GW never said this and neither did anybody else. The only official symbolism in the Flag Resolution is the stars are "representing a new constellation." The rest is just an iteration on the Red Ensign, and likely the East India Company's white stripes on it. The colors have no particular meaning.
Noting again: there is no good reason for jurisdictions using RCV to do this thing where they include only first-choice results in early reporting and withhold the rest until the official RCV calculation is done. Completely unnecessary and the ostensible rationale for it is patronizing.
Andy Craig
Andy Craig
For realsies tho, RWers went absolutely bonkers over Lizzo playing James Madison’s crystal flute, calling it a deliberate “vulgarization/desecration of American history,” and “racial retribution against one of our Founding Fathers.”
Remembering a multi-day conservative freakout because Lizzo briefly played a founding father’s flute
We keep babyifying ever older people (16 and 17 year olds getting tech curfews, the woo-woo stuff around sentencing under-25s). Think it’s an underappreciated (and mostly bad) consequence of being an ageing democracy:
Technology, demography and culture are all pushing society to extend how long people are considered young for
