It's probably still early for that.

NH is the Florida of the north.

Where is the line between slander and free speech? In our current system, that is decided by the government courts.

Minarchism, i.e. a night watchman state (Robert Nozick), is considered a strand in libertarianism. Whether policing slander is a function of that state is open for debate.

I know how this one goes! She’s likely vested in the state retirement. There’s also some special considerations for police. She’s probably grandfathered into the “20 years” rule where you might be able to collect early.

At any rate, it doesn’t matter. She will move to another state (Mass or Florida) and work there, getting another state (or county) retirement benefit.

Read up on "minarchism", a position in broad libertarianism that allows for a minimal state.

LOL

Open the valve…

The one good thing I'll say about the free staters is that they are inspiring political participation. Can someone explain to me how free staters aren't just a bunch of tax dodgers who want to gut NH's already basic social programs and infrastructure investments? All I ever see from them is a "fuck you, I've got mine" mentality. I'm just so tired of it.

That actually would be a proper downvote. It's knocking down misinformation that did not contribute to the conversation.

Ahhh I see more clearly now that coffee has been had. Love how this sub downvotes for no reason! Lol

Combine an open & participatory political system with enough hours of the Fox News Cinematic Universe and the Lying Liars who fill its air, and even the New England republicans/libertarians who once defined the state will succumb to rising Christian fascism.

The person they arrested is 67, not the chief.

While I agree with most of this and southern NH is mostly accepting. A lot of it is in whispered conversations and private options. I work in construction and consider myself drastically different than at least 80% of the people I work with. Most of whom live in Southern NH. While the hate isn't directly out there it is still prominent no matter what part of the state you're in. While you're less likely to be in danger, you will for sure be judged heavily and looked down upon by these types of people. Can't count the amount of interactions I've had with people I work with where I think "hmm they seem like a decent respectable member of society despite being heavily conservative" only for them to drop some blatantly racist or transphobic comments and completely change my opinion of them.

HB619 was a ban minors from transitioning, banning trans ppl from being discussed in school, changes the definition of conversion therapy to be only if it's explicitly against their will (a thing that can't really be proven and basically just allows conversion therapy again). It also explcititly excluded intersex mutilations from being banned, meaning "protect the children from surgeries" isn't true.
There's also a forced outing bill that iirc died on the table but it's also being referred to the education committee? As well as a failed o mm e that would require trans kids to use the bathroom/locker room on the birth certificate, and a failed "gender transition is child abuse" one.
I forgot but there was also one that was an attempt to make all residents use bathrooms according to their biological sex but then never even defined what that was

Article also says she is 67 🤷

The constitution protects your rights

Edit: so I’m initially being downvoted, not sure why, so I’ll drop this link, this is what I’m talking about.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5

That's not why. Imagine what kind of fucked up shit they aren't admitting to so they can protect their crew

It shouldnt be too much of a problem. Especially if you intend to live in the southern part of the state closest to the Massachusetts border. That’s not to say the entire state is bigoted, not by a long shot. Many great open minded people here, you’re just slightly more likely to run into unaccepting people once you get north of Manchester and concord. Southern New Hampshire is so close to the Boston metro area that is growing increasingly more dense and surging in population so a lot of very liberal voters are moving into southern New Hampshire(myself included, bought a house in southern Nh just pre Covid). It’s a solid purple state now and will only grow more blue over time. We had extremists on the ballot in November that were handedly defeated in state elections. The Governor is a more centrist Republican(by todays standards) but still holds some moderately repressive ideologies. There’s def much worse places you could be with a GOP rep in the governors seat. We have one of the more restrictive abortion laws in New England and some fringe groups are trying to pass anti-lgbt laws but they don’t clear the legislature. The Governor has some mild ambition toward the white house so he plays more to the center and denounces the Maga wing of the party, usually. As I said if you plan to stay in the south-eastern part of the state you wouldn’t feel ostracized much. You’ll likely run into the occasional “old guard” of staunch religious conservative that may try to make you uncomfortable anywhere in the state but in the areas closer to the border, the less likely. Once you get further north and west you’ll see more yards and road sides littered with “Trump won” and “god says there’s only two genders” type of signs but you can easily avoid those people, they are not the effective majority they once were.

More that she calls him, but he’ll stop at nothing to answer the phone. Definitely breast fed until he was 5.

Republicans are trying to push laws that would force schools to out LGBTQ+ students. Latest round failed

Call a local plumber. They will have a gas license.

The article says she was one of the Union Leader’s “40 under 40” in 2020. So, at most, she’s in her early 40s today…many years away from collecting her pension. She’ll be back.

Until she isn’t. Power and greed go hand in hand.

Same