Dude, who even knows.
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Between the increasingly dated midcentury songs and TV specials, the legacy prewar department store stuff like the Macy’s parade, and Hallmark movies about rejecting yuppie urbanity for idealized small-town life, Christmas in the US is increasingly an American Golden Age nostalgia festival
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My actual sincere hot take is that if The Left or whoever is invested in delegitimatizing patriotic celebrations and big monuments to slavers and whatever, we really do need to come up with some replacement stuff for people to uncomplicatedly feel good and dance and get drunk about.
Like unironically people like excuses to party and some sort of mythology to tie it into. As far as holidays go Juneteenth is a good start. But, like, fewer educational infographics, more barbecues.
I still cant believe the moonlanding is not an actual holyday in the united states, is one of the few uncomplicatedly incredible things that country achieved
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Canonically, the United States of America once possessed a unique artifact known as the Demon Core, but it was consumed in the process of summoning a miniature star.
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The “we’ve always been at war with Eurasia/Eastasia” thing where the people’s position turns on a dime as the official propaganda line shifts in reaction to realpolitik?
TBH starts to look more appealing compared to today’s situation where people are trying to replay WWII or the Cold War according to the last official propaganda line that stuck
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We cannot erase history! I know, I know, its unfortunate that the only method we’ve got to document historical events are huge statues celebrating racists, but there is simply no other way!
WAIT FUCK WHAT IF WE WROTE IT DOWN IN BOOKS
That’s nerd shit, history is about myth and if you learn myth from books it’s dead and if you want to revive it you have to get the intelligentsia to read the books and hype them up enough that artists and the like go out and revive them
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America happened because the king made tea and paper expensive and the Important Young Men who spent all day taking stimulants and writing down their Important Thoughts were PISSED
England happened ‘cause some Vikings stole it on a raid
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Hoover Dam
Statue of Liberty
Golden Gate Bridge
Erie Canal
Empire State Building
Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Mt. Rushmore
(Panama Canal)
Transcontinental Railroad
Kennedy Space Center
Old River Control Structure
Los Angeles Aqueduct
Gateway “St. Louis” Arch
Central Valley Project
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Canonically, the United States of America once built a silver ship and sailed it to the moon and back.
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Canonically, the United States of America once tore the earth asunder and united the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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