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Is there any reason to celebrate the 4th of July?
- Thread starter Xaszatm
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I've never celebrated it. It always felt like a white holiday and watching fireworks is boring. I rather blow up some illegal fireworks but they fine you here.
God this recent trend that now America is bad and pretending that the Bush dynasty, Reagan, and Nixon didn't ruin lives both at home and abroad is so fucking annoying.
It's an excuse to have a bbq and watch some fireworks. Nothing has changed for me in that regard.
Pretty much this. There are tens of thousands of people in this country trying to make this place something they can feel
Good about. That's what im celebrating
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Considering the other thread where only about 20% of Democrats are proud of the country, what are the other 80% celebrating?
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I never said that America is only recently bad nor said that we were good in the past.
"Is there any reason to celebrate the 4th of July right now?"
right now sounds recent to me man
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No? I mean right now, because it's right now. I...I'm not following how I'm saying that the country was great beforehand.
I mean, people were saying this in those days too, it's not a recent trend. Vietnam protest was a thing, for one. Civil Rights protests for another. American has been shit.
Eh, you're right, I'm nitpicking here. A more unambiguous statement would be "Is there any reason to celebrate the 4th of July?" Adding "right now," while contextually valid with all of the Trump shit going on, implicitly suggests that there existed a point at which there was reason to celebrate the 4th of July. It doesn't mean anything, but, y'know, it could be argued.
Yeah, I'm definitely nitpicking over nothing. Carry on
Yes, you can celebrate what you like about America. Your country is much more than just your government
Plus, its not like atrocities weren't being committed, you know, every other year, on the regular.
Plus, its not like atrocities weren't being committed, you know, every other year, on the regular.
I dunno, I certainly wouldn't be interested in a parade and fire works though. Probably would be more interested in protesting
Patriotic symbolism is an extremely effective rhetorical device and liberals are unwise to cede that to the right exclusively, especially on grounds of wokeness.
And all you have to do is actually listen to the lyrics!
I'm in that video, one of the last scenes (4:25) was shot at my High School (Red Bank Catholic, Red Bank NJ). I'm the guy in the background upper left with the jacket and tie and terrible haircut (blurry I know but that's me).
When they were filming it and we saw them I tried to start a rumor among my friends that they were filming a Bruce Springsteen video, I didn't believe it for a second. Turns out I was wrong