I refuse to celebrate Independence Day until America has independence.

I've never enjoyed it - not as a kid, and once I started thinking politically in HS, I've despised it. There's not appropriate words for my hate & disgust this year.

This holiday is kicked. TBH I hope the new one will be more like Guy Fawkes.

Today's just a day I don't have to go to work. 🤷🏻‍♀️

You know what? Thats good enough! Happy day off day, Dani!

Thanks!

I’m over it.

New flag doesn't help...

ooof!

😢

📌 Well, somewhat dark, but yep, that tracks.

Fitting!

Outstanding Tony. Mind blowing

Needs to be a t-shirt

or at least a sticker.

Protest stickers... best seller in 'satire'? Put one on anything that's broken or faulty.

Patches

It's also electrified

Holy shit, this is strong! 👏

Which is pretty much exactly the same as the old flag. www.native-americans.org/the-indian-r...

Did you make this?

Art by Aïda Amer

Whoa did you make this? When I share it I want to give credit where it’s due.

At best.

I'm using this year as a reminder of why we did it in the first place. As a reminder that we had to wage a war to break away from tyranny. I'm not in favor of war. But sometimes a revolution is necessary.

I think it would help if people started referring to it as Independence Day again. Saying 4th of July has slowly reduced it to a date on the calendar with no meaning. And forgetting why allows history to repeat.

Very much so.

I am not feeling very inspired or aspired, but I tried to make a patriotic red-white-blue dessert from yogurt, cherries and blueberries and while delicious it looks clotted blood and cream. Seems appropriate. 🇺🇲

Yes.

Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again.” poets.org/poem/let-ame...

Exactly.

like all our celebrations, it’s primarily about eating and drinking

Yep.

Some years more than others, but basically.

Always has been

i dunno. I am still endowed with inalienable rights and Supreme Court rulings can't ever change that. it's a good day to remember that administrations change but our rights--all of our rights--do not.

It's called "blow shit up day" at our house. I think we're doing a great job of that this year. We've never quite gotten around to having a "rebuild all the shit you blew up day".

Yes. youtu.be/8tTkHJWxfP0?...

Best to celebrate the people who have made a positive difference and the land rather than celebrate the white supremacist US empire. And acknowledge the harm this empire has and is causing www.native-americans.org/the-indian-r...

Goals.

An excuse for a long weekend because we don’t do vacations like normal people.

it is now 😔

We’re installing a new door on our back porch and grilling later. Gummy & wine will be had while playing board games with spouse. Low key non-celebration…because there really is nothing to celebrate. It’s also already 90° here in Minnesota. Fun times! Ha.

No, they genuinely believe they are the land of the free and the home of the brave. The rest of the world looks on in astonishment.

Least free country in the western world.

Uhm? No, hyperpolarized country. American exceptionalism was always a lie. If you get that impression from any major news media that majority of us hold this . They have literwlly been bought out

It’s habitual. Also, as you can tell, a huge portion of our citizens are idiots.

The older I get the less I like it. When I lived in a previous house, neighbors would fire off fireworks for an entire week and it drove me insane. I lived in a rural area so there were no laws against it. Even if I was feeling patriotic I’d be at home watching movies

Not participating in a farce of Freedom.

Yep. Always was, even in years we weren't as fuckshit as we are now. The only way to genuinely be patriotic in the US is by wanting things to get better for everyone.

Americans mostly like it because it’s an excuse to blow shit up.

Yes. Given current context.

Nah, we accomplished the mission of fighting off the Brits. Twice. As for our current tyrannical regime and our own colonialism, that part is Aspiration #1, yes.

Barely even aspirational at this point. Frederick Douglass has been my go-to on this day, for a long time. Someone else here already posted James Earl Jones's reading from his speech.

You only know who you are by knowing who you should be.

Yea, basically. 😂

4th of July was supposed to be about remembering the day the USA said "we will not be ruled by tyrannical kings, we will not be controlled. " We need to remember that spirit and also remember that it is our constitutional right to overthrow our gov if it becomes tyrannical. Enough is enough.

Hey @manmademoon.bsky.social , Magneto said it best. Very eerily relevant, and even more ironic that Magnetos character is a Holocaust survivor... A survivor of events in history that are being repeated, today. Also: Ian McKellen is everything. 🏳‍🌈

All of our beliefs are aspirational. That's what makes them American.

A reminder that we do not accept tyrants. But yeah, aspirational. (Except for the obvious psychopathy that passes for "patriotism" these days.)

Or nostalgic. Either way works.

It certainly is now.