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Obnoxious patriotism.
Nothing. The whole world doesn’t revolve around one shitty country.
As a Canadian, absolutely nothing.
A cold day in comparison.
The celebration of the independence of the United States of America, and starting a young country full of culture. It does not help though that we share a land filled with idiots who really don’t understand the definition of the Merica Irony and just blind patriotism. I love this country, because at the end of the day, I compared most of the countries and holy shit we may not be doing good at all but fuck me, the level of crazy I be seeing out there is nuts.
Happy insurrection day, ungrateful colonists.
Nothing. A young clearly immature nation barely out of their teen years making a ruckus about being ‘independant’. Well, prove it! Be an adult for once!!
Uh… The US government is one of the longest continually running ones. Most other countries were either formed later or had some major revolution.
The only 2 older governments I can think of are the UK and Japan
There are plenty older https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation
It’s the 22nd oldest country
Nothing. Until the movie Independence Day, I never knew it was a thing.
It means douchebags in lifted trucks proudly displaying their complete ignorance of proper flag etiquette.
It means my cat hiding under the couch all night.
It means glazing the very institutions of authority we purportedly were to have wrested ourselves free from 250 years ago.
It means ugly, flagrant displays of nationalism from people who don’t actually believe in liberty and justice for all.
But on the bright side I get a day off and I like fireworks and it won’t cost me anything to go watch them. So I will, and I’ll pretend they’re in celebration of something noble.
A movie starring Tom Cruise.
Also:
My old ballet teacher’s birthday.
It means that we’re 4 days into July. Probably some more heatwaves ahead.
It’s just 4.7. for me. My lemmy feed looks like it’s some US holiday, I wouldn’t have known otherwise.
Bullshit flagwaving, being proud of things you have nothing to do with, being proud of an idea and not of what is actually going on or what happened to get there
It’s quite common for folks to say they believe in “the promise of America” with the failure to achieve said promise left as an exercise for the reader.
Despite all the bullshit happening now, I still believe the promise is worth fighting for and I’m personally not ready to give up on it.
The thing is, it’s not just the bullshit that’s happening now, the bullshit has been happening all along, they were just much better at being covert or weren’t quite as blatant with their greed. I don’t know about that, everything I was taught in school about this country turned out to be complete crap, and the people who are supposed to be angry at the kind of tyranny going on right now, who were waving don’t tread on me flags my whole life, are the ones most vehemently supporting it. So I dunno what we got left. I have hope left in people, not ideas of nations blurred by history and endless retellings of how it came to be.
It’s true - but more people like us, who initially trusted what we were taught, are finding out the truth all the time.
And I see voices that have been much more marginalized than me “believe in the promise” after being much more negatively affected by the truth than me.
If they still believe in it, how can my barely marginalized ass give up on it? That’s essentially giving up on their struggle and their determination. I cannot turn my back on the sons and daughters of enslaved, LGBTQ+, indigenous and on and on folks.
My sister’s birthday!
