It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now.
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@RickiTarr
I'm not celebrating for similar reasons. Why celebrate a country which wants so many people I care about to die?I did put up a new flag, but that's just because I didn't have the money when the old one wore out and it's a great way to keep Jehovah's Witnesses away.
But no, I'm definitely not happy or excited. In the last decade, American citizens have had so many rights stolen from them. The damage won't be corrected until long after I am dead.
Worked my whole life for a better future, and that's not remotely what any of us got.
I fear that both the US and UK will soon disintegrate into their constituent countries/states.
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@KrajciTom Thank you
Happy 4th of July!
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr It's a demoralizing time for those of us who care about the promise of the founding of the US. It was a very imperfect country from the start, but the lofty words of the Declaration of Independence have inspired millions of us to do better. There have been many times in history where we have betrayed our founding principles. We are living through one of those times.
As an older person have seen a lot of shit go down. I still have hope, and I will continue to take action to validate that hope. Without hope we are lost.
Will spend a quiet 4th with friends and neighbors.
Despite the ugly and deeply disappointing present, I can still celebrate the spirit of the US, of the US I want my grandchildren and their grandchildren to see. -
@RickiTarr I think so much of all my American friends these days and how horrible it is that you have to celebrate the quadricentennial under such an awful president! It saddens me no end to think of what could have been. Now, we just have this tacky, gilded, narrow-minded charade.
I feel with you, I really do!
(But you know what? We will celebrate that much more when this nightmare is over!
🥳)@tanyakaroli @RickiTarr
Thank you, Danish friend.
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@RickiTarr
I think our country has always been a bizarre mutation. There have always been awful things going on here, and also wonderful things.This is to say that celebrating the 4th has always been somewhat fraught for me, but I can’t deny that I’ve also always really loved some of what it is to be American.
Right now we have a kind of cancer, and I’m doing what I can to see that we survive that. And I see the others doing the same (that you mentioned), and I’ll always be grateful for people here trying to make things better.
And any point on a journey is just one of many steps. So the big numbers are curious to note, but not of great importance to me, either.
I guess my big point is: I hope you have a good weekend!
@hopeward @RickiTarr Well said, David.We will survive this cancer.
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
*sends hugs, if that's okay*
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@RickiTarr and guess what? Our main parties here, #UKLabour and the #Tories, are funded by the exact same class and very often the exact same individuals. The only difference for Scotland is that our #SNP is not yet funded by the #Kleptocrat class — but is nevertheless sucking up to them in the hopes that it will soon be.
When the rich can buy politicians, #democracy is broken, and voting is more or less useless.
@simon_brooke And who else but the rich can buy politicians?
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr I can spend an hour today writing postcards for Jarrett Keohokalole, who's running for US House against a deeply corrupt Dem. Good way to celebrate the 4th of July.
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@Sevardin You’re an optimist.
Some people decided to get out of Germany in 1939 when they could.
That regime came to an end after the allies and the USSR invaded on both sides and liberated a nation.
So who will invade the US and come to our rescue?@bouriquet My fear is we are already too far gone to survive (as a nation and as a species), but if I don’t hold out any hope for a better future, there isn’t much point in the present.
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr I'm going to watch the giant MAGA fireworks show (on TV) in Washington D.C. on the 4th. Taxes will pay for it, one way or the other. Not to rage watch, but for watching another trigger for a tidal wave backlash against the Regime. A record setting fireworks show added to gilded horses arses, etc.
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@RickiTarr I'm going to watch the giant MAGA fireworks show (on TV) in Washington D.C. on the 4th. Taxes will pay for it, one way or the other. Not to rage watch, but for watching another trigger for a tidal wave backlash against the Regime. A record setting fireworks show added to gilded horses arses, etc.
@timo21 Smacks too much of a peak, just before a devastating fall.
If I had children, I'd get them out of the US ASAP.
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr Seems that you shouldn't celebrate it, it's just a country and you're not who the country is nor does it always need celebrating. You have enough and you are enough.
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@RickiTarr and what's worse is, I hear people constantly say "but the midterms!" And like, the midterms what? They stop the bleeding *a little*?
They're not gonna reverse the court cases. They're not gonna replace the judges. They're not gonna shore up the red states that queer people are fleeing from. They're not gonna reduce the violence or the rhetoric. They won't remove the president.
All the midterms do is make sure the laws don't get worse and take us a step forward for the next election, and the next, and the next.
This doesn't go away in 6 months, or 2 years. The damage in this country will take *decades* to fix.
And this isn't me being a doomer. That's probably optimistic, honestly.
I may never actually see trans people treated as equals again *in my lifetime.*
Especially with the silence I'm seeing/hearing from liberals right now. I should hear screaming. But I could hear a pin drop instead.
As if Democrats aren't also enthusiastic about killing trans people.
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As if Democrats aren't also enthusiastic about killing trans people.
Stop. This kind of rhetoric isn't helpful right now. You already follow me. You can see the letter I received from Gillibrand today. It's not empty placation. It was an unprompted, heartfelt, and empathetic outreach to queer people.
"Democrats" are a wide range of people. They're not all perfect. They're not all allies. They're not all good.
But Democrats are also a hell of a lot more likely to be allies and on our side than Republicans are. And those allies do exist. Both in positions of power and outside of them.
I'm tired of Democrat bashing. It's boring and tired.
I live in a blue state and I am extremely protected from the things happening right now in this country *because of* Democrats, with no sign of that changing without extreme changes at the federal level.
I'm not going to play into Democrat bashing when they're currently saving many of our lives.
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It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now. How do I celebrate a country with detention camps? I know there are great people here, who are working toward a better tomorrow, but it feels nuts to want to shoot off fireworks right now. Add on this massive heat wave that most of the United States is going through, and I'm just feeling trapped. Of course, then I feel ungrateful, I have a place to live, I'm not in a camp, I have food, and friends. My mental health feels less than stellar right now. Anyway, sorry for the brain dump, I just wanted to be honest, it feels so complicated right now, what do we do, how do we help? I love you all. I hope you're safe, cool, and have a good weekend. Feel free to share your thoughts and feelings too, if you want.
@RickiTarr
Same. We have no plans to celebrate anything other than the hubs has an extra day off and we can get some stuff done on the house and trying not to think too much about the shit show that this country has become. I'm old enough to remember the celebration that was the sesquecentennial. But this all feels off and bad and it hurts, tbh. -
It’s called the ‘Freedom 250 celebration’, I guess their advertising hasn’t been so good as you seem to have missed it.
The "Freedom 250" org stole events from the "America250" org set up 10 YEARS AGO by Congress as a BIPARTISAN org. TFG stole money and ideas, and made it an entirely partisan party for his MAGA followers.
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@tanyakaroli @RickiTarr
Thank you, Danish friend.
