No Stupid Questions

Nobody i know is hosting or attending a formal celebration, aside from one person attending a "Fuck Trump" bbq instead.

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.

I would welcome a brain drain to Europe.

i never understood how people especially can be proud of once country. in Europe being a patriot is very much frowned upon.

Canadian here. I spent most of July 1 in bed! Was not feeling patriotic! Did not watch any fireworks.

How about you stage a huge protest, and this time you don't leave until Fuckwad McClowncar is out of the Whitehouse?

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.

The only celebration I will engage in this year is protest or subversive guerilla action

I'm a pyro by nature, and love things that go boom. But yeah, not doing anything tomorrow.

While walking the dog I keep tabs on houses that have flags up, and there has been an uptick for about a month now. I assume it’s for the 4th, but I’m curious who will keep their flags up.

I’ve also noticed that some people keep putting theirs up then taking them down, and I wonder what changes…

You know what will make you feel better? Learn about early American history, specifically the Revolutionary War and the period shortly before it. Ordinary citizens conquered one of the most powerful militaries in the world. Ordinary citizens. People like you and me. There was no “perfect savior” to lead them, either - George Washington was in over his head at first, but was smart enough to learn from his mistakes.

What’s going on now is nothing to celebrate, but the ani-establishment heroes of the past certainly are.

Yup.

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.

Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. Nobody has ever liked everything about the US. Not even George Washington. If you can't appreciate the good about the country just because you're paying attention to the bad currently then you should have never celebrated it in the first place because the bad was always there.

The things you dont like about America don't have to be your complete view of the country or its history. If there is even a small thing you have ever liked about the country then the 4th is for celebrating that.

Celebrate our victories. Celebrate our culture and our successes. Celebrate how mad people are going to be at you for celebrating. Celebrate that there are like-minded people elsewhere in the country. Real Americans in hard times and with doubts. Celebrate our history and our positive contributions to the rest of the world.

Celebrate a possible and hopeful future of what comes after.

I just want my day off so I can have morning sex with my partner and set fireworks off with my kids.