Freedom Isn’t Free!

Humor is the cure to many problems in life!
I had the quietest Independence Day of my life!
(I wonder why 🤔that is )

Figure 1. The State Fair must have "been glorious"! "So glorious that there will never be one like it!"

 

You are an American, as I am, a veteran, as I am — combine that with common sense: calamity?!

Today, we’d better remember what our 'Merica has accomplished by her 250th Birthday?!

Most daring experiment in Democracy — this all happened before^[1] and people won!

1787 — Constitution ratified, and the bedrock stone to keep religion out of Statehood; (still regressing at times)
1944 — Bretton Woods, first ever monetary conference, IMF and World Bank, in New Hampshire;
1948 - 1949 — Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO formation — we had a backbone once;
1964 — Civil Rights Act: in 200 years we finally understood: all people are people! ← I celebrate this the most.

Secular maturity of human-animal to transcend the shackles of the cave and totems in it.

1947 — Bell Labs transistor ← The beginning of Final Industrial Revolution is in the USA;
1953 — Watson & Crick DNA (US-UK, partial credit), and we finally understand fundamentals of LIFE;
1955 — Salk polio vaccine: vaccination and vitamins is the single greatest impact on longevity;
1961 — MIT acquired PDP-1; Tech Model Railroad Club — the Hacker Culture is born to Change the World;
1969 — Apollo 11, Moon Landing: not yet repeated — engineering popularity surpasses preachers';
1969 — ARPANET first packet sent: my kind of engineering is born from the Hacker Culture;
1983 — GPS (DoD) (civilian use 2000) ← First-greatest gift to modern-human civilization: bye-bye cave!;
1990 - 2003 — Human Genome Project ← Second-greatest gift to humanity (I volunteered: thank you, Intel)
2020 — mRNA vaccine (Moderna/NIH) ← Third-greatest gift to humanity (although, maga prefers bleach today).

The GAPS — an American Things!

And this birthday wish is unfair without naming the other side of All-American coin: REGRESSION.

Why? — we’re a working democracy — not just the competent have a say on common good.
Those who have not read a book have an equal right to an opinion and a vote as those who read:

• 1983 - 2020 — 37 years with NOTHING of Mind: Mr. Reagan the greatest gain and loss.

• 2020 - 2026 — "Back to Bleach," LLM-craze, green pool, and geopolitical regression.

So, this is USA: we conquer space to beat the Soviets while fearing to singe God’s balls.

Happy Birthday, America!

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Well, there's Linux.
But that's not American.
And Linus is not nice!

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Oh, But That’s Not All! I remembered more…​

Yes, there’s more. There’s so much more. America-only view misses the WORLD, literally!
America-only, masquerading as America-first, is navel-gazing from a shrinking island.
But does that even matter?!

This guy, named Maga, I think…​

It wasn’t Him to light the F-1 candle.
It wasn’t Him who invented the spear.
Nor was He prototyping the mRNA vaccine.
Him won’t keep your kids a planet.
Don’t mind him — mind YOU:
    You be kind, competent, prolific.
You aren’t him!

Some Things That Mattered:

• Seven Betrayals — every US president betrayed Ukraine, Ukraine responded with kindness.
  (Ukees ain’t Maga 🤔)

• GRU Project QAnon: Russia’s Greatest American Victory — Russia didn’t hack the election.
  It hacked the electorate. They call us only pendos (unsophisticated) for a reason?
  (GRU ❤️ Maga!)

• What Does "War End" Mean? — the only mathematically sound definition of how this ends.
  (Maga dunno this)

• Ukraine Replaces America — democracy, weapons, innovation, military, geopolitics.
  Not because they "try to." They don’t care one way or another. Because we fail!
  (but Maga win)

• Roosevelt and Stalin Feeding Chickens — Stalin’s chicken method: autocracy explained through a 1987 Ukrainian teacher.

Some Personal Experiences on the Matter:

• klemo’s war — MSG klemo. Alabama swamp native or a legendary Ukrainian? He’s eternal now.
  (klemo no Maga)

• Institutionalized: The Lost Demographic — MAGA cop arrested me at my family vigil for being
  Ukrainian-American and supporting Americans in Ukraine. I didn’t hurt him.
  (Broke city cop — pungent Maga: found you!)

Epilogue

I bet in a few years Maga won’t admit to his name. So, catch him by the tongue now.

When there’s a matter of an individual and the collective, then there are only two choices:
Leave or learn to live with them!

Freedom is not FREE! Democracy needs teeth and claws. One fights for their personal freedom. Nations fight for their collective freedom TOGETHER.

United we stand — Divided we fall!

— John Dickinson
The Liberty Song (1768)

 

Today, we have A LOT to learn from Ukraine. Russia spent as much corrupting Ukraine as corrupting the USA. And they are country 1/10th our size. Ukrainians are united in a single front. They even replace us where we have failed at the forefront of democracy. And no matter what people say — systematically, dismantle evil three times their size.

There was a time, before our first birthday, WE DID THAT!

And we did it well! Like Ukrainians.

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1. America once survived an autocratic president like no other, Briefed: Andrew Jackson, the Brawler President, neither current nor past leader can stand in the shadow of this man!