I don't a give a fuck about what you are talking about. I research transportation safety. Inspections save lives. Get the fuck over it.

You don't have a right to drive. Pass the inspection or get the fuck off the road.

so it’s agreed, we all vote for him?

It seems like the commenter is repeating a litany they’ve been taught.

I have a friend who keeps sheep west of Worcester. She also keeps a working dog, a Great Pyrenees, to guard her farm. She has to put him in a closed place when I come to visit because he is not only protecting from animal predators.

I have nothing but respect for people who live in western Massachusetts. Even where I live, east of Worcester, I’ve seen coyotes, black bear, and bobcat in my small backyard. We have homeless people, too, and people who have serious troubles who need help.

Let’s hope for better times, and to preserve our wild spaces.

As a Masshole now living in Ohio you're not wrong...

It’s terrible, as you can see by this entire thread. People are vicious. Especially on this subreddit. Just read through every comment here. Arrogant and constantly claiming the moral high ground. It’s a homogenous circlejerk if you haven’t noticed, like most of Reddit. Go out and talk to people in real life, not Reddit, and you’ll get different perspectives. I, for one, make a clear distinction between the people that live in an area and the government that runs it. Just because a state government sucks doesn’t mean everyone who lives there is a trump-loving meth addict with an IQ of 95. Just get out there and live, and don’t be afraid to move where you want. Plenty of families are happy living in those states (all southern) that people on this subreddit shit on constantly. I have some family down there. After all, no state is perfect, and there are plenty of things to be unhappy with here. Overall, MA is one of the best by most metrics, sure, but at the end of the day it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and we still have our fair share of issues.

Let’s start thinking like a nation and not like a fractured collection of separate entities. The more we demonize each other, the worse it gets. We can talk constructively rather than pointing fingers and proving that we are just as unintelligent and barbaric as our brothers and sisters down south. Good going guys.

It’s just the affect that living in an objectively better state has on people. When I’ve worked for companies that were better than their competition in the same industry, the employees acted exactly like this. Worshipping management’s butthole and walking around with their chins held up against all others who are below them.

I lived in Vermont for 12 years and had Green Mountain Care if it's still called that.

I would say Ma Vs. VT on Health Care ;

Vermont's health system is much better and covers more for higher incomes than Massachusetts.Vermont covers more and for more people in the lower middle classes whereas MassHealth is more for in and around the poverty line but Vermont does more for the people inbetween poverty and upper middleclass ,so that's the VT advantage.

But Vermont has frankly shitty doctors and crappy hospitals and overall treatment is poor compared to Mass.Vermont Doctor quality is a nightmare ,if you have any real health issues stay in Massachusetts for sure,unless you are super healthy don't trust your care to imcompetent VT doc's.Mass doc's and hospitals and overall healthcare is light years ahead of Vermont!!

The "help"-to-hassle ratio does not help poor people who get harassed by police for failing inspection for oh, say, a check engine light, faulty airbag or a little rot on the wheel well. POC especially suffer from this. Cops scan your plate and see that the vehicle has "failed" and oh- wait....first name D'shawn? Bingo! Instant license to intimidate. But hey, if it keeps us "safe" enough to get killed by a stressed-out SUV mom who's been running on Dunkin on her way to her nursing gig, or an impatient Ford F350-driving roofing contractor, that's all that matters. It's a Yuppie's world ..

Idk, I guess I don't define a place a shithole just because the people have ideas I disagree with.

They are horid, the $ that could be saved with no front plates could fix the roads

Idiot. CA is overwhelmingly Hispanic.

Best Massachusetts politician

Empirical evidence shows it reduces fatalities and crash counts. Your feelings on the subject are irrelevant and frankly wrong.

Pog

You changed your comment. Anyway, read the work of Luis Reyes on the subject. He does a lot of causal studies related to traffic safety.

>So you feel safe doing 85 with all the angry SUV drivers, but a Honda Civic with a bad airbag freaks you the fuck out. OK

No. Dont put words in peoples mouth. Speeding is dangerous, deadly, and stupid. But, the data shows that safety inspections lower crash rates and fatalities. So regardless of how stupid people drive, it helps.

Try again racist.

California has only 6% black population is almost all white and Asian, and they have an average state IQ of…wait for it…95.5.

Believe it or not the conservative white folks in Alabama and Texas are dumb as shit.

No: your examples are mostly just full of poor uneducated people who are oppressed by crappy schools and infrastructure; Florida and Texas pound their chests about their shitty ideas.

I’ve never heard of Mississippi sending undocumented people on busses out-of-state to the homes of politicians they don’t like nor Louisiana proudly announcing that they wouldn’t be following the CDC’s COVID protocols.

So you feel safe doing 85 with all the angry SUV drivers, but a Honda Civic with a bad airbag freaks you the fuck out. OK

One less shit-for-brains here lol Adios!

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Or <gasp> MeNThOL.....

That's because Mass has a much higher white population, and IQ tests are proven to be racially/culturally biased. They mean nothing.

Empirical....evidence.

Massachusetts has an average IQ of 104.3.

Let’s see how the southern states compare:

Mississippi – 94.2

Louisiana – 95.3

Alabama – 95.7

Arkansas – 97.5

Tennessee – 97.7

source

You might not like it, but those states are more than free to vote out all the Republican dipshits who domainte their anti-education/anti-science ethos. Those states don’t want to properly fund education because it would allow folks to see through the bullshit GOP propaganda that is very much anti-working class. And while those states are free to tell religious homeschool parents and wacko “book banning” parents to fuck off, they don’t. Because they encourage that horseshit.

Meanwhile, in Mass we just passed a new wealth tax to put even more money into education.

So it’s not some misplaced lie or bad faith posturing when folks simply point out the massive educational and intelligence disparities between the states. It’s a very real thing.

It’s also why Mass has so many insanely expensive private high schools and colleges.

We are the education capital of the country. No state is even close for the concentration of educational opportunities we have.

Yeah it's literally no different

Mass is the ULTIMATE nanny state, and these "Tough Massholes" just LOVE their annual spanking