America turns 250.
We know full well what cynical bastards you are.
We don’t forget how easily you turn into world-class assholes.
How you betray friends and crush those who deserve better, simply because they’ve fallen out of your favor.
But despite all that, we back you as the leader of the Euro-Atlantic and Western world.
Not because you’re so fucking great, but because everything else is worse.
Or, as the saying almost goes — better a locomotive with Übermenschen like Thiel, Musk, Karp, and the Amodei crowd than a train with Chinese communists, Muscovites, and ayatollahs dancing backup.
Happy birthday, land of contradictions, dreams, and the frontier.
Land of innovation, of trying, and of the free.
