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A photo of man holding a sign that says New England must secede (europe.pub)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/pics@lemmy.world
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[–] 40 points 10 months ago (17 children)

NGL, am native New Englander and resident.. Wouldn't mind one bit if we left and joined our cultural bretheren in Canada.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (8 children)

    New England and the west coast + New Mexico and Colorado.

    Except NH. NH can be the island of assholes it always has been.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    "Live Fee or Die" ugh

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    That may be a dated opinion, I’ve been in NH since 2014 and it’s always felt like a nice place to me. Sure, Vermont is cooler, but we’ve got like 23 miles of sweet ocean coastline!

    Most of the assholes here seem to arrive in 7 row SUVs from Massachusetts. Also Dodge RAMs.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    NH's got a lot of guns, might be worth having them on your side. Or is it really just an island of irredeemable assholes?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago*

    Am native Granite Stater.

    It wouldn't be so bad if the reactioinary Libertarian jackasses that infested the state some 15 years ago would kindly fuck back off to wherever they came from.

    Yes, we have had our share of right wing assholery - most famously the Leob family - William and then his wife Nacky, they ran the Manchester Union Leader newspaper and were die-hard conservatives.. but both have been dead for decades now.

    The no income and sales tax thing (while being taxed up the ass on property) attracts a metric ton of right wing idiots from elsewhere.. ad they move in and live high on the hog - UNTIL - they hit retirement, then they can't get fast enough out to a place with lower property taxes.

    We're actualy solidly aligned as New Englanders except for the low-income, low education, reactionary folks up in Coos county that lost their livelihoods when the paper mills shut down decades ago.. they are the ones you'll see rolling coal and driving with confederate flags in the windows of their rusted out pickups..

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    No thank you. We have enough problems.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    We have enough problems.

    We all do my friend.

    However.. you'll get the Red Sox, the Celtics, the Bruins and the Patriots (who've actually done good this year!) Can even throw in the Portland SeaDogs which are a super fun minor league team to go see.

    But NO NY Yankees.

    They can go to New Jersey.

    My northern NE sensibilities must throw down the obligatory Bostonian utterance: "Yankees suck!" (..and when they win the pennant, they suck even more! - LOL!)

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    wouldn't the yankees just remain in new york since new york isn't new england?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Welll. I was being sweet on the guy furter down who asked if New York can come too, as they do not want to leave Zohran behind... which makes sense.

    Am excited to see how well he can start to pull NY together for the working people there, and keenly interested in how far he gets before the 1%-ers really step up their agitprop against him..

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    • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe they can become New New England

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    • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Can PA come too

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Philly is a country of it's own.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Philly will do what it wants and fuck you.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    I fuckin' love Philly.. Spent some WILD weekends in the mid 80's partying at the Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings at the TLA on South St.

    I hope it still is there!

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    • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    Finally, a permanent solution to the Patriots.

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    [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Paging Billy Bragg.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Free Texas!

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    As much as I’d dream of this. If the blue states left, it would tank the red economy and make them pissy. They would then pull a Russia and try to force back those states. You’d then have old US being attacked by Mexico, Canada and New US. The other issue is that most of the weapons of mass destruction are currently residing mostly red states.

    Since this side of the world would be in turmoil, I’d have to assume Russia and China would take advantage of that for their own gains.

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