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Nothing. The whole world doesn’t revolve around one shitty country.
As a Canadian, absolutely nothing.
Obnoxious patriotism.
A vestigial holiday that no longer holds meaning the further we drift from the free and open society that the founders envisaged.
It now stands for the act of burying ones head in the sand while we ignore the rise of fascism and the corporate capture of our government.
The only truly patriotic way to celebrate this holiday would be through public acts of civil disobedience and protest.
Pull down a flock camera for the fourth, and in so doing, align yourself with the true ideals of our once great country.
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.
It used to be fun. Then Al Gore “lost” the election and ever since it’s just been progressively more embarrassing.
I take my young kid to go see fireworks. We go to a beautiful place and he gets to stay up late. Last night he kept turning to me going “whoa! Mommy did you see that?”
A movie starring Tom Cruise.
Also:
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
Not according to that wikipedia page
Literally where I got that information
Your reading comprehension is lacking.
I was referring to current governments, and even noted that revolutions change that.
“Aquisition of Sovereignty” doesn’t fit that definition.
“Date of last Subordination” is closer, but still not correct (US is #3 oldest in this category btw)
Check the 2nd section titled “List of countries by current form of government”. Aka, exactly what I was referring to. And it turns out that the only country the US government is younger than is San Marino.
Turns out that colonialism, 2 World Wars, and the Cold War weren’t particularly conducive to longevity of governments
My dude I ain’t reading all that, you’re putting way too much energy into this interaction
Are there?
Just went through each table on your link sorting by founding date, and only 1 was older than the US: San Marino, whose furrent government was formed in 1600.
My dude, There’s a pizza place at the corner of my street older then the USA.
Ah, yes. How could I forget the most notorious country: your local pizza place
If a pizza manages to be there for that long… Can you image the country around it?
Listen, I know, but we here are just getting so fed up with American exceptionalism. Especially in the Trump empire timeline.
A cold day in comparison.
Nothing. Until the movie Independence Day, I never knew it was a thing.
Anime style art of women in American flag bikinis and swimsuits
It means that we’re 4 days into July. Probably some more heatwaves ahead.
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.
Just some foregin country’s national day.
