Maybe in 50 years time it will be different but historians today are roundly mocking the 'statues need to stay up otherwise we will forget history" argument. (View Post)

I demand more polling of California and Kentucky. We must have clarity on these knife edge races (View Post)

It has barely trailed off - Georgia has a big data reporting lag. Everything shaded (the last 14 days) should be treated as the most provisional of provisional figures and will be revised heavily upw… (View Post)

The statue isn't some warning from history, it's a hagiography saying what a thoroughly nice chap he was. It was erected over a hundred years after he died when slavery was illegal. (View Post)

Two years later and the second plaque that was supposed to have been put up to point out what a horrific monster the man was still ahdnt made it, leaving just the glowing original description. The st… (View Post)