(A little late, but still a sentiment worth seconding.)
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Thatās perfect!
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This seemed the most appropriate thread. I could find a ājournal of obvious resultsā topic.
White People Problems? White Privilege Beliefs Predict Attitudes Toward Confederate Symbols
In three experiments, participants induced to think about White privilege exhibited more opposition to Confederate symbols, perceived less realistic threat to their groupās power/resources and symbolic threat to their groupās values/identity from the prospect of these symbols being removed, and (in Study 2) felt more empathetic toward racial/ethnic minorities who may view these symbols.
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You could cross-post it hereā¦
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The first part of Slacktivist a few days ago points out that the Supreme Court is not Conservative, but rather Confederate, and reminds us that pushing through 2 Dakotas (and a bunch of other new states) after the Civil War, to stack the government with (what are now called) Republican politicians, should be balanced by adding a few more states in the opposite direction:
Idaho became a state in 1890. Itās (sic) statehood was a brazen exercise in partisan politics ā an effort to add two more Republican votes in the Senate. This is why we added so many stars to the flag in the years following the Civil War, and itās why we have two Dakotas even though one would obviously have been sufficient. Adding states in order to gain votes in the Senate was a tactic first embraced by the Radical Republicans ā the actual Party of Lincoln ā to ensure the ratification and enforcement of the Reconstruction Amendments. By 1890, alas, the Republican Party had mostly abandoned Reconstruction, so the addition of Idahoās senators didnāt help to make the 15th Amendment any more meaningful in 1890 than it is today.
I happen to believe that the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution are, in fact, constitutional and ought to be enforced whether or not a majority of white senators agrees. So Iām supportive of efforts to revive this traditional tactic, adding two new senators each from Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Birmingham.
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Iāve taken the lead of others and stopped using the term conservative in regard to Republicans. Call them right-wing radicals, call them reactionaries, call them Confederates, call them sado-populists or death cultists, but they stopped being conservatives years ago.
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The latest fad out of Trumpland is āMass Formation Psychosisā.
Popularized by Robert Malone, the āinventor of mRNA vaccinesā. (He has a slightly better claim than the āinventor of emailā guy, but not by much.) Strangely heās turned anti-vax, and was recently kicked off Twitter for misinformation.
The idea was created by Dr. Mattias Desmet, who seems to be a Scott Adams-level fanboy.
He might be right about mass psychosis, but theyāre like people standing on a piece of detached ice floe jeering at the fools, sailing to disaster, back on the mainland.
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Buh bye
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Not really amirite.
I wish that it would be that easy to hear the last of her.
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Youād think that would be his signal to buy tickets to Cancunā¦wait, Iām thinking of someone else, and only if itās impacting his own constituents. 
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High Kremlin official possibly involved in hacking the Dem Party in 2016.
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