It's been almost 20 years since I felt patriotic. I mostly just comfort the dog and hope the yahoos don't accidentally burn my house down.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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I've never felt patriotic. It's not like I chose to be here and, frankly, the more I learned about the rest of the world, the more I dislike about my own home.
Also fireworks are boring af unless you're manipulating them to be more dangerous and blowing things up. Like hammering down a whistler and tossing it into a porta potty where an ICE agent is taking a shit.
bravely seating down
I just want my day off so I can have morning sex with my partner and set fireworks off with my kids.
I'm boycotting America this year.
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
I'm surprised there aren't massive protests scheduled for July 4.
I believe there are
Canadian here. I spent most of July 1 in bed! Was not feeling patriotic! Did not watch any fireworks.
I haven't felt patriotic for July 4 since I was a teenager. And I grow more aliented every year.
I think that’s normal considering everything going on.
By the way, I live in the CA bay area. Interestingly I went grocery shopping today and no kidding -I felt like I was in a small town in the midwest or something. I looked around and it was mostly older white people shopping, like you couldn’t help but notice. I told my bf, wtf are we in Idaho or something lol this doesn’t feel like the bay area?
I think there’s a combination of people being tired of increasing inflation and burnt out by the barrage of shit going on in the news. I don’t imagine minorities, particularly immigrant families are feeling very patriotic right now. Or people are straight up worried about ICE kidnappings. Which by the way, I heard from a neighbor that ICE has been walking into the hospital she works at and waiting outside to snatch people. Terrible…
Yeah I’m just sick of all the greed and racism. I just want some MANSA (Make America not suck anymore)
I would like MANA (Make America Nice Again)
Going to be spending the 4th building guillotines in my garage
How about you stage a huge protest, and this time you don't leave until Fuckwad McClowncar is out of the Whitehouse?
Not much of a social safety net. Take that much time off work and things are going to get uncomfortable pretty fast. Last I heard, it's like 1/3 of America that is two paychecks away from losing their housing. It's sad.
And what do you think will happen to pretty much all of them in one or two years time?
Come to think of it, i guess the US made a perfect system to quell protests; Just make it impossible for people to take time off work, nobody will be able to protest even your most sadistic fascist laws
Come to think of it, i guess the US made a perfect system to quell protests; Just make it impossible for people to take time off work, nobody will be able to protest even your most sadistic fascist laws
Correct. Bread, circuses and riot police (optional).
Rent costs half a month's pay, so that checks out.
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 read a few places (I am non american) that there will be no kings protests all over the states on July 4th.
https://time.com/7299015/anti-trump-administration-protests-united-states-july-4-independence-day/
What the fuck would I have to be proud of? The US has been on a downward trend for a long time and that's accelerating
Yeah but before, we could eat BBQ and blow off fireworks and pretend like America is going to fix itself.
Literally nobody I know is doing a cook out.
We have some scheduled on July 12th.
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I hear you and I agree