It feels really hard to celebrate my country right now.
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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.
@LaNaehForaday @RickiTarr We "made it" as a representative democracy for 16 years. From 1964 to 1980. It took all of 188 years just to get to "all [people] are created equal", and then 16 years until "...but some babies get trust funds on their first day out".
Building civilization is difficult. Tearing it down is easy. And profitable for the ones doing it.
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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 love my local community. The country left me when it chose fascism. As it turns out, we're out of the country for the event that I do not want to be party of. Which was a good decision. We'll be back soon enough ...
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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 My American friend lives here in the UK (English mother), with family in California (her dad's American). She worries about visiting due to Trump rhetoric & passport control checking phones/social media. My view, the USA let in 1000s of British football fans not shy about flapping their mouths, who welcome a fist fight with anyone up for it. Cue anti-Trump/Epstein chants. Bullet-headed UK fans do like Tommy Robinson (friends with the Trump administration), but they hate paedophiles.
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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.
Focus on The Moneyed who made this world ...
1. Spending millions to get corrupt Republicans entrenched in the Courts, Congress & Presidency
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations
2. Spending millions to get legislation that favors themselves. Climate denial. Predatory finance. Economic immiseration. Mass layoffs. Wage suppression. Wars. High gas prices. Public corruption. Fossil fuel subsidies. Lax pollution rules
https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116819681970264434
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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'll add my voice to the chorus of those who share the feelings you expressed so well. Told my wife a few days ago I see no reason to "celebrate" the vicious, evil, genocidal, ecocidal monstrosity engulfing the land where I was born.
A commemoration in the form of grieving would be more apt. Or maybe rage...
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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.
@realtegan @RickiTarr I stopped celebrating when Roe was reversed. It's hard enough to live under patriarchy but now we're 2nd class citizens. SMH
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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
Nothing can follow us forward but the mistakes we can never make again.Otherwise it blurs together and you end-up nurturing Nazi scum once again.
Who gets a divorce from a drunk abuser but still dates their ex on weekends? Shit.
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@RickiTarr solution is to not celebrate. fireworks are terrible for veterans and wildlife anyways.
@pri @RickiTarr any US flags are to be flying upsidedown!
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@RickiTarr "what do we do, how do we help?"
Start local.
Here is one example - supporting a local candidate for state legislature. (The district is made up, according to the census, of about 30,000 people...and according to the county clerk, 20,000 voters.)
Grace is now an official candidate:
https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/116814587248706664She is building the campaign one neighbor at a time, one neighborhood at a time, one organization at a time:
https://www.facebook.com/GraceForHD51/posts/pfbid02oBxGn9YZfjuEbcVCHet8nDzfdpVSUzVgaWLZ4RN2Mf7UhLFaJZinZGFFr6ZS9RUHlHere is Grace's post if you're not on FB:
I am deeply honored and incredibly grateful to receive the support of Ashlie Myers’ campaign, including a generous donation to my campaign.
Although I did not have the privilege of knowing Ashlie personally, I have heard so many wonderful things about her heart, her dedication, and her unwavering commitment to serving others. It is truly humbling to be entrusted with carrying forward a small part of the work she cared so deeply about.
In Ashlie’s honor and memory, I will continue to be a strong advocate and champion for the rights of women and for our at-risk communities. Her legacy of compassion and service deserves to live on, and I will do my very best to honor that legacy through my work and my commitment to the people of House District 51.
A heartfelt thank you to Alexis Romo for your kindness, your generosity, and for presenting me with this donation on behalf of Ashlie’s campaign. I am also deeply grateful to everyone who continues to carry Ashlie’s vision forward. Your support means more than words can express, and I sincerely appreciate the trust you have placed in me.
Together, we will continue building stronger, safer, and more compassionate communities while honoring Ashlie’s legacy of service.
With sincere gratitude,
Grace Nagamine
Candidate for New Mexico House District 51======================
You know, supporting local candidates...is about as 4th of July as you can get without launching fireworks.
@KrajciTom Thank you
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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 you still have friends? Lol. Jokes. I feel your comment in my bones. Every day is a Black Mirror episode or something, yet the fact that we here are not dieing in a camp or dead yet is something, but not much of an inspiration either. Stay cool out there people. It’s too hot for this shit.
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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 honestly at this point I assume anyone celebrating this day is legitimately a Nazi
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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
Paths that you walk may wander, roads cross and diverge. What goals and tasks you are given will change. Open your heart to love and let it guide you.*When we sail into the harbor with sabers waving and the cannon thundering. Singing the Pirate songs to begin festivities the now does not exist only the adventure and potential of a new country long ago rings loud and clear. When we set anchor and row ashore to be surrounded by kids the adventure of the then becomes now.
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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.
A regime is not the same as a country. I for one refuse to cede this country to a bunch of crypto-Confederates. They want us to give up, to take anything we can rally around.
The regime is like that abusive relative that acts like you’re not really part of the family when it is the other way around. They are the outlier and you are surrounded by amazing family members.
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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 Democracy is a flawed political system, just the best we’ve come up with so far. Sadly, as we’ve seen since Hair Führer was installed, it can be suborned **really easily** by evil. Having lived through Ronny Raygun, Bush the Lesser, Dumbya, et al., it does seem like things are progressively more repressive with each Republican administration… but there is still hope for change!
Self-care is important. When the world is going to hell in a hand basket, it’s okay (good, even) to step off the bicycle, click your heels three times, and check out for a while.
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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.
It can be both better than it was while still being far from how good it could be for most people.
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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 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.
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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 comfort, I have been ashamed to be British for a long time, and am determined I shall never travel again using a #UK passport. Which probably means I will never travel again...
Both of our soi disante 'democratic' countries are very much captured by power elites. Your 'Democrat' party is funded by precisely the same #Oligarch #Kleptocrat class as your 'Republican' party; neither of them are at all interested in the wellbeing of ordinary people.
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@RickiTarr if it's any comfort, I have been ashamed to be British for a long time, and am determined I shall never travel again using a #UK passport. Which probably means I will never travel again...
Both of our soi disante 'democratic' countries are very much captured by power elites. Your 'Democrat' party is funded by precisely the same #Oligarch #Kleptocrat class as your 'Republican' party; neither of them are at all interested in the wellbeing of ordinary people.
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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.
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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@beige.party I think that's totally valid, and Ive been feeling a lot of the same. For my part I'm trying to do my best to extend the gratitude and support I have to the people still fighting the good fight. Feel like they need it now more than ever.
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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 You're much more generous than I am. Fuck this place and fuck the celebrations. The US was built on blood. We continue to murder and destroy everything that isn't "right". I ain't celebrating shit
I know folks are fighting for the better. I am too, we have to keep fighting. I'm tired and refuse to waste my energy celebrating terror and genocideAnd I really hate fireworks. Any loud noise like that set my nerves on edge. (Not just the 4th any celebration with booms)
