btw i live on nailpolish reddit nowadays
and everyone is posting their 4th of july manis
except this year its very few american flags and red white and blue and stars.
and a LOT of pond scum inspiration
This is an absolutely FASCINATING cultural snapshot.
@21st-century-minutiae
In the early twenty-first century, symbols of the United States (such as the flag or the colors red, white, and blue) were co-opted by fascists, as part of a cultural trend with clear roots in the twentieth century. As such, in order to avoid signalling support for the coercive elements actively looting and destroying the nation, people seeking to celebrate the nation on its official founding day (the fourth of July), looked for new symbols.
In the year 2026, the fascist, infantile, compulsive liar president of the United States, in one of his many fits of egomania (and desire to steal money), got it into his head to renovate the Reflecting Pool, a component of the Lincoln Memorial found in the United States, to make it look more "blue". He instigated an overpriced renovation, giving the contract to a political supporter (and likely pocketing some money via kickbacks) ignoring standards and procedures that were in place to enure quality and prevent corruption. The stooge company drained the pool, painted the bottom blue, and refilled the water (not before the president had his motorcade drive across the bottom of the empty pool for some reason, damaging the renovation).
The new, darker color resulted in the water heating up, and the previously clean pool being filled with algae.
The algae served as a symbol of base reality, demonstrable proof of the grift and idiocy and senseless destructing inherit to the presidency in a manner that violates the fragile ego of the idiot and the corrupt brownnosers serving him. In this way, algae became a desirable symbol in the year 2026, as documented above.
