with blue tarps, one after another; the metal monstrosities, talking about like "oh let's take this snow groomer, and strap an airplane body to the top, leave it in the front yard for the next sixty years." And this is just what you can see from the road. These are houses with curb appeal. The real weird shit is at the houses and dilapidated outbuildings that you can't see from the road. Gotta get three or four locals together to make a full set of teeth. YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Most of Vermont and NH is nothing like this. I've lived there, near Brattleboro (which is literally on the border with NH), in the upper northeastern part of the state near NH in the middle of nowhere, and in Montpelier. I drove around VT and NH pretty extensively.

I also had a girlfriend that lived in Hanover, NH so was driving up there a lot; Hanover is admittedly unique in NH. I ski, MTB, hike, 4 wheel, snowmobile, hunt, and fish, so I've truly crawled around a large majority of the entirety of both states.

There are extremely rural locations in both states that look like many rural places anywhere in the United States -- in fact, much nicer than many of the rural places in the US I've been down south and in the upper Midwest. I've literally never seen "piles of garbage" in front yards during the thousands of miles I've traveled around the states. I have seen trucks and ATVs being worked on in in various stages of disassembly in yards in the backwoods, but that's how it is in the backwoods. You're not exactly going to bring it to a mechanic.

That said, there is a very clear difference between NH and VT. While many parts of NH are quite nice, I would agree that there are some parts of NH that mildly fit your description. There are less places like that in VT, but I suppose if you looked hard enough, you'd find them.

But overall, your characterization doesn't fit either of the states. They're both beautiful New England states. I intend to move back to Vermont in the next few years because it's so pleasant.

Where are you living in NH/VT? I find your descriptions completely bizarre.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I only vacation there and usually only to rural places for wilderness activities, hunting or fishing, exploring, though I think I've visited most of the cities. I should have said I was not talking about the cities. And yes, absolutely, lots of great towns mixed throughout both states. I think it's the fact that I'm mostly looking for remote places when I visit.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago

Guy threatens to assassinate presidential candidate

Cops: I sleep

Guy steals 3.50$ subway fare

Cops: Real shit!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is how civil wars start...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

honestly im kinda surprised we didn't get a lot of violence when trump lost in 2020

edit: I meant a full civil war

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

From memory and a couple quick Google searches

January 6th, including both the violence at the national Capitol and related, often violent protests outside verious state capitols
Death threats to election count and poll workers
Republican legislator invites armed men into the Oregon State Capitol during a protest
Armed protestors rally around the tallying center in Detroit while the count was ongoing
Brawl with counterprotestors at the "million Maga march"
Violent "Stop the steal" protests in Sacramento

I wouldn't say there was just a little violence after the 2020 loss

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

I think that's been the Russian plan. Break cohesion and let us flounder. Murdock, whether he fully knows it or not, is useful to that end.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

OK, now I'm thinking the LPNH is a troll, because their response to the party leader is funny as hell.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Libertarians are just another sect of the GOP. They are the same party.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Libertarians are just Nazis who want to be able use cryptocurrency for weed and pedophilia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Libertarians are repubs without the religion and/smoke weed

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Let's be real, weed is their excuse but they all want coke and opiates.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Libertarians are even dumber than Republicans. Which is saying something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Ehhh. I'd say it's a different kind of dumb.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Importantly, they split the vote though.

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