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RFK blames Faucci for the measles outbreak and is calling people bad parents for not vaccinating their kids against measles.

When called out about his anti-vaccine rhetoric he's been spouting the last few years, he's crashing out and being defensive about how people are twisting his words / that's not what he said / etc.

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No one is. MAGA-pilled people act against their own self-interest to own the libs, they think the left must do the same.

Now that RFK is pushing people to get vaccinated, they think the libs must be embarrassed being pro-vaccine.

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Power Metal in general has a bad rep because of the over the top cheesyness. DF was popular within the genre because they were much faster and had more solos than most other bands in that genre at the time. A lot of people did find them boring after a while since a good amount of their songs sounded pretty similar. But they were considered a solid band, they can for sure play what they wrote.

They blew up during Guitar Hero 3. Now mainstream audiences are exposed to the cheesy lyrics and over the topness of power metal. Gatekeepers gate keeping and now you're a posers for liking them.

Their band members started living like rock stars in the 80s with their new found fame, showed up to a lot of shows drunk, didn't perform well. Now people doubt they can actually play their songs.

Fast forward a few years, and they got their professionalism back on track. They investing into better live setups to play even better live than before, things such as in ear setup, timecoded midi changes, etc. They're solid now and better than their pre-GH3 era, but a lot of damage already done to their name.

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5. just put a tax on leaving, duh

Massachusetts implemented a 4% millionaire tax in 2022 and a small capital gains tax. The results?

  • extra $3b in tax revenue, extra $1.3b with the capital gains changed.
  • passed a $2.5 billion infrastructure & education bill
  • millionaires in Massachusetts actually grew because of the economic expansion
  • collective wealth of the people in the state went up by 40% two years after it passed

It's proven that it works. We just need policies that benefit people and not just the rich.

Some of the sources:

https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/04/29/millionaires-massachusetts-income-surtax-increase

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/politics/data-shows-mass-is-home-to-more-millionaires-despite-new-surtax-according-to-advocates/3698430/

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Can we have a thread on the latest mod trident situation? It seems the reddit mods are shutting down any discussion on their subreddit; any mention of the word 'trident' trips the AutoMod

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Perhaps. When Jed was fired, they made a statement regarding it, and Jed claimed that made him hunting for a new job impossible and no one would hire him. Iirc, he then sued Jagex for defamation, and he won that lawsuit.

Jagex is probably trying to avoid any defamation that can occur for Trident to prevent the same thing from happening.