I've decided to actively take the flag back from conservatives. There are some good ideals and good people in this country, and good people who fought for those ideals. I'm not proud of most of what the government has done and all of what it is doing now, but I can be proud of the people who want to get along with everyone and fight for diversity and freedom and the good things that should be fought for.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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How about you stage a huge protest, and this time you don't leave until Fuckwad McClowncar is out of the Whitehouse?
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Family is doing a get-together but if I hear any patriotic bullshit, I'm gone, but with them, it's unlikely to even hear the holiday they're gathering for mentioned. They just needed an excuse to party.
I don't even like to call myself American. I'm a veteran, and it turned me off of America more than anything.
We used to have porch lights twinkling in red, white, and blue all July. This year, we're just flashing blue adamently. And that only because our lights can't radiate black.
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I’ll be staying home this year. There is nothing to celebrate. At this point I’d rather watch it all burn down.
Unless a large protest is happening in my city, I'm not planning to be outside on July 4.
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I'm not celebrating patriotism. I'm celebrating a 3 day weekend.
I just want my day off so I can have morning sex with my partner and set fireworks off with my kids.
I'll make a nice meal and reflect on what's driving us further from the country we're supposed to be. Thinking of it more like memorial day until there's something to celebrate again.
I don't know if I ever did but I certainly don't now.
Not at all, but I'll take the paid day off
Can't type.... Robot AI dog is following me....gotta keep running. Freedom!
The last patriotism got squeezed out of me a good decade ago.
I could give two shits about this holiday.
It’s a free show. With the right people it’s good, but I understand your feeling.
As if there was a reason to celebate that cancer country any other year
Yeah… feels like the meaning behind the holiday has been completely lost. It’s hard to celebrate when so many people are struggling with basic things like housing and healthcare.
Honestly nationalism for the US has always been kinda gross to me. We've never really had much to be proud of as a nation historically.
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I'm gonna be drunk enough to quiet the fireworks. Every 4th in LA, it's like a war zone.
This is all I've talked about at work.
What are we supposed to take pride in specifically?
I suppose pride in our resilience--there is great potential to learn from our repetitious failures surely