The story here is that the separatists came in with funding, organization, powerful institutional backing, a pliant and friendly media environment, and ran face first into a brick wall.

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23% is basically background radiation. It was higher 10 years ago. You can find roughly the same percentage of Ontario separatists.

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yeah someone posted a map of the u.s. and the range of pro-secession contingents ranged from 10% to 25% or so. people are weird

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When I was a kid the people who own second houses in our town tried to get their property taxes prorated for the amount of time they lived there in a year and the full time residents response was that if that happened the town should only provide police and fire for part of the year.

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Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

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