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4. I think they are largely people defining themselves as libertarians
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 01:22 PM
Oct 2021

The result of the free state efforts in the early 2000s to develop a political base in NH.

Some were arrested a few months ago in connection with a crypto currency operation.

A few had a lawsuit to ban mask mandates was dismissed earlier this week for lack of standing by the plaintiffs.

One of the original "member" of this contingent is the illustrious white supremacist and crying Nazi, Christopher Cantwell.

These people stand for nothing. Literally, nothing. They are nihilists. They are opposed to government, any government, of any kind. They want to be allowed to do anything without government intervention. One of them ran for sheriff in Cheshire County last November and won 4,200 votes, and then went on to claim - you guessed it - election fraud.

Add this demographic to the usual RWNJs, one of whom just said that there are octopus-like animals in the Covid vaccine, and, apart from the blue enclaves throughout the state, we'd fit right in there with a host of southern states.

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