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st-just:

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