It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now.
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there were darker eras. there will be yet darker times still
we do what anyone does in such times
we persist and resist
it doesn't have to be full-throated. something like your post as a clarion call of sanity is enough. muster the grace that we can, as you are doing now
the ideal of course is we coalesce some sort of means to not only fight back but win
we don't have to be desperate about it. we don't need anxiety. we simply smile and carry on and then discover stronger means
@benroyce @RickiTarr Good on you both Ricki and Ben!
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@benroyce @RickiTarr Good on you both Ricki and Ben!
good on you cobalt. good on all of us. witnessing and persisting. we will find the will and the means to do even more. a seed to grow a tree from
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@RickiTarr It’s very difficult to navigate from hour to hour as we watch this regime dismantle our constitutional republic. I just keep remember Benjamin Franklin telling the woman in Philadelphia. “a republic if you can keep it“. Many people denied that Project 2025 was real. It’s very real.
The rich will own everything, and you will not be happy.
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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 Thank you for verbalizing what so many of us are feeling.
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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 We have not “celebrated” this holiday for several years, likely since 2001- introduction of Homeland Security, NSA, Patriot Act, Guantanamo, and slowly more and more of the authoritarian and less less of democracy.
This year in particular, I cannot stomach or witness the perversion of an America 250 celebration to a Trump and MAGA Freedom 250 celebration of White Power and Christian Nationalists. And praise to the almighty Orange Guy is mandatory in all the events. Can’t do it. Shocking displays that all around the world people laugh at this Emperor. No Kings?
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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 try to celebrate family, friends, and community. The things in life that tend to have the most impact on my daily life, and which I can try to affect positive change.
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@RickiTarr to me, there is nothing to celebrate right now. It’s getting so bad I’m actively considering getting my Canadian citizenship after a law change and being dual to have an escape route for my family. It doesn’t matter if we flip anything, it’s going to take years to fix this mess. And the hopelessness one feels is enough to kill any even little bit of excitement for the celebration.
@MyrddinEmerys It may take a generation to fix this.
Not only in rebuilding government agencies, expertise in them, scientific research etc but also in changing the mentality of about 30% of the population who still believe the lies. They will still be there in the shadows.
I won’t even touch on what has happened to the corporate world. That may take a really long time, needing a lot of laws and even regulation to get the evil demons back into Pandora’s box that Trump opened. -
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 we will be celebrating the birth of my home country and my children's home country and the country my wife adopted intentionally outside of it -
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.
my oldest friend's personal motto was 'Endeavor to Persevere'
when the black dog of depression has latched on , it's my mantra . and I find myself repeating it often of late
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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 regardless of what goes on in the world, or in this country, you still have a life to live. your life. don't lose yourself in the slime. you should come first in your mind. if you don't what good are you to others anyway? get yourself together 1st.
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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
Love YOU, too, Ricki.
I have similar mixed feelings about celebrating the birth of the US under the conditions we're currently going through.
On the subject of fireworks, I just wish more people would stop to consider their negative effects on veterans with PTSD and domestic pets and other animals. In drought and temperatures like those prevalent in many places, fireworks present a real risk of unwanted and dangerous fires as well. -
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 cannot celebrate, since the America we were striving for never came to pass and the efforts we were making toward it were strangled by rich men filled with hate.Every year we re-watch 1776 and marvel that the country even managed to happen.
This year is a year of mourning, not celebration.
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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 don't celebrate countries. What is there to celebrate? Citizenship is just administrative. If I'd been born 100-150 miles from where I came into the world, I'd been British, Belgian, French or German.
Which would've hardly made any difference. -
my oldest friend's personal motto was 'Endeavor to Persevere'
when the black dog of depression has latched on , it's my mantra . and I find myself repeating it often of late
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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.
My thought is that we did NOT make it 250 years in this Democracy. Trump broke that streak. There is NOTHING to celebrate. WE DID NOT MAKE IT.
That doesnt mean we cant recover what Trump took. It just means that we are not 250 years of a SUCCESS STORY.
WE FAILED.
That failure is what needs to be understood on the most deep and basic level so it doesnt happen again.
We are not a WHITE Country founded by WHITE people only doing WHITE things that are purely WHITE when "others" invaded us and sullied our WHITENESS. We are not a country of the WHITE GOD that looks over only WHITE PEOPLE and only allows the WHITES TO LIVE HAPPY when all those "others" tried to also worship OUR WHITES ONLY GOD. Which is what Trump and his ilk want the world to now all the sudden believe.
We
failed.There is NOTHING to celebrate. STAY HOME. Do not celebrate THIS. We did not make it 250 years. This FOURTH OF JULY, Trump will be forcing everyone to praise THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR, because he is a warmonging piece of shit that DESTROYED OUR FREEDOM AND OUR DEMOCRACY.
No one should be celebrating this weekend. To do so states that YOU BELIEVE TRUMP IS RIGHT and our country is a WHITE NATION with an immigration problem.
We did not make it 250 years with this Democracy experiment. You feel crappy BECAUSE WE FAILED.
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White male landowning dominance, and preserving the availability of human labor for their exploitation?
The US is now exactly what it was intended to be.
Sorry, I’m not happy with the public displays of jingoism that this holiday enforces.
that's the part we need to get rid of.
The United States is supposed to be a multicultural melting pot of diversity and freedom. Those are the ideals. This capitalist **** is not worth celebrating.
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my oldest friend's personal motto was 'Endeavor to Persevere'
when the black dog of depression has latched on , it's my mantra . and I find myself repeating it often of late
Blessed are the flexible for they can not be bent out of shape
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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 Sorry your mental health is suffering now, but also, OF COURSE IT IS. Being compassionate and living among monsters makes for insanity.
I haven't been enthused about "the fourth" for a while. Same with Thanksgiving. I observe it with my family because that's when certain relatives are in town, and between children and a disabled relative, it seems unfair to deprive them of that time.
Focusing on what/how I want to rebuild.
Maybe this is *not* a good time to leave fireworks around.
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@RickiTarr I've felt this way about the 4th for a long lime. I usually find ways to appreciate the part of the celebration that it about being with friends, and fume silently about the rest.
Me too. The thing I find abhorent about celebrating the Fourth of July is the fireworks. We literally stand and look up ooing at ahhing at something that is supposed to represent --The rockets red glare, the BOMBS bursting in air. I dont celebrate with BOMBS. Bombs are bad in my mind. Fireworks specifically on the 4th of July are bad in my mind because they represent death to humans so that others could be free. This in not something I deem worthy of celebrating in this way
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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 If it’s any consolation, I feel exactly the same way about… waves hands widely… all of this
I made a comment to my husband earlier “I’m more interested in celebrating the 200th”
To which he said “you’ll be over 80 then.”
My response :
“EVEN MORE REASON TO CELEBRATE!”
I don’t know if that helps
Maybe we can celebrate 175 together with a better country and all of this horribleness behind us (and learned from!) (doesn’t mean it’s a guarantee but one can hope!)
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