July 07, 2025
Your FCC Mandated 3 Minutes 35 Seconds of Educational Content
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July 04, 2025
And Now: A Word From Hololive
The Star Spangled Banner is a hard song to sing. A lot of V-Tubers try from time to time and it's frequently done as a bit, since hilarity often ensues. Hololive does this in the context of a beat game that scores the player on how well one matches the proper version of the song....Naressa Ravencroft took it seriously though, and pretty much nailed it.
(In fact, I'd never caught the last word of the first verse until now)
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249 Years
While it is fashionable in some quarters to make a big production of not celebrating the holiday because America is far from perfect it is important to step back from such performative pouting. The "stolen land" slur is particularly silly, since EVERY single occupied spot on the planet was once occupied by some other group. Ironically, amongst the best claims to land based on historical precedent as opposed to historical realities is Israel, which the same folks decry as inherently illegitimate, and gleefully support those who advocate for the most barbaric depravities being committed against THOSE folks.
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The U.S., like it's parent country, actually did a great deal to advance the notions of self determination, property rights, and even the anti-colonialism that so many of the countries critics so enthusiastically say they expose. The fact that these concepts took time to take root is because they did not exist, except in the most self serving fashion before the nation was founded, and the U.S. and other western nations developed them themselves, and bequeathed them to a largely ungrateful world. Since the 1920s the U.S. has given all its colonies the option of independence in elections, and those that have not taken that offer yet still have it as an option. In that same period it has expended considerable blood and treasure defending other nations and aside from occasional demands that the protected pay their fair share the country has asked as payment only for small plots of land to bury our dead who fell in the defense of those polities.
The notion that we should restrict the influx of people who wish to take advantages of the many advantages of living in our imperfect, but still successful society, and to only those who show respect by following the rule of law is not tyranny, oppression, or selfishness, but an acknowledgement of reality. Many of those who point to the unfortunate displacement of the native habitants of the Americas, now advocate for the exact same policies, societal norms, and outcomes of a world 400 years less advanced, outcomes that they performatively decry in any other context. Theirs are not good faith arguments.
The U.S. is not perfect, having been created by and inhabited by human beings, who are as some may have noted, an imperfect lot. It has, however, frequently self-corrected sometimes at great cost in money and blood. The nation for all its faults has created through its people, great prosperity, and has, increasingly, over time, afforded its people great personal autonomy, and an ability to voice their opinions; even very stupid opinions.
The United States did much more than its share to save humanity from the abattoir that was the 20th century and while there were those involved who did so cynically, the result was still a net good.
I'm not ashamed to be an American, I am on, balance, very happy to be so, and while my contribution to the countries' achievements has been essentially nil, I am proud of my country and what it tries to stand for. . This does not mean I turn a blind eye to our previous or current failings, nor does it mean I think our problems will be easily solved, but I am hopeful.
Cdr Salamander makes a note of an exceptionally good and thoughtful speech given by an American President 99 years ago today. It deserves to be read in full.
Below the fold is the county's mission statement....
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