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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.

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?"

Nothing. The whole world doesn't revolve around one shitty country.

Obnoxious patriotism.

It means that we're 4 days into July. Probably some more heatwaves ahead.

As a Canadian, absolutely nothing.

It means douchebags in lifted trucks proudly displaying their complete ignorance of proper flag etiquette.

It means my cat hiding under the couch all night.

It means glazing the very institutions of authority we purportedly were to have wrested ourselves free from 250 years ago.

It means ugly, flagrant displays of nationalism from people who don’t actually believe in liberty and justice for all.

But on the bright side I get a day off and I like fireworks and it won’t cost me anything to go watch them. So I will, and I’ll pretend they’re in celebration of something noble.

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

Happy insurrection day, ungrateful colonists.

Just some foregin country's national day.

Anime style art of women in American flag bikinis and swimsuits

It means Canada Day was three days ago.

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.

Nothing, other than the joke that England is responsible for more independence days than any other country.

It means I’ve been hearing random fireworks for the past two weeks.

I'm a trans latina who fled the US.

One of our other friends from the US wanted to do something for the 4th, and literally none of the other people from the US she asked were game (including my partner and I lol).

For me, it's a celebration of capitalism and nowadays fascism. It's celebrating a country that doesn't want me to be alive. It celebrates a country that forces me to still pay taxes but won't let me renew my passport. It may have had a genuine start, but it's been perverted like a teddy bear in a Trump beauty pageant changing room..

It's just 4.7. for me. My lemmy feed looks like it's some US holiday, I wouldn't have known otherwise.

It's a day.

The end of US subsidies for renewables.

A movie starring Tom Cruise.

Also:

The rise of a new evil empire

It means it's going to be hot. I suppose that tells you what hemisphere it's in.

I'm aware it's also the 250th anniversary of the United States this year, but I don't really care. If they were doing great things, I'd say I'm happy for them.

I'm sat at a cafe supporting a local, women-owned and LGBTQ+ owned business on my laptop browsing Lemmy. I should be writing. That's what I do on cafe day. I'm just not in the mood.

My old ballet teacher's birthday.

A cold day in comparison.

A week of assholes with fireworks.

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!!

My sister's birthday!

Nothing. Until the movie Independence Day, I never knew it was a thing.

A public holiday to not be at work and some light programming. All I want is to watch some fancy pants band play 1812 with the canons and im happy. I dont care much for the holiday itself, its just a day to mark the calendar. Not getting to do any of that this year... Its dangerously hot, I am working and im not watching the PBS programming from Washington out of spite.

It's a holiday to venerate an ideal steeped in words like "Freedom", "Self-Determination", and "Exceptionalism" but is really just commemorating when a bunch of white male landholding slave owners decided they hated being taxed enough to go kill tax collectors and sold the public on the idea with propaganda. The entire system they put in place has built in mechanisms to ensure that true democracy is impossible (and was never really the point) and that the monied interests continue to exert outsized influence over policies and laws that benefit and enrich them.

And also a day when it's guaranteed that at least a measurable percentage of people will wake up tomorrow unable to count to ten on their remaining fingers.

A good meal and hiding with my dog.

Only one thing: Sun's out = gun's out!

(Meaning biceps of course. We have very well working gun laws in my country, and very hot summers nowadays)

It’s a day of celebration! Our city hosts various public summer gatherings and activities in the annual Summer in the City program, including open-air events at the Ville de Luxembourg.

Not as much as I’d like it to.

Typically about a week of fireworks going off at all hours, one good show of fireworks at the local park, and dinner with my parents. Usually they're hosting a party but not this time around.

I've never been particularly nationalistic enough to celebrate much more than that.

I eat hot dogs and think evil thoughts about people in power and also hate fireworks set off by dipshits.

This time: saturday

I get a day off work